Surge in US Hispanic Population Driven by Births, Not Immigration

The US census has confirmed that Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority group in the US, increasing by 1.4 million last year to 45.5 million, a 3.3 percent increase. This fact will surprise few, but what is interesting to note is that the majority of this growth has come...

NBC News declares Mitt Romney the projected winner in Nevada

"WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada's caucuses Saturday, while John McCain and Mike Huckabee dueled in the South Carolina primary, two races likely to winnow the crowded field of GOP presidential rivals. Democrats shared the stage in Nevada, where Hillary Rodham...

Criminal act or religious right?

How do you feel? Crime or not?"Criminal act or religious right? Charles Lewis, National Post Published: Friday, August 10, 2007 To understand the moral and legal conundrum of polygamy in Canada, consider that when the Canadian Bar Association discusses the matter at its...

Meet the OPOs

"Howard Dean's cometlike campaign in 2003 was the first to integrate the Internet into a presidential race, and Joe Rospars was there, a 22-year-old working as an "all-around Web guy" until the campaign suddenly collapsed. Four years later, it's not just the upstarts, as Dean...

E-Process Cost More For Tax Firms

"U.S. companies required to e-file are spending more time and money on compliance than before the electronic process was made mandatory, a new survey conducted by Deloitte Tax LLP (Deloitte Tax) has found. The report discusses the experiences of corporations in the first year...

The face of war

"The face of war Photojournalist Nina Berman discusses her award-winning portrait of disfigured Iraq vet Ty Ziegel and his fiancée, Renee, on their wedding day -- and what was really going on behind the lens. Editor's note: Nina Berman's wedding portrait of wounded vet Ty...

Where's the Beef.com? A Presidential cybertour by Michael Barone

Presidential candidates have the opportunity to set the national agenda by bringing forward new porposals and innovative polices. But are they?"Some do this: Bill Clinton in 1992, George W. Bush in 2000. Others don’t. Like most or all of the 2008 candidates. Click through...

This Nigerian uses the law to help immigrants in Ireland

Celia Otubu is a Nigerian-born solicitor based in the Republic of Ireland. She is a principal partner at CEEMEX and Co., a company of solicitors which specialises in family welfare and immigration matters which is more or less the basic issues concerning immigrants in the...

Trouble in the House of Saud?

"The Washington Post reports that Saudi ambassador Turki al-Faisal has abruptly left the United States and ended his 15-month tenure at the embassy. He left so quickly and with so little notice that none of the niceties of diplomatic protocol could be observed — and with...

Islamist website presents "Technical Mujahid Magazine"

"On November 28, 2006, the Al-Fajr Information Center released the first issue of the Technical MujahidMagazine. The magazine discusses various technical topics, such as security for electronic data and databases, using GPS, and video editing and production. Some articles are...

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

Every managerial generation rediscovers the need for innovation to drive growth but, decade after decade, "grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are quietly disbanded in quiet cost-cutting...