Today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had one of the least-fun jobs in Washington: She had to testify at the House Judiciary Committee’s DHS oversight hearing. READ MORE >>
Chuck Lane's Credulousness
Chuck Lane has a piece in The Washington Post suggesting that legal academics have vastly overestimated the strength of arguments defending the individual mandate’s constitutionality. According to Lane, opposition to the mandate is real, not politically-contrived, and it’s rooted in real concerns about the “the welfare state’s cost and intrusiveness.” To that end, he says this: READ MORE >>
More On Scalia’s Editorializing
Mitt Romney’s Empty Immigration Argument
Does anyone—Mitt Romney included—have any idea what Mitt Romney’s immigration policy is? READ MORE >>
Obama’s Immigration Move is Huge News. Here’s Why.
This morning brought the biggest immigration news of Barack Obama’s presidency: Effective immediately, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children will be granted relief from the threat of deportation and will be able to obtain work authorization. To quote Joe Biden, this is a big f-ing deal. READ MORE >>
Sometimes you’re simply stunned: She would graduate from Meadowbrook High School on Friday, her blue gown decorated with awards from the National Honor Society, the school’s AP program and the Virginia governor. She was scheduled to be deported to Guatemala a few days later. READ MORE >>
Calling Truce in the 'Leak Wars'
Start With The Attack, Then Work Backwards
Blotto Boxford Bovines Boost Booze
From an alert Study tipster comes harrowing news out of Boxford, Massachusetts, where a “roving group of cows” burst into a backyard party and “bullied the guests for their beer.” The cows, which had roamed far from their pastures, were spotted by police officers on a Boxford resident’s front lawn. READ MORE >>
