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Archive for April, 2006

Bird flu: Shame on ABC

Posted in ABC, Centers for Disease Control, Health, Media, tagged , on April 28, 2006 | 6 Comments »

A high percentage of Americans today tend to believe most of what they see on television, particularly when it is presented as “news.” Case in point: bird flu. The news media have hyped the threat of an avian flu pandemic in the U.S. beyond any resemblance to scientific reality. They have been and are creating [...]

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La Raza captures the flag

Posted in Immigration, International, Law, Politics, Society, tagged , , on April 7, 2006 | No Comments »

Seeking a little background information from the Hispanic side of the illegal immigration issue, I went to the La Raza website. My attention was drawn immediately to their display of photos from many of the recent, massive public demonstrations.
I browsed from photo to photo, city by city, and — can you believe it? — not [...]

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We call them ‘illegals’ because they are

Posted in Denver Post, Immigration, International, Language, Law, Media, Politics, tagged on April 5, 2006 | 1 Comment »

In Tuesday’s Denver Post, columnist Cindy Rodriquez wrote that, basically, calling illegal immigrants “illegals” is incorrect and misleading and that they should, more accurately, be called “necessary workers” or “essential workers.”
Feeling that her logic was seriously flawed, I sent her the following email:
You were quite correct in your assertions that our choice of language can [...]

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McKinney is wrong, wrong, wrong

Posted in Politics, tagged , on April 5, 2006 | No Comments »

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is painfully, conspicuously off base in her story of her “assault” by a Capitol guard. Immediately playing the race card in what is clearly a security issue, not a racial issue, is irresponsible. She makes a mockery of her position as a Congresswoman and is (one presumes) an embarrassment to the [...]

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