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  • He's an american-born Klan member, anti-semite, anti skin-color, full of hatred for himself, and what he did to his own mother is plain terrible.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • He's an american-born Klan member, anti-semite, anti skin-color, full of hatred for himself, and what he did to his own mother is plain terrible.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • If one looks at the state of gay marriage now, and compares it to the state of interracial marriage then (I read an awful piece on a white man who married an american-born girl of chinese descent in California, moved to Missouri, and was told that all marriages between a white person and a Mongolian were null and void, regardless of where the Mongol was born -- seriously, a Mongol!) it's difficult to see how Prop 8 is constitutional. usesherbrain

    Prop 8 - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • As a consequence, a “shorthand” method for gauging a department/university’s prestige is generally to look at the number of american-born graduate students it has.

    Matthew Yglesias » Visas for Grads 2007

  • If one looks at the state of gay marriage now, and compares it to the state of interracial marriage then (I read an awful piece on a white man who married an american-born girl of chinese descent in California, moved to Missouri, and was told that all marriages between a white person and a Mongolian were null and void, regardless of where the Mongol was born -- seriously, a Mongol!) it's difficult to see how Prop 8 is constitutional.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2008

  • i thought there was some kind of rule about getting citizenship after you lived here for a certain amount a time as a minor. and this is also forcing a separation between the mother and her american-born children. i sure would like to know why the us government doesn't consider her worthy, because it sure seems like she's contributing to our country more than a fair share of nationals.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

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