Using Rich People's Guilt to Sell Immigration Reform

Earlier today I posted my interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who spoke with us after a bit of controversy around his joint appearance with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) in Chicago on Monday to promote immigration reform. Rep. Ryan gave a good presentation of his views. I don't agree with him entirely on this issue, but at least he's arguing rationally and in good faith. Rep. Gutierrez, on the other hand, is doing something else. 23 Apr 2013

Ryan on Immigration Reform: 'I Don't Worry About Moving Too Quickly'

Ryan spoke to Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday. "In the House, I see a good, painstaking effort to get it right. I'm not worried about whether they are going too fast in the Senate--I'm worried about whether we get it right. We won't let it get ramrodded through." 23 Apr 2013

Amazing Eyewitness Photos of Boston Shootout

Yesterday, eyewitness Andrew Kitzenberg posted these amazing photographs of the shootout in Watertown with the brothers Tsarnaev. They were taken from an upper floor of his building with an iPhone 5. Follow the link to get the full effect--and to see just how bloodthirsty, and how crazy, these two young jihadists were. 23 Apr 2013

Exclusive: Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Find bin Laden Must Re-Start Appeal

He helped lead the U.S. to Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad. Ever since, Dr. Shakil Afridi has been held in a remote Pakistani prison, serving a 33-year sentence for terrorism, trapped inside a legal system designed to keep him there. This week, on April 25, Dr. Afridi's appeal must start anew, as a new presiding officer takes the case. And his family is appealing to President Barack Obama for help. 22 Apr 2013

Hagel Appears to Give Israel Green Light on Iran

While Secretary of State John Kerry was busy offending Americans and Israelis alike by comparing the Boston Marathon terror victims to the jihadists of the Gaza flotilla in Turkey on Sunday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made a more favorable impression on his hosts during a trip to Israel on Sunday and Monday. 22 Apr 2013

Schumer, Graham Battle to Save Immigration Bill After Boston Terror

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), both members of the "Gang of Eight" that drafted the 844-page bill, both appeared on CNN's State of the Union Sunday with Candy Crowley to defend their legislation. The fact that the brothers who carried out the attack, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were granted asylum in the United States triggered debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee this week over the wisdom of liberalizing American immigration laws, given renewed concerns about terrorist infiltration. (Image credit: Powerlineblog.com) 21 Apr 2013

Labor Nominee Perez at Center of Texas School Board Controversy

President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, is embroiled in a heated new controversy over a school board election in Texas in which the federal government is intervening to protect incumbent school board members from their own failure to file papers to appear on the election ballot. 21 Apr 2013

Is Immigration Bill the Next Obama Defeat?

I'm beginning to wonder whether President Barack Obama is losing battles on purpose, the better to motivate the base for 2014 or to gin up donations to his new Organizing for Action para-campaign. Either that, or he is just not that good at selling his policies when he's not actually on the ballot, against a weaker candidate. 20 Apr 2013

They Get It When It's the First Amendment

In response to Defusing democracy: 18 Apr 2013

Obama: But 'Everybody' Agreed With Me?!?

Venting his righteous anger at his opponents, Obama repeatedly scolded them for abandoning what "everybody" had agreed the country would do after Tucson, Newtown, etc.  17 Apr 2013