Current law strategy employed by border control groups, like ICE’s Immigration and Nationality Act, 287(g), offers many forces the ability to nominally racially profile, arrest without suspicion, and patrol “border” areas without regard for civil rights. This same measure, the center of debate in Maricopa County, Arizona’s controversial racial profiling LEAR program, has faced intense critical opposition across the aisle, with legitimate attacks on its contents, profiling, and civil rights consequences.

The only measures that “hamstring” law enforcement reduce the impact of measures like 287(g), undertaking the apparently vicious task of ensuring the upholding of the Constitution and basic human dignity. Since the core of new immigration measures is a mix of border control and amnesty, it is not clear exactly what laws are apparently being cut under the new bill.

Scotty believes that his girlfriend, Fiona, is an honest, loving person, when in fact she cheats on him whenever possible. Purposely playing the game of getting as close to telling Scotty as possible without actually telling about the relationship, the whole goal is to “not tell Scotty” as long as possible. Finally, she breaks up with him after graduation and dances onstage.

This is anything but an exaggeration — the plan to storm beaches, like any other “storming” plans — was extremely risky. In a storm situation, there is no middle ground. Victory comes in taking the beachhead, while defeat comes in failing to gain all ground. Once a force can no longer effectively fight, whoever owns the beach will retake any gains, making anything but total victory a massive loss.

Eisenhower was not only supporting his career and ambitions, but the entire spirit of the free world. Defeat would mean the loss of tens of thousands of men, thousands of machines, and the fighting spirit that allowed Normandy to work at all. Thus, risking such a tremendous effort might have been the single most bold move in modern military history, and made Eisenhower liable for victory…or defeat.

The bill, now firmly through both Houses, places the provisions for elgal same sex marriage in England and Wales. A comprehensive measure designed to promote equality and fairness, the bill was immediately challenged by the Church of England, in line with most world churches, on doctrinal and philosophical grounds. The measure, which does not force spiritual centers to perform same-sex ceremonies if they choose to forbid them, sought to protect this doctrine, so long as it remained voluntary (couples determine where to marry). In supporting, however callously, the measure, the Church has signaled its desire to remain in the discussion and engage with its community, preserving its role within England and personal life.

Thus, the NSA cannot legally obtain the actual contents and names of calls, unless another hidden court order allows them to do just that. Verizon, along with a number of other companies, refuse to disclose the existence of pending court orders in any case.

The NSA in particular has little desire to wade through the individual calls of Americans, much less the contents of every call. Instead, they are looking for particular patterns, numbers, or a series of calls that suggest espionage or terrorism. If, for example, a number of calls originating from a particular phone or phones in New York link to Yemen, all at the same time, this can lead to NSA suspicion of curious behavior. Rather than investigating crime as evidence is found, the NSA is gathering all of the evidence, then sorting it.

For the average American, this affects nothing. While it is a major breach of privacy, a tremendous overstepping of authority, and one of the many failings of the PATRIOT Act, it does not immediately impact all but a tiny minority. Unfortunately, that means that the measures taken are likely to be forgotten within days.

The beachfront region of northwest France, adjacent to the United Kingdom, served as the first location for Allied invasion of France in World War II, Operation Overlord. Choosing the well-defended, yet close Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah beaches as targets, Allied forces sent approximately 12,000 planes, 7,000 ships, and nearly 160,000 troops to battle.

In anticipation of the worst, the statistically high probability that the Allied invasion would see intense Nazi resistance, Eisenhower preemptively sought to remove troops from the battles. Given that Allied forces were required to storm hostile beachfront with little ground, the chances opf failure were surprisingly high.

The largest understatement in history, taken straight from the pages of Patton. Picture this:

Ahead of you are 40 small boats, 5 of which were just struck with shells and sunk. You see the thin grey beach, the rising smoke, finally hearing the whizz of shell fragments and bullets. Men around you fall or hide as you near shore. Touching the beach, you storm out into Nazi controlled territory, where every inch of sand is the front line. Your comrades fall, you struggle to fire off rounds toward seemingly infinite and invisible enemies, somehow making ground in one of the most violent forms of storming known to man.

Now hear “good luck” and think of how you would feel.

While the Allied forces possessed significant ground power, backed by the development of the nuclear bomb and a class of some of the best generals and commanders to live, its strength rose in a tremendous part from its air power. The transition of the Navy to a sea-air force, coupled with a massive buildup of fighters and other airplanes, meant that the United States in particular held the capability to strike within Nazi territory at will. Though the German Luftwaffe held air superiority, essentially the right to the sky based on strength, the combined Allied air force soon outnumbered German fighters in sheer arms and skill, at times building a 5 to 1 ration against the Axis.

Without great exaggeration. Though the success of the Allied plan did not rely exclusively on Normandy beach, without the great victory seen on D-Day, it is unlikely that the war would have progressed as smoothly as it did. By this point in 1944, Hitler had conquered most of the European world, leaving only Britain and isolated areas of France, alongside the Soviet Union, free. Thus the eyes, the entire collective spirit of what was then the free world, were turned to the actions of the men storming the beach.

To try to prove that marijuana arrest bias is based on historical zones of racial tension, thus downplaying rampant, nationwide bias, critics will often point to typical “racist” areas and excuse the behavior. Likewise, many will point to intercity areas or particularly “crime-ridden” zones as natural sources for drug abuse. As the ACLU proves quite vividly, these assumptions are false.

The sheer disparity of bias, spread from intercity urban areas of New York and California to rural North Carolina’s Dare County, discounts the idea that racial bias is locked to the traditionally racially divided “old South.” Likewise, the presence of measurable racial bias in marijuana arrests in both urban and rural zones, in comparable rates, makes it highly unlikely that history plays any significant role in the observed statistics. Instead, operational, institutional bias remains the only viable culprit.