Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America’s broken immigration system and end today’s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can [...]
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Jim Porter, New NRA President: Obama a “Fake President”
“We’re whipping their ass everywhere we can go, right and left, up and down.” – Jim Porter, new (unpaid) NRA president THE NEW president of the NRA, James “Jim” Porter II, is some piece of work as you’ll see in the video over at Gawker. But his claims of NRA’s wins may turn out to [...]
3 “Suitemates” Arrested in Boston Bombing
Boston Police said Wednesday they have arrested three more suspects in the marathon bombing investigation, but gave no immediate details. Sources told NBC News that the trio are suspected of removing items from the dorm room of Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is charged with placing a bomb at the finish line of the April 15 [...]
Citizenship Put to the Test
Immigration. People are obsessed with immigration. I know this from the experience of being alive. Also I know this from the experience of entering the US and being told I’m not an immigrant, even though I live here and am not American. UK policy on immigration is always in the news, and I mostly ignore [...]
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 [...]
Missing Issues in the Duopoly Presidential Campaigns (VIDEO)
There’s been a lot of conversation about what’s missing from the Democratic / Republican presidential campaigns, usually with some analysis about why the identified issues are, if not completely left out, clearly not a primary focus of either Obama or Romney. The articles often focus on the presidential debates, but also point to the 2012 [...]
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 [...]
SCOTUS Punts on Racial Profiling, Next Stop Lawsuits
The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status of people they stop. – Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law [Wall Street Journal] CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS jumped in to make the majority and avert a tie, due to Justice Kagan’s recusal, that would [...]
Obama Exerts Executive Privilege Over Fast and Furious Docs
House Committee Finds Holder in Contempt Holder Responds: The Contempt is Mutual “We regret that we have arrived at this point, after the many steps we have taken to address the Committee’s concerns and to accommodate the Committee’s legitimate oversight interests regarding Operation Fast and Furious,” he wrote. “Although we are deeply disappointed that the [...]
Romney: Reports False, Marco Rubio Being “Thoroughly Vetted”
Mitt Romney says Florida. Sen. Marco Rubio is being “thoroughly vetted” for vice president. The comments came Tuesday amid reports by ABC News and The Washington Post citing unnamed advisers that Rubio isn’t being vetted for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket. Romney told reporters Tuesday evening that he “can’t imagine” who the [...]
Obama’s DREAMers Order Very Popular
Sixty-four percent of likely voters surveyed after Obama’s June 15 announcement said they agreed with the policy, while 30 percent said they disagreed. Independents backed the decision by better than a two-to-one margin. – Bloomberg PRESIDENT OBAMA scored another wide-ranging policy victory on his DREAMers executive order, much in the same way he blindsided the [...]
Mitt Romney’s “Secrets”
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: Mr. Adelson, who gave large amounts of money to the Gingrich campaign. And much of Mr. Adelson’s casino profits that go to him come from this casino in Macau. JUDY WOODRUFF: Which says what? SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: Which says that, obviously, maybe in a roundabout way, foreign money is coming into an [...]
Bill Kristol Gives Mitt Romney Some Good Advice
WHILE DAVID PLOUFFE tried to make the case that Pres. Obama’s executive order on DREAMers wasn’t at all political, which is laughable on its face, Bill Kristol nailed the situation on the Republican side of things. From Politico’s Reid Epstein: “This was the anti-Marco Rubio initiative by the administration,” Kristol said. “They were scared. Sen. [...]
Vagina Sunday
“…the status of the fetus as human life does not equal that of the mother. …” – Rep. Lisa Brown, Michigan Democrat silenced for saying “vagina.” WHAT A WEEK it was. Some legislators – mostly male – will go to great lengths not to hear women’s voices when it comes to legislating our health and [...]
Pres. Obama Interrupted by Conservative Reporter from Daily Caller
Tucker Carlson, Editor-in-Chief: “I don’t remember Diane Sawyer scolding her colleague Sam Donaldson for heckling President Reagan. And she shouldn’t have. A reporter’s job is to ask questions and get answers. Our job is to find out what the federal government is up to. Politicians often don’t want to tell us. A good reporter gets [...]
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