Opinion
Cuban Adjustment Act remains off the table
June 2, 2009The Obama administration recently proposed resuming semi-annual talks on Cuban migration to the United States. The State Department referred to “commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration” and to President Obama’s desire “to support the Cuban...
Read moreCOMMENTARY Psychopaths wanted for high court appointment
May 31, 2009Wow, is Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, ever in for it! Mark Kirkorian of the anti-immigrant “Center for Immigration Studies” told the press this week that it is incorrect to pronounce...
Read moreLittle relationship between immigration and unemployment, studies show
May 31, 2009The current economic crisis has intensified the tendency to cast immigrants as scapegoats for this country’s economic problems. Mexican and Latin American immigrants are portrayed as inveterate job thieves who take “American jobs” from “American workers.”...
Read moreSuddenly it’s OK to call a judicial nominee a racist
May 31, 2009When the nation learned in 2005 that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito had belonged to a Princeton University alumni organization that advocated a cap on the number of women and minorities allowed at Princeton, the news...
Read moreTeens and sex: Is the Internet accurate?
May 30, 2009ORIGINAL SOURCE May 29 Below the Belt: A Column by NOW President Kim Gandy We live in a society obsessed with sex. Our relationship with sex, however, is conflicted and more than a little dysfunctional. Mixed...
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