Reviewed: Uncle Swami: South Asians in American Today by Vijay Prashad (The New Press, 208 pp., $21.95). Preet Bharara, A Punjab-born U.S. attorney, prosecutes Raj Rajaratnam, a Sri-Lankan born billionaire insider trader: For people of South Asian descent, United States assimilation has arrived. It happened quickly after race-based immigration quotas were lifted in 1965. Immigrants then […]

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Dear Mr. Dubose, Now comes Ole Nick and I don’t mean St Nick! Nick’s writing reminds me how he could be a cross between an inch worm and a roly poly bug looking for ways to curl up or inch his way through and out of the truth. A weasel would also fit. Turse does […]

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Dear Editor, In reading your headline about raising the minimum wage I disagree due to the fact that every time our wages increase, prices of goods increase and no one is ahead in any way shape or form. The latest ideas on health care do not help this country at all. I was a Democrat for […]

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Dear Mr. Dubose: One finds change difficult, particularly with age. I am sure that I will adapt to the differences in the presentation of the material and the graphics. This has no real effect on the important material presented. However, I will miss the news presented on the back page. I always found those small […]

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It is highly ironic that the same people who want to force scads of children into this world are the folks who would deny welfare benefits to those very same children and their mothers. It seems their interest ends once the kid exits the uterus. The kids then become “anchor” babies and the spawn of […]

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