Healthcare Industry Projected To Create 5.6
Million New Jobs By 2020

According to a new report, the health care industry is projected to create 5.6 million new jobs by 2020. Most of the jobs will be high-paying and will require post-secondary education and training — these jobs will be inaccessible to most unemployed Americans. Although the extensive industry already makes up 18 percent of the U.S. economy, the field is expected to continue expanding as demand for health care soars in country. The average American pays more per capita for health care than the typical Chinese citizen earns over an entire year. — Angela Guo

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‘Brave,’ Princess Stories, and the
Power and Limits of Pixar

Pixar movies are, in so many ways, what I hope for movies to become: visually stunning, narratively inventive, and often about issues like aging, masculinity, fatherhood, and responsibility, but with a confidence that the audience will derive those themes from an excellent original story, rather than needing them clearly articulated. Marlin’s search for Nemo is about the recovery of his own bravery and sense of adventure, a chance to overcome the worry-wart tendencies that have plagued him since his wife’s death, as much as it is the recovery of his son. Carl Frederickson’s adventures in Up are about rectifying what he sees as his two failures as a husband, his diminished dreams of adventure and his inability to become a father. Wall-E is about the power of love, from a young robot’s perspective rather than a young man’s. These men’s emotional experiences are specific to them and influenced by their gender, but their adventures are not particularly male or female experiences: there is nothing gendered about surfing with sea turtles, hanging out with talking dogs, or running around a space ship. And so it does feel like Pixar’s denied us something in giving its first female protagonist a uniquely gendered catalyst for her adventure?in other words, by making her a fairy tale princess?by not making her the subject of a more truly universal story, and in doing so asserted that the default in such settings need not always be male.

But it would be a shame to dismiss Brave on those grounds. Pixar isn’t the only standard for greatness. Brave plants a flag in much-derided territory and makes something visually gorgeous and emotionally rich out of the familiar rhythms of fairy tales. And while the wars between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons may be fought on different ground, Brave should stand as a reminder that those battles can be equally lacerating, and equally resonant, no matter the gender of the participants.

Brave begins with a tiny, flame-haired Scottish princess at peace with both of her parents, Elinor (Emma Thompson), the mother who plays hide and seek with her, and Fergus (Billy Connolly), the father who gives her a bow of her own for her birthday and patiently teaches her how to shoot. Their peace is shattered when a bear breaks up their family gathering, scattering Merida (Kelly Macdonald) and Elinor, and costing Fergus his leg.

As Merida gets older, the tensions between her and her mother grow, too. Elinor (Emma Thompson) isn’t a bad mother, but the tension between them is inevitable. Some of the training Elinor gives Merida hints at a greater role for her?”A princess must be knowledgeable about her kingdom”?and some of it carries tinges of the kind of innate cruelty of mothering. “Hungry, are you?” Elinor asks Merida when she brings a plate of desserts to the dinner table. “You’ll get dreadful collywobbles.” Some of the power of Brave is the way it gives depth and power to those ordinary motherly slights. Elinor’s comments come after Merida’s spent a day ranging through the woods with her horse Angus in one of the more powerful sequences I’ve seen of a girl enjoying her body’s capacities and the pleasure of being very, very good at something. Elinor’s words undermine Merida’s pleasure in her strength and exercise, aimed at making her physically and emotionally fit the corset she’s stuffed into for the Highland Games.

Those games prove to be Merida’s breaking point. Faced with the prospect of being married off to one of three equally unsuitable boys from the three clans that have pledged allegiance, she and Angus take to the woods, and Merida purchases a spell that she hopes will change her mother, and by doing so, change the fate for which Elinor has relentlessly prepared her. Here, what should have been some of the movie’s most powerful, eerie sequences degenerate into a kind of Dreamworks silliness. The witch has a smart-talking raven who cracks jokes about princes in tight pants, more Donkey from Shrek than the witty talking dogs of Up, and makes references to hitting up a Wicker Man festival. These lapses break the sense of being in a truly different universe. An ability to sustain these clean parallel realities has always been one of Pixar’s strengths, and to see them pandering to mass culture, and playing to the crowd with the movie’s decidedly broad male characters is a disappointing sign of nervousness about losing the audience.

