http://redbrownandblue.com Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:36:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_3945" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Click to download full report."][/caption] Foreword America is a nation of immigrants. We’ve heard that refrain time and again since our childhood. As a country we take pride in our history of welcoming newcomers from around the world, and putting them to work in building our ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/raise-the-torch-the-rbb-study-of-undocumented-immigrants When a person in the United States is found guilty of a crime by a jury of his or her peers, that person receives a sentence meant to deliver a balance of justice for the crime committed, whether through financial renumeration to the plaintiff or through incarceration. Once the handed-down ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/permanent-punishment-transgressions Everyone gets to be right these days. Shaping reality to one's benefit occurs simply by selecting the audience most likely to accept one's account of the "facts." That chosen audience then attaches itself to those facts, becoming emotionally and intellectually beholden to them, and then vigorously defends that version of ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/beliefs-facts The "Buffet Rule," a proposal to ensure the wealthiest one percent of Americans pay federal taxes at a rate of at least thirty percent, failed to get the required votes needed to pass and thus died in the United States Senate. You already heard about that, right? Just one problem: the bill ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/senators-fail-america-jobs After 45 days of vacation, justice returned to work on April 11 when George Zimmerman was arrested and charged with murder for the gunshot death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman's arrest came far too late for anyone to look at this case as anything but a miscarriage of justice. A man killed ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/justice-late-victory-escapes With the Supreme Court reviewing President Obama’s Health Care law to determine whether the individual mandate to buy insurance is Constitutionally allowable, many progressives and liberals fear a defeat of the program. While a defeat would certainly be a major setback for Barack Obama and threaten his reelection campaign, the ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/silver-lining-supreme-court Today, large groups of people form opinions based on slanted and limited knowledge which they cull from social networks, television clips, and headlines sans story. These snippets tell less than half the tale, but spread like a disease of dumb. Rather than finding one's knowledge insufficient to discuss opinions among ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/shared-knowledge One of the first stories coming across the news on Sunday morning told of a murderous spree during the night by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The reports claimed a single soldier, acting on his own, broke into the homes of civilians in the Afghan village of Zangabad and murdered sixteen ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/killing-afghanistan Did the Republican Party finally get their fill of crazy in Michigan on Tuesday? Rick Santorum's defeat in the Michigan and Arizona primaries after nearly a month of front-running momentum seemed to say so. In sports lingo, Santorum went for the "heat check" in the previous week by railing against ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/reality-check-fantasists The news broke on Tuesday morning that affirmative action would be challenged again before the Supreme Court of the United States. In Fisher v. University of Texas, the Justices will hear the argument of a white applicant who believes she was denied admission to her college of choice because of ... http://redbrownandblue.com/index.php/college-race