BY FROMA HARROP Have you noticed that our immigration laws are finally being enforced? That illegal immigration is way down? That employers hiring undocumented workers are finally being punished? And that this is being done in the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama? If not, take note. Washington’s 2007 “Grand Bargain” on immigration crashed and […]

BY KAREN WEBB Dr. Tom Coburn, R-OK, can say that Congress is “a class of career elitists” and “cowards or “a class of elitist cowards”...

BY JOE CONASON With Wisconsin’s epic state Senate recall battle now over, the results carry a clear message that ought to resonate all the way to Washington – and especially the Obama White House. The essence of politics in America today, for Democrats at least, is to understand and communicate the political nature of the […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER GOP-land is all a twitter, now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced that he’s ready to ascend to the White House. His candidacy was actually launched at a Prayer-A-Palooza in Houston the week before he formally announced. While only about 30,000 evangelicals and Republican faithful showed up at the 72,000-seat football […]

BY FROMA HARROP Several columnists recently referred to the Tea Party “patriots” as terrorists. The terrorist label set off a stormy protest among the group’s legion of message writers. I was one of those columnists. I figured that had some radical sheik sitting in his cave threatened to blow up the American economy – that […]