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...illegal, the county immediately initiates deportation procedures with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The move, by the largely conservative Republican board, drew national attention and placed the local party at odds with its presidential nominee, who helped write the failed 2006 immigration bill that would have granted a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. "McCain's at risk here because people are concerned that he has not taken a strong enough position on illegal immigration," says Corey Stewart, Republican chairman of the county board...
...being modern. And that goes directly to the problem with claims of American leadership today. In the post-1945 world, the U.S. had a monopoly on modernity. Now it does not. There are, we have learned, many ways of being modern, and they do not all follow the path blazed by the U.S. This isn't just because in China - or in Russia, for that matter - the social and economic attributes of modernity have taken shape without the trappings of democracy, American style, though that is important. The same phenomenon is also evident in countries that are recognizably democracies...
...Nehisi Coates reflects on the "loud sucking of the teeth" and "resignation" with which Barack Obama's defeat would be met by the black community [Oct. 20]. If Obama loses the election, the disappointment will be widespread and multiracial because voters will have chosen to continue down a path of political, fiscal and diplomatic disaster. Let's dispense with the black-white distinction. We're all Americans. Peter F. Hartwick, CANDLER...
...asked whether we are fixed on this path,” Smith said. “Yes, we are fixed on this path and we are moving forward...
...speech was followed by a more traditional form of damage control when Wright showed up in Washington still spewing racial nonsense: Obama cut him loose. And while Obama has followed a fairly traditional political path in this campaign, his strongest - and most telling - moments have been those when he followed his natural no-drama instincts. This has been confusing to many of my colleagues and to me, at times, as well: his utter caution in the debates, his decision not to zing McCain or even to challenge him very much, led me to assume - all three times - that he hadn...