Gregory Kane, Washington Examiner: Here’s what the opponents of Arizona’s new law are saying, and it’s the most outrageously racist thing of all: Police should be allowed to ask anyone legally stopped about their identities except Hispanics. I want to add something clever here about sombreros and bean burritos, but honestly, after yesterday’s long thread on language I’ve got nothing much left. So, you know, just pretend.

Gregory Kane, Washington Examiner: Here’s what the opponents of Arizona’s new law are saying, and it’s the most outrageously racist thing of all: Police should be allowed to ask anyone legally stopped about their identities except Hispanics. I want to add something clever here about sombreros and bean burritos, but honestly, after yesterday’s long thread on language I’ve got nothing much left. So, you know, just pretend.

Because a VAT tax just isn’t as fun to implement if you can’t find an additional 12 or so million people to pony up and pay it. Plus, bonus: 12 million new (potentially Democrat) voters, instantly spawned in the name of “fiscal responsibility”! What’s not to like? From the Hill: Democrats want immigration reform on the table as the White House fiscal commission examines ways to reduce deficits, saying there

Because a VAT tax just isn’t as fun to implement if you can’t find an additional 12 or so million people to pony up and pay it. Plus, bonus: 12 million new (potentially Democrat) voters, instantly spawned in the name of “fiscal responsibility”! What’s not to like? From the Hill: Democrats want immigration reform on the table as the White House fiscal commission examines ways to reduce deficits, saying there

First, exhibit A, here. Next, exhibit B, here. I expect exhibit C will arrive shortly after, with one of our progressive regulars in the comments eager to remind us that those who wander off an ethnic plantation are hardly authentic to begin with — and so as outliers don’t count when it comes to the important business of developing official “diversity” narratives. At which point Exhibit D, the dead body

Epistemic closure is beginning to branch out, evidently. Which means William Saletan and Julian Sanchez had better get to work expanding their descriptions of those who occupy the dingy canvas dullards’ tent. Now, were I them, I’d probably just go with “those who don’t self-describe as ‘liberals’, have fired a gun on multiple occasions, and /or are given to eating ‘country-fried’ something or other without irony,” and be done with

Epistemic closure is beginning to branch out, evidently. Which means William Saletan and Julian Sanchez had better get to work expanding their descriptions of those who occupy the dingy canvas dullards’ tent. Now, were I them, I’d probably just go with “those who don’t self-describe as ‘liberals’, have fired a gun on multiple occasions, and /or are given to eating ‘country-fried’ something or other without irony,” and be done with

Shocker! Plans by U.S. President Barack Obama to expand oil drilling off the eastern coast of the United States are “dead on arrival” in Congress after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday. Nelson, of Florida, made the prediction to reporters at a new conference where he and two other anti-drilling Democratic senators also called for a huge increase in the

Shocker! Plans by U.S. President Barack Obama to expand oil drilling off the eastern coast of the United States are “dead on arrival” in Congress after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday. Nelson, of Florida, made the prediction to reporters at a new conference where he and two other anti-drilling Democratic senators also called for a huge increase in the