In truth, there should be no problem for these children. That is, until some legislative body somewhere passes a birthright bill that would revoke automatic citizenship to anyone born in this country whose parents weren't U.S. citizens.

Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.

State officials are investigating whether religious agencies that receive public funds to license foster care parents are breaking anti-discrimination laws if they turn away openly gay parents.

Wielding knives and guns, seven white men get out of the car, according to Taylor and witnesses from a state investigation of the case. One shoves Taylor in the backseat; the rest squeeze in after her and ride off.

Fascinating debate about the MSM's power or lack thereof over the outcome of the revolution on the streets of Cairo....

"This divisive legislation is appalling and shameful," said Jennifer Allen, executive director of Border Action Network's in a press release.

You don't need to read the 46-page Missouri Supreme Court decision to determine that this Guatemalan mother's due process & maternal rights were infringed upon: it's common sense!

The Center for American Progress' latest study outlines the local measures, the legal battles, & the costs of the growing backlash against Hispanic immigrants, one "driven by fear, economic uncertainty, and cultural differences" in certain small towns of New Jersey, Nebraska, Pen …

"The train shooting was even worse than the New Year's Eve church bombing in Alexandria," said Coptic Bishop Makarios, who was present at the scene. "The church attack was organized, while the train shooting simply reflected the chaotic situation on the Egyptian street."

"The massacre of 21 Copts at a New Year's Eve mass has been called 'a watershed moment'.

"A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them ."

Southern Oregon University's dean of students has upheld her decision to drop a 20-year-old woman with Down [sic] syndrome from a university-level ceramics class.

A small demonstrations erupted Thursday afternoon at Southern Oregon University in Ashland after a student with Down Syndrome was kicked out of an art class...

A Muslim woman was banned from entering a roller-skating rink because her headscarf breached the 'no hoods' rule. Marisol Rodriguez-Colon, 40, was 'mortified' when she turned up to the Ron-A-Roll rink in Vernon, Connecticut only to be refused entry. When she asked why,  …

"The BBC's Panorama programme has found evidence that Muslim schoolchildren in England are being taught anti-Semitic and homophobic material from a Saudi textbook.

"The EU has called on Turkey to open up trade with Cyprus, to better promote gender equality and human rights, and to toe the line on foreign policy issues in a lukewarm appraisal of Ankara's path towards EU membership.

•Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and the United States.

Turkey's ruling party is trying to create an official form of Alevism that can be subsumed into its Sunni-led Directorate of Religious Affairs while delegitimizing all other forms of the faith, an Alevi labor union leader says.

I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan dem …

I read a couple of articles today refuting Harvard political scientist and author Robert Putnam's recent claim that based on research he did for his latest book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, he determined that there are almost no atheists in America.

The U.S. Department of Education will protect Jewish students against anti-Semitism under Title VI, after a six-year campaign.

"Israel, like the United States, is a largely secular society with deep religious roots. And Israel, like the United States, is home to vocal religious conservatives who frown on homosexuality.

Unemployed at 21, Ahmad al-Issawi doesn't even earn the average $2.03 a day taken home by most Palestinian refugee workers living in Lebanon.

The latest PSR poll asks Palestinian Arabs: Do current political, security, and economic conditions lead you to seek emigration abroad? 37% of Gazans, and 24% of West Bankers, say either that they "certainly seek to emigrate" or "seek to emigrate" from the territories.

Facebook is working with a gay-advocacy group to reduce the amount of hate speech and bullying on the online social hub.

For me, being a feminist means two things: Believing that women are pervasively discriminated against, judged to be and made to feel less than men. It doesn't matter whether this is done intentionally or completely unconsciously and unintentionally.

A lawsuit filed last week in a Palestinian Authority court targets PA Arabs who work for Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria. The suit was filed by "public figures" in the town of Tubas, according to the Bethlehem-based Maan news agency.

New York City police arrested seven gang members accused of beating a new recruit who they discovered is gay, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced.

