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Border Crossing

July 8th, 2010 | 25 Comments

Despite the annoying fact that the Federal government has been unable to craft a coherent immigration policy, it simply isn’t up to the states to design their own. there’s this little constitutional problem, which is that the Federal government is solely responsible for immigration policy. Thus, the Attorney General was quite correct in suing Arizona [...]

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We Can’t Have That!

September 30th, 2009 | 7 Comments

So, the public option, the very thing that makes health care reform doable, is evidently dead in the Senate, killed by Republicans who oppose any change in the status quo, and by timid Democrats who still operate as though they’re in the minority. How did we get to the place where the word “government” is [...]

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