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...Japan's Immigration Bureau - are little more than criminals intent on wreaking havoc on Japanese society. In truth, the arrest rate for violent crimes is no different for Chinese - illegal or otherwise - than that for other foreigners residing in Japan. Yet shocking cases, like the 2003 murder of a Japanese family by a trio of Chinese students, cast a shadow on all expatriate Chinese. Equally frustrating for many Chinese living in Japan is a new scheme that requires most foreigners to undergo fingerprinting every time they enter the country...
...kidding. Huckabee's new prominence revived the wrenching story of Carol Sue Shields, a Missouri woman raped and murdered in 2000 by a former Arkansas inmate, Wayne Dumond. He died in prison before being charged with the murder of a second Missouri woman, Sara Andrasek. As Governor, Huckabee supported Dumond's parole. Other lowlights of Huckabee's generally successful tenure have also begun to circulate--including the wedding registry that was created to help friends shower him with parting gifts at the end of his fourth term...
...That is, unless you exploit it like Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who used Taylor’s murder as an opportunity to bash his favorite piñata: hip-hop. Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well...
...Look at cities like Washington, D.C. that has forbidden guns, or look at the Virginia Tech shooting, in which the killer didn’t abide by the rule not to carry a gun. These places become playgrounds for criminals. Why do you think D.C. has such a high murder rate? The only people who have guns are criminals. They can always get them. When you take away the right to bear arms, you are only hurting law abiding citizens. Criminals will get around the law because that’s what criminals do. DEBORAH DURKEE Marietta, GA December...
...remember being interested in politics when I was in high school, in the ’50s. The first political issue I remember being interested in had to do with civil rights—it was the murder of Emmett Till, who was my age, when he was murdered in 1954. We were both 14, and I was so outraged by that. So my earliest political drama was over civil rights and the outrageous mistreatment of black people...