My favorite part of Wednesday’s arguments in Arizona v. United States came in an exchange between conservative lawyer extraordinaire Paul Clement and Justice Sonia Sotomayor: JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: What happens if — this is the following call — the call to the — to the Federal Government. Yes, he’s an illegal alien. No, we don’t want to detain him. What does the [...]
Let’s play a game I call six degrees of Mitt Romney’s lawn. I say a person’s name, and you guess how many steps it takes to link him or her to the front yard of the frontrunner. We’ll start with an easy one: columnist Gail Collins. Collins writes about Romney’s dog (and his trip on a car roof) a lot, [...]
Warning: This blog post freely references 1984 several times. Proceed with caution. Representative Lamar Smith seems to have made it his life’s goal to make getting a job in America as difficult as possible. I’ve read more of his fluffy, little editorials expounding the virtues of E-verify than I really care to remember. Unfortunately, when not penning editorials, he’s also [...]
CNN is live broadcasting the Republican Presidential Debate from Manchester, NH online at http://live.cnn.com and on television. The speakers are Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. 10:00 p.m. Romney’s closing remarks – what he has learned from the NH debate and the NH people – are that the economy will be [...]
I’m spending my summer doing immigration research and advocacy for the American Jewish Committee, and I suppose that the result of being immersed in immigration for 10 hours a day is that I’m simply flabbergasted that it is, thus far, a non-issue. And so I shall rant – though really not a la Lou Dobbs. President Obama’s pitch-perfect speech in El [...]
My fellow Soapbox blogger Jonathan Fried recently wrote about Joseph Nye’s now-famous conception of “soft power,” the ability to influence the actions of others, especially one’s opponents. Jonathan provides an excellent explanation of the contrast between soft and hard power (the latter involving the use of force or coercion against the other’s will) — a fascinating topic that is now [...]
Yuli Edelstein is Israel’s Minister of Information & Diaspora, member of the Knesset, and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. Minister Edel- stein is a leading member of the Likud Party, and has served in the Knesset since 1996. The Penn Political Review had the opportunity to sit down with Minister Edelstein at the Lubavitch House at Penn.
How increased immigration is good for everyone: “In 25.3% of the technology and engineering companeis started in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born.”
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