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Perhaps the most alarming aspect of having 15 million illegals at large in society is Congress's failure to insist that federal agencies separate those who pose a threat from those who don't. The open borders, for example, allow illegals to come into the country, commit crimes and return home with little fear of arrest or punishment...
...explosive raid in a Baghdad quarter controlled by a Shi'ite, anti-American militia. Primed to bust up a vicious kidnapping cell linked to an insurgent group, Iraqi commandos and elite counterterrorism force members, with their U.S. counterparts in a supporting role, swooped on a target building they insist was bristling with armed fighters. By the time they'd left a hostage had been rescued, 16 men were dead, three wounded, and 18 taken prisoner. But what followed took everyone by surprise...
...Republican leaders steering the debate insist that the FCAT will not be the sole determining factor, and they are quick to add that the issue is not whether Florida teachers are going to be paid based on performance, but how. In their mind, the continuing emergence of economic powerhouses such as India and China makes nothing short of a radical transformation of the education system - in all its many facets - necessary for U.S. students to compete. But if critics are right and this particular incentive system turns off many potential teachers or inhibits teamwork, it could end up doing...
...March 25 rally in Oktyabrskaya Square, in the center of the capital city, Minsk. The square had been the site of a tented camp that police destroyed on March 24, when they arrested 328 activists, bringing the number detained since the election to more than 1,000. Opposition leaders insist that the Liberty Day protest was intended to be peaceful. "We're not planning any violence, any taking of the Bastille," said Alexander Milinkevich, a presidential candidate and opposition leader, before the march. "I hope the authorities understand this." Evidently not. As protesters started coming to the square, they found...
Advocates of bringing porn into the classroom insist that studying porn without watching it misses the point. Kipnis screens Saló or 120 Days of Sodom, by the Italian avant-garde filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, in her obscenity class. The film, updated from the novel by the Marquis de Sade, is set in fascist Italy and depicts a tribunal of powerful men and their sexual torture of teenagers. She says students who had previously espoused staunchly liberal views about freedom of expression often find themselves disgusted and horrified by what they see. "University students are often too cool...