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By the time I was ten years old I already hated the government. When I was eight, they almost killed E.T. When I was nine, they wouldn’t let Kevin Bacon dance. At ten, I watched Rambo attempt to bring home prisoners of war from Vietnam only to be refused and left for dead by government bureaucrats. Long after outgrowing my concern for aliens and dancing rights, the cheesy, over-the-top 1985 “Rambo” movie still stuck with me because the plot was at least plausible. Would our government knowingly leave POWs behind? Did they? In the introduction to a symposium in the...

<p>SANTA ANA – Nativo Lopez was ousted from the Santa Ana Unified school board Tuesday in an electoral aftershock to California's referendum on bilingual education.</p> <p>The fiery immigrant-rights leader will now be replaced by county administrator and former school board member Rob Richardson, 42.</p>

American Newspapers Put PC Before Profit By Harold Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | November 14, 2002 Is there a psychoanalyst in the house? Many U.S. newspapers reflexively oppose proposals to ban bilingual education, most recently in last week’s election. It might take a clinician to explore their motives and the self-destructive implications. English-language newspapers ought to be gung-ho for teaching English quickly to all immigrant kids -- so more immigrants can read English-language newspapers. Isn’t boosting readership at the top of the industry’s to-do list? But four years ago, nearly every daily newspaper in California opposed Proposition 227, the statewide ballot initiative...