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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: immigration
Wherein the British Conservative Party, Like the Republicans, Spreads Irrational Fear and Creates a Crisis from Nothing
Britain has an employment problem. Yes, there’s high unemployment, and it’s getting higher. And they certainly have an immigration problem – both illegal and legal. Their employment problem’s been poodling along for about eight years now, and it concerns the … Continue reading
Alabama Finds a New Low to Reach with HB 56
This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center told Yahoo News about calls on their Alabama hotline reporting denial of food stamps for citizen children of undocumented immigrants. Of course, the denials are probably the result of confusion about the law … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Intended Consequences
It’s “who could have foreseen the breaking of the levees?” all over again. Robert Palmer on Republican plans for their sophomore session in charge of the Alabama state house: The controversial immigration law, the strictest in the country, is being … Continue reading
NPR’s This American Life in Alabama
Writer Jack Hitt put together a brilliant piece for this weekend’s edition of the show. Work like this is why conservatives hate public broadcasting, and why it is so critically important. Alabama’s HB56 “papers please” law is Exhibit A in … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Arizona Ethnic Cleansing in Progress
The State of Arizona is determined to whitewash history by ending all ethnic studies programs. This is ostensibly to support the racial ego of white kids, though of course there’s totally nothing racist about that. Such actions aren’t just aimed at … Continue reading
“Self-Deportation” is Code for “Ethnic Cleansing, Phase 1″
They didn’t have papers either: “(This bill)…attacks every aspect of an illegal alien’s life…is designed to make it difficult for them to live here so they will deport themselves.” Mitt Romney last night? Nope, that’s Alabama House Majority Leader Mickey … Continue reading
Morning Awful: The HB56 Fix
Governor Bentley and friends will try to fix our “papers please” immigration law: Bentley, House Speaker Mike Hubbard and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, said in a statement they do not plan to repeal or weaken the law, widely … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Pickers’ Prison
I think I understand the Republican Party’s plan for Alabama now. Step one: pass a papers please immigration law and arrest tomato pickers. Check! Step two: put the arrested tomato pickers to work picking tomatoes. Sponsored by Arthur Orr (R … Continue reading
Morning Awful: HB 56
Alabama’s immigration law creates yet another direct cost to the taxpayer: After confusion and misgivings from some police about how to enforce Alabama’s new immigration crackdown, the state is requiring special training in the law for more than 16,000 law … Continue reading
Alabama’s Immigration Law Full of Features, Not Bugs
At the New York Times, Yunte Huang writes about something that is now illegal: picking up a stranger on the way to church in Alabama. That stranger could have been me, 20 years ago, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Fresh out of … Continue reading
Alabama Immigration Law Catches Dangerous Mercedes Executive
In the last decade, Alabama gave Mercedes $253 million to locate a plant in Tuscaloosa and then another $100 million to expand operations in the state. The only way to screw that up would be to pass a “papers please” … Continue reading
