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  • Activists: 100,000 want All-Star game moved out of Arizona

    07/12/2010 10:12:52 AM PDT · by derekr44 · 25 replies
    OC Register ^ | July 12, 2010 | CINDY CARCAMO
    ANAHEIM – A group opposed to Arizona's recent anti-illegal immigration law on Monday demanded that they be able to personally deliver more than 100,000 petitions to Major League Baseball Commissionerer Bud Selig that ask him to move next year's All-Star game out of the "Grand Canyon State."
  • Magnitude 6.3 aftershock hits southern Chile

    03/03/2010 10:45:47 AM PST · by derekr44 · 5 replies · 621+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 03/03/10 | WSJ
    Magnitude 6.3 aftershock hits southern Chile; Tsunami alert sounds in town of Constitucion
  • Something to Think About

    07/02/2009 1:00:38 PM PDT · by derekr44 · 7 replies · 647+ views
    I forget who posted this comment in another Freep, but I felt I needed to repeat the question to get everyone thinking.
  • Anti-Democracy

    06/30/2009 12:00:41 PM PDT · by derekr44 · 4 replies · 162+ views
    Derek's Realm ^ | 06/30/2009 | Me
    I've always had the notion that the Democratic Party contradicts itself. We see evidence of this on a daily basis with the current Obama Administration. Sometimes it's hard for me to put thoughts into words; such is the case today.
  • Honduras Defends Its Democracy

    06/30/2009 10:52:33 AM PDT · by derekr44 · 11 replies · 499+ views
    The WSJ ^ | 06/30/2009 | MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
    Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution. It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking. But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him...