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  Obama's Work Permit Plan Offers Hope for Young, Undocumented Americans
  Topic by Sebastian Murdock

  Under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DAHA), a program that grants illegal immigrants a two-year work visa, immigrants will be able to prosper while strengthening the American economy. President Obama's program, enacted by executive order, allows young...

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  White Birth Rate Will Change America
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  The complexion of America is changing. With white births no longer the majority in the US, politicians and sociologists speculate about the future of this increasingly multi-ethnic country. These demographic shifts have a history of immigration behind them, including decades of recent growth...

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  Iceland's Attempt at Accountability: Who's to blame when the economy collapses?
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  Imagine if the United States put former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on trial for their role in beginning the Great Recession. Although the image is unorthodox, we can still ask: should they be held accountable for bad economic management of the country? Iceland recently...

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  President of Liberia Makes Guest Appearance at D.C. Peace Corps Office
  Article by Erin Luhmann

  Leading Liberia from the economic ruin of civil wars that spanned the 1900’s, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf puts he...

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  Netherlands Cracks Down on Cannabis Coffeeshops
  Topic by Ed Murrieta

  Foreigners visiting three southern provinces of the Netherlands are now prohibited from partaking in one of the nation's most famous tourist attractions: purchasing and smoking marijuana and hashish in coffeeshops. Since the early 1970s, soft drugs such as marijuana and hashish have been...

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  What is the Relationship Between ethical and Legislative Policies regarding the Media and Innovation?
  Topic by William W Bauser

  This topic is designed to focus upon the public sectors innovation and ethical policies of the service providers such as hospitals, schools, police department agencies and the policy decision making actions of policymakers which include legislations, civil servants, municipalities and...

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  The Third Party Problem
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  Come election time, my husband and I often find ourselves on opposite sides of the voting booth. It's not that our political beliefs differ much -- we're both liberals. The difference is that he believes in voting for the candidate who most closely matches his personal beliefs, which often...

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  Frank Marshall Davis: Barack Obama’s “Communist” Uncle Frank
  Article by Lawrence Hogan

  For me, he was someone who in 1977 I needed to interview for my dissertation research. Unbeknownst to me at the time,...

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  Should the United States Kill Americans Abroad?
  Topic by Saideh P Jamshidi

  For the first time in the U.S. history, the Obama administration is manipulating constitutional laws to create a platform to kill U.S. citizens abroad. According to legal memorandum, the administration opened door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born extremist Muslim cleric...

• Raleigh, North Carolina Z-4-13 New Hope Road Zoning 101
  Article by Lillian L Thompson