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Looking at America
 The New York Times
There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior.
Forgotten Step Toward Freedom
 Eric Foner
We Americans live in a society awash in historical celebrations. But one significant milestone has gone strangely unnoticed: the 200th anniversary of Jan. 1, 1808, when the importation of slaves into the United States was prohibited.
 Mexico to Microchip Central American Migrants
 Kurt Nimmo
As an omen of things to come, in March the National Immigration Institute of Mexico will demand Central Americans workers and visitors carry ID cards with electronic chips.
Position Paper on Social Security Issues
 John W. Wallace
America's promise to guarantee retirement benefits to its senior citizens, once considered etched in stone, has become little more than a political tool to be used by partisan politicians to scare retirees into believing that their opponents want to take away their hard earned benefits.
Let's NOT Spread Democracy!
 Robert Weiner & John Larmett
Whatever our Cuba policy, it hasn't worked. Unlike Berlin in 1989, not all walls can easily be "torn down." Regrettably to us, people in many other countries do not want democracy.
Immigrants: Illegal, But Not Irrational
 Investor's Business Daily
The Border: Illegal immigration, once hailed as unstoppable, isn't proving so inevitable after all. As tougher enforcement raises costs, thousands of illegals are now self-deporting. This just shows that incentives matter.
Let Insurers Issue Driving Licenses to Illegal Immigrants
 Gabriel Roth
The controversy about issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants overlooks one possible solution: allow auto insurers to test and “license” such individuals.
Mexico Welcomes Returning Migrants
 Maria Elena Salinas
As usual during this time of year, more than a million Mexican immigrants are expected to cross the border to spend the holiday season with their loved ones. But this time around, there is an added element to their journey: Many of them could end up making a one-way trip back home.
Worldwatch Perspective: Rebuilding Food Security
 Jessica Hanson
Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced multiple natural disasters in recent months, affecting key economic sectors including food and cash crop production. How can Mexico and other developing nations protect domestic food security in the wake of disaster?
New US Energy Bill - Working People Will Pay
 Stewart A. Alexander
The new US energy bill will drastically increase the profits of the petroleum and ethanol producers over the next decade; the energy bill will also increase the cost of food, fuel, consumer goods and transportation. Over the next 15 years, the bill will cost working class people trillions of dollars while making the billionaires richer worldwide.
3 Mexicos Must Become Just 1
 Lorenzo G. LaFarelle
All Mexicos - the three Mexicos: the Criollo, (white) Mexico, the Mestizo (half-breed races) Mexico, and the "Mexico Indigena" Indian Mexico, un-integrated and un-acculturated Mexico, had - and has to be - made into one Mexico.
Nightmare Before Christmas
 Bob Herbert
Forget the turbulence in the financial markets and the subprime debacle. Forget the dark clouds of a possible recession. Bloomberg News tells us that the top securities firms are handing out nearly $38 billion in seasonal bonuses, the highest total ever.
Republicans Say Strange Things
 Ann McFeatters
It's that time of year when we review the weird and wacky comments made this past year by some of our public figures, prompting the always apt phrase, "Is this a great country or what?" This week we will rankle the Republicans.
Standing Up to NAFTA: A Lesson from Two Towns
 Laura Carlsen
No matter what one's stance on these two fundamental phenomena of our age - economic integration and immigration - one thing is absolutely clear: they are related.
A Complex But Merry Christmas
 Dale Mcfeatters
We Americans can't do "simple holidays." We probably wouldn't recognize one if it cropped up on the calendar. This year's Christmas, a boisterous and appealing mix of the sacred and the secular, will be bigger and gaudier than ever.
Taser Jolts On the Road Toward Mutiny - “Hope Is Not Enough!”
 Gaither Stewart
What if in the shaky super power in decline, the United States of America, tottering on the brink of disaster, just what if the next turn of events was a popular mutiny against the gradual, little-charted American Counter-Revolution that has been going on for decades?
