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A fish a day keeps stupidity at bay

March 16, 2009

Teenage Boys Who Eat Fish At Least Once A Week Achieve Higher Intelligence Scores New research has found that 15-year-old males Fifteen-year-old males who ate fish at least once a week displayed higher cognitive skills at...

Protesting a foreclosure auction

March 15, 2009

(Editor's Note: The foreclosure protest took place on Saturday, March 14 in Oakland. Photos by David Bacon were uploaded to Facebook. Used with permission). On the steps of the Alameda County Courthouse, community activists in the...

Opinion: Lou Dobbs goes loco

March 14, 2009

CNN Host Claims Hispanic Business Group Interested in “Mexico’s Export of Drugs and Illegal Aliens to the United States” Washington, DC — Is anti-immigrant rabble-rouser and CNN loudmouth Lou Dobbs losing his marbles? At a minimum,...

California could lose billions for jobless, if lawmakers don’t act quickly, labor warns

March 14, 2009

Simple changes in state legislation can bring billions in federal funds to bolster unemployment benefits, the California Labor Federation says. But speedy action is vital, with unemployment at 10.1 percent in California, and benefits for tens...

COMMENTARY Denial is more than a river: The anti-immigration lobby exposed

March 14, 2009 By Teresa Albano

The Southern Poverty Law Center released a bombshell of a report last month entitled “The Nativist Lobby, Three Faces of Intolerance.” The report is a bombshell because it ties three leading “immigration reduction” groups to a...