tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-247543812011-04-21T15:50:50.559-04:00I will keep all my political ranting and raving in this journal instead of <a href="http://zacstolzfuts.blogspot.com/">Isaac Stolzfuts' Journal</a>.Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17717305685731746668noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24754381.post-83065521337124625392007-02-03T10:49:00.000-05:002008-11-18T00:47:47.205-05:00

Am I the only voice, crying in the wilderness?I have been against the Iraq War since President Bush and his Neoconservative buddies first mentioned the possibility of invading the country. Whether Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or not wasn’t the issue in my mind. Instead, I worried about the morality of the United States making a preemptive invasion of any country. Yes, the 9/11/2001

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Let’s list just a few possible headlines one might have read during the past several days. 1. Jimmy Carter Accused of Anti Semitism!2. Worst Day in Iraq War!3. Nineteen United States Troops Killed!4. Hillary’s Hat Is In the Circle!5. Maniacal Man Kidnaps Mother and Four Children!6. Nasty American Idol!7. Hate Crime Claims Hmong Hunter!8. 200 Iraqi insurgents killed9. Three Israelis killed by

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Why, it’s pathetic, Mr. President -I understand you are going to speak to the following domestic issues, and I’ve got a fairly clear picture of what you might say, so here is my response. 1. Health: We have done nothing to prevent vast increases in the cost of healthcare since refusing to listen to Hillary Clinton’s proposals back in the early 1990’s. The big boys continue to reap vast profits

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Big surprise! Wages for the middle class and the poor have actually gone down in value on Mr. Bush’s watch. Let’s look at some statistics. Corporate profits increased from 17.7% in 2000 to 20.9% in 2005. At the same time the share of the economy going to wages has sunk to an extreme low. Despite Republican claims, overall job growth for the period is a lethargic 1.3%. Additionally, salary

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I won’t belabor it. The title says it all. I like the editorial in Netherlands” Handelsblad, and I paraphrase. Bush’s plan to send in 5 brigades has nothing to do with the actual security and stability of Iraq. Rather it will combat the symptoms instead of ending the civil war in progress. It is more of the same failed policy.It doesn’t matter that the electorate has finally recognized the

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My property taxes went up 40% the first year of my residency here in South Florida. My condo fees went up 45%, and my insurance costs went up by40%. The three items total sixteen thousand dollars a year. Ridiculous!I owned my apartment at Pine Needle Retirement Community in Lancaster, PA, and paid a quarterly fee there that was used for the same kinds of things that my condo fee is here. I’ve

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In 2003, I wrote that the war in Iraq was “the wrong war against Terrorism.” At the time I wondered why there were no journalists, no Democrats, nobody anywhere shouting from the rooftops that we really didn’t know if there were WMD in Iraq - that Saddam Hussain was not aiding international terrorists, al qaeda or otherwise – much less that it was morally wrong to invade a foreign nation without

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I find it interesting that the President who dealt with the aftermath of Vietnam, Gerald R. Ford, felt that the Bush invasion of Iraq was a “big mistake.” That he would not let Bob Woodward use the remarks or publish them except posthumously is a testament to the character of Ford, the man who considered George Bush and Dick Cheney to be friends.The eulogies delivered by Dennis Hastert, and Dick

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I just got in from the airport, turned on TV and saw that he is to die within the hour. How foolish!We should be fighting with every diplomatic tool available to stay this execution. It must not take place, lest every Sunni in the world blame us! If Saddam Hussein is to be executed it must take place long after we have left Iraq, and if Iraq is not able to bring itself to do so, so be it!Damn,

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If one didn’t know better, the headline above might receive a “ho-hum, so what” acknowledgement by the reader. This daughter, however, Mary, is a lesbian living with her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe. Her father is the second major player in the presidential administration that is singly responsible for the greatest setback in the lives of LGBT people in the contemporary history of our

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Fear of Conversion, Judith Butler, and the Palm Beach County “Social Disease.”I’ve continued my discussion of police entrapment of gay and straight individuals in Palm Beach County in Isaac Stolzfuts’ Journal with a written monologue about Judith Butler’s feminist work, Bodies That Matter, 1993, and Gender Trouble, 1990. These two books deal with the creation of acceptable norms for human

