At least ten other states are in one form or another considering Arizona-style immigration laws. We round them up in this new report.
Persons claiming to speak on behalf of the Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for the failed car bombing in Times Square last night. Pakistani intelligence officials are now knocking down that claim, as you’d expect them to do, frankly, whether it was genuine or not. But CBS has another “Western diplomat” similarly casting doubt on the idea that the Pakistani Taliban has the global reach to mount such an attack. Read More
Six months before Election Day, polls show Republicans sitting pretty in nearly all the races where Senate seats are being contested.
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite announces she will not run for re-election this year, citing poor health.
The most popular parts of Health Care Reform? Those were all our ideas, says Minority Leader John Boehner.
President Obama is about to speak about today’s 1st quarter GDP numbers (3.2% in Q1). Watch it live here.
In a fight for his political life back home in Nevada, Harry Reid is doubling down on Health Care Reform.
A couple days ago I told you about Iowa congressional hopeful Dr. Pat Bertroche who advocated forcibly implanting illegal immigrants with microchips so authorities could more easily track their movements.
It seems people were taking him too literally. Bertroche now says that he took the step of advocating an obviously crazy idea as a way to dramatize how the immigration debate has gotten completely off track and other ideas are no less crazy than the one he advocated while not actually advocating it.
Or something like that.
“This idea isn’t any more politically dumb than any other one,” Bertroche tells TPM. “I was trying to call attention to how radical the conversation has become.”