Thousands of people took part in Africa's biggest Gay Pride event in Johannesburg on Saturday, aimed at drawing attention to the persecution of homosexuals across the continent.

Organisers said more than 18,000 people took part in the protest in the economic capital of South Africa, the only country in the continent which allows same-sex marriages.

"Sterilize black women, problem solved."

Prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders held an extraordinary "emergency summit" meeting in the capital on Tuesday to denounce what they called "the derision, misinformation and outright bigotry" aimed at American Muslims during the controversy over the proposed Is …

Between cynicism and hypocrisy lies the 2,000-mile U.S.- Mexico border. America is raising a wall in the desert to separate Mexican drug exporters from American drug consumers, to separate Latin American peasants who will work for low wages from the Americans who would hire them.

A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don't.

Although it's a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist epicenter of the nation — at least if the number of rallies held there by bigoted groups is any indication.

Not only beauty pageants are decadent shows of machismo, materialism and sexism, but especially they are bad because they promote White supremacy and racism in the worst possible ways.

Armed and extremely... patriotic. Why a growing number of Americans are preparing for a war against their government. ...The militias, which are dotted throughout the US and, according to recent figures, are growing rapidly in numbers, claim they are bulwarks against tyranny.

Former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards is a "faggot," according to conservative provocateur and author Ann Coulter some years back.

"Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America," Dean said on YCR's May 15 radio show on AM 1280 the Patriot.

Nothing is more like the fascist Axis of the 1930s than Islamist expansionism today. Like the Hitler-Tojo-Mussolini Axis of the 1930s, Islamic fascists are fundamentally imperialistic, with an explicit order from on High to subjugate civilized people or turn them to ashes.

Bryan Fischer, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the American Family Association, wrote a blog post yesterday on the AFA's site arguing that the United States should have "no more mosques, period."

If you have a scrap of progressive politics in your bones, it's no surprise to you that sexism hurts women. Like, duh. That's kind of the definition of the word. But we don't talk as much about how sexism hurts men.

PHOENIX, AZ - July 30 - Roxana Orell, a lawyer and executive officer with the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), was arrested Thursday in Phoenix while acting as an NLG Legal Observer® for a group of individuals protesting the immigration policies of Sheriff Arpaio.

A resolution passed by the tribal council on June 4 states that the new law would lead to disproportionate stops and detentions for tribal members, violate their sovereignty and negatively impact the tribal economy.

"Career women make bad mothers". An ill-conceived and insensitive slogan, yes, but also a highly effective campaign, which successfully achieved its aim: to provoke a strong public reaction in order to illustrate the enduring potency of offline advertising.

Erika Johnson will never be able to see her baby, Mikaela. But for 57 days she couldn't keep her newborn close, smell her baby's breath, feel her downy hair.

A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union...

In a 2006 study, Texas earned more in taxes than it spent on public services to illegal immigrants. State and local governments spent $1.16 billion to provide services, but raised an estimated $1.58 billion in tax revenues.

"On March 21, 2010, the Syrian security forces opened fire with live ammunition on a crowd of 5,000 in the northern Syrian town of al-Raqqah. The crowd had gathered to celebrate the Kurdish festival of Nowruz. Three people, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed.

Now isn't that nice? To make up for civil-unioned gay employees' shortfall in tax benefits versus married straight employees, Google is giving them a pay raise to cover the discrepancy.

Anti-immigrant groups have "alternative" solutions for resolving the immigration problem. Many of these groups camouflage themselves in logic, using numbers to prove their point.

oday, President Obama delivered a speech at American University making the case for comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border, overhauls our broken legal entry system, and provides a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who work hard and play by the rule …

What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one.

Yesterday, the New York State Assembly passed a resolution condemning the recently passed Arizona SB 1070 law that will unfairly impact many Latinos in the state. Also yesterday approximately 50 people were arrested protesting the Arizona law.

May 29, Forth Snelling, Minnesota. Minnesotans of many ethnicities gathered to support the Arizona Boycott in protest of new immigration law (SB1070) and to prevent introduction of similar laws there. The rally was combined with a Native American rally to take down Fort Snelling.

