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Islamic radicals from Iraq and Afghanistan planned a terrorist attack on a US intelligence center that trains military interrogators for Guantanamo Bay and other detention centers, according to The Washington Times.
… targeted Fort Huachuca, an Army base located next to the Arizona town of Sierra Vista, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of the [...]

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File this one under “who the hell can we fire for this incompetent blunder“? Why would a legal traveler use an alias to enter the United States? That is a question that nobody is discussing yet.

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The United States has been playing with the idea of putting a fence up on its southern border to keep the ILLEGALS from walking across unabated. I say playing because this has not been taken very seriously by our elected leaders who would prefer to build a superhighway across the border and grant amnesty to [...]

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President Bush continues down the path that makes conservative blood boil in his latest move to halt the execution of a Mexican national that participated in the gang-rape and strangulation of two teenage girls.

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San Francisco’s Mission District is, demographically, a primarily Hispanic district (about 50%), with the remainder of the population being White and Asian. Traditionally, it’s been a mixture of immigrants (legal and illegal), poor, working-class, and artsy-funky. It’s in the news today because the District used a $34,000 City-funded grant to paint a mural that shows [...]

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Is a North American air traffic control system good or bad for United States safety?
The U.S. has built nine navigation systems for Mexico and Canada under the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in an apparent first step toward establishing the satellite infrastructure needed to create a North American air traffic control system.
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