Breaking Away From the Anti-Immigration Rhetoric
 Marcela Sanchez
Some years ago I wrongly bet that nothing like a Merida Initiative could emerge amid the current anti-immigrant environment. My fear then was that such discourse would only prolong illegal immigration by making people think the solution could be much simpler than it is - that with enough barriers, Mexicans and other Latin Americans would go away.
Is Chicago Going to the Birds?
 Alan Burkhart
According to a recent AP article, the Chicago City Council is considering a ban on pet chickens. This little tidbit of news is indicative (to me, at least) of just how shallow we've become as a nation.
Blow Jobs for Bush?
 Doug Thompson
Is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi venturing over to the Oval Office late at night to nosh on the First Member and otherwise pleasure the most unpopular President in American history?
Significant Reforms Ahead For Mexico
 Oxford Analytica
Next year may bring political consolidation for the administration of President Felipe Calderon. Contrary to expectations, the president has governed effectively and secured approval of important reforms on taxation and public expenditure, public sector pensions and electoral issues.
Leader in War Could be Leader in Peace
 Ivan Simic
For centuries, numerous wars were fought among countries, and in relation to that, we cannot ignore one country that has participated or had a big influence in many of them, especially recent ones. That country is the United States of America.
Socialists Want Stronger Ties with Mexico
Stewart A. Alexander
As the 2008 Election year moves into high gear, most of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have adopted an anti-Mexican strategy for their campaigns. This anti-immigrant rhetoric is straining our political ties with Mexico.
Mexican-American Border Crossed from Both Sides
 Courier-Post
When it comes to Mexican migration, it is a serious error to view it only from the American perspective, since the issue has more than one face. The Mexican-American border dynamics do not work only in one direction.
Is There a Left Here Left?
 Joann Wypijewski
Given the growing opposition to the Iraq war and rising inequality, why hasn't the Left done better at organizing around these key issues, and what needs to be improved in order to do so?
The Republicans Find Their Obama
 Frank Rich
Could 2008 actually end up being a showdown between the author of "The Audacity of Hope" and the new Man from Hope, Ark.? It sounds preposterous, but Washington's shock over Mike Huckabee's sudden rise in the polls makes you wonder.
Open Door to Mexico, See Prosperity Walk Through It
 Roy R. Reynolds
Texas, by luck of geographic position, serves naturally as one of the front lines for the debate on immigration. The state's location and wealth of opportunity make it an attractive destination for foreign workers.
Is Mexico's Carlos Slim Really the World's Richest Man?
 Allan Wall
Mexican mega-magnate Carlos Slim is the owner of Teléfonos de México, the Telmex/Telcel/América Movil telecoms empire, and many other businesses under the umbrella of his Grupo Carso. But is Carlos Slim also the richest man in the world?
Dear Deluded Mass Media, North American Union Agenda Exists
 Steve Watson
Despite official maps, documents, plans and bills in Congress the reality of the NAU and trans border superhighway is still denied as Ron Paul is attacked for speaking out about it.
Point/Counterpoint: Is It True That Illegal Immigrants are Draining US Resources?
 Claire Webster & Taylor Alfonso
Contrary to what many have assumed in the past, illegal Mexican and other Latin American immigrants are 50 percent less likely to use hospital emergency rooms in California than U.S.-born Latinos, according to a study published November 26 in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
Yes, We're Still the Land of Opportunity
 Jay Ambrose
Oh dear, oh dear, pity poor Americans, because, you see, the system is rigged against the vast majority who were not born filthy rich. No less an authority than presidential candidate John Edwards says so, and he says so firmly.
Resisting the Smear of a "Tainted Legacy"
 Michael Medved
The current notion that America’s undeniable power and privilege rest upon shameful foundations poisons our public discourse, embitters the national mood, and paralyzes all efforts for constructive change.
Gone With The Weed
 LATimes
It took decades for the Los Angeles Times to come to its current position on marijuana, supporting its medical use and advocating lenient enforcement and penalties for small-scale possession.
Democrats and Trade Distortions
 Washington Post
Polls show that many Democratic voters are nervous about the potential impact of globalization on their job security. So some Democratic candidates are competing to validate every trade-related anxiety and grievance, no matter how far-fetched.
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