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The Newseum and the slow death of the American newspaper.
Spot the decimal point error in this report. Helpful hint here.
The problems of modern parenting: When officer Daniel Swift asked the woman what she meant by that, she said that the two belong to different street gangs.
"They could not agree on which gang the baby would claim," Swift said.
Bill Cosby is doing his own speaking tours to Afro-American men: As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal responsibility, and reclaim the traditions that fortified them in the past. … Cosby’s gospel of discipline, moral reform, and self-reliance offers a way out-a promise that one need not cure America of its original sin in order to succeed. Racism may not be extinguished, but it can be beaten. It is building on his 2004 Pound cake speech. The writer of the article is correct to say concerns about black men and family life go back a long way, however the statistics got much worse in and since the 1960s.
“God’n’guns” Americans are a lot less bitter than Europeans. And small town Americans are less focused on God-and-guns cultural issues than college educated Americans: Small-town people of modest means and limited education are not fixated on cultural issues. Rather, it is affluent, college-educated people living in cities and suburbs who are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, social issues are the opiate of the elites.
US Armed forces use of felony waivers in recruitment is increasing. Service in the US Armed Forces continue to be a path to citizenship: Since the Revolutionary War, Scharfen said, the American military has relied on foreign-born fighters and recognized their service by making them citizens. A federal law that went into effect in 2004 streamlined the naturalization process for those who have served. All legal immigrants in good standing who have served since Sept. 11, 2001, are immediately eligible to apply.
Since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in October 2001, Immigration Services has naturalized more than 37,250 service members, 111 of those posthumously. .
Hillary wins the Pennsylvania primary. And they can keep fighting as long as they like according to the McCain camp. I keep thinking it will be really hard for a Republican to win in November and it keeps looking like the Democrats are doing their damnest to prove me wrong … (Via jordan179.)
Barack Obama’s promise to withdraw from Iraq has all sorts of caveats and problems.
Spot the decimal point error in this report. Helpful hint here.
The problems of modern parenting: When officer Daniel Swift asked the woman what she meant by that, she said that the two belong to different street gangs.
"They could not agree on which gang the baby would claim," Swift said.
Bill Cosby is doing his own speaking tours to Afro-American men: As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal responsibility, and reclaim the traditions that fortified them in the past. … Cosby’s gospel of discipline, moral reform, and self-reliance offers a way out-a promise that one need not cure America of its original sin in order to succeed. Racism may not be extinguished, but it can be beaten. It is building on his 2004 Pound cake speech. The writer of the article is correct to say concerns about black men and family life go back a long way, however the statistics got much worse in and since the 1960s.
“God’n’guns” Americans are a lot less bitter than Europeans. And small town Americans are less focused on God-and-guns cultural issues than college educated Americans: Small-town people of modest means and limited education are not fixated on cultural issues. Rather, it is affluent, college-educated people living in cities and suburbs who are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, social issues are the opiate of the elites.
US Armed forces use of felony waivers in recruitment is increasing. Service in the US Armed Forces continue to be a path to citizenship: Since the Revolutionary War, Scharfen said, the American military has relied on foreign-born fighters and recognized their service by making them citizens. A federal law that went into effect in 2004 streamlined the naturalization process for those who have served. All legal immigrants in good standing who have served since Sept. 11, 2001, are immediately eligible to apply.
Since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in October 2001, Immigration Services has naturalized more than 37,250 service members, 111 of those posthumously. .
Hillary wins the Pennsylvania primary. And they can keep fighting as long as they like according to the McCain camp. I keep thinking it will be really hard for a Republican to win in November and it keeps looking like the Democrats are doing their damnest to prove me wrong … (Via jordan179.)
Barack Obama’s promise to withdraw from Iraq has all sorts of caveats and problems.