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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
Morning Awful: Steve King
Remember, an accident victim in the ICU should have to answer questions about their immigration status — but God forbid they should be able to purchase health or auto insurance. Via ThinkProgress.
Breaking the Speed Limit of Freedom
Apologists for harsh anti-immigration laws like Alabama’s HB 56 always harp on the term ‘illegal aliens’: the whole point is that they’re illegal, and that makes them criminals! But a lengthy article in the Montgomery Advertiser yesterday puts the issue … Continue reading
Mo Brooks Endorses Ethnic Cleansing
It could be a quote from Andrew Jackson. Via ThinkProgress, my representative to Congress, Mo Brooks: “With respect to Cherokee Indians illegal aliens who are now leaving land jobs in Alabama, that’s exactly what we want.” Further, from the website-that-shall-not-be-linked:* … Continue reading
About Those Job-Killing Regulations
Remember those Big Government Republican laws that were supposed to save us from the brown people? She says, “The problem is when we went to get our food permit, they said there’s a moratorium due to the immigration law.” With … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Legal Muslims In Alabama
One of three Yemeni men arrested in Etowah last Friday was unable to immediately produce his documentation. It was a perfect storm for unnamed state senators: A group of Alabama state senators, after learning of the arrest, dispatched a letter … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Bachmann Hates Asians
The change “liberal members of Congress” made to American immigration laws in 1965 — which Michele Bachmann apparently wants to roll back — was to overturn the racist 1924 Asian Exclusion Act. David Neiwart has the details at C & … Continue reading
Alabama’s “State Sovereignty” Undermined by Alabama Republicans
This one is good for the har-hars: MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Fourteen Republican state lawmakers are accusing the U.S. Justice Department of threatening to “undermine Alabama’s state sovereignty” by attempting to block the state’s strict new immigration law.
Getting Back on Track, Part 1
Annie Road is a patriotic wannabe American and illegal immigrant, who knows that bad advice is worse than no advice at all. If you’ve been following along with my immigration woes, you’ll know that I ran into a whole mess … Continue reading
A Driving Concern
Annie Road is a patriotic wannabe American and illegal immigrant who uses her turn signal indicator even when there’s no other traffic. We all know what happened on September 11, 2001. For those of you living under a rock for … Continue reading
The Cost of Our War on “Illegals”
Annie Road is a patriotic wannabe American and illegal immigrant, who swears that bringing mayo-based potato salad to a picnic on a hot summer day was an act of foolishness, not terrorism. My grandmother, with whom I am very close, … Continue reading
We Must Save Them Before We Deport Them
Debate on SB 256, an omnibus immigration bill in the Alabama Senate. Bill sponsor Scott Beason faces off with Minority Leader Roger Bedford over an amendment to exempt churches from legal sanction for transporting immigrants to “bona fide” religious services.
