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68 Senators Vote to Create Incentive for Employers to Hire Amnestied Immigrants Over U.S. Citizens

The Weekly Standard – by JOHN MCCORMACK The immigration bill passed by the Senate Thursday afternoon would give some employers a financial incentive to employ “registered provisional immigrants” (illegal immigrants granted legal status) instead of U.S. citizens. As the Washington Examiner‘s Philip Klein recently reported: “Under Obamacare, businesses with over 50 workers that employ American citizens without offering […] Continue reading →

'It's the Country, Stupid'

There’s a word that often describes too much of the inside-the-Beltway, northeast-corridor “conservative” punditry — snarly. A notion is afoot in that terrain, in these final days leading up to the November election, that this is just one more silly season during which their punditry role is to judge the political gymnastics and jujitsu that […] Continue reading →

Gallup: Obama's Convention Bounce is Gone

Gallup’s daily presidential tracker has settled back into a dead heat — with a single, statistically insignificant point separating Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Rasmussen’s tracker wiped the post-DNC bounce away late last week. (Rasmussen tracks likely voters and refreshes its numbers on a three-day cycle; Gallup measures registered voters across seven-day cycles). So where […] Continue reading →