These lapses are all the more frustrating because they’re so unnecessary, and even then, they’re outweighed by the movie’s strengths. Merida isn’t the only character who is marvelously physically present. Her triplet brothers are classic Pixar scamps, turning the family’s castle upside down in displays of genius pantomime. The movie’s bears have remarkable humanity, whether it’s expressed in daintily folded paws and a refusal to walk anything but upright or a snarling ferocity?Brave has one of the most genuinely frightening action sequences of the summer. Elinor learns to value Merida’s skills, and displays an unexpected physical courage. Merida comes to recognize her mother’s adaptability and that there are times when stillness and patience are more powerful than action. And Brave holds Merida morally responsible and asks her to make compromises and mature decisions in a way animated movies?even Pixar ones?very rarely ask of children and young adults.

To miss that respect for Merida because Brave isn’t quite what we expect from a Pixar movie would be unfortunate. As Merida learns, there are lessons in legends. And even old tropes can be made beautiful and powerful all over again.

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NOM Closely Tied To Proliferation Of Flawed
Parenting Study

Conservatives continue to chatter about Mark Regnerus’ fraudulent study, which included minimal data about committed same-sex couples, but which has been used to generalize broadly about gay and lesbian parenting. The American Independent’s Andy Birkey points out that the National Organization for Marriage is intricately tied to the the study, including its funders and its distribution. The incredible number of posts written and highlighted by NOM and its affiliates reminds that the organization’s internal memos revealed its commitment to highlighting “cognitive elites” and “highly credentialed intellectuals” to support its anti-gay agenda. Given NOM’s close ties to the groups that funded Regnerus’ research, it’s quite possible that the organization has been planning efforts to spin this study from the get-go. Unsurprisingly, NOM has had little to say about a new study showing that male role models are irrelevant to kids’ well-being.

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Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Fast Car"

By @KYYellowDog

Uploaded by MeaningInSongs on Jul 20, 2008

You've got a fast car
I wanna a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself, I've got nothing to prove

You've got a fast car
I've got a plan to get us out of here
Been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

See my old man's got a problem
Live with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young, to look like his
When mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You've got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

Say remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast it felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You've got a a fast car
We go cruising entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
Now I work in the market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs

Say remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speeds so fast it felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You've got a fast car
I've got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me'd find it
I got no plans and I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

Say remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speeds so fast it felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You've got a fast car
Is it fast enough so you can fly away?
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

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Bain Returns to the Campaign

The core weakness in Barack Obama?s reelection effort is his poor standing with working-class whites. Obama won only 40 percent of whites without a college degree in 2008, but his strong standing with college-educated whites made up for the deficiency. This time around, the picture is much worse. He?s at 35 percent support with white voters without a college degree, and down with white voters generally. According to the latest survey from Pew, Obama wins 41 percent of white voters?a 2 point decline from 2008.

If Obama can sustain high support from non-whites, then he doesn?t need to match his 2008 performance among whites; 41 percent support is exactly where he needs to be. The challenge is in maintaining that support, which is where Bain Capital comes in. The goal isn?t to win over white voters, it?s to keep them?and particularly working-class whites?from coalescing around Romney. If Obama can keep Romney from reaching George W. Bush-levels of support among white voters, then he has an excellent shot at winning in November.

All of this is to say that Obama stands to make a significant gain from the today?s revelation, from The Washington Post, that Romney oversaw outsourcing while at Bain:

Bain?s foray into outsourcing began in 1993 when the private equity firm took a stake in Corporate Software Inc., or CSI, after helping to finance a $93 million buyout of the firm. CSI, which catered to technology companies like Microsoft, provided a range of services including outsourcing of customer support. Initially, CSI employed U.S. workers to provide these services but by the mid?1990s was setting up call centers outside the country.

Two years after Bain invested in the firm, CSI merged with another enterprise to form a new company called Stream International Inc. Stream immediately became active in the growing field of overseas calls centers. Bain was initially a minority shareholder in Stream and was active in running the company, providing ?general executive and management services,? according to SEC filings.

By 1997, Stream was running three tech-support call centers in Europe and was part of a call center joint venture in Japan, an SEC filing shows. ?The Company believes that the trend toward outsourcing technical support occurring in the U.S. is also occurring in international markets,? the SEC filing said.

I?m not sure that this will win Obama any votes, but if used well, it could keep disaffected whites from coming to Romney?s side. In which case, he?ll have a hard time winning the states?Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa?that will deliver him the election.

