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Immigration reform
“I’m confident we’ll get … immigration reform . And since this is off the record, I will just be very blunt. Should I win a second term, a big reason I will win a…
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‘Quite a pickle’
“I don’t see the United States greatly expanding visas, but something is going to happen,’’ said Bob Guild, vice president of Marazul Charters, which offers…
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Celebrating Columbus
“They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest – without knowledge of what is evil – nor do they murder or steal…they love their neighbors as themselves…
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Register and vote
In 2008, approximately 11,608,000 Latinos were registered to vote. Of those, more than 9 million actually voted. A staggering number, or more than 75%.
The Pew Center just issued a…
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Redistribution of wealth
“Which is the more redistributionist of our two parties? In recent decades, as Republicans have devoted themselves with laser-like intensity to redistributing America’s…
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‘Cruel, arrogant, stupid’
“We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate.”
- Maureen Dowd in The New…
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U.S.: No to Haiti oil deal
According to leaked U.S. Embassy cables, Washington and its allies, including Big Oil majors like ExxonMobil and Chevron, maneuvered aggressively behind the scenes to scuttle a deal…
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Goldman’s nirvana
“If the evidence in the Levin report is ignored, then Goldman will have achieved a kind of corrupt-enterprise nirvana. Caught, but still free: above the law.”
-- Matt Taibbi,…
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George W. Bush
IN BLACK AND WHITE
The president was “like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people...”
-- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill describing…
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