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LAS VEGAS — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the first Latina elected to the Senate, will hold onto her seat in Nevada after enduring a bruising campaign against Republican Adam Laxalt, who fell short of ousting the Democrat despite severe midterm headwinds, NBC News projects. The outcome follows days of protracted mail-in ballot counting, with the results resting largely with the state’s most populous county, Clark County, which posted updates once a day since Tuesday. A race long predicted to be within the margin of error was indeed close through the end. Latino voters here helped power the results after both...

I am trying to work and listen at the same time, but is anybody else hearing this?? Obama is asking Congress to reinstate his Executive authority to streamline six agencies into one, so he could "help businesses grow, save businesses time, save businesses money." He's making it sound like the best thing since sliced bread. News media is eating it up. "Reform and remake our government so that it works. This should not be a partisan issue."

Terrorists Cross From Mexico By David Johnson On September 11th I spoke at a convention in California in remembrance of 9-11. I was but one of about a dozen experts on Islam including several Arabs, Palestinians and Sudanese who certainly know what they are talking about. I also had the opportunity to visit Walid and Maria Shoebat in their home. What a fine and courageous man he is. We had met before but took this time to cement a real friendship and future working relationship. I have long stated that Muslim terrorists are crossing into the United States from both...

<p>The Passion Of The Christ is a pointless and sick film. It has been mired in controversy ever since devout Catholic Mel Gibson first announced that he was making a movie about Jesus Christ?s Crucifixion. At first the project seemed praiseworthy: unknown actors were to be cast (instead of buff starlets with impossibly perfect teeth), the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were to be consulted and the dialogue was to be rendered in Aramaic and Latin.</p>

Twenty-three years ago, Eva Tinoco left everything she had and most everyone she knew for the sake of her children. Neither fear nor immigration laws were on her mind when she left her little Mexican village bound for the United States, she said. After entering the country illegally in 1981, she and her six children were among the 2.7 million immigrants who became lawful residents under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The law was supposed to be the solution to growing concerns about illegal immigration. It proposed a two-pronged approach: First, legalizing immigrants who were already in...

As an American citizen and a liberal Democrat I feel as though I have been kicked in my political gut and left breathless as a result of Tuesday's election. How President Bush could possibly campaign on making the tax cuts permanent and repealing the so called "death" tax to the detriment of the Social Security (which he promised not to touch) and Medicare trust funds and to the benefit to tax payers earning over $350,000 (the "truly" rich and greedy) while the deficits will stretch from here to the moon and beyond and will add billions and billions of dollars...