A COUPLE OF kids figure to add even more juice to the North Carolina-Duke rivalry, a Hurricane hit the Great Wall of China and the Wall hit back, and does anybody know how to get to Iowa City? Watch those elbows, fellas. The annual college basketball primer is coming through. (more)
While you’re watching Team USA soundly whomp England (hopefully) on day 2 of the World Cup tomorrow, ponder this: could soccer, the obsession of every country in the world other than the slightly backwards and somewhat confused USA, possibly be a bad thing? (more)
Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon stood side by side on the White House lawn, smiled, and attacked an American state. It was a display grotesque and bizarre, laden with the stink of lies and ripe with hypocrisy. For a half hour or so, the two men hammed it up for the assembled international press, reveling in themselves as they mischaracterized a law that, most likely, neither of them managed to read. Calderon later addressed Congress. Again, he targeted the U.S., focusing on Arizona’s immigration law and its nonexistent human rights abuses. As he did so, he received a standing ovation from those who populate the left side of the aisle. (more)
Republican lawmakers pressed President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to El Salvador Wednesday over her former relationship with a Cuban national who may have had ties to Cuban intelligence. (more)
Republicans are upping the pressure on Obama diplomatic nominee Mari Carmen Aponte, demanding to see details of her background investigation conducted by the Administration. (more)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Mauricio Funes has apologized to the victims of El Salvador’s brutal civil war and recognized the state’s role in human rights violations. (more)
Congress and President Obama may tackle the controversial issue
of immigration reform as soon as the fall of 2009. If past
congressional debates are any guide, one point of contention will
be the impact of reform on the American underclass. (more)
