Tens of billions of dollars in new Afghanistan war funding cleared Congress late Tuesday, even as the House easily upended a liberal challenge to the increased U.S. military presence — and drone attacks — across the border in Pakistan. The back-to-back votes buy precious time for President Barack Obama to show progress on his strategy [...]
Opponents of Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigration, which takes effect Thursday, are concerned that police will single out Latinos. Today’s Arizona Republic points out that those worries “are not unfounded” in the state because of police operations in 1997 and 2001 that “brought problems with racial profiling to the fore.”
As [...]
News flash: Former President George W. Bush is now on Twitter!
Um, never mind. “There is no ‘W’ in Twitter,” another online headline later declared Thursday, after reporters confirmed that “@George_WBush” was a nom de spoof.
But the nation’s 43rd president has indeed joined Facebook, arriving on the eve of Thursday’s inauguration of its “U.S. Politics on [...]
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10 Oct 2009IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]
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