As the Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry has walked both sides of the immigration line, at one point implementing a Texas-style Dream Act that some say was the model for the national act. On the other hand, he’s authorized local police to inquire about the immigration status of anyone More…
As the nation continues to unravel Gov. Rick Perry’s past, Salon looked at his friendship with the Aga Khan, a prominent, rich leader of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.
Markos Moulitsas and Research 2000 have attempted to take it, and the results are up now. Among them:
- Only 24 percent of Republicans say that ACORN definitely did not “steal the 2008 election.” Twenty-one percent say the community group did; 55 percent are unsure.
- Thirty-one percent of More…
I’ve spotlighted retired Lt. Col. Allen West as one of the GOP’s most credible African-American candidates for Congress this year–he lost a 2008 bid in his Florida district by 10 points, but is getting full support from the National Republican Congressional Committee this time. West’s response to the More…
The downside of user-driven political Websites is that site owners’ can’t control the users. My.BarackObama.com let anyone who wanted to start his/her own page, which led to the Communist Party starting its own satellite site. Daily Kos bloggers often have to respond to charges of anti-Semitism because of ugly posts More…
Republicans put some effort into painting presidential candidate Barack Obama as an insufficient friend of American soldiers, with Exhibit A being his decision not to visit wounded soldiers in Germany. Once Obama became commander-in-chief, it became harder to argue that he hated his own troops. But the Department of More…
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