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LA MISION, Mexico -- Every weekend, Carmen Tetelboin joins the Baja boom. After work on Fridays, the Los Angeles resident drives four hours across the border to Baja California, where life is so good and living so cheap, it beats the other California, she contends. Owning a condo on the coast, she and her husband are part of an American colony exploding during the past five years along 75 miles of pristine beaches, cliffs and towns south of Tijuana. What's drawing them are oceanfront homes at a fraction of the multimillion-dollar prices on the U.S. side. A native of Chile...

September 5, 2006 at 6:31 am New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the man who apologized for his “chocolate city” comments and who exhibited a complete failure of leadership and competence during Hurricane Katrina, has now had to apologize for remarks made in reference to Ground Zero in New York. As we near the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Nagin, in his vast judgment, criticized New York for not yet fixing the “hole in the ground” — his reference to the site at which the World Trade Center once stood. As reported in the Washington Times,...