According to the Washington Post’s Fix, Chris Cillizza, three sentences on immigration reform will come back to haunt Republicans in the 2016 presidential election – and maybe even in the 2014 midterms. They were written as part of a report commission by the Republican National Committee to determine what went wrong for the GOP in the 2012 elections and what to do about it. The sentences go this way:
“We are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond, we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only. We also believe that comprehensive immigration reform is consistent with Republican economic policies that promote job growth and opportunity for all.”
Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity, former ABC News and 60 Minutes producer, journalism teacher at American University School of Communication, writes on the sham that is TV news investigative reporting. It’s an excerpt from his book “935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity.” Via Politico.
The surprising story of how corporations came to be people, and how the Roberts court misremembers its history. Via the National Journal.
According to Vox, the ammunition shortage is a real thing. How it happened, though, may be quite different from what you’ve heard.
The New York Times reports that the captured Benghazi suspect is talking freely to his American interrogators and is said to corroborating “key facts” about the attacks. What do you think Darrell Issa will say?
Once upon a time, an American soccer (futbol?) team captured a nation’s hearts while losing. Who could have ever predicted that? Via the New Yorker.
Brendan Nyhan writes in the New York Times how Hillary Clinton is like John McCain and how that does not bode well for her chances of ever becoming president.
In San Francisco, Burger King has rolled out the Proud Whopper for LGBT Pride Week. No word on what Chick-fil-A is doing. Via Time.
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