Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver Announce Separation

LOS ANGELES -- Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver are separating.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/arnold-schwarzenegger-maria-shriver-separation_n_859750.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Caim%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk1%7C61846

Tortured Logic, Continued

The Obama administration got Osama bin Laden through a combination of persistent intelligence gathering, extensive surveillance, and well-coordinated military action But now a rogue's gallery of right-wing ideologues and Bush administration operatives are trying to argue that the key to the success in finding Bin Laden was torture (or "enhanced interrogation," to put it more gently and less accurately).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/tortured-logic-continued_b_858971.html

Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It

Defenders of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies have claimed vindication from reports that bin Laden was tracked down in small part due to information received from brutalized detainees some six to eight years ago.
But that sequence of events -- even if true -- doesn’t demonstrate the effectiveness of torture, these experts say. Rather, it indicates bin Laden could have been caught much earlier had those detainees been interrogated properly.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/torture-may-have-slowed-h_n_858642.html?page=2

Osama bin Laden is dead and buried at sea - conspiracy theory or true?

Assuming that bin Laden's body was buried at sea, why did the U.S. forces act so hurriedly? They had 23 hours and 20 minutes to do away with his body - sufficient time for them to even transport the body to the United States, confirm the identity of the body properly and then dispose of the body.


http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/140347/20110502/osama-bin-laden-is-dead-and-buried-at-sea-true-or-conspiracy-theory.htm

Osama bin Laden had been 'hiding in plain sight'

Peter Bergen met bin Laden in 1997 and believes that al Qaeda will perhaps be irrecoverably damaged by the death of bin Laden.
"There's no one who can replace him. When you join al Qaeda you pledge a personal oath of allegiance (to him)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.death.pakistan/index.html

Bin Laden was unarmed when killed, White House says

Abbottabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden was not armed but did put up resistance when U.S. forces entered the compound he was in, then killed him, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/03/bin.laden.dead/index.html?hpt=T1

Reflection On Immigration Discussion

I was glad we got to discuss this topic because I had a chance to research on it a little more. It was intresting to hear the response of my peers. I didnt like the fact that some people wouldnt listen when others wanted to speak or were only open to people that shared their ideas. I did like to hear the personal stories and how close they are to so many of us. I believe that immigration is a very sensitive topic but I believe that the way to save our economy is by slowly allowing people who have lived here for many years ilegally to prove they can contribute to this contry and become legal citizens. Although this topic seems to go back and forth and it seems to go nowhere, allowing discussions is the number one factor to bring awareness and make people want to act on it by informing knowledge about the topic and educating those people who seem to have an opinion without knowing any facts.