America the Beautiful: - Refugees rich in gratitude (Deseret Morning News)

Refugees rich in gratitude (Deseret Morning News)
Down at the South Park Apartments, which is located by the railroad tracks, somewhere between nowhere and somewhere, the people don't have much, except their lives, and that is enough for now.

Pelosi: 'We Cannot Drill Our Way to Energy Independence' (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement tonight in support of the Putnam-Capps-Davis amendment to the Department of the Interior Appropriations bill, urging Congress to protect the longstanding moratorium on new oil drilling in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf. Below are Pelosi's remarks

Hansen wins Armed Forces Day Ambassador title (Central Kitsap Reporter)
Anibel America (right), a student at Bremerton High School and Armed Forces Festival Ambassador Program contestant, answers questions from Chris Larson and U.S. Navy Capt. Jonathan Dowell.

Senators Approve Different Proposals Regarding English (WJLA-TV Washington D.C.)
CAPITOL HILL (AP) - The Senate has voted to make English the national language of the United States. Sort of. It first voted 63-to-34 to establish English as the national language of the U.S.

Chomsky hails Hezbollah on TV (WorldNetDaily)
Hosted by Hezbollah, leftist professor Noam Chomsky ended his visit to Lebanon with a tour of Al-Khiam Prison where he declared the terrorist group's success in removing Israel from the south was "a victory for all the peoples that fight injustice and oppression."