Though the myth persists that one can rise up from the bottom in America, social mobility is very nearly impossible for most disadvantaged Americans. The US ranks near the bottom in class mobility versus other industrialized countries.

Don’t take our word for it; peep what a Nobel Prize-winning economist has to say about it:

Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has exposed the myth that America is a land of opportunity.

The video and album are laced with a strong critique of precisely the sort of absurd pomp and pretense that creates this flag controversy.

Behind the show, behind the facade, is the dirty and dark underbelly of America. That was the video’s conceit.

The song title, of course, is a critique or commentary on America and its relationship with Black folks. The substitution of a “k” for the “c” (often spelled “Amerikkka”) is a long tradition among black Americans critical of the nation.

Ice Cube, 2pac, TI, and others have used the critical misspelling.

He also uses the least amount of “c’s” possible due to his Blood affiliation, especially on his Twitter.

https://twitter.com/LilTunechi/statuses/335860170817159168

As a Blood, it is seen as a disrespect to use C’s in written language (due to the rivalry with the Crips).

The President addressed the “trade-offs” societies must make in his remarks shortly after cover was blown on the NSA PRISM program. We break it down here.

Huh?

So exclude any applicants whose express intent is to make America a worse place to live?

These are the concerns (at least ostensibly) of the Tea Party. This seems an overly broad net to cast, but Shafer is, as he says above, citing criteria for “potential” Tea Party groups.

One of the most powerful national security Democrats in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), called Snowden’s leaks “an act of treason.”

Former Vice President Dick Cheney (and former/current war criminal), too, called Snowden a “traitor.”

Senator Lindsey Graham, another influential Senator in matters of national security, called the leaks “potentially felonious.”

https://twitter.com/GrahamBlog/statuses/344183648267935744

There’s considerable money in Constitution violation these days, apparently.

Compare to teachers' salaries.

This article in the Guardian.

An Icelandic legislator has already publicly announced her willingness to accept Snowden.

The small Scandinavian island nation has previously offered asylum to Wikileaks members and their operation.

Iceland has also previously demonstrated its goodwill by taking in this interplanetary being since she was a child: