Federal government 1, states, 0. The Supreme Court today struck down as unconstitutional most of Arizona’s controversial law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants. […] The court, in a 5-3 ruling, left standing only the “show me your papers” part of the law that requires state and local police to perform roadside immigration checks of people they’ve stopped or detained if a “reasonable suspicion” exists that they are in
June 2012
June 24, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood “wins” Egypt [Darleen Click] UPDATED
So, how’s that Arab Spring thing working out? The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi has officially won Egypt’s presidential election and will be the country’s next president, the electoral commission has announced. Morsi picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million, giving him about 51 per cent of the vote. His competitor, Ahmed Shafiq, the final prime minister under Hosni Mubarak, received 12.3 million. More than 800,000 ballots
June 24, 2012
“Reason’s Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast and Furious”
— Which is, of course, in no way remarkable or even intellectually interesting, given the combatants. So instead, just watch it for the entertainment value of Maddow and Maher having the knowing leftist smug knocked off their posturing little faces. The left desperately wants to ironize this whole thing away — Maher and Maddow strain so hard minimize and deflect that it’s shocking neither of them pinched off a log
June 23, 2012
When law-abiding citizens have guns … [Darleen Click]
… lives are saved. A 14-year-old Phoenix boy shot an intruder who broke into his home while brandishing a gun as the teenager watched his three younger siblings, police said. The teen and his brothers and sisters were at home alone at their residence at 55th Avenue and Baseline when a woman rang the doorbell Friday. The teen didn’t open the door because he didn’t recognize her, Police Officer James
June 23, 2012
Obama trusts Mexican cartels with guns … [Darleen Click]
… but doesn’t trust American Latinos with forks …
June 23, 2012
Elizabeth Warren goes Alinsky on Cherokee women [Darleen Click]
From William Jacobson, known rightwing extremist. Four Cherokee women went to Boston this week to try to meet Elizabeth Warren to show Warren genealogical evidence proving that Warren has no Cherokee ancestry, and to explain to Warren why her continued insistence that she is Cherokee is offensive. One of the Cherokee women, Twila Barnes, is a genealogist who has written extensively at her blog about Warren’s lack of Cherokee ancestry,
June 23, 2012
“Watergate with 300 dead people lying on the ground”
More rhetorical questions, courtesy of Bill Whittle: (h/t TRS)
June 23, 2012
I get emails, cont.
Today, from John Hagner, DSCC Field Director. — Which, I wonder: does that title come with, like, a steel helmet, a wee riding crop, and some knee-high military boots? Jeff, This election is a dead heat. With the most critical FEC fundraising deadline of the year only days away, here are the latest numbers: ***POLLING UPDATE*** ***FEC Deadline in 7 days*** President Obama 46 Mitt Romney 44 Elizabeth
June 23, 2012
“Is President Obama A Pathological Liar?”
I’m assuming that’s a rhetorical question. Funny thing is, there was a time when suggesting that “Barack Obama” and Barack Obama were perhaps quite different people — and that the differences mattered and the distinction was a potentially crucial one, given that it was the former we were being sold as a candidate for higher office — was laughed at as a kind of kooky fringe conspiracy theory I was
June 23, 2012
As we await SCOTUS’s ruling on ObamaCare [Darleen Click]
Let’s review the stakes again … Toward the end of this 2010 video, Chapman and Chemerinsky take up the issue of if Congress can “require you to eat your vegetables.” Chermerinsky, after spending the time upholding Congress’ power to regulate any and all economic activity and inactivity, can’t quite dismiss the notion. The best that he can do is vaguely wave it off with “what people choose to eat might