Great story about the ICE detention center contractor - but your math is off.
16 million isn't less than .2% of 1.2 billion. It IS less than 2%, though (1.33%, to be precise).
16M ÷ 1.2B = 0.0133. Move the decimal 2 places to the right to get the percentage, 1.33%
Great story about the ICE detention center contractor - but your math is off.
16 million isn't less than .2% of 1.2 billion. It IS less than 2%, though (1.33%, to be precise).
16M ÷ 1.2B = 0.0133. Move the decimal 2 places to the right to get the percentage, 1.33%
Note how he's watching the spot even before the caddie's slightly fumbled ball-drop, goes right to the just-dropped ball.
Note how he's watching the spot even before the caddie's slightly fumbled ball-drop, goes right to the just-dropped ball.
But what about everyone else?
If I'm not a citizen because I was born here, my claim lies with my parents -- whose citizenship then rests on *their* parents being born here, etc.
But what about everyone else?
If I'm not a citizen because I was born here, my claim lies with my parents -- whose citizenship then rests on *their* parents being born here, etc.
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
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Watching & listening to you over the past couple of nights listing all the Trump regime screw-ups and overreaches that they've had to rescind, all I could think of was a similar series of shows that you aired about a decade ago.
Watching & listening to you over the past couple of nights listing all the Trump regime screw-ups and overreaches that they've had to rescind, all I could think of was a similar series of shows that you aired about a decade ago.
“Another one,” he recalled the guard saying.
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“Another one,” he recalled the guard saying.
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"You have a bunch of decisionmakers who are so used to being right -- or at least being told that they're right -- that they're reluctant to do what's necessary in order to win on this, which is change course on this and admit that they messed up..."
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"You have a bunch of decisionmakers who are so used to being right -- or at least being told that they're right -- that they're reluctant to do what's necessary in order to win on this, which is change course on this and admit that they messed up..."
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Alito says SCOTUS didn't need to act because DOJ's Ensign informed Boasberg no deportation planes were "then planned" for Saturday
Then planned. Hmmm.
On right:
Ensign actually informed Boasberg, "I’ve also been told to say they reserve the right to remove people tomorrow" (Saturday)
Alito says SCOTUS didn't need to act because DOJ's Ensign informed Boasberg no deportation planes were "then planned" for Saturday
Then planned. Hmmm.
On right:
Ensign actually informed Boasberg, "I’ve also been told to say they reserve the right to remove people tomorrow" (Saturday)
“We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.”
The country is now run by thugs and idiots.
“We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.”
The country is now run by thugs and idiots.