After a rebuke from Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is standing behind his claim that 99% of DREAMers (undocumented young people who were brought to the US by their parents at a young age) are drug couriers or ‘mules’. “And that comes from being down on the border, spending days and nights down there in multiple trips and time with the Border Patro. It’s not something that I’m making up. This is real.”

Last week I noted that while he was Governor of Indiana, now Purdue University President Mitch Daniels went on a mini-crusade trying to remove radical historian Howard Zinn’s work from Indiana schools. Now it turns out he may have plagiarized his criticisms of Zinn.