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Northern Mariana Islands Support Arizona Immigrant Law, But Why?

(July 15) -- Nine states announced today that they were filing a legal brief in support of Arizona's controversial immigration law. Surprisingly, the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote South Pacific commonwealth of the U.S. government, decided to join them. Word that the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)...

Queen Elizabeth Visits UN, Ground Zero in NYC Tour

UNITED NATIONS (July 6) -- In her first address to the U.N. General Assembly in more than half a century, England's Queen Elizabeth II urged the world body to provide leadership on global challenges like climate change, poverty and terrorism, stressing that "so much remains to be done." At the same time, in her...

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Part 5: Who Will Keep the Commonwealth Together After Queenie's Gone?

Tim Knight, who started out British and became Canadian, writes the regular HuffPost column Watching the Watchdog.

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06/01/12 Part 5: Who Will Keep the Commonwealth Together After... Source: The Huffington Post Tim Knight, who started out British and became Canadian, writes the regular HuffPost column Watching the Watchdog.
05/30/12 Is Britain's blue Labour the conservative socialism... Source: Perth News On 6 February, 2012 the Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved that the Australian Parliament congratulate her Majesty the Queen on the Diamond Jubilee, 60 years from her accession to the throne.
05/29/12 Indicted: Officer who pumped bullets into motorist... Source: The Hook - Charlottesville VA It took nearly four months for the case to reach this point, but a grand jury has handed down a multi-count murder indictment against Daniel Harmon-Wright, the Culpeper town police officer who pumped as many as six rounds into an unarmed Sunday school teacher in February.
05/29/12 Bexley residents urged to share memories for Jubilee... Source: This is Local London - London - UK BEXLEY residents are being urged to share their memories as part of The Jubilee Time Capsule project.
05/26/12 DUI CRACKDOWN: Intensive summer-long enforcement... Source: BucksLocalNews.com - Newtown PA The unofficial start of summer kicks off this Memorial Day weekend with a renewed initiative to enforce the Commonwealth's impaired driving laws, the Pennsylvania Driving Under the Influence Association announced today.

Background on commonwealth

Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has sometimes been synonymous with "republic".

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