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I will publish this piece in both my Political Journal, and Isaac Stolzfuts' Journal for two reasons. First, I am relating part of my daily existence here in Florida. . Second, the situation I describe below reflects an administrative system that has distorted the purpose (to aid and protect citizens) of at least two major municipal institutions in Palm Beach County. I always think that the

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Though I will listen to his statement at 11:45 AM EST this morning, and follow up by paying close attention to any statements made before Christmas, I suspect that it will be difficult to find much of the Bipartisan Iraq Study Group ideas there. Yes, he is meeting with everyone he can in the attempt to show that he is looking at all options, but is he really considering any other than those

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Yes, it recommends an altered approach to a failed war. Will Mr. Bush take any of the advice? I’m keeping my last entry for another day, since it’s appropriate!I Pray for PeaceIt looks like too little too late - too late for “Rummy,” too late for George W. Bush, too late for the Neocons - too late for The President’s “War on Terror,” to be fixed so that it actually is a strategic policy aimed

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I Pray for PeaceIt looks like too little, too late for “Rummy - too late for George W. Bush, too late for the Neocons - too late for The President’s “War on Terror" to be fixed so that it actually is a strategic policy aimed at protecting the world from terror instead of creating a USA sponsored War of Terror.I’m so sickened by the entire mess that I have difficulty thinking logically about it.

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I’m curious to see the bipartisan commission on Iraq recommendations next week because I think there will be two ideas they recommend that neither leader will like, each for his own reasons. Of course, after al-Maliki’s meeting with Bush, he announced that he wants his people to start taking over from us by next June. Was that Bush and al-Maliki’s plan or al-Maliki’s I wonder. And, who really

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I’ve just read the “Book Excerpt,” “My Spiritual Journey,” from Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope in the October 23rd issue of Time magazine. In the excerpt Obama describes a Christian America that is basically evangelical in nature. The liberal Christian values that I have become acquainted with since leaving the Amish order do not exist in his evangelical USA. For instance, he stated that

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There’s nothing surprising about this bit of theatrics that I call “The Pastor and the Prostitute.” It’s just a repeat evangelical pastoral (h-m-m-m-m-m) performance with new actors. I admit, it’s human to prescribe right behavior for others, but pursue wrong behavior oneself, though it seems to be diurnal practice for many of us. I myself am inferring a certain “wrongness” as I use the label

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Whether they’re fussing about Jim Webb’s (D) books in Virginia - playing the race card (as in black versus white) in Tennessee ("Blond Bimbo Commercial") in the Corker(R) versus Ford (D) Senate race - or shrieking “fowl” as in the New Jersey State Supreme Court Decision to tell the state legislature there that it must grant gay and lesbian couples the right to marriage - it’s non stop smear based

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I cruised the web this morning to check the news. While the BBC had 7 articles about the failing war and civil unrest in Iraq, CNN had 1, and FOX - 3. It would appear that either we are loosing interest in the Iraq war and civil war, or are so embarrassed by it that we do not want to discuss it. Amazingly, Mr. Bush is finally admitting that things aren’t quite right in Iraq, and his government

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It poured forth from Boston on closed circuit Television this past Sunday evening, an effort by evangelical church leaders to unify their congregations behind Republican candidates for Senate and Congress. I’ve looked for news about it on line, Googeling it, and doing other searches as well, and can find nothing. This National Gay and Lesbian Task Force article is the closest I’ve come to

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I know the U. N. High Commissioner for Refuges has a 9 million dollar short fall on a 29 million dollar Iraq budget.* Are there also U.S. agencies like the Red Cross doing or planning relief? Since it’s our fault (no argument, Republicans!) because we started the damned war, we should certainly be helping to support the people fleeing from it.Anyone reading this and knowing of such an

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Put in the simplest of terms - What’s Moral or Christian about our Invasion of Muslim Iraq?Facetiously, it’s Christian because it’s just one more Crusade against the infidel. Seriously, is the war in Iraq Christian and moral? Well, we already know the answer. We know the answer deep down inside, We know the answer even if we are evangelical Christians and trying somehow to reconcile this “

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For todays political commentary go toIsaac Stolzfuts' Journal for my entry titled "Mark Foley’s Situation Reflects Unfavorably on Us All: Hysteria, Pedophilia, and Cybersex."

