What Is Wrong With Arizona?

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On Wednesday’s Radio Show…

• How far can anti-immigrant legislation go? Alan examines one congressman’s potentially unconstitutional proposal.

• At the “LiveFreePA” gathering next month, conservatives will be encouraged to “pump a few rounds” at “liberal policy ideas.” Commonwealth Foundation CEO Matthew J. Brouillette defends his organization’s event.

• So much for that idea: Alan explains why Republicans appear to be abandoning efforts to repeal health care reform.…

Duncan Hunter, Jr. Would Even Deport Some American Citizens

Republican California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. says children of illegal immigrants, who are legal citizens, should be deported. Duncan spoke at a tea party rally in Ramona, in San Diego County.

“Would you support deportation of natural born American citizens that are the children of illegal aliens?” a man in the audience asked.

“I would have to, yes,” Hunter said.

“You can look and say, ‘You’re a mean guy. That’s a mean thing to do. That’s not a humanitarian thing to do.’ We simply cannot afford what we’re doing right now.

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GOP Not Doing So Well With Repeal

Republicans who have vowed to “repeal and replace” the health care reform legislation haven’t had an easy time getting fellow Republicans to hop on board.  Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said she wanted every Republican to co-sponsor her bill.

About one month later, neither Bachmann’s bill nor companion bills in the House and Senate have won majority support from their peers. Only 52 House Republicans have co-sponsored Bachmann’s repeal bill, H.R. 4903, and only 62 House Republicans have co-sponsored Rep. Steve King’s (Iowa) repeal bill, H.R. 4972. Most of the same people have co-sponsored both. Only 20 Republican senators …

RWNJ’s Hold Shoot-Em-Up To Fire Bullets At Liberal Ideas

Attendees to an event sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation of Harrisburg, PA, will be able to fire rounds into a beat-up car to symbolize attacking liberal ideas. “LiveFreePA” will “celebrate the freedoms we enjoy and the ones that are coming under attack, whether by taxes, regulations or bans, some of our most important privileges are being compromised,” according to spokesman Nate Benefield.

GOP gubernatorial candidates Tom Corbett and Sam Rohrer are slated to attend, as well as Republican senate candidates Pat Toomey and Peg Luksik.

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Each candidate will speak and then take aim at the “junker” representing policy ideas …

Helen Thomas: Proud Liberal

Legendary journalist Helen Thomas, appearing on Fox Business with Stuart Varney, beautifully defends being a liberal. She was promoting her book, co-written with Craig Crawford, Listen Up, Mr. President.
(h/t Craig Crawford at Trail Mix)

Varney: Some of the critics say that you are a liberal and you let your politics show, very very clearly, and that maybe you should not let your politics show when you’re a White House correspondent.

Thomas: Why not? I’m a columnist; I’m an opinion columnist, and I have the right to show my opinion, and I am a liberal, indeed.…

White Supremacy And Hate Groups: They Can’t Be Wished Away

by William K. Wolfrum

Almost a year ago, NBC reported on the rise of hate groups throughout the U.S.:

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been tracking hate groups for almost 30 years. In its spring 2009 Intelligence Report, they found that 926 hate groups are currently operating in the U.S., an all-time high. These groups include the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, racist skinheads and Black separatists.

Potok attributes this rise in hate groups to the recession, the election of the nation’s first black president, and the immigration debate.

“We’re looking at a kind of perfect storm of factors

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Eugene Delgaudio’s Bizarre Rant About “Radical Homosexuals”

by Thomas Wellborn

Eugene Delgaudio, the Republican District Supervisor in Sterling, Virginia, has written the motherload of crazy political letters. Delgaudio’s fundraising appeal letter speaks of horrific warehouse petitions, frightening “radical” homosexuals, wedding-gown glad men (gasp), and other terrifying experiences.

Really, Eugene?  Seriously?  Your letter reads more like a poorly written Edgar Allen Poe nightmare than what you’ve intended.

Excerpts to follow, and be sure to check out the full letter, if you dare.  (h/t The Washington Note).

One stormy night I drove to a mailshop hidden deep in a nearly deserted stand of warehouses. I’d heard something …

Meet The Man Who Co-Wrote The Arizona Immigration Law

Kris Kobach, a University of Missouri-Kansas law professor who is seeking to become the next Kansas secretary of state, is claiming victory because of the Arizona anti-immigrant law. Kobach is a birther who does legal work for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of the Federation of American Immigration Reform, or FAIR.  FAIR was launched and supported by the Pioneer Fund, that says it is based “in the Darwinian-Galtonian evolutionary tradition and eugenics movement.”
(h/t Below the Beltway)

Rachel Maddow broke it down:

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GOP Contender In Iowa: Microchip Illegals Like Dogs

By The River Wanders

Microchips were once the provenance of computer geeks, pet-tracking, and women with fancy manicures.   Not any more; enter the Grand Old Party.

The state of Virginia passed a law recently, HB53, making it illegal for insurers and employers to implant a microchip – referred to as “human tracking devices” – in citizens against their will. While this might seem to be an element of comprehensive privacy protection for Virginia’s citizens, its basis is far less benign.  The bill’s sponsor,  Delegate Mark L. Cole, gave a strange and rambling reason for HB53: the Biblical “mark of …

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Alan was surprised to see reports that former Congressman Tom Tancredo said that Arizona’s anti-immigrant law “goes too far.” But the reports aren’t true. Tancredo joins Alan to set the record straight, and to debate the impact of the new law.

• No B.S.: Alan shares his reaction to Sen. Carl Levin’s memorable line of questioning at today’s Goldman Sachs hearing.

• Activist/author Ted Cox reveals what he experienced when he went undercover at a gay-to-straight “conversion camp.”…