Lawmaker won’t apologize for ‘Islamophobic’ letter
WASHINGTON (CNN)—A Virginia congressman will not apologize for writing that without immigration reform “there will be many more Muslims elected to office demanding the use of the Quran,” his spokesman said.
Republican Rep. Virgil Goode’s letter to constituents also warns that without immigration reform “we will have many more Muslims in the United States.”
Spokesman Linwood Duncan said Goode’s letter was written in response to complaints his office received about Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison’s request to be sworn in using the Quran. . .
An online outlet for road rage
Fast-growing site lets drivers vent—but privacy an issue
So there’s the Mercedes, driven by an oblivious woman who is chatting away on her cell phone and bam! She swerves across five lanes of Orange County traffic, heading for the exit, and then that poor little red car gets in the way …
Here’s another one, this time from Sunnyvale: “Driving while applying makeup (DWAM). Even though she needed it… bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic is not the place to apply it. Do us all a favor: Wake up earlier… arrive alive.”
And from Nevada: “Get the…out of the fast lane. It’s not for slow cars. If you’re gonna drive slow, then go to a parking lot and practice driving slow there. . .
Mark Buckman, co-founder of platewire.com will be on the show at 4:00
Unions: Swift & Co. hiring more whites
OMAHA, Neb.—Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired to replace meatpacking workers arrested at Swift & Co. plants in Grand Island, Neb., and Greeley, Colo., during last week’s immigration raid, union officials said Tuesday.
Local 22 union president Dan Hoppes said Tuesday that 40 to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids.
“The lion’s share of those people were Caucasian,” Hoppes said. . .
Many of the ‘ADD generation’ say no to meds
FOR Devin Barclay, life with attention-deficit disorder has been a winding road. And seven years after he quit taking medication for the condition, “it’s still winding,” he says with a laugh.
But as the 23-year-old navigates his way into adulthood, he’s managed to pay the roadside distractions a little less attention. And he’s learned a thing or two about getting himself from one destination to the next without taking major detours.
In 1990, when Barclay was 7, he was diagnosed with ADD and began taking Ritalin — a stimulant medication that he and his parents referred to as “the thinking pill” — to help him sit still and pay attention in class. Over the next decade, almost 2 million American boys and girls were similarly diagnosed, an unprecedented growth of a medical condition that, before 1990, had been so rarely recognized that the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not even track it. . .
