While Europe is trying to spin giving in to Greece’s no vote on austerity as a sudden need for “humanitarian aid” and China is ordering investment firms to buy stocks to shore up its markets, here in the States we’ve got a $72 billion debt problem with Puerto Rico. Democrats in Congress say the time has …
The Brown Enemy Within
One Vote Makes All The Difference
Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear a Texas case later this year that could rewrite the political map for Latinos in states with a large number of undocumented residents. Since the 1960s, the high court has enforced the “one person, one vote” rule to require that election districts be roughly equal in population. This …
You Know You’re Bugf**k When…
Bill O’Reilly is the sane one in the room. Ladles and Jellyspoons, I present you with the comic stylings [via TPM] of self-made son and purveyor of a gospel that is good news only in his fevered brain… Put your hands together for our own, all American Franklin Graham! “One of the problems we have …
Courting A Fight On Immigration
Looks like the Republicans got the federal judge they wanted to block President Obama’s immigration programs announced last November, and now begins the GOP plan to simply run out the clock by tying the executive orders up in court for the next two years. Of course, real peoples’ lives are at stake here. Vox’s Dara …
Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste, You Know
Boy, that whole “Oh yeah, disgusting Republican Islamophobia!” thing didn’t take long after today’s attack in Paris, did it? Rep. Peter King said Wednesday’s attack on a Paris newspaper that killed a dozen people highlights the need for enhanced police surveillance in Muslim communities to help combat terrorism. “It shows us that we should put …
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Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
President Obama has legitimized a terrorist thug months after largest shipment of weapons was intercepted on its way to NKorea #Cuba — Mario Diaz-Balart (@MarioDB) December 20, 2014 Obama to possibly invite Raul Castro for WH visit –who’s next? Assad, Kim Jong-un, Leader of Boko Haram, Leader of Hamas? #AppeaserInChief — Mario Diaz-Balart (@MarioDB) December …
CongressClowns Voting Tonight
Looks like the Do-Nothings will take a vote on immigration reform before they flee DC, according to TPM: The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Friday night on two bills, first on the GOP’s border supplemental and then on their proposal to end the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Vote schedules …