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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
Stetson Kennedy, the author of Jim Crow Guide, offered these simple rules that Blacks were supposed to observe in conversing with Whites:
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.
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).
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.
The DEP's persuasion campaigns originally targeted black teenagers with the message that military service equaled jobs that promised fair treatment regardless of race.
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.
The Democratic Party is playing hard ball now with the Republicans looking to oppose their agenda and I say it is about time.
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."
They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every other policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
UNDERSTANDING THE SURPLUS
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.
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 …
When George W. Bush took office, he inherited a budget surplus of $128 billion and a bright fiscal future.
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.
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.
Here's my question to you: Why is unemployment among blacks and Hispanics significantly higher than among whites?
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 …
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.
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 …
A Muslim extremist who earlier warned that TV's "South Park" creators should be "afraid for their lives" for insulting Islam's prophet Muhammad now says that yesterday's car bomb attempt in Times Square will be just the beginning of a new wave of terrorist attacks.
State tax revenues have been falling across the nation. Now they're starting to make it plain about their intentions. And, in some cases, pretty threatening. This actual commercial from Pennsylvania is pretty chilling...
Police investigating a terror attack that could have set off a deadly fireball in Times Square focused Sunday on finding a man who was videotaped shedding his shirt near the SUV where the bomb was found.
Republicans are on offense in scores of House and Senate races as persistent economic woes and lukewarm support for President Barack Obama continue to weaken Democrats' hold on Congress.
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 …
It is time that the congress realizes that our vote counts,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The average American should be taken care of. We are better and more important then the banks and large automobile industry.Do they think that we do not want to earn a living? I guess that they do not have anyone close to them that are unemployed, because if they did they would know how difficult it is to get a job. Please help us to survive.
I am fully aware that Burris is a democrat. You apparently didn't understand my statement.
Some like to be frightened, lied to, or just let others do there thinking.
Like horror movies some people are addicted to fear. Hanity, Fox news, Limbaugh make good money by being fear mongers. Any one who buys into this should head the words of Mr Franklin......
" Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. " Benjamin Franklin, 1759
— Becks72
I got burned in the dot.com bust too. I think I will wait a little longer. : )
— trm2008
I read your comment on the Tenn Lawmakers and wanted to say it was perfect. The thread was getting too long for me to comment to you but I thought it was beautifully written.
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