Month: May 2009

This week’s roundup covers some state immigration news and a few book reviews. The Migration Policy Institute released a policy paper on making U.S. immigration policy more responsive to changing economic and labor...

“Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” was originally a term coined by the (wait for it) Gestapo. Something to consider when you hear someone (typically a Republican politician) using that term as a substitute for...

What’s the biggest issue on your mind these days?

I cannot support the appointment of Stanley McChrystal to be commander of our forces in Afghanistan and this is why. I don’t doubt that McChrystal is well-suited to oversee the change in strategy that Obama wants, placing...

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program.” (applause) “I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14...