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REPORT: Media Overwhelmingly Focus On Rulings
Against Health Care Reform Constitutionality

A majority of federal rulings on the substance of President Obama's health care reform law have found it to be constitutional, including the law's mandate that individuals purchase health insurance. But a Media Matters review of the five largest newspapers and the flagship CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs finds that the media overwhelmingly focused on rulings that struck down the law in whole or in part -- 84 percent of segments on the broadcast and cable programs reviewed and 59 percent of newspaper articles that reported on such rulings -- while largely ignoring rulings that found it constitutional or dismissed the case.

Individual Mandate A Conservative Idea, Assumed Constitutional Until Health Reform Fight

Individual Mandate Invented By Conservative Heritage Foundation, Supported By GOP In '90s. In an article for The New Yorker, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein wrote:

The mandate made its political début in a 1989 Heritage Foundation brief titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans," as a counterpoint to the single-payer system and the employer mandate, which were favored in Democratic circles. In the brief, Stuart Butler, the foundation's health-care expert, argued, "Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seat-belts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have liability insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement." The mandate made its first legislative appearance in 1993, in the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act--the Republicans' alternative to President Clinton's health-reform bill--which was sponsored by John Chafee, of Rhode Island, and co-sponsored by eighteen Republicans, including Bob Dole, who was then the Senate Minority Leader. [The New Yorker, 6/25/12]

Klein: "It Was Hard To Find A Law Professor In The Country" Who Found Health Care Law Unconstitutional When It Was Passed. Klein quoted several law professors questioning the legal standing of the argument suggesting that an individual mandate for health insurance is unconstitutional at the time legal challenges against it began:

In March 23, 2010, the day that President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, fourteen state attorneys general filed suit against the law's requirement that most Americans purchase health insurance, on the ground that it was unconstitutional. It was hard to find a law professor in the country who took them seriously. "The argument about constitutionality is, if not frivolous, close to it," Sanford Levinson, a University of Texas law-school professor, told the McClatchy newspapers. Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California at Irvine, told the Times, "There is no case law, post 1937, that would support an individual's right not to buy health care if the government wants to mandate it." Orin Kerr, a George Washington University professor who had clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy, said, "There is a less than one-per-cent chance that the courts will invalidate the individual mandate." [The New Yorker, 6/25/12]

Law Professor Unable "To Find Even A Hint Of The Constitutional Objection Before Obama's Election." Andrew Koppelman, a John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University who is writing a book on constitutional objections to the law, wrote in Salon:

The constitutional limits that the bill supposedly disregarded could not have been anticipated because they did not exist while the bill was being written. They were invented only in the fall of 2009, quite late in the legislative process. [Salon, 5/31/12, emphasis in original]

More Courts Have Upheld The Law Than Overturned It. According to a compilation of court cases related to the Affordable Care Act by Kaiser Health News, four courts -- the Northern District of Florida, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals -- have struck down the law in whole or in part. In contrast, five courts -- the Western District of Virginia, the Eastern District of Michigan, the District of Columbia, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals -- have upheld the individual mandate as constitutional. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals later vacated the judgments of the Virginia district courts and remanded those cases for dismissal on jurisdictional grounds. In several other cases, courts dismissed the complaint without ruling on the constitutionality of the law. [Kaiser Health News, 11/14/11]

Media Overwhelmingly Focused On Rulings Against Constitutionality

84 Percent Of Broadcast And Cable Segments Reported On Rulings Striking Down The Law. Out of a total of 31 segments on ABC's World News, CBS' Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, CNN's The Situation Room, and Fox News' Special Report that reported on court rulings related to the health care law, 26 (or 84 percent) dealt with rulings that found the individual mandate unconstitutional. In contrast, only three (or 10 percent) segments reported on rulings that upheld the law. Two segments (or six percent) reported on court rulings that dismissed their cases without ruling on substance.

Broadcast And Cable Spent 97 Percent Of Time Devoted To Health Care Ruling Coverage On Decisions Striking Down The Law. Cable networks spent the most time -- about 50 minutes -- on reports on court rulings that found the individual mandate unconstitutional. The Situation Room devoted about 22 minutes, and Special Report devoted about 28 minutes, with each devoting less than one minute to reports on rulings upholding the law or dismissing the case. In broadcast, ABC and CBS only produced reports on court rulings that found the individual mandate unconstitutional -- about two-and-a-half minutes for World News and about three minutes for Evening News. Nightly News spent almost three minutes on reports on court rulings that found the individual mandate unconstitutional and less than 30 seconds reporting on rulings upholding the law.

