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Daily Archives: June 16, 2007
Will borders really be enforced?
June 16, 20071:03 a.m.
Michael Goodwin had a commentary in Friday’s Eagle that got to the heart of many Americans’ unease about the immigration bill: They don’t trust that the government will really enforce the border. That’s no doubt why the new immigration deal announced Thursday calls for an immediate $4.4 billion investment in border security and enforcement.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
Gay bomb not very practical
June 16, 20071:02 a.m.
Randy Scholfield had some fun in his Friday column with the report that the U.S. Air Force considered a plan to develop a bomb that would turn enemy soldiers gay. He pointed out the obvious goofiness about the idea, but then raised some practical questions that might have given military strategists pause: "What if the wind changed, and blew the clouds of gay gas back on our troops? Imagine the confusion. Would U.S. soldiers who were gay become straight? I’m not sure the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy would cover the fallout, or coming out, or whatever you want to call it."
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
For Seale, justice delayed is still justice
June 16, 20071:01 a.m.
It would have been preferable for James Ford Seale, Edgar Ray Killen and other surviving reputed Klansmen to be brought to justice swiftly for their crimes during the civil rights struggle. It’s tremendously unfair that they were allowed to live freely into old age, something they denied their victims. But the prosecution of Seale and others, however tardy, is essential to the survivors as well as the integrity of the justice system. Convicted Thursday on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of black teens Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee in Mississippi, 71-year-old Seale could face life in prison.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
