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America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a...

One wonders sometimes if America would prosper if Academia didn’t. “Higher education employment continues to follow stable growth patterns as overall U.S. employment recovered only slightly in the first half of 2010,” according to HigherEdJobs. “From the first half of 2008 (the initial six-month period of the recession) to H1 2010, higher education employment grew 4.2 percent while the total number of U.S. jobs declined 5.6 percent, or about 7.7 million jobs.” “Job postings in academia jumped year-over-year almost 36 percent in H1 2010 after declining by almost an identical amount in 2009, suggesting colleges and universities are continuing to...

We have been happy with our homeschool curriculum to date using the K-12 Curriculum. But we just hit American History before 1865. It is pabablum about Native Americans respecting the land blah blah. Don't even need to read the rest. Glancing thru the rest, it seems like a pretty standard left-wing treatment of the subject. So my question is, do any FREEPERS have recommendations for American History Curricula and are solidly conservative and factual. Appropriate for a bright 5th or 6th grader. We like to teach off a curriculum if possible rather than a text book or scattered books.

I need help with saving a scanned document from an email to a Word document.

I have recently purchased a crystal ball that sees well into the future. The future, in this case, is August 13, 2011. Truly this is the best $3 garage sale item EVER! I probably should not share the future with people in the present (as any fan of science fiction knows), so instead I will tell you ten things about the next year, and you have to pick out the eight that will actually happen. 1) Some guy named Mohamed will engage in a mindless act of terrorism. Innocent people will die and the politically correct will never mention his...

The Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats have said that they want to raise taxes in the top two income tax rates in January 2011. Under their plan, the 33 percent rate will rise to 36 percent, and the 35 percent rate will rise to 39.6 percent automatically in January. These rates affect families and small business owners earning at least $200,000 per year Unlike corporations, small businesses usually don’t pay their own taxes. Rather, business profits flow through to the business owner. The business owner pays taxes on her small business by adding the profits to her income tax...

For years, education lobbyists have been crying for greater taxpayer funding while ignoring schools that do more with less rather than those that do less and less with more and more. Examples of the latter abound and can be found in most metropolitan areas. Instances of the latter are perhaps less numerous but their experience is, well, educational. “Eighty-seven percent of the school districts in Nebraska are categorized as rural,” Jessica Strutzel of the Platte Institute writes. “The schools in these districts generally serve small populations and do not have access to the same amount of technology or resources as...

Email I sent to the major music programs, Itunes,(Apple) Mediaplayer (Microcoft), Songbird (Mozzella) ARE YOU ANTI AMERICAN? Your programers don't know how to classify American Music? You call it UNCASSIFIABLE? Are you crazy? Music Like: When the Saints go Marching In Dixie, The Yellow Rose of Texas The Stars & Stripes Forever Yankee Doodle Semper Fidelis Washington Post March Colonel Bogey March, Red River Valley American The Beautiful Over there God Bless American Amazing Grace Battle Hymn of the Republic You're a Grand ole Flag I've been Working on the Railroad Yankee Doddle Boy Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean...

...[i]t’s well-known that Free Press is the neck that turns the head of the FCC. Suspiciously, Chairman Genachowski’s press secretary is the former communications director of Free Press, and there have been multiple instances when Free Press took a stance on an issue and the FCC responded like a well-trained lapdog. Free Press sought to appease the issue by saying that these are “amateur arguments” and providing us with an insulting “Lesson in Transparent Lobbying,” but the facts are that Free Press hid secret meetings from the public as they slam the FCC for the exact same business practice. As...

SNIPPET: "Oops, Microsoft did it again. Part of the company’s Government Security Program (GSP), Microsoft has offered the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) a peek inside the source code of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server. This is the second time that the company has (publicly) shared source code with the FSB, following a similar deal which took place in 2002, this time involving source code for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000. Microsoft has done similar deals with China in 2003, and most recently in 2010. However, in the light of...

...The hearing, focused on the cough suppressant Dextromethorphan, is another crusade in the latest battle by nanny-staters to overregulate and overreach into the private and informed decisions of consumers. Dextromethorphan is a a commonly-used ingredient in over 100 different cold medications. Reports that it is used for widespread recreational use are overstated: studies show that prescription drug abuse is twice as common as the recreational use of cough medicines.The response by some to concerns that this drug is being abused has been to push for cold medications containing it to be moved behind the counter. Such a move would unnecessarily...

...[N]ew information has come to light that has made us increasingly more concerned that the legislation has not been properly reviewed - the bill does not even have a name. On the calendar, it is simply referred to as the "___Act of___." Unfortunately, we've seen this feckless governing before. Remember the Cap-and-Trade debate last June where the House passed the bill before it was even cobbled together? And the health care debate, where taxpayers were repeatedly denied the opportunity to read versions of the bill as they were passed through committee in the dead of the night? It is therefore...

For some reason, the entire RKBA Universe is focused on exactly one copy of the handwritten Bill Of Rights which, for equally mysterious reasons, has three commas in the 2nd (Fourth) Amendment. Here is another copy of the Bill Of Rights from the same time transcribed by a different clerk who, for some reason, wrote the 2nd (Fourth) Amendment with ONE COMMA.

The House is returning from recess today to stage a vote on the FMAP/State Education bailout bill that passed the Senate last week. As with the cash infusion of “stimulus” funds that states have used over the past year and a half to keep bloated spending afloat, this recent infusion of federal cash only provides states with the excuses they need to continue to overspend. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal pointed to the explosion in federal education spending in the past few years has not produced any tangible benefits: Total education spending grew by 32% between 1999...

This page will be limited to discussion of United States v. Lakin. (In the event charges are not referred to trial, then we’ll see where we go from there). Please try to be polite and focus on the legal and procedural issues. I think it is pretty clearly said, and the reasoning, that a portion of the population does not think President Obama should have been sworn in as president — got it. Unfortunately life does not emulate the Snark. [n.1] Updated as of 6 August 2010. I had a chance to go to the Article 39(a), UCMJ, session today...

Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect Thomas Adcock - New York Law Journal Ben Adler - Newsweek, POLITICO Mike Allen - POLITICO Eric Alterman - The Nation, Media Matters for America Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic Greg Anrig - The Century Foundation Ryan Avent - Economist Dean Baker - The American Prospect Nick Baumann - Mother Jones Josh Bearman - LA Weekly Steven Benen - The Carpetbagger Report Ari Berman - The Nation Jared Bernstein - Economic Policy Institute Michael Berube - Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University Brian Beutler - The Media...

...The FCC facilitated the talks between anti-regulation Internet service providers and pro-“Net Neutrality” websites, who want the Commission to establish rules for managing Internet data traffic. However, as discussions evolved over the past months, the FCC continued its infamous “Title II” proceedings, which would be used to both enact Net Neutrality under arcane laws and open the door to numerous other regulations. As soon as the talks appeared to become fruitful (with both sides coming to some agreement), the neo-Marxists who have the ear of FCC Chairman Genachowski balked. “It is the end of the Internet as we know it,”...

Patricia Neal, the famous actress passed away from lung cancer yesterday. Patricia Neal was a great actress and became a strong Catholic pro-life advocate as an adult. When Neal was young she fell in love and had an extended affair with her married co-star Gary Cooper. When Neal became pregnant with his child he urged her to have an abortion which she did. Gary Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper famously spat on Neal for carrying on an affair with her father. Later, however, Maria Cooper and Neal became great friends and it was Maria Cooper who helped bring Neal back to...

SNIPPET: "Andy Griffith, the former TV Sheriff of Mayberry and guardian of small town America, is now the national spokesman for ObamaCare. More specifically, this venerable gentleman is the spokesman for the new Medicare. Apparently Griffith is under the naïve belief that ObamaCare is a genuinely good thing for seniors. As much as it pains me to say this, Griffith is dead wrong. ObamaCare is a fatal bargain for seniors, and all Americans."

Complete title: Republicans Want Review of Birthright Citizenship. Or is it Just a Cover for Another Cloaked more Sinister Objective? - Comments by CDR Kerchner (Ret) ### Republicans Want Review of Birthright Citizenship. Or is it Just a Cover for Another Cloaked more Sinister Objective? What Senator Lindsey Graham is stating to the press with this new initiative of his is only half the story: Comments on What's Really Up - The 6th Try Since 2001 by CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) Watch carefully how these key but sneaky Republican leaders (RINOs) such as Senator Lindsey Graham will cleverly game this...