Nearly 6 In 10 Print Articles In Leading Papers Reported Rulings Striking Down Law. Out of a total of 59 articles on court rulings in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, 35 (or 59 percent) reported on decisions that found the individual mandate unconstitutional. In contrast, only 17 (or 29 percent) articles reported on rulings that found the provision to be constitutional. Eight articles (or 13 percent) reported on court rulings that dismissed their cases.

Articles On Rulings Finding Law Unconstitutional Far More Likely To Land On Front Page. Between all five papers, 10 articles reporting on court rulings that struck down the law in whole or in part were published on their respective front pages. In contrast, only a single article, from USA Today, about a court ruling upholding constitutionality of the law was published on the front page.

Message Received: Americans Now Overwhelmingly Believe That The Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional

According To Polls, Americans Believe That The Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional. The media's treatment of these court rulings puts the fact that many Americans now believe that the individual mandate is unconstitutional into important context. A USA Today/Gallup poll from February found that 72 percent of Americans believe that the provision is unconstitutional while only 22 percent believe that it is constitutional. Another poll from April by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 51 percent of American adults think that the Supreme Court should rule that the individual mandate is unconstitutional while only 26 percent think that the court should rule for constitutionality. Similarly, a McClatchy-Marist poll conducted in March found that 53 percent of American adults hold the opinion that the Supreme Court should either "declare individual mandate unconstitutional" or "repeal [the law] completely" while only 35 percent believe the court should "let it stand."  [Gallup, 2/17/12; via Polling Report]

Methodology

Media Matters searched the Nexis database for news segments and articles within three days of each ruling from ABC's World News, CBS' Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, CNN's The Situation Room, Fox News' Special Report, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. We searched the Factiva database for The Wall Street Journal.

We did not include MSNBC in the data because the cable network does not broadcast a straight-news program in the evening. NBC holds 50 percent ownership in MSNBC, and thus, does not schedule such a show to compete with its flagship program, Nightly News. 

We counted any segments or articles that included keywords "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," "Affordable Care Act," "Patient Protection," "Obamacare," or "health care" within 50 words of keywords "appeals court," "district court," "appellate court," "lower court," "court," "lawsuit,"or "judge." We determined the length of each segment by reviewing the raw video.

For television, we did not include teasers or minor mentions within a segment unless such a mention generated significant discussion (e.g., a multiguest panel where one of the topics was a relevant court ruling). For print, we did not include op-eds or editorials.

The rulings we searched are listed below by date, ruling judge(s) and court, and result.

• June 17, 2010; David K. Duncan, District of Arizona. Case dismissed.
• September 8, 2010; Susan Webber Wright, Eastern District of Arkansas. Case Dismissed.
• October 7, 2010; George Caram Steeh, Eastern District of Michigan. Constitutionality upheld.
• November 4, 2010; Curtis Collier, Eastern District of Tennessee. Case dismissed.
• November 30, 2010; Norman Moon, Western District of Virginia. Constitutionality upheld.
• December 8, 2010; Susan Wigenton, District of New Jersey. Case dismissed.
• December 13, 2010; Henry Hudson, Eastern District of Virginia. Ruled unconstitutional.
• December 16, 2010; Thomas Schroeder, Middle District of North Carolina. Case dismissed.
• January 31, 2011; Roger Vinson, Northern District of Florida. Ruled unconstitutional.
• February 22, 2011; Gladys Kessler, District of Columbia. Constitutionality upheld.
• March 7, 2011; James Mahan, District of Nevada. Case dismissed.
• March 30, 2011; Joseph Laplante, District of New Hampshire. Case dismissed.
• March 31, 2011; Michael Schneider, Eastern District of Texas. Case dismissed.
• April 21, 2011; Freda Wolfson, District of New Jersey. Case dismissed.
• April 26, 2011; Rodney Sippel, Eastern District of Missouri. Case dismissed.
• June 18, 2011; Keith Giblin, Eastern District of Texas. Case dismissed.
• June 29, 2011; Boyce F. Martin, Jr., Jeffrey S. Sutton, James Graham, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Constitutionality upheld.
• August 3, 2011; Michael Chagares, Kent A. Jordan, Joseph A. Greenaway Jr., 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Case dismissed.
• August 12, 2011; Joel F. Dubina, Frank M. Hull, Stanley Marcus, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Ruled unconstitutional.
• August 13, 2011; 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Case dismissed.
• August 27, 2011; Dana Sabraws, Southern District of California. Case dismissed.
• September 8, 2011; Diana Gibbon Motz, Andre M. Davis, James A. Wyan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Case dismissed.
• September 13, 2011; Christopher Conner, Middle District of Pennsylvania. Ruled unconstitutional.
• November 11, 2011; Brett Kavanaugh, Harry Edwards, Laurence Silberman, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Constitutionality upheld.

