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1. Immigration isn't just a "social issue". It directly impacts unemployment, it played a key role in the mortgage issue, one part of the BHO admin is trying to help illegal aliens take cleanup jobs from legal workers, and on and on. It's a vital, fundamental issue and trying to dissuade it being discussed is something that only an idiot (or someone on the take) would do.
2. The connections aren't "tenuous" as John Frank says, assuming the press release is accurate. Those companies were trying to profit from money that was earned illegally, and Bill McCollum helped them (assuming again the release is accurate). I didn't look into the other candidate since I'm in CA and I'd never heard of either of them before.
3. For something close to an expose on a company that seeks to profit from illegally-earned money, see: http://24ahead.com/n/4820
Search for that company's name using the old search in the right sidebar for much, much more on them.
The immigration pox on the GOP house
The increasingly negative battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination is turning to the topic of immigration with Bill McCollum and Rick Scott leveling attacks that make each other look hypocritical. The attack on Scott came first, courtesy of opposition researched (presumably from those ...
It's pretty funny to see Instapundit linking to this page considering that he probably doesn't want people to come away with the same impression I got: that the tea partiers and the birthers are largely the same people. That makes sense since no moderates or liberals are "partiers", and they probably aren't birthers either.
And, the whole birthers issue is yet another example of the incompetence of r/w bloggers and pundits. If they were smarter and had integrity, they could have used this issue to discredit dozens of MSM hacks and - at the same time - helped deflect Dem attempts to use the issue against the GOP. And, they could have done all that without engaging in any wild theories or speculating. Details here:
http://24ahead.com/n/9350
The reason those r/w bloggers and pundits aren't doing things like that but instead are helping the Dems smear their base is that they just aren't that bright.
P.S. Andrew Malcolm makes a false statement above: HI never released anything besides two statements. The picture he shows above was supplied by the Obama campaign, not HI. That doesn't mean it's not a real cert, that just means that the supposed truth-tellers can't their facts straight.
3 in 10 Californians identify with the Tea Party; a third still don't believe Obama's birth certificate
The Tea Party anti-big government, anti-tax, anti-some-other-stuff folks are sinking their ideological roots into the Golden State rather quickly -- and deeply. Hmm, and there's a midterm election for every House seat, a third of the Senate and dozens of governors' chairs this coming November. A...
I'm not a fan of Armey or the TeaParties, but it's more than a bit ironic that the driver was an illegal alien. Normally, the far-left would rush to call anyone who pointed that out a racist xenophobic mean-spirited racist, but I guess in some cases it's OK. In fact, Armey and most of the far-left are united at least by their support for illegal activity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaqd1qY1KsM
Who knew that Dick Armey was on your side?
Tea bagger bus company sued over blaze that killed 23 seniors
One of the featured corporate sponsors of the Tea Party Express had to pay millions of dollars to settle lawsuits for its role in a bus fire that killed 23 elderly nursing home residents fleeing Hurricane Rita in 2005. The BusBank, a Chicago-based charter company, a "Tour Partner" of the Tea Pa...
Without hearing it, I'm going to guess it's as dumb, demagogic, and Randroid as it looks.
If anyone wants to actually do something rather than put on a show, ask these:
http://24ahead.com/ask-better-questions-about-illegal-aliens-receiving-healthca
Best Use of a $20 Bill at a Town Hall Meeting Since...Ever.
Aw, man! I shoulda used a prop for my 'footsie' tongue-lashing of Lincoln Davis... h/t: Ace of Spades. UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! And thank you, Glenn Reynolds for linking...
I think the chart would be improved if the DT variable were added in. (For those not familiar with the DT variable, that measures someone's ability to believe two contradictory ideas at the same time. For just one example, believing that HI's gov can't verify he was born there because it would be illegal at the same time as believing that she verified he was born there. Or, believing that HI has authenticated the picture on BHO's site at the same time as believing that they haven't. It's an art!)
More GOP birthers in heavily black states?
[Update (6/30/10): Serious questions have been raised about the validity of Research 2000's polls. The results discussed below should thus be viewed as potentially suspect until the matter is resolved.] Two new polls are out measuring the state-level prevalence of the misperception that President...
