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June 22, 2007 -
As the Washington "immigration debate" begins to look more and more like "political theater," it's refreshing to hear some new ideas. Here's one from officials in Texas, who live the immigration issue every day:
June 15, 2007 -
The Department of Justice's dubious crusade against "voter fraud" -- which despite looking at millions of votes since 2002 has only netted 24 fraud convictions -- isn't just a federal issue.
June 14, 2007 -
Oh, wait. Wrong generation. This generation is more likely to be wearing ear buds for their iPods and toting a Blackberry or a text messaging cellphone to Bonnaroo, the South's premier music and arts festival that kicks off tonight in Manchester, Tennessee.
June 13, 2007 -
In a recent debate on North Carolina Public Radio, N.C. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) insisted that there are "no downsides" to her plan of expanding military bases and defense industries in the state. I disagreed, citing the Institute's recent report North Carolina at War, which documents the social, economic and other costs of being "the most military-friendly state in the nation."
June 11, 2007 -
A recently unsealed whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Louisiana by a group of former insurance adjusters charges that eight insurance companies defrauded the taxpayer-funded National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by intentionally misattributing damage caused by Hurricane Katrina's winds to flooding.
May 31, 2007 -
Political prognosticators Isaac Wood and Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia report today that there will be up to five special elections for the U.S. House in 2007 -- two of them in the South.
May 31, 2007 -
At a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on hurricane readiness held earlier this month, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) asked Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison to address complaints that trailers housing Katrina and Rita survivors have dangerous levels of formaldehyde, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger reports:
