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Take your pick- Illegal immigration or the illegal war in Iraq

While talking about the issue of illegal immigration in US and the illegal war in Iraq, the first thing that needs to be addressed is, illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war says a report from Family Security Matters. The second thing in this regard that needs address is, White House plan [...]

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Bush losing approval rating

President Bush seems loosing on popularity front, at least, if one believes in popular ‘job-approval rating’ polls. In a recent poll in USA Today, Bush managed a rating of 38%. He scored below 40%, for consecutive 7 months. 40% is considered as a critical figure. It’s the borderline that differentiates popular from non-popular. Bush though [...]

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Remove Guns to prevent suicide

US is suffering from a disease – Yes, a preventable disease that kills thousands every year and the agent of this disease is a consumer product that lacks a broad national monitoring system or regulation by federal safety organization. The disease is ‘Suicide’ and the agent is ‘GUN.’ In a nation where more than half [...]

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U.S. military death toll raises to 3,281 in Iraq

The battle-fields of the Middle East, especially Iraq, is just turning into a killing-grounds for the US led Allied forces. The total number of the U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the war began in 2003 has well crossed the 3,000 mark. As the US troops have intensified their efforts to defeat the insurgents in [...]

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US extends troops’ tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan

Its official now! US decides to tackle the mess in Iraq and the ‘possible’ mess is Afghanistan with enhanced military policies. The US administration yesterday announced that US troops will now serve up to 15 months in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of the usual 12-month tours under new defence department rules. What does this mean? [...]

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US Senate approves stem cell bill, Bush vows to Veto

It just appears that there is no love lost between President Bush and the Democrat-controlled US Senate, as this is for the second time within a month that the US president has threatened to veto a bill approved by the senate. After vowing to veto the war funding bill few weeks back, President Bush is [...]

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Emails, ‘millions’ of them, missing in White House

According to a new report issued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a liberal watchdog group, it is alleged, in possible violation of the federal Presidential Records Act, official White House email traffic for hundreds of days has vanished, over a two year period. As per White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, it [...]

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No respite for students and staff in US, another gunman threatens slaughter

The people of the United States, indeed entire world, haven’t yet come out of the shocking incident of the Virginia Tech University shootings, news of another gunman armed with an AK-47 assault rifle threatening to plan a mass killing even bigger than the Va massacre kept the most of the schools and universities in Yuba [...]

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Gunman Kills Hostage and Self at NASA, gun culture getting bigger in US

People haven’t yet recovered from the tragic Monday attack at Virginia Tech university in which a student sadistically killed 32 people in the nastiest shooting rampage in recent past in the US, another fatal incident at the Johnson Space Center, in which a NASA contract worker carried a handgun inside an office building yesterday and [...]

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Lethal injections can be extremely painful

Some prisoners executed by lethal injection in the US may die of suffocation while still conscious and in pain, researchers said. Drugs used to execute prisoners in the U.S. sometimes fail to work, causing slow and painful deaths that probably violate constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment, a new medical review of dozens of [...]

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