Saturday, June 16, 2012
A Step Toward a Dream - NYTimes.com - Editorial - The Obama administration’s decision to allow as many as 800,000 young immigrants avoid deportation and apply for work permits makes perfect sense. It wisely rescues blameless young people from legal limbo in an immigration system marked by dysfunction and toxic politics. - It is a decision by the Department of Homeland Security to provide limited and temporary relief to people who should not be deported anyway and to allow them to work legally. - For the young people who would qualify, the decision opens pathways to higher education, to careers, to fuller involvement in society that, until Friday morning, had been hopelessly blocked. - It is well within Mr. Obama’s authority to do this because the federal government can decide how to enforce immigration laws.
'Please let me speak': Reporter HECKLES Obama in the Rose Garden for 'favoring immigrant workers over Americans' as President unveils work permit break for 800,000 young migrants | Mail Online - It also triggered a furious debate about the media's treatment of Obama, with one commentator asking whether a white president would have been heckled. - And in a sign of the almost unprecedented nature of the confrontation, former George W. Bush spokesman Tony Fratto tweeted after the broadcast: 'Reporters don't interrupt presidential statements. Period. @NeilMunroDC should be banned from [the White House]'. - When Mr Obama finally finished the speech, he returned to Munro's question and said his plan 'was the right thing to do for the American people'. - But Munro was not content and continued to yell at the president. Frustrated, Obama added: 'I didn’t ask for an argument. I’m answering your question.'
Simmons powers Braves past O's - Mark Bowman - Braves.com - Instead of being burdened by the first error of his career, Simmons maintained his focus and delivered a two-run sixth-inning home run that allowed the Braves to snap a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Orioles on Friday night.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Crowds gather at Niagara Falls to watch daredevil stuntman become first person in history to walk across on a tightrope | Mail Online - Thousands of people have gathered at Niagara Falls to watch a daring stuntman become the first person in history to walk across the iconic waterfall. - Though tethered to the wire to prevent falling to nearly certain death, Nik Wallenda still contended with wind, water and an unfamiliar wire as he walked all the way from the U.S. to Canada. - The daring acrobat set off around 10.15 to whoops and cheers from the huge crowd at the atmospheric event, and arrived on the other side of the Falls within half an hour.
Cain's family, friends in Tennessee revel in feat - San Francisco Chronicle - Gwen Knapp - Dolores Cain kept score of her son's game Wednesday night, channeling her nervous energy as she has since he began playing baseball as a young boy. Watching the television with her husband at their home outside Memphis, she scribbled her usual notes in the margins of the scorecard. - "That's a beauty," she wrote, quoting Giants broadcaster Jon Miller on a changeup by Matthew. The owner of Major League Baseball's 22nd perfect game is widely known as Matt Cain, but to his parents, he is Matthew
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