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“Dereliction Of Duty”: In The Military, One Gets Court Martialed; In...
According to the Brookings Institution there are some 47,000 unaccompanied children in the USA from Central America, almost all of whom arrived this year. There is no question that the numbers have...
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“Little Boys Playing With Fire”: House GOP Just Making Stuff Up To Hide Its...
In an interview on Fox News over the weekend, incoming House Majority Whip Steven Scalise of Lousiana was asked repeatedly by Chris Wallace about the prospect of impeaching President Barack Obama. The...
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“Short-Term Pain Isn’t A Problem”: How Republicans Are Heightening The...
Congress is going on recess at the end of this week, and they’ll be doing it without a bill to address the large number of Central American children showing up at the southern border—John Boehner...
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“Abandoning The Pretense Of Seriousness”: GOP Motivations Have Nothing To Do...
The new House Republican leadership team, facing its first real test yesterday, failed miserably. They backed a bill that ostensibly addresses the humanitarian crisis at the U.S./Mexico border, but the...
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“Dumb And Dumber”: House Republicans Vote To Deport As Many Kids As Possible
Dumb and dumber. That’s the best way to describe two bills passed by House Republicans on Friday night. They passed a supplemental funding bill allocating about $700 million for the crisis on the...
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“We’ve Adapted Before, And We’ll Adapt Again”: Immigrants’ Energy And...
“This is a blessing from God.” “I’ve always had to look behind my back. Now I don’t have to worry so much.” “This is a very amazing moment.” According to news reports, those sentiments — hope, relief,...
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“And Has The Legal Authority”: Poll; Americans Broadly Back Obama’s...
Americans are very open to President Barack Obama’s newly announced executive action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to a Hart Research Associates survey...
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“How Obama Boxed In Republicans With His Immigration Order”: Revoking It In...
If there’s an elected Republican who thinks it wasn’t a bad idea for President Obama to take executive action on immigration, he or she has yet to make that opinion known. Not surprisingly, the 20 or...
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“The Cycle Of Republican Radicalization”: The Particularly Intense Loathing...
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on a Quinnipiac poll from a week ago showing a striking change in public opinion on immigration. The question was whether undocumented immigrants should be...
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“Go For It, Mr. Speaker”: Eric Garner Offers Boehner A Path To Redemption
What does the death of Eric Garner, following a police chokehold, have to do with immigration? For House Speaker John Boehner, perhaps quite a lot. Boehner has been trying to contain the Republican...
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“Whose Security?”: The GOP Is Playing Games With The Department Of Homeland...
The Republicans are railing against President Barack Obama for not having a high level U.S. official marching in solidarity with the French this past weekend. OK, that was a mistake on Obama’s part,...
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“A Disingenuous Waste Of Everyone’s Time”: Tea Party’s Constitution Fraud;...
I’m hardly the first to make this point, but because it’s such a popular rhetorical tactic in our politics, it bears repeating: Policy arguments that focus on form and process instead of substance are,...
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“Polls Show Most Americans Favor Pathway To Citizenship”: GOP Continues To Be...
With all the high drama in Washington over immigration, you’d think the fate of undocumented workers represented a cataclysmic political divide — an ever-widening chasm that cannot be bridged. But it...
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“Congressional Dysfunction, The Serialized Tragicomedy”: Democrats Should...
The problem with modern-day politics, aside from everything, is that it lacks consistent excitement. Sure, there are moments when debate over a major bill gets attention, but our interest fades once...
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“Boehner’s Latest Humiliation”: Surrender; Government-By-Crisis Fails The GOP...
Ever since Republicans first devised their ill-conceived plan to use funding for the Department of Homeland Security as a hostage in hopes of forcing President Obama to abandon his immigration policy,...
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“For The Moment He Feels The Need To Look Like A Moderate”: Is Jeb Bush...
In an excellent profile in the Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson reviews Jeb Bush’s record in Florida and concludes that, overall, he’s much more conservative than both the national press corps and...
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“Hillary Clinton Has Already Crushed Republicans On Immigration”: It’s Heads...
You can question Hillary Clinton’s political scruples. But don’t doubt her political smarts. There is no better proof of either quality than her U-turn decision last week to go all out in embracing...
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“Trump Proves GOP Proclamations Of Mortal Affront Untrue”: He’s Only...
In 2006, then-Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce advocated the return of a 1954 program for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. It was called “Operation Wetback.” In 2010, Sen. David...
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“Ignoring The Reality To Pursue The Myth”: “Sanctuary Cities” And Violent...
If you’ve been watching the rhetorical (Dondald Trump) and even legislative (the U.S. Congress) Republican effort to exploit the killing of Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier by a recidivist...
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“Let ‘The Good Ones’ Return”: Why Donald Trump Is The Only GOP Presidential...
Four years ago, deep within a process of convincing Republican primary voters that he was “severely conservative,” Mitt Romney declared that his solution for dealing with the millions of undocumented...
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