America In Danger – The Blog

Texas has started broadcasting live images of the U.S. border on the Internet in a security program that asks the public to report signs of illegal immigration or drug crimes. A test Web site went live Thursday at texasborderwatch.com with views from eight cameras and ways for viewers to e-mail reports of suspicious activity…

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The Hope Elementary School District, beginning this month, will require fingerprint ID for elementary students before buying cafeteria food. “It raises sanitary issues, privacy issues — it is kind of Orwellian,” says parent, “It just sounds kind of creepy.”

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If Democrats succeed in retaking one or both houses of Congress next week, a top priority will be increasing the minimum wage for the first time since 1997. That raises a persistent question: Does lifting the minimum wage destroy so many jobs that it hurts more than it helps?

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A KDKA News interview with Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) aired today, November 2nd, with hilariously funny (and incriminating) behavior from the incumbent. In the interview, Congressman Murphy snatches evidence from the KDKA reporter and refuses to give it back.

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Bob Ney, facing certain expulsion from the House after being convicted of two felonies in relation to the Jack Abramoff scandal, resigned today. Ney, who pleaded guilty to making false statements and conspiracy to commit fraud, is the first member of Congress to be convicted as part of the wide-ranging Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

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Neoconservatives led by former chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle and former Pentagon insider Kenneth Adelman tell Vanity Fair that they blame the “dysfunctional” Bush administration for the “disaster” in Iraq and say that if they had it to do over again they would not advocate an invasion of Iraq.

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