“They have never been a 13-year-old girl,” she told USA TODAY later when asked about her colleagues’ comments during the arguments. “It’s a very sensitive age for a girl. I didn’t think that my colleagues, some of them, quite understood.”
read more...A few years back I did a story about environmental impacts at the border. In part it was prompted by the Real ID act, which had a provision in it that would give Homeland Security waiver power over environmental and labor laws. The law passed with some border pilot project money, but not the provisions. The idea, however, stuck around. Congress later gave the federal government the power to waive federal environmental – and labor, let’s not forget – laws
read more...According to a press release from Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s office, the Times-Picayune is to blame for grossly misrepresenting the mayor and the chief of police, Warren Riley.
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