Obama Feeling Heat on Immigration Reform

Washington There is finally hope for comprehensive immigration reform if only because the inside-the-beltway strategy is crumbling and the anger and hurt if finally forcing itself into the open and driving the debate.  Many activists and advocates have been pleading for a rally, march or some show of strength and purpose since exactly such [...]

Judge Orders Permanent Injunction to Block ACORN Defunding

Baltimore You can’t find this piece in the Journal, Times, or Post. Soon it will show up in more conservative blogs with appropriate conspiratorial references and asides.  Count on the misquotes and false attributions being numerous, but reading the decision by U.S. Federal Judge Nina Gershon, one cannot miss the decision’s clarity or thinly [...]

New Issa Report, Too Many Corps

New Orleans Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the ranking Republican on the U.S. House Committee on Governmental Reform and Oversight.  Wanting to make a splash and get in the press at the annual gathering of the right wing at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Issa seems to have come up with a 60+ [...]

Killing the Tea Party with Guns

New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today.  They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill.  Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the [...]

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