Workers attend a demonstration to protest the government austerity cuts in Madrid Financial Times: Figures showed manufacturing output slowing across large parts of the world, posing further challenges to leading economies as they attempt to shore up shaky fiscal positions without falling back into recession. In Asia – the world’s production powerhouse whose economies are [...]
Telegraph: The latest edition of the Social Trends report also reveals that one-in-five men and one-in-seven women over 16 drink more than double the recommended daily allowance of alcohol once a week. Spending on social security has more than doubled since the late 1970s to £152 billion. Sixty per cent of this is paid to [...]
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) – Shootout between illegal immigrant/drug trafficking gangs near US border leaves 21 dead. Prosecutors in northern Sonora state say the gun battle occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border. The state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by [...]
When the first American child is killed by random gunfire, let me hear Obama tell us that border violence is receding, as he tried to do today… EL PASO, Texas (AP) – A deadly shootout between gunmen and Mexican police that left seven bullet holes in El Paso City Hall has renewed calls for tighter [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House has approved an $80 billion measure that would fund the war in Afghanistan and revive, at least for now, a few pieces of the faltering Democratic jobs agenda. Lawmakers advanced the legislation despite increasing pessimism among lawmakers that Afghanistan is turning out to be a quagmire for U.S. troops. To [...]
Fox News: Mexico gets to have a say in one of the lawsuits challenging Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. A federal judge on Thursday granted Mexico’s request to be allowed to file a legal brief supporting the challenge. That means the judge will consider the brief Mexico submitted previously. Mexico says it wants to defend its [...]
The Arizona Republic: Interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley said he will stop sharing state funds beginning today with Sheriff Joe Arpaio to enforce Arizona’s employer-sanctions law. The funds should be used to go after employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, Romley said, rather than what Arpaio has largely used them for: worksite raids on [...]
Washington Times: These days, most commentary on the Declaration of Independence focuses on the implications of the passage that “all men are created equal [and] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Dwelling on that passage might surprise Thomas Jefferson, who thought it was self-evident. The argument that flowed from his [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Fears that the economic recovery is fizzling grew Thursday after the government and private sector issued weak reports on a number of fronts. Unemployment claims are up, home sales are plunging without government incentives and manufacturing growth is slowing. Meanwhile, 1.3 million people are without federal jobless benefits now that Congress adjourned [...]
