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<p>Imagine secret jails.</p>
<p>People crowded together with no place&nbsp;to sit.</p>
<p>Denied showers for weeks.</p>
<p>Forced to sleep on the floor.</p>
<p>No water.</p>
<p>Desperate families unable to locate their loved ones.</p>
<p>Legal assistance almost impossible to access because lawyers don’t know where their clients are.</p>
<p>Government officials bragging about disappearing people.</p>

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<p>As a result of a legal settlement at a California high school, school administrators are on notice to stop censoring student speech.</p>

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<p>In a recent article in , <em>(December 30, 2009)</em>, Mr. Raoul Lowery Contreras takes President Obama to task for a number of political mistakes. A close look at some of charges made by Mr. Contreras reveals that most, if not all, of the charges are without merit.</p>

Veteran’s Memorial destroyed, needs repair

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<p><strong></strong><strong> I’m surprised by the choice of the word “amnesty” by those who would demonize immigration reform, especially in the South. Doesn’t the modern well-being of many Southerners derive in some way from their ancestors’ having sworn to amnesty oaths, both before and after the Civil War? Isn’t it being disingenuous to make the “but-my-family-immigrated-legally” argument when your great-great-great-grandparents got amnesty for their own federal faux pas?</strong></p>