The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally. [Associated Press] WHEN THE largest news gathering organization makes a “style” move like this everyone takes [...]
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Top Story — Demographic Shellacking Leads to GOP Immigration Epiphany, Legislation Pending *Updated*
“This is consistent with our country’s tradition of being a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.” – Senator John McCain (Press conference announcing new immigration reform push) ISN’T IT amazing what a demographic shellacking can do. Packed room at the press conference announcing the latest effort in immigration reform. A powerful group of [...]
Top Story — Obama’s Inaugural Week, Reid and Schumer’s Weaknesses Follow
The joint budget resolution could also call for Medicare reforms and using the chained CPI formula to curb the cost of Social Security benefits. These entitlement reforms combined with tax reform would give Republicans political cover to accept tax increases — or at least more cover than if tax increases were merely packaged as an [...]
Top Story — The Second Inauguration of President Barack Obama (and the Most Important Task) [Video - Full Remarks]
The speech, slated right after Obama takes an oath to “faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States” Monday on the Capitol’s west front, includes no new policy, aides say. Rather, the president plans to use the moment as it traditionally has been in most of the 56 previous inaugurations — to [...]
Republicans From Jindal to Rand Paul Wake Up, But Still No Signal to Women
“We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything.” – Gov. Bobby Jindal IT’S REALLY not that tough for Republicans. Embrace actual conservatism. Get in touch with the libertarian nature of conservatism. This includes letting people do what we [...]
Romney Would Honor Obama’s Special Visa for Hispanic Youth
IN AN interview on Tuesday, Mitt Romney began a much delayed reach out to the Hispanic community. President Obama has been leading with this community in long-term polling for months. It came at a stop in Denver, Colorado. “The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is [...]
Obama’s Reelection Made Easier via the Electoral College
MARK HALPERIN PROVIDES what he calls the “informal slogan” of Obama reelect: “be confident, but take nothing for granted.” From his TIME magazine piece, which lays out four problems for Mitt Romney, the view from the ultimate insider’s insider. First, in the view of the Obamans, Romney is still a weak candidate. His stump skills [...]
Rep. Giffords: ‘We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list.’
–updated below– “At a time like this, it is terrible that we do have to think about politics, but no matter what the shooter’s motivations were, the left is going to blame this on the Tea Party movement,” Mr. Phillips, from Tea Party Nation, said on his Web site. “While we need to take a [...]
Joy Behar to Sharron Angle: ‘Come here bitch’
“The View’s” Behar agreed with Rachel Maddow on Sharron Angle’s racist ad. I’d like to see her do this ad in the South Bronx. Come here bitch, come to New York! I’m not praying for her! She’s going to hell! She’s going to hell, this bitch! – Joy Behar One week and counting… This is [...]
DRUG WAR: Mexican Drug Gangs Exacting Control Over Press
Nevada, a swing state, has twice rejected pot legalization initiatives in the past, though support increased to 44 percent in 2004, the last time it was on the ballot. Supporters plan to put it on again in 2012. Whether it can pass isn’t some Democrats’ top concern: As long as it can get unlikely voters [...]
Gov. Brewer: ‘This fight is far from over.’
Sorry, Jan, but the dumbest thing in the law was expecting—-no, demanding that police be turned into immigration officials. From the New York Times. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had [...]
EXCERPT: The Kennedy Legacy, by Vincent Bzdek
–see “The Liberals’ Liberal” on Huffington Post– The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. – —John Fitzgerald Kennedy THE KENNEDY LEGACY, by Vincent Bzdek PROLOGUE THE LAST HURRAH August 25, 2008: With just [...]
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Illegal Immigration: Target Employers
Minuteman volunteers concerned about the continued flow of illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico gathered Saturday with lawn chairs, binoculars and cell phones for a new month long campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the issue. A year after their first watch-and-report operation along the border in southeastern Arizona, members of the Minuteman [...]
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