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A LEADING MEP has warned EU citizens they could be “jailed” for criticising migration policies if a new United Nations agreement is acted upon. (snip) --- “One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech. “The agreement wants to criminalise migration speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offence. “Media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down.

When Coloradoans went to the polls on November 5th,2002 they were asked to vote yes on Referendum E. "Shall the thirty- first day of March be designated a legal holiday for observing the birthday of Cesar Estrada Chavez as "Cesar Chavez day"?Approximately 80% of Coloradoans voted NO. This included counties such as Conejos and Costilla Counties in which hispanics are in the majority Initiatives and Referendums have become a tool of special interest groups to rally the voting population to the polls. However, sometimes they can backfire, as in the case of the Cesar Chavez referendum. Some believe that this...

Sept. 11, 2001, had a triple impact. It focused American minds on how vulnerable to attack we were, it showed us how pathetic our intelligence operations were, and it gave us a respite from our national spiritual, cultural and political division. But 9-11 did not cure that division. We are still a nation as divided as that now-famous map – the one that shows red small-town and rural America that voted for Bush and blue Al Gore urban-suburban city-states. The philosophical divisions between red and blue country are not the kind that can be healed or compromised away. That is...