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Speak Now (In English) . . . . . .Or forever hold your peace. Mr. Clegg is general counsel at the Center for equal opportunity . February 1, 2002 8:45 a.m. On January 18, the U.S. Justice Department's civil-rights division republished for additional public comment a "policy guidance" it had first issued a year earlier. Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. — who now heads the division — is to be praised for giving the public a second go at this guidance, and the public should take him up on his offer. Comments are due on or before February 19. The guidance ...

<p>Some lawmakers are coming up with an innovative solution for solving the problem of illegal immigrants driving on America's roads: They want to license them so they are no longer driving illegally.</p> <p>Utah, North Carolina, and Tennessee are among a handful of states where lawmakers are proposing allowing 9 million illegal immigrants to obtain licenses. Supporters of the proposals argue that licensing illegals will force them to learn the rules of the road and sign up for auto insurance.</p>

Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine, do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. Perhaps you might want to make an extra that and place that in your safe deposit box. A corporate attorney sent this out to the employees in his company. I pass it along, for your information. We've all heard stories about fraud that's committed using your name, address, SS#, credit, etc. Unfortunately ...

A student forced out of OU in September after the president of the Pakistan Student Association accused him of a hate crime is back on campus. Chance Shipman started class Monday, but it is not yet known if he will be able to rejoin coach Jack Spates’ wrestling team. While Chance has returned to school this semester, his friend Gary Frizzell, forced out of OU in November, has not. His father, Gary, said Frizzell decided not to come back to OU until the fall semester. The Frizzells have hired an attorney who is looking into the matter. Frizzell’s father said ...

Stamp Act Immigrants si, immigration no. by Mark Krikorian, executive director, Center for Immigration Studies January 15, 2002 9:15 a.m. In Brideshead Revisited, the Protestant suitor of a Catholic girl undergoes instruction to convert to Catholicism, but is so gullible that he believes the girl's mischievous little sister when she tells him to ask his instructor about the "Sacred Monkeys of the Vatican." It sometimes seems that this White House would happily embrace the Sacred Monkeys of the Vatican if someone told them it would help win Hispanic votes. From the multicultural show at the 2000 nominating convention to the ...

Mr. Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service. January 14, 2002 9:30 a.m. With U.S. joblessness now at 5.8 percent, employed Americans are clinging to their positions for dear life. Layoff notices — such as the recent announcements of 3,000 workers sacked at GE Capital and 9,400 fired at Motorola — have become as integral to the evening news as weather reports. Against this wartime backdrop, America's insatiable Congress has behaved disgracefully by hiking its annual pay from $145,100 to $150,000. The dollars involved are not the key issue. The $4,900 pay hike for each senator and ...

11 January 2002 1349 hrs (GMT) 2149 hrs (SST) Home video found in Afghanistan targets Singapore for attack by Lee Siew Hoon A home video provided the most gripping piece of evidence against detainees arrested by Singapore's Internal Security Department. The video, shot by two detainees, was found in the rubble of a house belonging to an Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan. The ISD learnt about the tape on December 14 and obtained a copy of it two weeks later. The video shows surveillance of Yishun MRT station and the bus services which shuttle American personnel to Sembawang Wharf. The narrator ...

<p>"For a Muslim woman to be forced to take off her headscarf in public is a violation of rights," wrote Hodan Hassan, a spokesman for the civil rights group. "These women believe covering their hair in public--essential to being modest--is a mandate from God."</p>

A Taliban Army platoon was on patrol when the commander noticed a lone U.S. Marine standing on a hilltop in their area. The commander told two of his soldiers to go take out the Marine, so they dropped their packs and promptly ran as fast as they could toward him. Just before they got to the top, the Marine ran over the other side of the hill. The two soldiers followed. For the next few minutes there were bloody screams and dust flying in the air. Then as quick as it had started, it stopped and the Marine came up ...

Immigration Crackdown 'Is Clearly Inadequate' Gary Bokelmann, NewsMax.com Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 (Editor's note: This is the first article in a series. Parts two and three will run later this week.) "More sizzle than steak.” That’s how Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, describes the immigration crackdown announced by the Bush administration last week. Such criticisms highlight the failure of U.S. immigration policies to deal with the problem of illegal immigration in recent years. Rather than answering critics of U.S. immigration policy, the highly publicized crackdown announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft on Oct. 31 is ...

Fighting Militant Islam, Without Bias Daniel Pipes The whole country, and New York especially, has to face an urgent question in the wake of the September 11 attacks, organized by a militant Islamic network and carried out by Arabic-speaking Muslims resident in North America: how should Americans now view and treat the Muslim populations living in their midst? Initial reactions have differed widely. Elite opinion, as voiced by President Bush, rushed to deny any connection between the acts of war and the resident Muslim population. "Islam is peace," Bush assured Americans, adding, "we should not hold one who is ...

America’s Remarkable Goodness: What the Critics Refuse to Acknowledge by John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | October 5, 2001 URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/perazzo/jp10-05-01p.htm AS THE INITIAL PSYCHIC WOUND of the September 11 terrorist attacks has slowly begun to scab, we are predictably hearing more and more from what Jeanne Kirkpatrick has aptly termed the "Blame America First" crowd. In short, this crowd views the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks as the desperate – and understandable, if not actually justified – acts of "frustrated" people who, because their previous "cries for help and understanding" purportedly fell on deaf ears, were left with no option ...

A bill that would give the federal government more money to acquire private lands is headed for a full House vote sometime this fall. The Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA) was voted out of the House Resources Committee last week on a 29-12 vote. The measure alarms some property rights advocates and critics of current federal stewardship efforts. "The government really has a bad track record for managing the land that they have," said Allison Freeman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based advocacy group that opposes the bill. Opponents say the two biggest sticking points are the establishment of ...

I have read many articles both on and off of free republic about abuses of property rights throughout this country. We already have a multitude of environmental groups that are receiving tax free donations in the millions of dollars. These groups are united in their determination to remove private property owners from rural land throughout the U.S. Editorial on Environmental Cleansing With the passage of Cara that amount grows into the billions. CARA article There are plenty of grass roots local organizations working to try to prevent property rights abuses. There are other larger organizations devoted to specific issues. But ...

Federal authorities were forced to cut off water to 1,500 farms in Oregon's and California's Klamath Basin in April because of the "endangered" sucker fish. The environmental groups behind the cutoff continue to declare that they are simply concerned for the welfare of a bottom-feeder. But last month, those environmentalists revealed another motive when they submitted a polished proposal for the government to buy out the farmers and move them off their land. This is what's really happening in Klamath--call it rural cleansing--and it's repeating itself in environmental battles across the country. Indeed, the goal of many environmental groups--from the ...