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Dear Jeff Jacoby: ideas don't do bad things. PEOPLE do them

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:32:04 +0000

My email to Jeff Jacoby after reading this... Jeff normally you're right on but... Mexico is a third world country, where corruption is considered normal. Mexicans don't value higher education; unlike the Europeans who came before them, they don't have a rich intellectual or ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 7 hours ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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Dilemma

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Fiatsler’s Dilemma: Build Engines In Michigan Or Mexico? By Edward Niedermeyer on November 18, 2009 The engine in question is Fiat’s 1.4 liter “Fire,” planned for use in the Fiat 500 as well as planned Dodge and Chrysler B-segment hatchbacks. Automotive News [sub] reports that the Michigan ...

jhudock posted 3 days ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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How the Recession’s Affecting Immigration

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:33:10 +0000

With U.S. unemployment at a 26-year high Americans will be feeling the economic downturn for some time. Immigration experts are seeing global signs of the recession in major shifts in U.S. immigration trends, especially at the high amd low ends of the skills spectrum. Here are the ...

TPM Election Central found this 2 days ago on tnr.com

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How Serious Is This Country About Illegal Immigration?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:37:10 +0000

Not very as exemplified by this catch-and-release story. A federal judge in Pittsburgh on Tuesday sentenced an illegal immigrant to time served in jail for his 10th illegal entry into the country. Uziel Jesus Lopez-Jiminez, 28, of Mexico has...

Rhymes With Right posted 4 days ago from rhymeswithright.mu.nu

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Bill Richardson's Awkward Link To Alleged Ponzi Schemer

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:56:39 +0000

Hassan Nemazee is a longtime Democratic moneyman who has raised campaign donations for folks like President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Last August Nemazee was arrested and later accused of perpetrating a $292 million Ponzi scheme in which he created bogus collateral to borrow from Bank of ...

TPMMuckraker found this 3 days ago on forbes.com

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New Mexico Lobos soccer player Elizabeth Lambert plays rough with BYU Going Viral ESPN (video)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Some female footy player from new mexico called Elizabeth Lambert plays football the proper way

Wizbang found this 11 days ago on youtube.com

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Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King dies at age 85

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:22 +0000

SANTA FE -- Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King was a back-slapping, hand-pumping, old-fashioned politician, equally at home on the ranch or in the Roundhouse. His death, at 85, marks the end of an era in New Mexico politics. King was with family members at his ranch in Stanley when he died Friday ...

Crooks and Liars found this 7 days ago on lcsun-news.com

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The beaten Cuban bloggers Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:00:02 +0000

Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. Today’s top story: Yoani Sánchez and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo last Friday, November 6, were kidnapped off a street in Havana just as they were about to participate on a peace demonstration. They were severely beaten by three ...

Fausta posted 13 days ago from faustasblog.com

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Bruce King, 3-Term Governor, Dies at 85

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:33:00 +0000

Bruce King served longer than any other New Mexico governor.

New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan found this 6 days ago on nytimes.com

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Copenhagen climate summit over before it begins? Not quite, but...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:22:00 +0000

From NBC's Chuck ToddSINGAPORE -- It's rare that anything unannounced happens at one of these summits. That's why so many folks are buzzing about the unplanned Sunday morning breakfast meeting on the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit between 19 of the 21 world leaders attending this weekend's ...

Ben Smith's Blog found this 7 days ago on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

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How bad IS the economy?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:18:00 +0000

Tommy sent this one in:The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.It's so bad, I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"The economy is so bad if the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you ...

directorblue posted 11 days ago from directorblue.blogspot.com

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Environmental laws put gaps in Mexico border security

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:26:04 +0000

In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal immigrants. Documents obtained by Rep. ...

CNSNews.com Headlines found this 6 days ago on washingtontimes.com

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Mexico: Amlo’s pretend government

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:13:40 +0000

What to do when you lose but can’t let go? Well, if you are Andrés Manuel López Obrador, best known as Amlo, you claim to be the actual government. No wonder so many Americans, Europeans and Asians think of Latin America as the place where magical realism best describes reality. ...

Fausta posted 10 days ago from faustasblog.com

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Here It Is… Team Obama Unveils Comprehensive Immigration Strategy

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:46:00 +0000

After they ruin the economy Democrats have a plan to keep their power… And they outlined it today. Democrats will give citizenship to the 10-30 million illegal aliens residing within the US borders. Perfect. The Examiner reported: Though it would seem unlikely that our President ...

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 8 days ago on gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

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Former Gov. Bruce King dies

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:52:00 +0000

Bruce King, New Mexico's only three-term governor and one of the state's most loved political figures, died overnight. He was 85. King, who served three non-consecutive terms from 1971 to 1974, from 1979 to 1982 and from 1991 to 1994, had been sick and died at his ranch near Stanley. King is ...

New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan found this 9 days ago on santafenewmexican.com

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Are Women Becoming More Violent?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:37 +0000

Two viral videos of girl-on-girl and woman-on-woman violence grabbed the world by the throat this week and raised the question: Are American females becoming more violent? In the first video, punch-throwing, hair-pulling, brawling high school soccer players were caught on tape by a Rhode ...

Instapundit found this 9 days ago on politicsdaily.com

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Border Arrests Decline Again

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000

Associated Press Members of the media last month outside a tunnel near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, that may have been planned for smuggling migrants or drugs.

Think Progress found this 12 days ago on online.wsj.com

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Mexico border city groups call for UN peacekeepers (AP)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:31:27 +0000

AP - Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

The Corner on National Review Online found this 9 days ago on news.yahoo.com

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The New York Times

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000

Nov. 10, 2009 The International Energy Agency sees lower oil demand in the next decades, according to its annual World Energy Outlook report. Nov. 9, 2009 Oil companies shut down offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Ida churned toward landfall between the states of ...

Commonsense & Wonder found this 11 days ago on nytimes.com

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Iraq Coalition Casualties: U.S. Wounded Totals

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:30:42 +0000

Think Progress found this 6 days ago on icasualties.org

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