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The Most Expensive Membership Clubs - Forbes.com

While not all private membership clubs, also known as resort or destination clubs, offer their members an ownership stake in the clubs' properties, these clubs represent the top tier of luxury vacationing, with members paying a one-time initiation fee of up to $4 million, annual  …

This could be a scene from the movie "Fire Down Below "

When you're talking about a company where the CEO took one supreme court justice to the French Riviera and spent over $3 million to get a friendly judge elected, it's clear that the boundary between what's right and what can be bought is a little blurry.

Life Sentence Debated for Sholom Rubashkin of Agriprocessors - NYTimes.com

The prosecutors' proposal is consistent with tough criminal charges they pursued against immigrant workers and other managers at Agriprocessors, once the nation's largest producer of kosher meat.

Immigration - Why they came

Both Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy found it necessary to remind the American people that the United States is a nation of immigrants.

Health insurers agree to end controversial drop-off practice - TheHill.com

Four months before the enactment of a mandate set by the new healthcare law, the nation's largest health insurers have agreed to stop canceling sick people's coverage.

Tea partiers punked into supporting removal of white people from US | Raw Story

"Let's send these European immigrants back where they came from," he said to wild cheers. "We need to send every one of them back home. ... They stole this land through genocide and ethnic cleansing."

What Was Jim Crow?

Stetson Kennedy, the author of Jim Crow Guide, offered these simple rules that Blacks were supposed to observe in conversing with Whites:

Driving While Black

When Agunabo said he needed to get out of the rain because he had just recently recovered from a bout with pneumonia, the trooper threatened to arrest him. In a search for drugs, the troopers rummaged through the men's luggage and other personal belongings.

You dont have to be American to die for America, but you do in order to drive or work in Arizona

US military service has never been restricted to US citizens. More than 40,000 noncitizens currently serve in the armed forces, nearly all of them permanent legal residents (green card holders).

Q&A;: Illegal Immigrants and the U.S. Economy : NPR

Economists speculate that for the average high-school dropout, that would mean about a $25 a week raise if there were no job competition from immigrants.

Immigrants and Armed Forces Recruitment, they are encouraged to enlist and die for America but they are not welcome to work in our factories or drive on our streets.

The DEP's persuasion campaigns originally targeted black teenagers with the message that military service equaled jobs that promised fair treatment regardless of race.

Mexican Immigrants or the Iraq War which cost the US taxpayers the most money

This study is one of the first to estimate the total impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Most previous studies have focused on the state and local level and have examined only costs or tax payments, but not both.

Dems on financial reform bill: 'The games are over' - CNN.com

The Democratic Party is playing hard ball now with the Republicans looking to oppose their agenda and I say it is about time.

Michael Steele: For Decades GOP Pursued 'Southern Strategy' That Alienated Minorities

During his remarks he also acknowledged that for decades the GOP pursued "'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South."

Exclusive: WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients | Reuters

They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every other policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

The United States Public Debt Tops Ten Trillion Dollars for the First Time : RushPRNews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution

NEW YORK(RUSHPRNEWS)10/02/2008-According to Treasury Direct (a United States Government website, link below), the total public debt outstanding for the United States of America topped ten trillion dollars for the first time as of September 30th, 2008.

FOXNews.com - Mueller: Home-Grown Extremists as Threatening as Al Qaeda

Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the specter of domestic terrorism has returned to haunt the Obama administration, with a warning from the FBI that "home-grown and lone-wolf extremists" now represent as serious a threat as Al Qaeda and its affiliates, The Times  …

The $10 Trillion Hangover - Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush (Harpers Corner

When George W. Bush took office, he inherited a budget surplus of $128 billion and a bright fiscal future.

Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review: Good Riddance to Karl Rove--How Part D Left an $8 Trillion Debt and Got Them Nothing

President Bush spent enormous political capital in his attempt to "modernize" the Social Security system. It is ironic that the 75-year unfunded liability in the Social Security System is $4 trillion.

Medicare Part D, revisited -

Associated Press did a good report on the trouble Republicans have been having as they try to explain why, if they consider the fully-funded, deficit-reducing Democratic health care reform unaffordable, they voted for the completely unfunded Medicare drug benefit 6 years ago.

Why unemployment among blacks & Hispanics significantly higher than whites?

Here's my question to you: Why is unemployment among blacks and Hispanics significantly higher than among whites?

Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million -- Politics Daily

The network said Palin reputedly made $7 million from her book deal for "Going Rogue," is getting $250,000 per episode for her Alaska reality show on the Learning Channel -- that sum is based on a report from the Daily Beast -- and typically collects $100,000 for speaking engagem …

Top Five Causes of the Civil War

The South was based on the plantation system while the North was focused on city life. This change in the North meant that society evolved as people of different cultures and classes had to work together.

In a Tough Economy, Limits on Welfare From 1996 - NYTimes.com

Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of Americans receiving benefits under the main federal-state welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, has increased less than 10 percent, even though unemployment has nearly doubled and the nu …

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