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• Washington State reader: 20,000 should be enough

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 575
  Editors note:    This is one more in a series of posts on the upcoming, May 15th, US State Department hearing on the “size and scope” of the Refugee Resettlement Program for fiscal year 2014. For all of our posts and background information on the meeting go to our special category here . A reader from ...
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• USAID in the News

  
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  A review of USAID’s top news highlights for week of May 6, 2013. Read more >>
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• Real estate in India is not a great asset class

  
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  Most people in India are convinced that investing in real estate is a great idea. In the Economic Times today, I have an article titled Real estate in India is not a great asset class . Economic Times had carried this as a `poke me feature , where reader comments are invited. There are 186 comments there as I ...
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• Are there (and/or should there be) special death penalty rules for female murderers?

  
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  The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new article in the Christian Science Monitor , which is headlined "Jodi Arias case: Whats trend line on women getting the death penalty?."  Here are excerpts: Whether Jodi Arias gets her wish — to be executed rather than spend her life in prison — is ...
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• Job training, loans ease Arab youth unemployment

  
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  Instead of drifting after high school like many of his jobless friends, the 21-year-old Jordanian works steadily, has taken a small loan to start his own business and recently got engaged.
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• Virginia man sends testimony to US State Department for hearing next Wednesday

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 575
  If you’ve been following our series of posts on the State Department’s meeting next week to help them determine the size and scope of our refugee resettlement program for FY2014, this is one more in a series of statements that readers have sent to me for publication.  Unfortunately, the deadline for sending ...
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• Cleveland police report supports Aggavated Murder capital charges against Ariel Castro

  
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  I asked in this post yesterday whether Ariel Castro, the monster who abducted and sexually tortured three young women in Cleveland, could and should possibly face the death penalty under Ohio law.  Based on the newly released police report, discussed in this CBS News piece , I am now convinced that Castro can ...
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• Lutherans/Interfaith group: Don’t break our rice bowls!

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 575
  The Lutheran Center (LIRS headquarters) is a six-story structure constructed in 1999 on property owned by Baltimore’s historic Christ Lutheran Church. The building is located near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the historic Federal Hill neighborhood, a charming area rich with history and an eclectic array of eateries ...
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• After high-profile state murder conviction, Jodi Arias claims she wants death penalty over LWOP

  
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  As reported in this new USA Today article , "Jodi Arias, convicted of first-degree murder of her on-and-off lover, says she was surprised by the jurys verdict Wednesday and hopes for the death penalty over life in prison."  Here is more: Arias, who choked back tears as the jurys decision was read, told KSAZ-TV in ...
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• FAIR has a good legal analysis of S.744 as it relates to refugees/asylum seekers

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 575
  More refugees, a potentially greater variety (whole classes of people would be eligible at the discretion of Homeland Security), easier asylum rules, etc. — all with no hearings .   As we said before, Congress should strip out all of the refugee/asylum sections from the monster Gang bill. Federation for American ...
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• Boston Bombing blowback: Senator Graham has an amendment or two to S.744

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 575
  Who said politicians can’t learn?  Here we apparently have Senator Lindsey ‘Amnesty’ Graham attempting to fix S.744 (the Gang of Eight plus Grover bill) which as we reported addresses our refugee and asylum program right along with the kitchen sink, in response to the Tsarnaev family’s asylum fraud. ...
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• Could and should the death penalty be on the table in the Cleveland kidnapping and sexual torture case?

  
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  Like perhaps many others, I have feelings ranging from horror to disgust to macabre interest as facts emerge from Cleveland concerning the many awful crimes committed on at least three young women for a decade.  This USA Today story provides just a small flavor of what the victims may have endured for years upon ...
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• Do Veterans Game the VA Disability System?

  
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  During my morning ritual of coffee and checking for daily updates on the Department of Veterans Affairs most recent follies, I came across an  article published in 2005 by the British Journal of Psychiatry.  The particular search terms were a result of recent conversations I had with a number of veterans ...
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• Wiki College (and other education ideas)

  
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  WIKI-COLLEGE Why not free college online – say a college wikipedia, where professors have posted their lectures. Then at the end of the course there’s a system to take a final for $25-50. If you pass you get credits. The test money is split between the professor and wiki. I think most of the bigger colleges ...
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• Big Changes in Store for Americans Buying Baja Real Estate

  
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  At the beginning of April this year the Parliamentary Group of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Parliamentary Group of the national Action Party (PAN) of Mexico submitted a bill proposing to amend section I of Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution to allow foreigners to own land. photo ...
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• "Florida tries to speed up executions as Maryland, other states repeal death penalty"

  
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  The title of this post is the headline of this recent FoxNews story , which actually does provide a relatively fair and balanced perspective on some recent capital punishment legislative developments: While other states move to abolish capital punishment, Florida lawmakers are taking an entirely different approach ...
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• Today’s State Department refugee testimony comes to you from North Carolina

  
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  But before we get to it, be sure to visit VDARE where Paul Nachman has penned an excellent piece urging readers there  to send in testimony by close of business tomorrow, May 8th.  He has some information from years before I followed this program that I found very enlightening. I think you will too.  Mr. Nachman ...
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• Latest pension reforms are ‘ill-conceived’

  
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  The decision, announced yesterday by Pensions Minister Steve Webb, to stop foreign spouses claiming a UK state pension based on their husband or wife’s history of National Insurance contributions has been slammed by the boss of the world’s largest independent financial advisory firm. Nigel Green, chief ...
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• State Department Refugee testimony submitted from Montana

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 575
  Thanks so much to all of our readers who have responded and sent testimony to the US State Department for their consideration as they prepare for the FY2014 Presidential Determination that will be sent to Congress in September.  The State Department is seeking your input on the size and scope of the program for ...
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• Madison Square before the Met Life Tower

  
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  Before the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower went up in 1909 , Met Life had a smaller headquarters at East 23rd Street and Madison Avenue. It’s the stately building on the corner in this October 1906 postcard, which notes the “New and Old Parkhurst Churches” next door. Charles Henry Parkhurst ...
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