Rick Perry, arch-Obamacare foe, now in talks to accept more than $100 million in Obamacare funds.

It will take roughly eight months for Ted Cruz to stop being a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.

I get that it’s difficult for immigration reformers to see and accept the writing on the wall — that reform is likely dead in this Congress. It’s incredibly important for the country as well as for millions of undocumented immigrants whose lives will be directly affected. The bill is in effect being filibustered in the House inasmuch as the bill would almost certainly pass if only John Boehner would only allow it to come for a vote. But pretending this isn’t the case is actually damaging the prospects of reform. Read More

Maine Gov denies telling GOP fundraiser crowd that Obama hates white people.

School shooting reported in Georgia.

Update: No injuries reported and suspect reportedly in custody.

Scalia says the Supreme Court shouldn’t be ‘inventing’ new minorities like gay people.

This isn’t quite the crazy we remember from 2010. But check out this video of Nevada Rep. Joe Heck (R) getting grilled at a townhall event for continuing to oppose “Obamacare.” Watch.

Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R), now head of the Heritage Foundation, tells supporters of the ‘defund Obamacare’ movement that President Obama might actually sign a bill defunding the signature legislation of his presidency. Asked what the point was when it was obvious Obama would simply veto such a bill, DeMint replied: “Well, we don’t know that, do we?”

I get it. Ted Cruz believes he now needs to renounce his citizenship and allegiance to Canada. But just as having our first African-American president was an historic first and we may soon have our first female president, just think of the first this could have been: our first dual-citizen president. Read More

This is getting to be more fun than I thought it would be. Ted Cruz is a natural born American citizen blah blah blah. But because he was born in Canada he’s actually a Canadian citizen too. He’s a dual citizen. This is the same as if a couple of French expats were living in the US and had a child and then returned to France. The child would be a French citizen but also an American citizen, simply by the fact of being born on American soil and whether or not that child ever took any active steps to exercise that citizenship. Read More