From the Hill: A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday. Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure. […] The national ID program would

Everything seems to be fixed now. Thanks to pixy. Also, I have my suspicions about who the culprit may be, his having had a demonstrable history of such behavior. Gaze into his eyes… No worries. What goes around, etc.

Q: What do you call a socialist dictator’s Tweets? A: Tweets. What, you think we’re about to change the word just for that douche?

Darleen earlier raised the issue of the potential for abuses in Arizona’s (locally popular) border enforcement law, and Reason’s Steve Chapman expands on concerns from a libertarian perspective: The worst-case scenario is that Hispanics will face possible police harassment anytime they venture out of the house. Not to worry, says Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who helped draft the text. He told The Washington

Were I compelled to spend eternity pushing a large stone up a hill — only to have it roll back down every time before I could get it quite to the top — I think I’d spend less time reading Camus and more time working on my invention. Which I’d tentatively take to calling “giant-ass slingshot for propelling really large rolling stones all the way to the top of some

There’s nothing more embarrassing to pragmatic “conservative” elites than when the bitterclinger “fringe” goes around calling Obama a “socialist” or “communist”. Simply gauche, such overstatements are — not to mention unhelpful: Obama loves the American ideal just as much as you or I, the argument goes, and to pretend otherwise is to distract from the more important work of finding a common ground upon which to govern. He is a

Meghan McCain: “You see, it’s not that I have anything against the pleasuring of asses per se. It’s just that, well — I find the whole idea of how to go about the pleasurings absolutely fraught with potential abuses, and speaking as someone who’s spent some time all up in there and whatnot, I just think there are better ways to go about such pleasurings. Like, maybe, feathers or some

Well! You don’t say! “Blankfein supports financial reform bill,” The Hill: A financial regulatory reform bill has at least one supporter outside of Congressional Democrats, Lloyd Blankfein, the head of investment bank Goldman Sachs. “I’m generally supportive,” Blankfein told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Wall Street will benefit from the bill because it will make the market safer, Blankfein said. “The biggest beneficiary of reform is Wall Street itself,”

Are states beginning a push back against the feds? Utah State Representative Stephen Sandstrom, appearing “On the Record” with Greta Van Sustern: SANDSTROM: […] Right now, it’s actually imperative that the state of Utah act aggressively with the same type of legislation that we have in Arizona because in the past, when Arizona has tightened the noose around illegal immigration, so to speak, we’ve seen an influx of illegal aliens