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Let's face it, our elected officials don't have a clue about how to reduce illegal immigration. After President Bush proposed a guest worker program in January 2004, he repeatedly has said, illegal border crossing must stop. He now says he is looking for an overall strategy to curb illegal immigration. Congress can't agree on what to do about illegal immigration. McCain, Kolbe, Flake and Ted Kennedy, want a guest worker program and also want to allow some undocumented immigrants to become legal residents, but they insist that is not an amnesty. Senator Jon Kyl wants illegal immigrants to go home,...

In my run for Congress (California's 48th District U.S. House Representative), I wish to support a women's right to "equal pay for equal work." This right was put into law with the "Equal Pay Act of 1963." Most women will tell you that they do not possess significant equality of equal pay compared to men doing the same job. I'd like to see the many corporate businesses of the 48th District set an example of gender equity for women.

Liberal nut job, fringe environmentalist, white multimillionaire are all fitting descriptions of former Presidential Candidate, Ralph Nader. But Wednesday night he added a new one to the list. Read More...Craig DeLuzVisit The Home of Uncommon Sense… www.craigdeluz.com

As I pulled up to the post office 30 minutes ago with my family, I noticed a $100 bill just laying on the pavement. I picked it up and got back inside the car. The temptation of course was to keep it, but we decided to leave our phone number with the post office so if someone came claiming to have lost something they could get it back by describing it. (a $100 bill) While waiting for my wife to come back from inside my daughter and I noticed a middle aged woman appear to be looking for something a...

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Not that we're doing all that badly, but I would always like to have more affiliate stations for the Neal Boortz Show. There are several reasons why I don't have 500 radio stations out there. First, there is stiff competition with a number of other talk show hosts for my particular time spot. I have to beat all of that competition for each and every precious affiliate. If I was on the air during a different day part, with no competing hosts out there, things would be different. One of the most exasperating excuses we get from some stations who...

"A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation." These are the words of Thomas Paine, one of founding fathers, and the motto of Homemakers for America, a new National Organization that has been formed to give women a voice in America. HFA was founded on November 11, 2004 by Dayton area resident, Kimberly Fletcher. Mrs. Fletcher is the mother of eight children and wife of Major Derek L. Fletcher, who is currently stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Mrs. Fletcher stated she formed HFA in an effort to unite the...

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REPUBLICAN VOICES The New Home for Intellectual Conservatism www.republicanvoices.org Dear Fellow Republican, I would like to bring to your attention a growing conservative/Republican newsletter that will be the new home of intellectual conservatism. I am the President and Editor in Chief, writing under a pseudonym due to public education who is a student at one of the schools. I am one of the lone Republicans living in Boston and in my columns am planning to unearth deep inside the public education system, how it fails to provide students a decent education, brainwashes students minds politically and the reforms needed to...

Sources are saying this morning that Senator John F. Kerry consulted Disney Chairman George Mitchell while selecting John Edwards as his running mate. Internet sources are reporting that the senator "reached out" to Mitchell for advice and counsel. The Disney chairman oversees the ABC Television Network and ABC NEWS.

NEW YORK -- Pop singer Britney Spears plans to marry her latest boyfriend, a dancer who is awaiting the birth of the baby he fathered with another woman. ''I can confirm that yes, she is engaged,'' said Sonia Muckle, a spokeswoman for Spears' record label, Jive Records. Spears, 22, and Kevin Federline, 26, have not yet set a date, Muckle said. The two began dating a few months ago, after Spears' whirlwind wedding to childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas in January. That marriage was annulled within days. Federline appeared in the movie ''You Got Served'' and performed as...

(A public letter to Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald) Most Honorable Senator Fitzgerald, My passion for freedom and the ideals implicit in the founding of the United States of America is unwavering, and the words of Thomas Jefferson concerning the requirement for eternal vigilance if liberty is to be preserved come to mind as I become alerted of a menace to the fundamental rights of Americans that is closer to home than the threat of terrorism itself. While the United States seeks to broadcast the image of liberation, free enterprise, and individual rights abroad, there is a design within the chambers...

These columns now appear in print in the Canyon News, 20,000 copies weekly in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Malibu and 12 other L.A. communities. A high proportion of those folks could readily turn "The No Bullsh*t News" into reality. Consider the Sunday news programs. Reporters pretend to ask relevant questions; politicians pretend to answer them. The reporters throw softballs to guests they agree with, or goad political opponents into making unfortunate statements. A minor slip of the tongue gets play if it fits a headline. Who takes these frauds seriously? Guests try to avoid "committing news in a public place." The...

<p>May 2, 2004 -- CURT Smith, author of "Voices of the Game" and chronicler of all that binds baseball to broadcasting, had a frightening thought. "What if the next Vin Scully is out there and no one will hire him? What if he can't find work because his audition tape isn't loaded with screaming and shtick and hyperbole? Look at it this way: When's the last time 'SportsCenter' chose to replay a classy, dignified call of a team announcer's call?"</p>

Yale Ph.D. Dubs 'Passion of the Christ' 'Pagan' ANN ARBOR, Mich.-- No, he's not talking about the hefty box-office receipts, pewter nails, or excessive gore, though these are all symptoms. He's talking about the idea, blazoned on www.ThePassionoftheChrist.com, that "dying was Jesus' reason for living." "The God of Gibson's film is a bloodthirsty God," says Dr. James Cook, 15-year religion professor at Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills, Michigan. "This supposedly loving heavenly father wants a human sacrifice to appease his wrath. That's not ethical monotheism. That's not the Jewish idea of sacrifice as token of repentance for sin. That's...

Occasionally I write about myself in this space when knowing a little about my biases or background is helpful in understanding how I've reached a conclusion. But does anybody really want to hear all about how arduous the job is --- from a woman calling me a "prissy little queen" via email for daring to insult Clay Aiken, to network execs thinking I was overly harsh or unfair? Didn't think so. Yet that's exactly what's happening in the media world, as talk personalities such as Howard Stern and Bill O'Reilly increasingly segue from host to vein-opener, making their particular platforms...

Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: The company's Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the U.S. site under signatures like "a reader from New York." The weeklong glitch, which Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare glimpse at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool to promote or pan a book -- when they think no one is watching. John Rechy, the author of the best-selling 1963 novel, "City of Night," and winner of the PEN-USA-WEST award for...