Chris Simcox’s long fall from top border security advocate to child molestation suspect.
One day you’re riding high as the country’s top ‘border security’ activist and running for Senate, next you’re picked up by the cops on child molestation charges.
If you can’t trust anti-immigrant paramilitary leaders, who can you trust?
This is a very big whoops. There will be plenty of recriminations for Republicans if they don’t get their act together on the farm bill, and the only way to get their act together is if they acquiesce to reality and agree to move something that isn’t completely toxic to Democrats.
But more broadly, it’s tough to look at the farm bill fiasco and imagine the House passing an immigration reform bill that Dems don’t carry. Read More
From the indictment of that self-described Klansman who wanted to build a radiation death ray to kill Muslims. Here’s his reaction to the Boston bombings …
“Well, tell it to your treasonous bedwetting maggot in chief. He started bringing the scumbags have (sic) wholesale as he got in charge. He directed the ins to start bringing muzzies here without background checks. Your background was scrutinized more to join the army than any muslim scum gets to come here. They don’t have to follow any laws, and this administration has done more to enable a government sponsored invasion than the press can cover up. Be pissed, but get the word out that obamas policies caused this. You watch, they will downplay the muslim angle if they dont cover it up. Be pissed. I am too. I been warning this was coming. Its here.”
We’ve written at length about how the rules of the congressional intelligence committees make it difficult to do real oversight of the intelligence community, but at a more fundamental level, they stymie efforts to legislate on intelligence matters. Sen. Ron Wyden’s experience in trying to legislate in this hall of mirrors is very instructive. Brian Beutler reports.
Businessmen has private plane ready to spirit Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to Iceland.