The county would avoid new contracts with Arizona firms or the state of Arizona and possibly discontinue any current contracts with firms in that state, under a resolution unanimously approved by the board's finance committee.

Arizona's new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday. The basic human rights regulations, signed by the U.S.

However, law enforcement is formally tasked with enforcing the laws that legislators sign. Consequently, if the law of the land is racist, it becomes the job of law enforcement to enforce racism.

The NAACP in coalition with other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today challenging Arizona's new law requiring police to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S.

FOX hosts have shown time and again an uneasiness with the proximity Arizona has with the nation of Mexico.

A new survey shows that 63% of LGBT Americans, a clear majority of those polled, oppose the strict new immigration law set to take effect in Arizona next month. In contrast, the poll found that about 60% of straight adults support the law

June 9, 2010 -- Just last week, the notorious Governor Brewer promoter of the draconian anti- American law SB 1070, which in essence throws the entire civil rights movement into the proverbial garbage was caught claiming that her father had "died fighting the Nazi regime in Ger …

"Rather than making Arizona more secure, we believe this law will have the opposite effect," Miriam Weisman, ADL Arizona's regional chair, and Bill Straus, ADL Arizona's regional director, said in a statement Tuesday.

"Members of Lebanon's parliament should vote to end restrictions on Palestinian refugees' rights to own property and work, Human Rights Watch said today.

excerpt: ''Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered Louisiana's juvenile justice system at 12 years of age, she presented herself as a boy and used male pronouns.

excerpt: ''Last night, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) took to the House floor to defend Arizona's new anti-immigration law against concerns that it will lead to racial profiling.

Baby Boomer Suicides Increasing since 2006

Unemployed? Don't Bother Applying for a Job

Rand Paul opposes the Civil Rights Act. He opposes the Americans with Disabilities Act. He opposes Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations. This radical ideology has earned him a place of dishonor in our Hall of Shame.

Pick a fear, any fear. Just like a card trick, the one selected in your mind will be chosen by a master magician whose expert sleight of hand impinges your ability to see through the illusion.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued an official letter opposing the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would add sexual orientation to the nation's anti-discrimination laws that have existed for two generations.

"When 100 million women are discriminated against to death, that's not just a woman's issue…both for intrinsic moral reasons and also for practical reasons…it's essential that men get on board."

The right has been girding for a fight to defend the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy after the White House and some members of Congress reached an agreement this week that will likely repeal it.

Sen. Al Franken introduced legislation on Thursday that would protect LGBT students from bullying in America's public schools.

The San Antonio News reports that a Jefferson High School English teacher has been "removed from the classroom" for singling out a Latino student wearing a Mexican soccer jersey and publicly insulting him.

While I was in Malawi in December, Malawi's first gay couple got married in a public commitment ceremony. Their names are Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza. I read the headlines detailing their wedding and sardonic commentary of the journalists writing the pieces.

the two women sitting on the nation's high court (Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor being the other) will both be single and childless. Certainly there is no requirement that every Justice sitting on the court be a parent.

this is actually a long-standing policy that's used to hurt guys at their place of employment like this. They've been able to get away with it for fifteen years or so and nobody says a word.

Arizona's supporters of the state's draconian new immigration law insist that it has nothing to do with race and isn't meant to discriminate against certain ethnic communities.

It's no secret that Fox News doesn't live up to its "fair and balanced" slogan, especially when one considers its coverage of the LGBT community. In fact, much of its coverage is openly antagonistic and downright homophobic.

The big question of course is why should the world be forced to remember? Simply because the Holocaust is not a Jewish affair. It touched all of mankind.

I'm in Hungary right now working with a friend on a video project and I'm posting updates on a facebook group (it's able to be viewed even if you're not on facebook).

"Here are some pictures of that awful "apartheid wall" separating Arab families from each other and causing big problems among Palestinian Arabs.

As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.