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Poor Immigrants: Asset Or Burden?

Arnold Hamilton - September 28, 2010 0

BY FROMA HARROP America’s fast-growing Latino population is famously hard working. It also has high rates for teenage pregnancy and dropping out of high school, two markers for poverty. Falling education levels should worry any country seeking to compete in the global economy. Are these poor immigrants “an asset or an albatross?” San Antonio Mayor […]

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Religious Tolerance Is The Law

Arnold Hamilton - September 28, 2010 1

BY SHARON MARTIN There was no separation of church and state in the Massachusetts Colony, and those who held differing views about religion often paid...

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Return Of ‘The Contract With America’

Arnold Hamilton - September 27, 2010 0

BY JOE CONASON The Republicans have announced the forthcoming release of the “Contract From America” – a set of legislative proposals presumably intended to replicate the “Contract With America” used by their leaders in the historic 1994 midterm when they won control of both houses of Congress. The question immediately raised by this news is […]

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Think For Yourself

Arnold Hamilton - September 27, 2010 0

BY JAMES NIMMO "Think for yourself and let others do the same." This week is Banned Books Week, Sept. 25 through Oct. 2. Frequently, books dealing...

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Masturbating On The Edge Of The Apocalypse

Arnold Hamilton - September 24, 2010 0

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It’s the merry laugh on the edge of the abyss. Christine O’Donnell, senatorial candidate with her “no hand jobs” program has cast an unfamiliar ray of sunshine over the surreal landscape of American politics. In terms of fun, this has been a bleak decade. Not since Monica Lewinsky eagerly confided to friends […]