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Daily Archives: August 22nd, 2007

The Prison Industry branches out

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

According to the Christian Science Monitor, farmers are turning to prisoners to harvest their fields, at wages ($2.00 per hours) even an illegal immigrant might turn down. The trend is a result of the crackdown on those very illegal immigrants. We already have the highest documented prison population in the world. If we find ourselves […]

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Downey withdraws his nomination

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Sometimes things happen too fast. Here I was, intending to write about Judge Downey’s nomination to the Appellate Court, which was foundering after it was discovered that he had taken the absurd legal position that illegal immigrants can’t have access to the courts (presumably they still have the right to be sued), when I find […]

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You reap what you sow

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Must reading from Juan Cole. A short history of the roots of the “War on Terror”. No excerpt could to it justice. Read the whole thing.

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