US States start to Battle it out to Win the Eye of the Algae Industry

The executive director of the Major League Baseball Player’s Association has released a strong statement condemning the Arizona immigration law. I’ve pasted it below the fold: New York, NY, Friday, April 30, 2010 … The following statement was issued today by Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner regarding the immigration law recently passed by the state of Arizona.

Just under a month ago we raised the prospect of a number of states following Utah (which authorized bullion for currency in 2011) down the path of gold and silver as legal tender.

Less than a week before across-the-board cuts start to kick in as a result of the sequester, the White House warned on Sunday of the state-by-state effect of the cuts.  The White House released reports outlining how the cuts would affect each of the nation's 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia. 

One of the most transformative aspects of Obamacare is that it conscripts state governments for the purpose of providing subsidized health insurance to their residents. Most red states have done their best to refuse, by declining to expand their Medicaid programs, and by passing up the opportunity to set up state-based insurance exchanges, through which Obamacare’s subsidies would flow. But a handful of Republican governors are doing their part to implement Obamacare.

Residents of this sun-drenched southwestern state wonder how police are going to enforce a new law that lets them ask for immigration status if they have a "reasonable suspicion" a suspect is an illegal immigrant.The measure, signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on April 23, is the toughest measure against illegal immigration in the country.

Mexico on Tuesday warned its citizens about travel in Arizona in response to a tough new anti-immigration law that has provoked fury in Mexico and across the Americas.The law, signed by the southern US state's Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Friday, allows police to question and detain anyone they believe may be an illegal immigrant, even if they are not suspected of committing another crime.