Gary Farber: Oops! I completely forgot that the Hilzoy that runs this site is the identical twin cousin of the Hilzoy that used to contribute to the blog at the Washington Monthly. What a crazy pair they are! One pair of matching bookends, different as night and day.
Anywhoo, referring to the person who deletes comments at WaMo as an "anonymous coward" isn't really uncivil since that's an apt description of the person; I asked them to reveal who they are and they refused.
Perhaps if Hilzoy is willing to burn her bridges she can let me know the full name of that person or persons so I can write about them.
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by hilzoy I had all kinds of ideas for things I wanted to write before I left, but between last-minute packing and phone calls from friends and family, it didn't happen. So I'll just say a few things quickly. As I said before, one of the things that led me to start blogging in the first place w...
I have no idea what the backstory is, but regarding civility I haven't exactly received it from other commenters at sites like WaMo. I also haven't received it from the admins there; whether it was Hilzoy, Benen, Drum, or an anonymous coward isn't known but in any case I stopped visiting the site after every comment I left was quickly deleted. Read some of those comments here:
http://24ahead.com/s/washington-monthly
Even as they deleted my on-topic, non-abusive comments, their past entries were clogged with the worst kinds of spam imaginable. Regarding civility towards my usual opposing views at other "liberal" and "libertarian" sites, let me know if you find any.
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by hilzoy I had all kinds of ideas for things I wanted to write before I left, but between last-minute packing and phone calls from friends and family, it didn't happen. So I'll just say a few things quickly. As I said before, one of the things that led me to start blogging in the first place w...
I don't know whether referring to "the anti-immigration vigilante group known as the Minutemen" is a deliberate attempt to deceive, or whether Lindsay Beyerstein is just an idiot. Based on her past journal entries, I suspect a combination. One thing is clear: it's not just "splitting hairs" to properly identify a person or a group. In fact, it could result in a lawsuit: volokh.com/posts/1241661840.shtml
In any case, it's indicative of someone who has very low journalistic integrity.
Minuteman tied to home invasion
Border Reporter Michel Marizco has a blockbuster story about a member of the anti-immigration vigilante group known as the Minutemen arrested today in Arizona in connection with a home invasion: A 41-year-old woman involved with the Minuteman vigilante groups that hunt illegal migrants through t...
Few people expect a TV critic to know much of anything, but I'm sure more than a few people have noted that Glenn Garvin can't even get basic facts straight. For instance, saying that Dobbs is "against immigration" is a lie.
Lou Dobbs out, Joy Behar in at HLN
Lou Dobbs is so obsessed with space travel that he left TV news altogether in the 1990s to run a website on the subject. Surely in all his study of the subject, he's learned something about sunspots, which erupt periodically with bursts of hot gas, then fadeaway. Their political equivalent in ...
I guess you can't include a href links, so let's try this:
http://24ahead.com/marco-rubio-illegal-immigration-amnesty-supporter-or-not
The Marco Rubio effect
Marco Rubio was running late. He was expected at the Lauderdale Beach Republican Club meeting by 6:30 p.m on Wednesday but was delayed by car trouble on his way from a Fort Myers event. "My plane is not in service yet,'' he quipped, in what could have been a dig at his U.S. Senate rival, Gov. Ch...
Now, here's a more informed discussion of Rubio and immigration.
The paragraphs about that above raises several questions. The first sentence in the first paragraph sounds like smear. The second sentence raises the question what he would vote for.
The following paragraph sounds like he supports something like Bush tried to do. The other part of that sounds like the hoax that McCain tried to pull and that now Obama is trying to pull.
It's time for real reporters to press him on this issue rather than hacks or those who don't know the right questions to ask.
The Marco Rubio effect
Marco Rubio was running late. He was expected at the Lauderdale Beach Republican Club meeting by 6:30 p.m on Wednesday but was delayed by car trouble on his way from a Fort Myers event. "My plane is not in service yet,'' he quipped, in what could have been a dig at his U.S. Senate rival, Gov. Ch...
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