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I personally consider the up-coming election one of the most important in the nation’s history, because it will not only mark the political judgment of the people, but also their moral judgment of the Bush administration, and Republican dominated Congress and Senate. This election is critical for the following reasons; 1) it will either condone or rebuke the neo-con notion of preemptive invasion

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of my charities, a special non-profit organization that I have given to for years. They are the primary reason the KKK has been in decline these past 15 years. Their project for tolerance in the nations schools has helped to create many schools that have eliminated prejudice of any kind, racial, religious, ageist, sexist, and sexual from their educational

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The President’s series of speeches last week and the week before have served to transform “The War on Terror” into Worldwide War Against Fundamentalist Islam and Islamic Terrorists“With less than 8 weeks until Election Day, the president’s public relations offensive gives him a way to handle his biggest weakness – the war in Iraq by absorbing it into his biggest strength – the War on Terror,

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…Bush (can’t) avoid a looming date on his calendar: 7 November. That day, Americans will flock to the polls in record numbers for the mid term elections - and deliver possibly their definitive referendum on Bush and his presidency. For his entire time in office, Bush has enjoyed the luxury of having both a House and Senate that are Republican-controlled; now he faces the possibility of at least

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I propose a basic question. Does the nation’s “preemptive strike” policy cast the United States counter terrorist activity in the same light as the international terrorist organization that caused us to adopt that policy. First, I must state that my own position is biased, as I am dogmatically opposed to the idea of the preemptive strike. Second, let me point out that the “preemptive strike”

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Consider the following points listed from “Article 29,” Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Sixth Committee by the United Nations General Assembly in 1994.Declaration of Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism…The General AssemblyGuided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly

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Based on my journal entry dated August 8, 2006, “The Foiled Terrorist Plot, International Terrorism, and the New Rome,” I looked at United Nations proposals for an International Convention on Terrorism, and found that there is no agreement among the world’s nations as to what would constitute such a convention. Indeed, the nations of the world have not managed to approve a definition of

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What does the arrest of 24 terrorists at London’s Heathrow airport have to do with our political process?I do not wish to minimize the mass murder horror that would have taken place had not British police prevented the deployment of explosive devices in carry-on luggage. However, since 9/11/2001 American voters have created a Republican House and Senate, and reelected a Republican President thus

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About one hundred Iraqi civilians are killed everyday. Iraq civilians killed to date is estimated at between 36,980 and 41,446 by Iraq Body Count. According to Iraq Coalition Casualty Count United States casualties approach 2600. In private, and sometimes publicly United States and United Kingdom officials are pessimistic about the outcome in Iraq. See “Private pessimism on Iraq Grows,” from

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The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 includes a cunning Conservative Ploy to once again limit your freedom of speech. Mr. Bush signed the law on July 21st of this year in order to commemorate the murder of Adam Walsh. Adam Walsh was 6 years old; when on July 27, 1981 he was kidnapped and subsequently murdered. The boy’s severed head was discovered two weeks later, but the

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The War in Iraq and Traditional Republican ValuesAt the same time, the destabilizing invasion of Iraq and our position concerning Israel’s invasion of Lebanon have nothing to do with traditional Republican values. Perhaps it is time for an admission. Mea culpa, I was a Republican. But, over time beginning with Ronald Reagan, I felt as though we were moving away from core Republican values -

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The 13th Kenai River Classic (July 6 to 10), ostensibly a fundraiser for conservation of the habitat along the Kenai River in Alaska, was once again attended by Republican notables, including governors and senators, as well as lobbyists representing major industrial interests. However, in actuality the event is an opportunity for lobbyists to promote their pet projects with their Republican

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Worldwide Fundamentalism, the Middle East and Neoconservative NotionsHow is it possible that contemporary political ideas in the United States effect the relationship between Israel and Lebanon/Hezbollah?First, ideas in this the most powerful nation on earth (for now, at least) are bound to effect other nations. Second, while Postmodern social theory describes a cultural universe that is

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We have, all of us, Conservative, Liberal, Neoconservative, Centrists, Moderates watched this situation develop with increasing alarm. However, I propose here that the conflict involving Hezbollah / Lebanon and Israel is not at all what it seems on the surface. Instead, it is linked to a series of shortsighted policies and mistakes made by our current administration that are based at least in

