Month: July 2009

Ensign and Coburn Looking Very Bad

Look, I don’t know what is legal or precisely what is allowed or not allowed under the Senate ethics rules, but getting your rich daddy to pay off your mistress to the tune of $96,000 just doesn’t seem worthy of a...

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Thursday Immigration Blog Roundup

This week’s immigration blog roundup discusses a new report by the Council on Foreign Relations, another report detailing the persistence of racial profiling in the United States,the Health Equity and Accountability Act,...

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Iran Protests Redux

The New York Times reports that more protesters battled with police and other security forces today in Iran: Iranian security forces fired repeated rounds of tear gas, and militamen wielding batons moved in quickly to try to...

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Serious Question

Does anyone else think it is remarkable that when their wars turned south, both Robert McNamara and Paul Wolfowitz were ‘fired’ by being offered a position as head of the World Bank?

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Is Bibi Talking Smack Again?

It’s hard to know how they will react to seeing it reported in Haaretz that Bibi Netanyahu thinks they are ‘self-hating Jews.’ My guess is that David Axelrod will have hurt feelings and Rahm Emanuel will...

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