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...large percentage of Americans are as unfriendly towards immigrants as O’Reilly and King. In a recent NBC News poll, 52 percent of those surveyed believed that immigration is detrimental to America, while only 39 percent found immigration to be beneficial. The same poll found that a slight majority of Americans saw immigrants as an economic threat. Despite public imagination on the subject, immigration is far from an economic threat. In fact, immigrants are tremendously beneficial to the American economy in several ways. For one, the influx of immigrants allows America’s population to grow faster...
...McCain campaign, meanwhile, has been doing its best to create storms elsewhere, with a series of harshly negative and factually challenged ads, one accusing Obama of making a sexist slight, another accusing him of wanting to give sex education to kindergartners. Though the new attacks are misleading, they have allowed Palin to continue to play booster on McCain's rocket. McCain aides abandoned their plans to send her out on the trail by herself and have instead installed her as his more popular warm-up act. McCain himself certainly seems revitalized, following Palin at each stop with a fiery stump...
Brian Wilson That Lucky Old Sun; available now He's 66 now, too old to be chasing the high notes, but the miles on Wilson's voice make his eternal innocence seem that much sweeter. The songs are slight ruminations on '60s L.A., some barely memorable, but as delivery devices for an optimistic soul, they do just fine...
...brunt of the storm passed directly over the coast's best-preserved barrier island, Grand Isle, which sapped its power; Gustav also seems to have passed over another speed bump in the form of a rare swath of healthy marshes. "It's really incredible; a slight variation of the track either way could have meant six more feet of storm surge," says Louisiana State University coastal scientist Robert Twilley, who studied Gustav's track. "I hope nobody gets a false sense of security." The barrier islands that once protected New Orleans have eroded, and most of the city's nearby...
...White House is trying not to take the scheduling slight to heart, even though a satellite address had once seemed a necessity only if Bush had to stay in the Gulf region to monitor the storm's aftermath. Perino said Bush still has good reason to stay put in Washington: behind Gustav, other storms are lurking. "We have Tropical Storm Hanna, and Ike that's following behind that, and possibly another one behind that," Perino said at the briefing today. "And so it's appropriate that the President be able to be here at the White House...