The top 5 turkeys of the 2011 pre-campaign season.
The Feds moved in this morning and arrested seven members of the so-called ‘Bergholz Clan’, a cult-like breakaway Amish group responsible for a harrowing wave of beard-cutting incidents in Amish Country aimed at religious backsliders. Federal charges are under the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The FBI affidavit also alleges additional ‘cult-like’ practices such as leader Samuel Mullet “‘counseling’ the married women in the Bergholz clan and taking them into his home so that he may cleanse them of the devil with acts of sexual intimacy.”
If you watched closely, the questioners at the GOP debate were like a walk down memory lane of the Bush foreign policy and national security team. David Addington, Paul Wolfowitz and more.
UC Davis students reflect on the pepper spray incident that has transfixed the country and transformed the campus.
FBI raid early this morning nabbed seven Amish men allegedly connected to a string of hair-cutting ambushes on fellow Amish.
In the wake of the New York al Doubie terror case, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has asked Google to institute a new system on their Blogger publishing platform where readers can flag “terrorist content.”
Like I said below, I think Newt’s stand/dare on immigration is the big news out of this debate. I’m not sure whether it’s a killer or maybe a breakthrough. But this has sunk other contenders. So it’s a big moment. Our team is on it. We’ll have more for you shortly.
I think Newt’s edging into the GOP danger zone here on immigration. He really did say he’d provide a path to legality, though not citizenship, to a substantial number of the current undocumented population. Bachmann called him on it. And he denied he said it. But Bachmann, I think, was right. He did say it.
Now, that’s an immensely logical thing for Newt to say — that you’re not going to be uprooting and separating families who’ve been here for a quarter century.
But this is toxic in GOP primary politics. It helped sink Rick Perry.
And then he went the extra mile, suggesting that opposing his position is inhumane …
I’m prepared to take the heat for saying, let’s be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their families.
I think this is going to be the story of the evening.