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Day without an immigrant
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 For being a country which is based on migration from one country to another, our government and all the right wing so called "Patriots" sure are making such a huge fuss. Last time I checked everyone who lives in this country is an immigrant.
All Immigrants (not just Mexicans) contribu...
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Beta Israel
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 At 500,000, they outnumbered the Christians and Muslims around them, calling themselves Beta Israel. Though they lived in Ethiopia, their hearts were in Israel. Their daily rituals included praying and reading from the Torah. The Jewish community was not made aware of the existence of Ethi...
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Campaign Calumny
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 CAMPAIGN CALUMNY
"Mrs. President, infidel, old, querulous, mean-spirited" - the calumny of today's campaigns? Hardly, it was the campaign of 1800, with Thomas Jefferson defeating the incumbent John Adams on the 36th ballot in the House of Representatives in one of the nastiest camp...
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Politipop - Political News Anarchy or Democracy in Action?
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  Complaining about the "liberal media". Sick of talk-radio and the hate speech it spits out?
Politipop.com is a political news site without editors. Politipop uses non-hierarchical editorial control similar to Digg.com. With Politipop, users submit stories for review, but...
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Black Women Ruling
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Black women have taken political control of the nations of Liberia and Jamaica and a third Black woman is the fourth in line of the American presidency. Portia Simpson-Miller was recently sworn in is as the first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica and immediately faces great challenges in cu...
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To Good Health
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A recently published study on health differences between the English and Americans found that people living in the U.S. are profoundly more unhealthy than their counterparts from over the pond. The study did not reach any conclusions but experts were shocked at the extent of the dispari...
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Should Illegal Immigrants be Allowed?
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As the nation sputters forward into a new problem of illegal immigrants, neo-conservatism and budget crisis we must wonder what to make of it all. The signals are confusing.
On the one hand we have illegal immigrants who have had to hide from the law, work in poverty like conditions and do no...
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Poland aghast at German-Russian pipeline
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 Poland aghast at German-Russian pipeline
The Polish defence minister has compared a planned German-Russian gas pipeline to the 1939 Hitler-Stalin deal partitioning Poland, with EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs also criticising the gas project.
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Political Magicianship
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One of the elements of a successful stage magician is misdirection of the audience's attention. Without mastering that skill, a stage magician is nothing more than a sideshow, background noise. Indeed, both political parties have been to magic school, and both parties have been hard at wor...
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EU Constitution: Less is More
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 It's small wonder that the EU's attempt at a unifying consitution has descended into squabbles between its members, each seeking to protect its civil and economic stakes. Nor is it shocking that some parties have even urged (as "The Economist" has reported) "an explanatory commentary, li...
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