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People with pre-existing conditions could be
dumped back into the no-coverage world

During the lead up to health care reform efforts by President Obama and Congress, there were plenty of heart-wrenching stories in the traditional media about the human toll of our broken system. Once the work started being done on reform, that all changed, and what we heard was all about the political fight, framed with help of plenty of press releases and talking points from Right-wing think tanks.

Now that the law is in jeopardy from the Supreme Court, the horror stories are coming back, this time focusing on what could be lost.

BATAVIA, Ohio ? The tumor grew like a thick vine up the back of Eric Richter?s leg, reminding him every time he sat down that he was a man without insurance. In April, when it was close to bursting through his skin, he went to the emergency room. Doctors told him it was malignant and urged surgery.

His wife called every major insurance company she found on the Internet, but none would cover him: His cancer was a pre-existing condition. In desperation, the Richters agreed to pay half their hospital bill, knowing they could never afford it on their combined salaries of $36,000 a year. [...]

It is people like Eric Richter and his wife, Dani ? uninsured and living in the unstable space between poverty and the middle class ? that the law was intended to help. They earned too much to qualify for government-sponsored health care, but worked in jobs that did not come with health benefits. [...]

?It?s hard to pay for the unknown, when you?re struggling to cover the known,? said Mr. Richter, who is 39. ?I know it sounds irresponsible, but that?s just the way it was. It?s a game of roulette you hope you?re going to win.?

We've all heard this story countless times. Too many of us have lived it, or are in the middle of it right now. Some have already found relief under the law, in the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan which was set up as the stop-gap before the non-discrimination provisions of the law take effect in 2014. One of them is Maryann Kaine, 52, highlighted in this story. She had to have back surgery, and was dumped off of her family's insurance plan. What happens to her if the law is struck down?

?I can?t imagine that they?ll just dump all of us back out into the world of no coverage,? she said.

It's hard to imagine, but that could very well be exactly what happens. That's the Republican plan: to do nothing about the millions of uninsured and uninsurable, because of pre-existing conditions. Mitt Romney certainly doesn't intend to fix the problem. He's more than happy with the status quo. Actually, he wants to make the status quo worse, allowing for insurance companies to sell across state lines. That move would effectively gut whatever state insurance regulations currently exist.

Yes, Ms. Kaine, Republicans and their five allies on the Supreme Court will dump you right back into the world of no coverage. And they'll do it happily.

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Census Bureau: White Americans Have 22 Times More
Wealth Than Blacks

This is a horror for the entire country -- it shows the long-term impact of the eight-year Bush reign of economic terror that Barack Obama has faced -- and Mitt Romney will if he ascends to the Presidency. (CNN):White Americans have 22 times more wealth[...]

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Yikes: Michael Reagan Manages to Trivialize Child
Rape

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Michael Reagan, who's cashed in being the adopted son of St. Ronald of California for a career as a professional wingnut, is very concerned about the president's executive overreach.

For more than three years Emperor Obama has been behaving as if the separation of powers is a pesky fly to be swatted away whenever it becomes too annoying.

If you don?t like something or want to get something done, you don?t let little things like the Constitution get in your way.

Yeah, Emperor Obama has been totally out of control. Starting wars that never end, torturing people, ripping up treaties, disappearing them in foreign gulags, illegally spying on U.S. citizens. Oh wait, that was Emperor Bush.

Anyway, Michael -- continue.

Emperor Obama obviously could not care less about helping the Latino population. When Democrats had control of both houses of Congress he did absolutely nothing for them.

Now he?s doing to Latinos what Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly did to the children of Pennsylvania ? using and abusing them. With his short-sighted politicking, Emperor Obama has hurt the Latino cause in the long run.

Yes, not forcibly deporting the children of immigrants is totally the same thing as raping them.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the wake of the news Sandusky raped his adopted son, this Cult of Reagan barnacle seems particularly grotesque.

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Evangelicals Unconvinced

While Democrats may hold a serious advantage with the growing Latino vote, there is a large cross-section of Hispanic evangelical voters who desperately want to hear about real immigration reforms from Republican candidates. After Mitt Romney's speech to[...]

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