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Utah shifts its path on fighting illegal immigration, considers integrating some

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 14th, 2010 4:38 am by HL

Utah shifts its path on fighting illegal immigration, considers integrating some
CENTERFIELD, UTAH — Just weeks ago, Utah seemed destined to become the next state to draw a rigid line against illegal immigration. Lawmakers were completing work on a proposal similar to the one Arizona had approved, authorizing police to check the immigration status of those suspected of being in…

Immigration – United States – Anti-Immigration – Utah – Law

At Ramadan dinner, Obama defends plans for Ground Zero mosque
President Obama on Friday forcefully joined the national debate over construction of an Islamic complex near New York’s Ground Zero, telling guests at a White House dinner marking the holy month of Ramadan that opposing the project is at odds with American values.

Barack Obama – Ramadan – United States – President – Islam

Rep. Maxine Waters blasts ethics panel and media, defends links to OneUnited
A lawmaker was looking on proudly at her grandson, but this was anything but a warm occasion.

Maxine Waters – Ethics – Philosophy – Applied – United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

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Sacrilege at Ground Zero

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 14th, 2010 4:32 am by HL

Sacrilege at Ground Zero
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz).When we speak of Ground Zero as hallowed ground, what we mean is that it belongs to those who suffered and died there — and that such ownership obliges us, the living, to preserve the dignity and memory of the place, never allowing it to be forgotten, trivialized or misappropriated.

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Obama’s Midterm Roadmap
Bob Shrum, The Week
Two incidents this week may foretell the outcome of the midterm elections. First, the President signed a $26 billion bill to save the jobs of teachers, police, and firefighters across the country. Typically, he got the result he wanted, but little of the credit he needs. Both this latest success and his rather sparse comments about it, which were buried inside the newspapers and in the rundown on television news, swiftly faded for a nation now numbed to legislative landmarks and impatient for economic recovery.