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...spokesman for Gov. Perry said, while acknowledging that it is not clear the uniformed men were members of the Mexican Army. Lately Perry has been sounding alarms about the border situation, directing significant state funds to Operation Linebacker, a program developed by the Texas Sheriffs Border Coalition to increase patrols and engage the local community in their efforts. The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, once the mayor of a Texas border town, said the Hudspeth County incident shows once again the Mexican government cannot police the border region. "It serves to bolster the arguments of those who seek...
...York City's J.F.K. Airport. But whether they travel by land or by air, relatively few get caught or even delayed. Their safety comes in numbers: hundreds of thousands of migrants will always win a game of Red Rover with a little more than 11,000 border-patrol agents...
They are taking seriously the bipartisan calls from states to be reimbursed for the tens of millions of dollars in emergency funds states have set aside to cover the gaps in Part D coverage. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt spent last week on damage-control patrol, trying to placate anxious seniors and state lawmakers angry about footing the bill for Medicare's mistakes. Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe said Leavitt reassured her on Friday that the Federal Government would use its authority to compel insurance plans to reimburse the states directly. Maine has spent $5 million...
...world's best ski racer, but whatever the result, he laughs it off and maybe has a beer afterward. Or two. In a world where winners get endorsements and losers work for the ski patrol, Miller actually believes in that old Olympic canard that it's playing the game that counts. "Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say it is not all about winning," he told TIME during pre-Olympic training at Colorado's Copper Mountain. The important thing to him is to try to ski well - to improve, to reach...
...Pulpit Patrol Re Andrew Sullivan's essay "The Vatican's New Stereotype": I am sorry about Pope Benedict XVI's rules excluding gay men from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. But they are not the first Catholics to be identified and told that "regardless of how they behave or what they do, they are beneath serving God" as priests. That distinction belongs to women. Lynn Mostafa Salinas, California...