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That’s how it reads in most US news sources. Not that I’m surprised. And, yes, the men that tortured and killed our soldiers are evil. As Forest Gump would say, “Evil is as evil does.” However, we must keep our eyes open to the fact that the US soldiers responsible for the rape of the young Iraqi woman, the murder of her family, and 5-year old sister have also performed the most despicable

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I read a news article on the BBC Website on the 4th of July that made me feel as though I had little to celebrate this year. Titled “Veteran faces Iraq murder charges,” it was about Steven Green, a retired private, who stands accused of the rape of an Iraqi woman, and the murder of 3 other Iraqis including a 5 year-old child in March. I was and continue to be horrified, but find myself asking

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I looked at the headlines this morning, and thought, "Ho, Hum." Perhaps I'm tired Because the boys and I have been working and playing so hard this week. However, there doesn't seem to be much happening. A brief list.1. Mexico's election seems to be in a stalemate.2. Three Palestinian millitant groups appear ready to retaliate against Isreal tomorrow morning.3. Why would Abu Musab al-Zargawi

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Interesting how a word can change over time, isn’t it; like the term “Gerrymander,” which used to be pejorative. However, today, our Republican dominated Supreme Court has upheld the Gerrymandering of Texas accomplished by Tom Delay last year. I won’t detail the new and bizarre map of Texas though it looks something like a butcher’s chart for chopping up a Texas steer. It’s composed of

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David Safavian, former Bush White House chief procurement officer has been found guilty of covering up his connections with Republican Influence-peddler Jack Abramoff. Safavian was convicted after eight days of testimony concerning Safavian’s help to Abramoff with government-owned real estate, and a seven day golf excursion to the famous St. Andrews golf course in Scotland and London with Ohio

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Up, down, all around.His popularity’sMore sound.Happy RepublicansCongress and SenateKick Democrat’s cansWith proposals designedTo corner and separate,Roads “Rovian” mined,Peaceniks berate,And troop withdrawalsWith weakness equate,Yes.Up, down, all aroundHis popularity’sMore sound.Doesn’t matter The war’s immorality -With evangelical patterThis crusade'sAn okay matter.

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Dennis Kucinich (D Congressman, 10th District, Ohio) has said often, and I paraphrase, that the second war in Iraq is morally wrong because we are the aggressor. He proceeds to say that the weapons of mass destruction charge was false, the contention that Saddam sought Uranium from Niger was false, and that there was no connection between Saddam and Al Queda. All of which have proved to be

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Notice the wording in the following sentence. The special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald has decided that Carl Rove is not to be charged in the Valerie Plame leak case. There is nothing to disclose whether Rove is innocence or guilty of leaking Plame’s identity as a CIA agent, and thereby threatening her safety, only that he will not be charged. So, he is free to spin some marvelous

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One maniacal terrorist thug has become a martyr. The question in my mind is, will the Jordanian, Al-Zargawi’s death slow the sectarian violence in Iraq? Zargawi wanted to destroy as many Iraqi Shia as possible in order to instigate a civil war, though it’s difficult for me to understand why he, a Sunni Muslim hated another type of Muslim, the Shia so much. There is no parallel in the West today

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Bush and the Republican Houses of Congress and Senate hope to shore up their sagging ratings by pandering to their evangelical Christian base. We already have a Federal law that limits marriage to that between a man and a woman, "The Defense of Marriage Act." Why do we need a constitutional amendment to do the same thing? Why do we want to create a second class of citizenship anyway? When will

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Human Rights Campaign

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comes to a vote in the Senate as early as June 5th, 2006. Your Congress has already passed it. Don’t allow the travesty to pass!On the surface, the amendment will limit marriage to those between a man and a woman. Beneath the troubled waters, however, lie the sharks waiting to pounce. Should such an amendment pass, LGBT people will lose all rights. The courts will be forced to support the

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So, Madonna is prejudiced against Catholics (?), Jesus Christ (?), the Catholic Church (?), - because she crucified herself (well sort of) during a concert. As a result of the incident which took place during the opening concert of Madonna’s new world tour, “Confessions, ”Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League called her a “pathetic bigot.” So, let’s turn the whole thing on its head.

