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America has made many strides since September 11th in the fight against terrorism. A vast amount of resources have been rightfully devoted to homeland security in the last four years. We have improved airline security by reinforcing cockpit doors, enhancing our 'do-not-fly' lists, revamped our intelligence agencies, cut off funding to numerous terrorist groups and have arrested would-be terrorists. However, one gaping hole still remains in our defenses. Contrary to our national interest, our leaders continue to leave our Canadian and Mexican borders largely unsecured, resulting in a free flow of illegal aliens into our nation. In 2000, the Immigration...

A group of us are in the works of putting together a Republican newspaper that will be distributed monthly to a few college campuses in Southern California and hopefully by mail too. We plan to give in-depth analyses according to a more conservative perspective normally repressed by our professors. It will be written by Republicans (to which we are not going to mask that fact (*cough*DanRather*cough*), but it won't be an "in your face, liberals suck" paper that is often published by the leftists on campuses ("conservatives suck" in these cases). Prduction will start next Fall quarter and will include:...

MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the few public universities with two competing independent student newspapers. And soon the historically liberal hotbed will have a third paper, this one with a conservative twist. "There was a lot of hostility towards conservatives on campus that happened even before the [2004 presidential] election, and that has a lot of pent-up demand that gives us something to capitalize on," said Tim Shea, a 20-year-old economics major at the university, who is starting the paper and will be its managing editor. Shea also started a conservative newspaper when he was...