The Immigration Bill is Defeated Again

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Blow to Bush as immigration bill crashes down
Agence France Presse

In a stunning defeat for the bid to grant a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants, Senators voted 53 to 46 against keeping the bill alive, likely ending congressional action on the divisive issue before 2009.
Bipartisan backers of the measure fell well short of [...]

Marketing, Eliminationism, and Coded Language

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If you’ve spent any time surfing the Internet, you’ve seen more than your fair share of banner ads. The advertisement that is constructed from an image that appears all over the net and varies considerably in appearance and subject matter. Banner ads are usually relatively simple pieces of hypertext link code, instructs a Web server [...]

Blogs That Make Me Think: The Thinking Blogger Award

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Well, as I was browsing through Technorati because I was beginning to notice that my incoming links from Technorati was not updating properly on my Wordpress dashboard. To be honest, I often find more blogs linking to me by searching xicanopwr.com on Google. What I also end up finding out, there are people who actually [...]

This is Truly Messed Up: Former Councilwoman Faces Deportation

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Zoila Meyer who came here when she was 1 just found out she is only a “legal resident” but not a citizen. When her parents brought her with them from Cuba they always told her she was a U.S. citizen. Some would say she has been living the American dream; marrying her high school sweetheart, [...]

Soldier Side

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I have been thinking a lot about those men and women who are serving in our armed forces, especially those who get slapped with reality because they thought were there “make a difference” but in reality they are turned into killing machines and are asked to kill and/or torture innocent people. The ones who left [...]

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