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Not long ago I was driving home by way of Interstate 70 through St. Louis. It was a Friday afternoon well before "rush" hour, closer to 3 than 5 p.m. I was using the northern loop, complete with its own bridges across the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, avoiding the mainline I-70 route.

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Immigration, legal or not, helps us more than it hurts
Editor, the Tribune: Cooler heads need to speak up on immigration. Nobody seems to be giving any thought to unintended consequences.

Jim Crow’s new methods are just as insidious
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
So now we know how Martin Lee Anderson died. We can forget the original autopsy report filed by Charles Siebert, a doctor so inept he wasn’t technically a doctor (he had allowed his license to lapse) when he issued the report.

Immigration fix opposition is mystifying
By BILL O’REILLY
Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, says the National Guard is not the right outfit to back up the Border Patrol on the Mexican border. So my question is a simple one: The organization is called the National Guard, is it not? Aren’t they supposed to guard us if need be?

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