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...issue of illegal immigration has never been a simple one, nor has the problem been particularly well served by heavy-handed policy. But this is precisely the type of action that the Obama administration has espoused by forcing model employer American Apparel to dismiss 1,800 unauthorized workers. Such a move is tremendously shortsighted and does not represent a refined and intelligent policy, but rather a Band-Aid fix to a problem that needed a suture a long time...
...only for this reason and this reason only, Democrats should take care not to dismiss, ignore, or lampoon speeches about morals. Although the FRC may not represent the set of traditional values the majority of Americans wish the government to promote, it does not bode well for Democrats to dismiss their points of view as extremist. This only serves to promote the image of the party platform as a mere checklist of economic reforms—an image that has lost us more than one election in the past...
...cousins they’d left behind. At one point during the trip, a police officer asked us to pull over our car. My dad was fully prepared to bribe him, the modus operandi when dealing with any uniformed Indian. But our American accents were enough to promptly dismiss the official, after offering to provide us with any assistance we might need. I giggled smugly along with the rest of my family, but I pitied the policeman. I had always viewed my heritage as a burden because I grew up in a nation that was foreign to my parents. What...
...past's power comes from experience, the lessons it dares us to dismiss on the grounds that maybe things will be different this time. The future's power is born of experiment, and the endless grudge match between fear and hope. We are having a dozen simultaneous conversations right now about change: in our institutions, our culture, our treatment of the planet and of one another...
...keep that from happening, Karzai needs to show results--fast. Afghans say he must dismiss corrupt officials, improve law and order and use foreign aid money to build long-promised roads, dams, bridges and schools. This would win back many Afghans and stall the Taliban's advance. But it wouldn't be easy. To secure victory in these elections, the President had to indebt himself to the very warlords who are strangling the country with their greed...