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Still, McCain has at least signaled a willingness to address his critics' legitimate concerns. His colleagues on the other side of the immigration debate aren't budging. They worry, reasonably, that it is hard to assimilate 1.5 million newcomers each year, especially when the vast majority of them are poor people from one country (Mexico) that shares a long border with us. But they have not found a way to raise these questions without sounding hostile to illegal immigrants or, worse, to Hispanics in general. Making the SAVE Act the beginning and end of GOP immigration policy would worsen that...
...have any affinity with your father's Russian heritage? -Claire Mythen, Dublin, IrelandI was there not long ago. It's so vast. I know America is vast, but there is a Wal-Mart everywhere in America, whereas in Russia it's vast, and it really changes. When I go to Russia, I realize I look Russian; people come up to me and speak to me in Russian...
...called a "caricature of Islam," they say any violence would be an overreaction. These were welcome words to Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who praised calls of restraint from local Muslim organizations. "The film equates Islam with violence. We reject this interpretation," Balkenende said after Fitna was released. "The vast majority of Muslims reject extremism and violence." Other politicians pointed out that the extremists in the film are being prosecuted in their home countries...
...uncultivated land. But most of the damage created by biofuels will be less direct and less obvious. In Brazil, for instance, only a tiny portion of the Amazon is being torn down to grow the sugarcane that fuels most Brazilian cars. More deforestation results from a chain reaction so vast it's subtle: U.S. farmers are selling one-fifth of their corn to ethanol production, so U.S. soybean farmers are switching to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers are expanding into cattle pastures, so Brazilian cattlemen are displaced to the Amazon. It's the remorseless economics of commodities markets. "The price...
...emissions from all other sources--cars, power plants, factories, even flatulent cows--it needs to reduce deforestation or risk an environmental catastrophe. That means limiting the expansion of agriculture, a daunting task as the world's population keeps expanding. And saving forests is probably an impossibility so long as vast expanses of cropland are used to grow modest amounts of fuel. The biofuels boom, in short, is one that could haunt the planet for generations--and it's only getting started...