For many, the opposite of oppression is not acceptance, it is instead immigration.
Since the founding of the United States, its borders have provided security and home to many who would seek asylum from one form of oppression or another.
One glance across Times Square in New York City, and it is quite apparent that to be an American means that you might be from one of many races, religions, or cultures.
Prior to 1890, individual states regulated immigration into the United States. However, throughout the 1890’s European politics became unstable, restrictive laws…
From $500,000 given to Dayton, Ohio to pay for at least 8,000 new blue, 96-gallon, microchip-embedded bins to track citizens participation in the city’s recycling program…
To $62 million sent to Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania to extend the North Shore Connector’s, the stimulus dollars are hard at work.
Two Republican Senators on Tuesday released an oversight report detailing what they call are 100 examples of stimulus projects being mismanaged…
A federal district judge in California has ruled that Proposition 8 — the voter-approved initiative which sought to strictly define marriage as an act between one woman and one man — violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The decision effectively overturns the voter initiative and allows same-sex marriages in the State of California.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said Proposition 8 “unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry…”
They are known as the “Afghan War Diary” — over 91,000 classified reports documenting the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010 — recently published by a website known as Wikileaks.
The founder, Julian Assange, has come under fierce criticism from conservative politicians such as Arizona Senator John McCain, who called the release of the military records written primarily by American soldiers and intelligence officers a “serious breach of national security.”
The White House said this week the action is a violation of Federal law, and an investigation about the release of highly classified material is ongoing…
In a strategic business move that will, among other things, force suppliers and competitors to follow or get out of the way, retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will expand its use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags by implementing it down to the product level.
As early as 2005, Wal-Mart has partnered with suppliers to track inventory through the use of electronic product codes (EPC) — powered by RFID technology — at the pallet and case level…
With over 3,000,000 devices sold since it’s launch three weeks ago, the Apple iPhone 4 has been judged the number one smart phone by a variety of publications — Wired, Engadget, PC World & Consumer Reports.
But a public relations disaster seemed to be brewing as media reports of antenna & reception failure spread over the internet like wildfire.
Critics and manufacturers of phones like the Nokia, the Android and the Windows mobile phone were most likely hoping that Apple’s fortunes would begin dropping like the reception bars on the iPhone 4 phone…
After 85 days and nearly 184 million gallons of oil, BP announced on Thursday that it had successfully capped a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico.
At approximately 3:25 p.m. EDT, the oil stopped flowing when the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap was closed.
BP then began the next step in the oil containment phase with a well integrity test that was estimated to last between 6 and 48 hours. As of 7 p.m. EDT Friday, the company said the test is ongoing and active monitoring continues…
Attorneys General from nine U.S. states, and one territory, filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief on Wednesday in the United States District Court of Arizona in support of Arizona Senate Bill 1070.
Michigan is the lead state backing Arizona before the court in the Federal lawsuit – The United States of America v. The State of Arizona and Janice K. Brewer, Governor – challenging the constitutionality of the state law scheduled to take effect July 29.
“My mother was a legal immigrant who faithfully carried her green card with her for years…”
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