A majority of Americans support the key provisions in the bill. Is there a disconnect here? From NY Times: Taking a pragmatic view on a divisive issue, a large majority of Americans want to change the immigration laws to allow illegal immigrants to gain legal status and to create a new guest worker program to [...]

I’ve yet to comment on the recent immigration debate, though I have previously shared my thoughts on the topic at Thought Theater. Having recently spent some time ruminating on the relevant issues, along with today’s reading of George Will’s latest commentary, I’m ready to take another swipe at the subject. There seems to be a [...]

First from the AP. Then from Reuters.

Consumers beware, especially with these record high gas prices.

This doesn’t bode well for the other two.

One of the biggest issues that pops up when you run a blog with any sort of readership over 1,000 unique visitors a day is comment spam. It’s a son of a bitch, and it can take a lot of time sorting through the stack because I don’t want to delete real comments that get [...]

Particularly in the United States? Could it work? John Edwards seems to think so. Could we create a class of soldiers who merely serve within our borders, but would never be called upon to go overseas to prosecute wars? Could there be a volunteer aspect inside of a mandatory military class? What are your thoughts?

A tragic story about race, hate and the mistakes we could all make if we’re pushed to the edge.

From ABC News: A Group of 11 Militant Environmentalists Could Be Sentenced as Terrorists Without Having Killed a Soul By RUSSELL GOLDMAN The FBI has called them “the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat,” and their members include four of the Bureau’s 11 Most Wanted homegrown terrorists. Yet in more than 1,100 acts of arson and [...]

The next edition of the Carnival of Divided Government TERTIUS DECIMUS – Special Memorial Day Weekend Fishing Edition, will be cross-posted at Donklephant and at DWSUWF on Memorial Day, May 28, 2007.

That’s the point of an interesting piece by Stephen Schwartz, author of “The Two Faces of Islam.” In it he argues that the media ignores moderate Muslims while covering the radicals in lavish, horrific detail, painting a distorted picture of the faith. The centerpiece of the article is a deconstruction of coverage of the plot [...]

Wednesday should have a lot of fireworks, thanks to several big items all landing at the same time: Looking for Ms. Goodling An immunized Monica Goodling testifies before the Senate about the prosecutor firings. Source have indicated her testimony won’t implicate Alberto Gonzales, but then that’s what they said about Kyle Sampson — and his [...]

The President’s credibility continues to shrink as he defends Gonzales even more by attacking Democrats. Wash Post: President Bush said yesterday that Democrats in Congress are engaging in “pure political theater” by preparing resolutions of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, and he repeated his support for his embattled aide and longtime friend. [...]

This doesn’t seem like it’s going to pass, and it’s because of objections on both sides.

Same old story, but man…things are getting BAD. Gas has never been this high in Kansas City, and it shows no signs of slowing down.

On Friday, I laid out what sort of war-funding bill Congress had to assemble. Now it looks like they’re doing exactly that. In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic [...]

Paul suggested that maybe, just maybe, 9/11 was blowback from our foreign policy. Giuliani called him out on it to score political points, and Fox News calls Rudy out for being intellectually dishonest. Ouch… The reaction to the showdown between Rep. Ron Paul and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been fascinating. Paul [...]

For too long, moderate Republicans have been silenced by party leadership who has pandered to the far right wing. The bullyboy braying of talk radio hosts and self-righteous right-wingers have cowed Republican candidates into acting against their political instincts while the base of the party has been shrinking and shrinking. While expounding the “big tent” theory of party building, leaders of the party were really constructing an outhouse.

Seriously, you have to look at this. Each floor moves independent of one another so the shape is constantly changing. AND, it creates enough wind power to power 10 buildings like it. WSJ has more: In a design to be unveiled today in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a [...]

I am signed up for all of the presidential candidate’s e-mail listservs which both keeps me informed and makes me feel like a good person when I get a personalized e-mail from all the candidates asking for my help with something (recently for Hillary Clinton, it was picking her campaign song!). I got a great [...]