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Seven days to deportation
The Daily of the University of Washington - Latest News —
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A compass might have changed Alonso Chehade’s life. A journey southward from Bellingham to Seattle went awry when Chehade, an undocumented immigrant, accidently drove northbound on Interstate 5, all the way to the Canadian border. After customs officials at the border discovered his immigration status last March, ...50 minutes ago -
Editorial cartoon and rants and raves
The Daily of the University of Washington - Latest News —
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Rants: According to ESPN, University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert has been suspended for excessive behavior during a soccer game. Lambert punched an opposing player in the back and pulled on another player’s ponytail to the point of dragging her to the ground during a game with BYU. Lambert has ...50 minutes ago -
Profiling
The Sirens Chronicles —
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Saw a thread on a forum I visit that asked the question of whether we should start profiling Muslims. Listened to a bit of the rightwing “news” shows that was just a bunch of anti Muslim rhetoric that listed assassinations, bombings and kidnappings by Muslim males between 17 and 40 since Sirhan Sirhan killed Bobby ...1 hour ago -
WTF? I mean … W. T. F.?!
Knowledge is Power —
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Ev-er-y. frik-kin’. daaaaaay ! ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates � The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas. Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to ...1 hour ago -
Links 11/9/09
naked capitalism —
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Quest to save world’s rarest duck BBC Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish Telegraph Gold May Be Making a Short-Term Top DoctoRx Right-Wing Unleashes Racism on Rep Cao Matt Yglesias Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves? Alea Rick Bookstaber to join SEC Ed Harrison. This is very ...1 hour ago -
Unintended consequences of health care reform bill
Cranach: The Blog of Veith —
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The House passed the Health Care reform bill, but with an anti-abortion amendment that would prevent the public option or insurance companies that get federal subsidies from paying for abortions. Now the bill goes to the Senate, which can also make changes, whereupon wheeling and dealing will take place to ...1 hour ago -
Shutting off the miracle-drug spigot
Musings of a Vast Right-Winger —
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The article below is from The New York Post. As much as it pains me to say "I agree 100%. Not only will research for new drugs stop. So will the research and manufacturing of new medical devices. So you or me or a loved one of ours die due to no new medicines? My answer is a loud and clear "No Way!" House Speaker ...1 hour ago -
Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Unlikely Terrorist?
The Political and Financial Markets Commentator —
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Problem For Society Educated psychiatrist. Articulate and vocal defender of his religion. Protester of the United States participation in the war in Iraq as a war on his religion and not on the people. Disgruntled soldier who wanted out. Internet author of radical views. Finally a murderer of his fellow ...1 hour ago -
Congress and the White House need to get health care reform done right: Business Roundtable
THE MEDICAL NEWS —
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We are disappointed by the passage of a House bill that we cannot support. The House legislation contains many provisions that will threaten the coverage that 177 million Americans currently have through the employer-based system. Not only does it establish a government-run health plan, but it includes a “play or ...1 hour ago -
Obamas Wall Street Banker Buddies Receive H1N1 Vaccine While The Rest of Americans Wait In Long Lines
David Drake —
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Dear Leader His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, Junior made sure his big-donor Wall Street Cronies received H1N1 vaccines last week . US News : The blogosphere and the cable news channels are full of outrage at the fact that Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Citi, and J.P. Morgan have received ...1 hour ago -
Low Vitamin D Levels Explains Most End-stage Renal Disease Risk In African-Americans
ScienceDaily: Latest Science News —
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Low levels of vitamin D may account for nearly 60 percent of the elevated risk of end-stage renal disease in African-Americans, according to a new report.1 hour ago -
Thanks for the Ipecac
World-O-Crap —
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I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma tonight: either my pain meds are making me queasy, or it’s this column by RenewAmerica rookie Russ J. Alan ( Some fear no backlash against Muslims ). Since I’ve already ingested the meds, and I can’t seem to stop reading Mr. Alan, there’s no way to scientifically determine ...1 hour ago -
Swine Flu (H1N1) panic not based on facts! (Part TWO of THREE)
22MOON.COM —
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. . . . Swine Flu Panic in Perspective By Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D. October 29th, 2009 American Thinker AMERICANTHINKER.COM ...1 hour ago -
Sudden Jihad or "Inordinate Stress" at Ft. Hood?
Muslims Against Sharia —
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When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives. The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some kind of oppression caused Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan ...1 hour ago -
What Do Republicans Actually Stand For?
Headlines You Should Know! —
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Kucinichs Brave Health Vote Vs. Obamas Failed Promise Courtesy of Lee Stranahan - Huffington Post There were plenty of cowardly votes in the House Saturday night but there was only one truly brave one. The unsung hero of the night was Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich. Despite enormous pressure to support ...1 hour ago -
Obama’s healthcare.
Minor Matters —
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And so it comes about that a few days after the first anniversary of Obama’s election, and after luke warm opinions of his time so far, the democrats persuaded 220 congressional representatives to vote in favour of a bill which could eventually see 36 million uninsured Americans covered by health care. 215 people ...1 hour ago -
Pakistan, India and the United States
India: A billion aspirations —
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While attention has almost entirely been focused on Americas difficult relationship with Pakistan - a writer in Foreign Policy magazine called it the worlds most dysfunctional relationship - India and the United States have quietly gone ahead and completed the largest military exercise ever undertaken by ...1 hour ago -
Top 10 Unusual Mail Deliveries and Events
Listverse —
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“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Sound familiar? It’s the motto of the United States Postal Service, right? Actually, the USPS has no motto, but this quotation from Book 8 of The Persian Wars, by Herodotus, which is ...1 hour ago -
Faster Speeds And Better Connectivity With ADSL Routers
Content for Reprint Blog —
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Naysayers might predict that Americans are becoming addicted to the internet. However, in terms of any other type of addiction, including television, the internet surely comes out on top. It is a tool that allows us to communicate with friends and family. It is a huge reference library that we can universally access ...1 hour ago -
"The World Needs a New Financial Architecture"
Economist's View —
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George Soros says we need a new world order. After talking about the need for a new Bretton Woods conference to "establish new international rules, including treatment of financial institutions that are too big to fail and the role of capital controls," and the need for the IMF to "to reflect better the prevailing ...1 hour ago