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Ready for a black president
The myth of America’s racist past
Electing Obama: how the country says "some of my best friends are black"
Mythmakers
McCain: victim of the old racial gamesmanship?

Ready for a black president
It keeps popping up everywhere this election, this question of America’s readiness for a black president. A Google search on the phrase, in quotes, [...]

During the 2000 primary season, I made it a point to ask each presidential candidate in person the following question at least once:

Current immigration policy is doubling US population within the lifetimes of today’s children. Since you support this policy, will you at least say when we should stop?
One billion people? [...]

GOP Passing

A brief history of the GOP’s twilight years.

Or don’t. There are better sources
The American public’s distaste for and mistrust of the New York Times is understandable. How else would Americans view a paper that would editorially welcome Republicans arriving in town for their 2004 convention with the suggestion they should embrace a policy of amnesty for illegal aliens in order [...]

The article I posted Thursday, Bill to improve health care…in Mexico!, was favorited at digg.com (thank you). An appearance on digg.com means many more readers, and that’s good. Voters really should have as many alternative news sources and hear as many differing opinions as possible.
Unfortunately, among the hundreds of comments the article generated, some [...]

The health care mess in the United States is a top concern of voters. Too many Americans find that, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide quality health care for their families. Too many Americans live in fear that an illness might leave them destitute. Too many Americans spend years sacrificing to pay [...]

John McCain and Barack Obama sponsored S.1033. Do not forget what this piece of legislation would have done.

Sponsored or Co-sponsored the
Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 (McCain/Kennedy)

Senator

State

Date

1.
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Sen McCain, John
[AZ]
05/12/2005
[introduced]

2.
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Sen Brownback, Sam
[KS]
05/12/2005

3.
 

Sen Chafee, Lincoln
[RI]
03/27/2006

4.
 

Sen Graham, Lindsey
[SC]
05/12/2005

5.
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Sen [...]

By an amazing coincidence, John McCain makes the same argument immigration lawyers make in denying the bills he supports are amnesties. You can see for yourself by reading a copy of the talking points, essentially one falsehood repeated in various forms, circulated on Capitol Hill by the American Immigration Lawyers Assn (AILA).No one is [...]

In early 2005, ProjectUSA sponsored a contest in which people who contributed to the cost of it, could vote for whichever slogan they preferred on a billboard that would target a member of Congress who supported amnesty.
John McCain “won” in a rout, drawing donations from Maine to San Diego.
A billboard in Phoenix was contracted [...]