What about all the companies that keep hiring people who’re here illegally?
They’re looking for cheap labor and to avoid regulations that protect workers, as well as all the taxes employers of legal workers must pay.
Meanwhile, lots of people seem to be attacking mostly poor, uneducated people who do things like pick fruit or dig [...]

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I’m sure everyone’s all shocked and shaken by my startling confession — NOT.
After all, who likes paying taxes?
Anybody? Anybody?
[chirp] [chirp] [chirp]
Didn’t think so.
Okay, next question. Who wants to defend the likes of Joe Stack, the whacko who posted his spittle-flecked anti-IRS, anti-government manifesto/suicide note on the Internet, set his house on fire, [...]

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We saw this last night and thought it was terrific. Mr. Stewart captures Mr. Beck’s nutty conspiracy theorizing — complete with incomprehensible blackboard diagrams — just about perfectly. And, BTW Mr. Beck is recovering from his emergency appendix surgery.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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I’m willing to bet green money that President Barack Obama has probably been “profiled” at least once in his life. Before he became famous as a senator, which put him on the fast track to the White House, he was just another well-educated and successful “black” man, who’s very likely been pulled over, or otherwise [...]

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In an alternate reality, when obesity had reached epidemic proportions, annual deaths from obesity-related illnesses surpassed the yearly rate of tobacco-related deaths, and diabetes mellitus type 2 was presenting in ever younger patients as more and more children became overweight, a war on fat was declared.
Foods deemed as fattening and/or unhealthy were formally classified as [...]

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