Teresa Lewis was the first woman to be put to death in Virginia in almost a century.
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Horse Sense on Immigration
Meg Whitman, a candidate for governor of California and a frequent critic of employers who hire paper-challenged workers, found herself in a paper jam of her own this month. It was revealed that Ms. Whitman fired her long-time housekeeper in June 2009 after a belated discovery that she had been dusting chez Whitman for years without legal residency. The champion anti-immigration bloviator Lou Dobbs had similar paperwork problems at his 300-acre New Jersey estate and horse farm. An investigation by The Nation magazine turned up undocumented workers tending its grounds and horseflesh and no doubt ducking every time the self-appointed border watchman made his rounds. It is always great fun to catch public figures in glass estates, but the apparent hypocrisy about immigration is a less striking aspect of these gotcha news stories than what they reveal about our national bipolar disorder on illegal immigration.
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Voting Block
Owing to the many geopolitical and economic hazards of our times, this is no throwaway election.
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Our President’s Faith; Halfway to Heaven; The Right to Breastfeed
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A Saint for Our Time
The saga of Mother Mary MacKillop says much about sanctity, about sin, about women and about hope.
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Reform Begins at Last; Deporting Roma People; Hidden From the World
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Israel’s Choice
Israel needs to be reminded that the alternatives to a two-state solution are few and unattractive.
