Politics
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. — On a flat and desolate stretch of Interstate 10 some 50 miles south of Phoenix, a sheriff’s deputy pulls over a green Chevy Tahoe speeding
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June 7, 2012 // 0 Comments
When news broke yesterday that a Florida congressman introduced an alternative version of the DREAM Act, many assumed it was Sen. Marco Rubio, who has been promising for
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June 7, 2012 // 0 Comments
In one of his most recent posts for the NumbersUSA blog, founder Roy Beck asks his readers to “get personal” about “a treasured place of quaintness” that has “been
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June 7, 2012 // 0 Comments
I spent 10 weeks in Venezuela in early 2012, two months with a group of 30 students from the Evergreen State College and then two weeks continuing my travels with a good
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June 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
A while back Bill O’Reilly, the most watched TV personality on Fox News, ran a series of stories on what he suggests is a “racially motivated” attack on two white
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June 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
While the Select Committee on the State’s Role in Immigration Policy is on break until after the SB1070 ruling, some of the state’s most virulently anti-immigrant
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June 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
In his penetrating study “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,” international affairs scholar James Peck observes, “In the history of human
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June 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
The old saying goes, “If you think you can trust the government, ask an Indian.” Last week marked the 88th anniversary when the United States of America declared Native
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June 4, 2012 // 0 Comments
Protesters from the Musqueam First Nation blocked traffic on the Arthur Laing Bridge in South Vancouver in an attempt to stop construction at an ancient village and burial
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June 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
Mexico City. You can blame it on those damn students. Ever since over a hundred of them at a private university, the Iberoamericana in Mexico City, ran presidential
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June 1, 2012 // 0 Comments