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Reports in fall of 2005 indicated that the United States has a secret network of detention centers including one Soviet era compound in Eastern Europe. These are used to transfer foreign nationals, perhaps even U.S. citizens, to foreign territory to interrogate, and possibly torture those suspected of terrorism by the Bush administration. Such activities are illegal under our own legal practice

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George W. Bush certainly has chutzpah! His nominee for CIA Director, former director of the National Security Administration, Air Force General Michael Hayden designed the warrantless surveillance program in which the Federal government spied and continues to spy on Americans making international and domestic telephone calls and e-mails. Additionally, many critics voiced immediate concern that

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First, what plan? President Bush is the worst president in our history, but even he would not plan on Nuking Iran. He is, however, planning on possibly bombing strategic nuclear sites where Iran might be manufacturing heavy uranium, but nuking them – NO!Second, the idea of bombing any site in Iran is stupid at this point as Iran’s reaction is unpredictable. The United States is buried up to

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He rode his bicycle in the Napa Valley on Earth Day, and suddenly, he’s an alternative energy expert instead of part of the oil oligarchy. And, according to the evangelical book of Bush, hydrogen will save our economy. I don't mean to instruct, however, hydrogen is not a clean energy source because it requires energy to separate it from water and/or atmosphere in the first place. So, you need

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Yeah, right! And, while we’re at it, why not blame it on the U. S. Energy Department rules that require the removal of an additive that causes water pollution. Then the oil oligarchy can have the Republican Party blame liberal Democratic Party conservationists for the problem.In actuality, holding tanks in Virginia and Massachusetts aren’t full because the oil producers didn’t start to remove

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We must begin today to fight for a healthier, less divisive national focusPerhaps I’m a pessimist. No, it’s far worse than that. I’m reconciled to 1006 more days of this administration, and this war. We’ve made our bed and now we must lie in it. So many of us supported this war at its inception four years ago. So many of us re-elected this president for a second term one and one-half years

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Just in case anyone is still interested 2,359 Americans have died and 17,269 have been wounded in Iraq since the war began March 19, 2003. Somewhere between 18,000 and 48,000 Iraqis have lost their lives in the war. You can check the information on American deaths at AntiWar.com, and get more exact numbers for Iraqi casualties at Iraq Body Count.At the same time, I read in Words From Iraq April

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Thank goodness!Of course, corruption runs rampant in politics at various times in our history, more than not, I suppose. However, this gang is particularly vicious, and I’m sure by cutting off this particular snake’s head, the rest of the Republican Party hopes to distance itself from censure. While we watch the headless snake writhe on the floor of the house during the next couple of weeks,

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Part IIIIllegal Immigration Versus Legal ImmigrationImmigration is the history of the United States of America. Native Americans are the only true Americans. The rest of us are immigrants. Wave after wave came to the Americas beginning with the 17th century, a total of 18 million immigrants from all over the world up to the year 2000. The first wave included African, English, Scotch-Irish,

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Part II:Painful Conflict in Labor History is Laundered by School CurriculaI searched Public School courses of study on line, and have found a plethora of facts, names and dates concerning union organization, but little detail about violence perpetrated at the hands of industrial barons, as well as local, state and Federal governments. Violence included was understated, and cautiously presented

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Part IFirst, An Extremely Abbreviated History of Labor UnionsLocal unions of craftsmen existed in the colonies in 18th Century America. In fact, the Declaration of Independence was signed in Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia in 1776. Early in the 19th Century larger, but for the most part, unsuccessful local unions organized in the attempt to protect workers from unscrupulous employers as the

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That Headline is a distinct possibility. The policy of preemptive-strike is alive and well in the Bush Administration. In fact, the 49 page National Security Report released March 16, 2006 reaffirms that neo-conservative policy. "When the consequences of an attack with weapons of mass destruction are potentially so devastating, we cannot afford to stand idly by as grave dangers materialize. …

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The President has intimated that the news media are responsible for his low ratings because they state only the negative about the Iraq war. In a series of speeches this week, including the televised news conference on Tuesday, March 21, 2006, Mr. Bush and his supporters have repeatedly slammed the news media. First, I will state the obvious. The news media are not to blame for the drop in Mr

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First, do we understand what enriched Uranium is?It’s this simple. Iran wants a complete enriched uranium program and they see us as those who have and those who want them to have not. Do they need enriched uranium? Do we? No! So, why doesn’t the USA offer to cut our own production of heavily enriched U235 as part of the negotiations?Because we want to be the have nation, and we want Iran to

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