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As Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls out California for lax immigration policies, Hispanic voters make immigration reform their top priority
In a speech on Tuesday night at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, immigration hawk Joe Arpaio of Arizona said that California's lax immigration policies are to blame for the state's lingering high con ...
11 Feb, 2011
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All signs indicate Ron Paul to run for President in 2012
"Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years and woke to find the world had passed him by. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, woke up one morning recently to find that perhaps America has caught up with him."It was Octobe ...
08 Feb, 2011
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Pew Hispanic Center: California leads in illegal immigrant population, though national trend shows drop since 2007
The latest estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center found that much of the country's 2010 unauthorized immigrant population remained virtually unchanged from 2009. California, however, remained at ...
04 Feb, 2011
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Dollar inflation may have been catalyst in Egypt's revolution
With events still in motion, analysts are scrambling to identify and understand the causes behind the wave of protests and revolutionary movements sweeping through the Arab world. U.S. dollar inflatio ...
01 Feb, 2011
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President Obama ties immigration reform to economic recovery
In his first State of the Union speech after the defeat of the Dream Act, President Obama linked reviving immigration reform to breathing life back into the country's downtrodden economy, noting ...
28 Jan, 2011
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California second in farmland loss due to excessive real estate development
Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Resources Inventory has been analyzed by the American Farmland Trust (AFT), an agricultural conservation group working to aid farmers, ranchers ...
08 Jan, 2011
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Medicare currently on unsustainable financial path
Today’s Medicare beneficiaries are receiving far more in health care benefits than they contributed to the program through their payroll taxes, and current contributions are insufficient to sustain th ...
03 Jan, 2011
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Governor-elect Brown likely to support Dream Act-like provisions in California
Even though the Dream Act failed in the Senate and is not likely to come up in the near future with Republicans taking the House, young proponents of the law are thinking that California could be one ...
28 Dec, 2010
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President Obama will force Republicans to propose legitimate alternative on immigration reform
The Dream Act in its current form may have been stopped with a Democratic majority in the Senate, but along with President Obama's reaffirmed commitment to the issue this week comes the sense that Rep ...
24 Dec, 2010
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Ron Paul's record-breaking day
On this day, three years ago, a little over 58,000 Ron Paul supporters donated a staggering $6 million to the renegade Republican's presidential campaign. Inspired by the date of the original Bo ...
16 Dec, 2010
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