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...well within their rights. The important distinction is the legality of the immigrants, and illegal workers have no right to send currency outside the United States because they should not be here in the first place. The U.S., once again as a sovereign nation, has the right to defend its economy, and illegal Mexican workers sending money back to their country clearly harms America by draining capital out of the U.S. economy...
...Security (DHS). Chertoff recently came under fire after the National Security Agency’s secret domestic spying program was exposed by The New York Times in December. As chief of DHS, he is responsible for obtaining and using the intelligence gathered by the NSA. Chertoff, who has vigorously defended the spying program in interviews, has been named as one of the defendants in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the legality of the program. BACK IN CAMBRIDGE But at Harvard in 1975, Chertoff’s main concern was to defend individual rights from Bentham?...
Andrew Sullivan, in his essay "We Don't Need a New King George" [Jan. 23], was right to criticize President Bush's habit of attaching signing statements that give his interpretation of the legislation he signs. Taking the oath of office, Bush swore to "protect and defend" the Constitution. But his Administration is undermining that document's checks and balances. If lying under oath about an affair was reason enough to bring impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton, then there is cause 10 times over for impeaching Bush. Shame on him, and shame...
...seen evangelical comics in the U.S. that make the minor blasphemy of the cartoon in Denmark seem like nothing. They ridicule the Prophet and all Muslim beliefs. But I defend the rights of the cartoonist. I think that if there's a free press, there's a right to commit blasphemy. If you cannot criticize or express an opinion about a religion in the modern era, we're in serious trouble...
...wave of unprecedented Islamist gains in Middle East elections. While governments look for a way out and protesters fill the streets, Muslim preachers can hardly be restrained from calling the faithful to action. "It is the duty of all Muslims to wake up from their deep sleep and defend their religion," declared an imam broadcasting a sermon live on Algeria's national television network last week. If the scenes in Damascus and Beirut are anything to go by, more confrontation is still to come...