Give Me Your Tired, Your Unemployed Jobless rates haven’t been this low in about 14 years. What with the credit crunch emptying coffers and Wall Street offering a desolate face to the world, unemployment lines have been snaking ’round corners at lengths inching dangerously close to those seen in the 1980s.

A Paperless Immigration Application Trail? Backlogging has long been a problem in the immigration application reading system. But the nation’s $500 million “effort” to convert the process to an electronic one could, perhaps, speed things along to the point that the pile up may go down 20 to 50 percent, welcoming more people to the American fold sooner.

Another LAPD Scandal to Add to the Already “Lovely”Record Officer Russell Mecano, on the force for eight years, is facing indictment today as he’s charged with “sexually assaulting a young woman” and “soliciting sex from another while on duty” in West Los Angeles.

Obama’s New Economic Advisory The President-elect has just called a Chicago-based economic advisory board meeting in order to begin filling more administrative positions while quickly zoning in on our feeble economy.

Georgia on our Minds: Uh Oh, our Hindsights may not be Kind We’ve been chastising Russia all this time, but it turns out this summer’s Russo-Georgian war may have begun not by Russian, but Georgian, aggression…

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