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So, I keep hearing this idiotic rant "Make America Mexico Again". If frickin MehCheapoH were so great, how come they keep coming to uhmmm America? they are not here to invade, rather, they are here to make a life for themselves they could never hope for in MehFauxco. Mexico and America are not places with borders defining a race. Both countries are multi-racial and multi-cultural. The differences between Mexico and America are stark. To start with; anyone can become anything they want in America and live to tell about it...for a time. Heck, you can even be born a poor...

Oh, I don’t know. (Snip) Ask yourself this, though. Is “optics” really just a Beltway parlor game? My hunch about most low-information voters, a.k.a. most voters, is that they’d struggle to name who the vice president is when asked. We’re lucky if they’re cognizant of what happened to James Foley at all, let alone Obama’s reaction to it. “As a general rule, I think that he’s right that you can’t be held hostage to the news cycle — the man deserves a bit of downtime,” said Jim Manley, a longtime Democratic strategist. “But in this particular instance, I think a...

Krubera is the deepest known cave in the world A Ukrainian team has set a new depth record for caving.The nine-strong group travelled 2,080m (6,822ft) underground, passing the elusive 2,000m mark at Krubera, the world's deepest known cave. The team was part of a project that has made breaking through 2,000m its goal for the past four years. It built on records set by a previous expedition, which blasted through blocked passages in the cave, within Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. "Even now, we don't know whether we've reached the limit - or if it will go on. We're pretty...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - For years they cruised the shores of Tripoli, silent and unseen in the deep, radars monitoring inland munitions plants and torpedo tubes armed for combat. And though Israel's submariners are breathing easier since Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (news - web sites) vowed to stop developing weapons of mass destruction this month, Israeli top brass predict an even greater role for the fleet in a changing Middle East. Above all is the idea that Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons, would use the sea for striking back in the event -- however unlikely -- that bases...