Hm. Immigrants to rally tomorrow for changes to U.S. immigration policy; lower turnout expected than in past years due to swine flu concerns, but I’m struck by this line:
Thousands were expected at events in Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other cities — mostly in the late afternoon, when workers finished their shifts. But […]

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Or, why the GOP really is hosed:
Consider some of the components of the new demography. Between 1988 and 2008, the minority share of voters in presidential elections has risen by 11 percentage points, while the share of increasingly progressive white college graduate voters has risen by four points. But the share of white-working class voters, […]

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War on drugs? I’m sorry, make that a war on foreigners, waged with drugs…

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have […]

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Whew. Thompson’s really melting down, isn’t he?
During what must’ve been a strenuous day of campaigning in Iowa, GOP candidate Fred Thompson told potential voters at his one-and-only appearance that immigrants deserve some of the blame for the mortgage crisis.
“A lot of them couldn’t communicate with the people they were getting the mortgage from,” the lagging […]

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On the way out of town two Saturdays ago I realized that though the car was packed, the children buckled in, yet I’d forgotten one major pre-vacation item: I hadn’t hit the ATM.
I was going to stop in Strasburg but the traffic in Strasburg was of the usual Saturday variety: You wouldn’t wish it on […]

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This one’s rich. On the front page of yesterday’s Lancaster New Era is a McClatchy-Tribune story about a looming battle over “fairness” in talk radio, the possible revival of the “Fairness Doctrine.”
“Fairness” in talk radio would, of course, muzzle conservatives like Limbaugh and Hannity, Savage and all of the other tinpot local yokels on the […]

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Better than nothing, I suppose. But does anyone really think this is going to be enough to stop determined folks who know the future is better here than there?

Caption: National Guardsmen of the 1058th Transportation Company of Massachusetts drive along the U.S.-Mexico border near Calexico, Calif., Thursday. The company finished installing barricades along four miles […]

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