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Is Racial Profiling Wrong?

Recent news reports have revealed that the FBI is planning to release new Department of Justice guidelines, slated for implementation later in the year. These proposed guidelines apparently make racial profiling not only an unwritten practice, but an avowed policy of the FBI. The proposed guidelines would give the domestic intelligence agency authority to investigate American citizens and residents without any evidence of criminal acts, relying instead on a "terrorist profile" that would include race, ethnicity and "travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity" to spark an initial "national security investigation." Answer: I'm not concerned about racial profiling, I'm white. I'm black, we already are profiled. Mexicans look like arabs. Racism is as American as Apple Pie!

John Adams

John Adams - dramatic history of the USA I don't often cry, but every episode of this story has brought tears to my eyes, and reminded me why we must remain ever vigilant. -MER

Michelle Rhee - DC public schools

Perhaps we should be interviewing the kids, the Teachers, or at least the Mayor of DC, too?

Impeach George W. Bush

Only one Congressman had the personal courage and the profound respect for our Constitution to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and exercise his right and his responsibility to bring Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush - Ohio Representative Dennis J. Kucinich. Now, Americans who cherish our Democracy and the Constitutional principles upon which it was founded can stand up, speak out, and take action by signing the one official petition that carries the full and unqualified support of the one and only original sponsor of the impeachment resolution: Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich. Kucinich Petition WHEREAS, in his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws