Immigration
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Navigating the Playing Field on Immigration
Sen. John McCain's trip to Latin America this week--his third foreign trip since clinching the Republican nomination--has brought ... Full Article At Washington Post - Behind the Numbers
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Who Loves America Now, Punk?
John McCain and Barack Obama are both spending the 4th in the western part of the States (Phoenix and ... Full Article At Time - Swampland
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McCain discusses immigration in Mexico, ends free-trade tour
John McCain was discussing the thorny issue of Immigration Thursday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, as the Republican ... Full Article At USA Today - Politics/Elections 2008
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Two Weeks Worth of "Outliers!"
Desmoinesdem has some surprising advice for partisans on the receiving end of message testing polls they find offensive: don't hang up. Kathy Frankovic ponders the potential for a perceived patriotism gap between McCain and Obama and reviews... Full Article At Pollster.com
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Who Is Barack Obama?
Continuing with my Shelby Steele blogging, he went into what I thought was a really unfair attack on Barack Obama, drawing an invidious comparison between Obama and ... Full Article At The Atlantic - Matthew Yglesias
All Aboard The Double Talk Express!
Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) John McCain has flip-flopped on so many subjects that he would feel quite at home in my toddler’s tumbling class. ... Full Article At Crooks and Liars
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Obama and McCain: the necessity of rebuilding the nation
As Barack Obama and John McCain haggle over Immigration and reasons for the Energy mess,... Full Article At The Moderate Voice
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Hispanics And Pocketbooks
In response to some new Spanish-language television ad from the McCain campaign, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) put out this statement (in English, as best I can tell) that the Obama campaign is... Full Article At The Atlantic - Matthew Yglesias
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Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration
Businesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party.... Full Article At New York Times - Front Page
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Time To Create Some Martyrs
Our President seems to believe not in oversight but in “accountability moments” every four years when the population gives a strict up-or-down judgment on his performance. A thumbs up means a mandate for the entire platform. In some cases like Social Security and ... Full Article At Corrente
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France Offers Europe an 'Inhuman' Model for Immigration
French PM Nicolas Sarkozy wants to use France's turn in the EU's rotating presdiency to "harmonize" European Immigration policy.... Full Article At AlterNet
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Rivals hide immigration similarities (AP)
AP - When it comes to Immigration, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agree. It's just that they don't want to say so.... Full Article At Yahoo! News - Politics
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Is Hillary back on the list?
Has Hillary Clinton worked her way back on the Obama short list? The New York Daily News’ Goodwin thinks so. The ... Full Article At MSNBC - First Read
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Civil Rights Roundup: 06/30/08
One of the things I do for my job at the LCCR is help “clip” articles from around the country relating to Civil Rights and related areas each morning. The articles are saved into del.icio.us and come up in a feed on our website. So I... Full Article At The Moderate Voice
McCain: Obama's word cannot be trusted
Hours after sparring with Barack Obama over Immigration, John McCain told crowd at fundraiser Saturday night that "Sen. ... Full Article At CNN - Barack Obama
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The Past Is Another Country
You should, of course, read Norman Ornstein’s review of Grand New Party in the Sunday Times Book Review, but you should also read David Frum’s demolition of Allan Lichtman’s White Protestant Nation, which purports to be a history of American conservatism from the KKK (yes, it's... Full Article At The Atlantic - Ross Douthat
Big Business Opening Immigration Rift in Republican Party
NY Times: Businesses — generally Republican stalwarts — are standing up to party members who say they’re undercutting border enforcement and jeopardizing American jobs by hiring illegal immigrants as cheap labor.... Full Article At Time - The Page
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Immigration and Employment
I just wanted to call people's attention to an interesting piece in the New York Times about how businesses are now more openly supporting the liberalization of rules governing the employment of undocumented workers. This comes as a reaction to the stricter rules that state legislatures have been... Full Article At The American Prospect Cafe
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ACLU Reacts to DHS OIG Report on ICE Detainee Deaths and Medical Care
Washington, DC ? The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reacts to the release of the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General?s report... Full Article At ACLU
McCain urges more border security
White House hopeful John McCain tells Mexicans better border security must come before Immigration reform.... Full Article At BBC News - Americas