TNR-Skipper: So it’s Calhounist “nullification” for GOPs to try to “repeal legislation,” according to the New New Republic? Sam Tanenhaus’ article–vaguely tracing “the venting of antigovernment passions” plus “campaigns to ‘starve government'” and “delegitimize presidents” back to Calhoun–seems mostly a sophisticated form of gloating. Shorter version: We won! History is on our side. Resistance is racist. …
Someone is trying to delegitimize somethin’, that’s for sure.
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WaPo finds another Hispanic living in the shadows, afraid he might be stopped and questioned any time he ventures out …
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Democratic party official Annette Capella has been caught posing as an ordinary “senior citizen” and “Medicare recipient” while denouncing Senator Marco Rubio in a DNC-sponsored conference call. Since Rubio’s chief function at this point is to deliver an immigration amnesty to the Dems, I’m with Annette. But why is the DNC? …
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Don’t tell President Obama (or Michael Barone), but this WaPo graphic sure seems to indicate that illegal border-crossing already started to pick up in 2012, after possibly reaching a low in 2011. …
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