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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a swipe Tuesday at the Biden administration’s immigration and COVID-19 vaccination policies, asking the White House whether tennis great Novak Djokovic would be allowed to come to Florida by boat to compete. “The only thing keeping Novak Djokovic from participating in the Miami Open tennis tournament is President Biden’s misguided and unscientific COVID-19 vaccination requirement for foreigner [sic] travelers,” DeSantis tweeted Tuesday, along with a copy of his letter. “Mr. President – lift your restrictions and let him compete,” DeSantis added.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orange County elementary school teacher accused of writing a letter critical of Hispanics could be dismissed from her job during a School Board hearing scheduled for this week. Orange County elementary school teacher Jan Hall. A handwritten letter allegedly written by Sadler Elementary School teacher Jan Hall was addressed to a congressman and published in a local Spanish newspaper. The letter said Hispanics are causing American students to fall behind in school and asked for laws to be changed to prevent Puerto Ricans from coming to Orlando because they are "destroying the city every day," Local...

California's employment picture brightened significantly in July as the state added tens of thousands of jobs and the unemployment rate dropped. The state's jobless rate was 5.1 percent in July, ... The July jobless rate was the lowest since May 2001, when it was also 5.1 percent. In July 2004, California's unemployment rate was 6.2 percent. The agency's survey of employers showed that nonfarm payroll employment in California grew by 29,900 jobs from the previous month, for a total of 14, 783,400. "That looks quite nice,'' Nancy Sidhu, senior economist at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., said Friday...

This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 07/23/2005 10:40:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: Censorship Goodbye FreeRepublic,I'm off to Liberty Post. It was good while it lasted........Please ban me NOW Jim!

Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has been reviewing over the past several months discrepancies and gaps in witness testimony in his investigation of the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame, according to lawyers in the case and witness statements. Fitzgerald has spent considerable time since the summer of 2004 looking at possible conflicts between what White House senior adviser Karl Rove and vice presidential staff chief I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury and investigators, and the accounts of reporters who talked with the two men, according to various sources in the case. (snip) Lawyers involved in the case...

PHOENIX A federal judge in Phoenix has thrown out the deportation case against four young people who were brought to the U-S illegally when they were toddlers. Their immigration status was discovered during a June 2002 trip to a high school science competition along the Canadian border. The four, now in their early twenties, were competing in a solar-powered boat competition near Buffalo, New York, and wanted to make a side trip to Canada. The immigration judge granted a request that key evidence be excluded from the case, ruling that border agents had questioned the students based on their Hispanic...

I am preparing s paper for my sociology class on the subject of why gay men lisp. I have posted inquiries on numerous forums that may have participants who could give insight into this subject. Is this a genetic trait as a side property of the natural predisposition to be gay? Or is it something about the habits of gay men that causes it? Perhaps, it is cultural - a way for gay men to let other gay men know that they are gay. Please give me your input. Please, no jokes.

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, portraying immigration changes as a vital weapon against terrorism, Wednesday pledged to tighten border security but also called on Congress to approve a guest worker program that would make it easier for foreign workers to enter the United States legally. “We must gain full control of our borders to prevent illegal immigration and security breaches,” Chertoff said. But, he added, “control of the border will also require reducing the demand for illegal border migration” by channeling needed workers through a new legal system. Implicit in the guest worker program would be an increase...

SUMMIT COUNTY - The faces of immigrants comprise more and more of Summit County's cultural landscape each year, as foreign workers and their families search for a better life in the High Country. One has only to enter a local grocery store, elementary school or ski resort to meet residents that hail from West Africa, Eastern Europe, South America, Central America and Australia. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 12 percent of Summit County's population was foreign-born that year. Yet for all the opportunities Summit County affords its immigrants, the community sometimes struggles in its ability to meet the needs...

TUCSON, Ariz. A Border Patrol agent has been arrested today after he allegedly brought an illegal immigrant into the U-S. Thirty-two-year-old Ephraim Cruz of Douglas was arrested today at the Tucson Sector Border Patrol Headquarters after a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment. The indictment alleges that on or about January 22nd, Cruz knowingly brought an illegal immigrant into the U-S. Cruz is also charged with harboring, concealing, or shielding an illegal alien and with transportation of an illegal alien. Two other counts allege that Cruz failed to report the illegal entry and that he aided and abetted the...

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Everyone in this American nation of "We the People" is invited to participate actively in reaching the goal of including the EQUAL WORTH AMENDMENT (EWA)in our Constitition of the United States of America! Please go to http://www.equalworthamendment.org for more information. ------------ EQUAL WORTH AMENDMENT (EWA) All persons are fundamentally equal worths in themselves with none superior and none inferior unconditionally and unexceptionally, regardless of age, race, gender, ethnic heritage, formal education, political affiliation, socioeconomic status, religion, profession, or any other title, status, or situation. As such, all persons have the inherent and inalienable basic right to be related to respectfully...