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.
If the NYT really cared about keeping the newspaper business profitable they wouldn’t be calling for Anthony Weiner to get out of the Mayor’s race.
Speaker Boehner repudiates comments of House Republican who said most DREAMers are drug mules hauling weed over the border.
Anthony Weiner has clearly learned the first lesson of surviving a scandal: don’t resign. Or as the case may be, leave the race. It seems obvious. But you’d be surprised at just much more politics happens with people not quite realizing this fact. It’s a lesson Bill Clinton taught me. Read More
In case you missed it or need to relive it: Weiner’s apology. And Huma’s pledge of love, loyalty, forgiveness.
Anthony Weiner, standing with his wife Huma Abedin, has apologized for the latest sexting/chatting news. Significantly, while he did not address the specific new revelation, he conceded that his chatting/texting continued after his 2011 resignation from Congress.
Fox didn’t take too well to news that Obama was meeting with celebrities to promote the health care law.