Protesters against Arizona’s new immigration law have held rallies at Union Square in New York and other places across the country.
If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor. If you cross the Iranian border illegally, you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the U.S. border illegally, you get:
By Selwyn Duke
If you thought that “one man, one vote” reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again. In the village of Port Chester, N.Y., just a few towns north of my locality in Westchester County, there is a new system. It’s “one (minority) man, six votes” — brought to us courtesy of the U.S. Department of Injustice and a lunkhead of a federal judge named Stephen Robinson.
by Bill Bonner
Sittin’ on the dock of the bay…
Watchin’ the tide roll away…
~ “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Otis Reading
We’re glad we’re not sitting on the dock of the bay in Biloxi or St. Petersburg. There’s oil coming that way…and it’s not the kind you can burn in your lamp.
by Gary North
The new British government’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws, walked into his new office. On the table there was a note from the previous secretary.
“Dear chief secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck! Liam.”
by Megan McArdle
My father, who worked in the petrochemical industry for decades, tells me that there is a well-established method for dealing with a problem like this: blowing up the well.
So why isn’t this option being considered, despite the failure of every method tried so far? Because it can’t ever be used again. As a result, BP stands to lose a lot from doing so.
by Chuck Norris
Cursing, spitting, shoving, vandalism and death threats are pervading the political landscape. But who will relieve America of its political indigestion and anger?
I’ve seen a dozen U.S. presidents during my lifetime, but rarely have I seen the type of frustration and disdain being shown by many Americans in the first year of this presidency.
by Bill Bonner
The French media reports the passage of the health care reform bill as though it were the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, Americans have finally entered the modern world, they said. Now, Americans have access to health care as a matter of right.
We’re suspicious of anything the French papers think is a good idea.
by C.J. Maloney
“Let us make one thing crystal clear: We do not claim the right to indiscriminate violence. We seek no bloodbath… ~ Black Panther Party”
If the rebellious spirit of our Founders still lives at all, it seems to be concentrated between two groups – libertarians and punks. But, while the spirit may reside, would it be a good idea to act on it?
by Ron Paul
With passage of last week’s bill, the American people are now the unhappy recipients of Washington’s disastrous prescription for healthcare “reform.” Congressional leaders relied on highly dubious budget predictions, faulty market assumptions, and outright fantasy to convince a slim majority that this major expansion of government somehow will reduce federal spending.
By Peter Schiff
In his latest weekly New York Times column, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman put forward arguments that were so nonsensical that the award committee should ask for its medal back.
Recent rhetoric from Washington has put the economic relationship between the U.S. and China squarely on the front burner, and Krugman is demanding that we crank up the flame.
By Ed Kaitz
Nancy Pelosi wants to give birth to a new kind of freedom in America — the freedom from being “job-locked.” In an interview with Rachel Maddow Thursday evening, Pelosi asked Americans to “think” about a bright, new, liberating kind of utopia:
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance….”
An in-depth investigation revealed restraint boards, isolation, food deprivation and electric shocks in efforts to control the behaviors of its disabled students
About a week after receiving my Goldline Investors Kit I got the first phone call. Overall I would say that they were very professional and courteous.
Witnesses reported seeing a comet-like fireball in the sky and a number of local residents took photos of the strange ball of light.
Damon Vickers says on CNBC: Unless the plunge protection team comes in over the next couple of days, the markets are looking very dicey here.
At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s.
Industry sources said the flour shortage was a direct result of the order by the Department of Trade and Industry forcing flour millers to cut their price by as much as P160 per bag.
Arthur Furano voted often, flipping the lever six times. He cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Behave yourself and be polite” is how Representative Ron Paul describes his regulatory philosophy about rearing five children.
Bomb expert Kevin Barry with 20 years experience in the NYPD says the bags could be filled not with bombs, but with innocuous items like water bottles or socks.
The people who are being detained, searched and questioned are not playing some game. They are deadly serious, and they are worried to death
Want to invoke your right to remain silent? Now you’ll need to speak up to do so.
In a TMZ interview, the rapper Chamillionaire acknowledges to strategically defaulting on a Houston property that he owns.
Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the McDonald’s, announced a voluntary recall of the Shrek Forever After 3D Collectable Drinking Glasses.
Tiny dots appear to have burned onto leaves of all types of plants, they are killing crops, trees, weeds and even small animals but nobody can explain why.
A Potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism from the FTC circles its wagons around old newspapers and their fading business models
The funniest clips from Australia’s John Clarke and Bryan Dawe’s economic and political humor
As the latest effort to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has failed, nuking the immediate area to seal the well is gaining steam among some energy experts
A new law would require ID at the time of purchase of prepaid cell phones to allow law enforcement to track their users
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