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Why does Israel flourish while Arabs in Arab nations live mostly in squalor?

DHS just published the guidelines to be used for submitting information to the Top Screen Module of CSAT. Toxic chemical on the DHS list will require specific information on the amount of chemicals present and their potential effect in the event of a successful terrorist attack.

Somwhere America turned a corner. It transitioned from an abundant, just, constitutional republic into a global empire. As we enter the high-tech security state, are we paying the price for empire? Are we willing to continue paying that price?

The failure is sundered within each of us, it festers as blame to others, a manifestation of the shame that belongs not to ourselves but of the participants of a deadlier game. Yet innately the affectation begins with our own visceral manumission of guilt, and sadly, empirically lies buried in our own personal failings.

had an epiphany about ten years ago when I was invited to a White House picnic for the press corps. I was there for about twenty minutes when it hit me that all these people (liberals and conservatives alike) -- all the members of the press, all the politicians, all the lobbyists -- are interrelated and they all depend on each other.

Foley resigns - Republicans losing their grip?

Dubai and UAE's rising expatriate population is generating much concern these days. The administration requires looking at it very seriously before things got too complicated to be resolved.

Immigration reform is needed and everyone in the country should be happy when it happens. It will help everyone, even the people who are against it. It will help business, our economy, Social Security, the military, education, and our national security. We should all be hoping our elected officials get this done soon.

DHS recently published two guidance documents for completing the Top Screen Module in the Chemcial Security Assessment Tool. These documents reflect the exact same Screening Threshold Quantities listed in the proposed Appendix A, Chemical of Interest, to 6 CFR part 27 published in April, 2007. It seems that the complaints of the propane industry and university/medical labs did not result in the changes that they were looking for.

Corrupt New York State official unjustly shuts down a well-respected drug treatment agency, leaving a huge gap in treatment services on Long Island.