Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Bill Richardson: The Best One for the Job Has NO Chance
Yesterday morning while eating breakfast, I listened to a podcast of the September 24th PBS NewsHour Vote 2008 interview with Democrat hopeful, Governor Bill Richardson. If you consider that the most important issues facing the U.S. are the War in Iraq, regaining the U.S.’s moral authority in the world, immigration, the U.S.’s dependence on foreign […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Town Rethinks Law Against Illegal Immigrants
Here is a New York Times article that explains what happened in a New Jersey town after it passed a law penalizing those who contracted with illegal aliens.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Federal Court Judge Sees the Patriot Act for What it is
A recent Federal Court ruling has found what we have all known from the beginning: The Patriot Act is a slap in the face of our Constitution.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Skin-Lightening Cream: What is the World Coming to?
I just saw this article from the BBC News on a skin-lightening cream promoted by a Bollywood star. What is the world coming to? Doesn’t everyone know that light skin don’t taste like squat?
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
The Seven Dwarfs Made Me Do It
It could all be one big misunderstanding, a case of mistaken identity. The other day at work, we were all discussing the whereabouts of Maddie, Europe’s latest all encompassing news story. One of my co-workers told me the real life story of some friends of friends of his on vacation in Amsterdam a few years […]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Bedazzled by Bzazel
One good way to learn vocab in a foreign language is to associate the foreign term with a similarly sounding word in your own language, especially if the foreign language does not have the same roots as your own. For example, I just learned the Moroccan Arabic word bzazel meaning “breasts”. Right away, I associated […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
The Sunni and American Catch 22 in Iraq
The “should I stay or should I go” and “is the surge working” debate in the U.S. have highlighted the U.S.’s untenable position in Iraq. Last week, The Economist published an article explaining why the U.S. should stay in Iraq. An obvious argument for leaving is that the situation in Iraq is so precarious already […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
The New McCarthyism in America
Here’s an article by Marjorie Cohn on how Erwin Chemerinsky was offered and then denied the deanship at the University of California at Irvine Law School due to his politics.
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Brghite zgharitek, afak, chlihati
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
It is Imperative that I Be Subjunctive
The other day at work I was drafting an internal procedure and wrote, “It is important that the Department create procedures to . . .” After having showed it to my boss, he mentioned that there was a typo or grammatical error, and that it should have read, “It is important that the deparment creates […]
