New Momentum for Immigration Reform

Cross-posted from God’s Politics. Last week, Janet Napolitano delivered her first speech on immigration reform in her capacity as the Secretary of Homeland Security. While she denied that it marked the official beginning of the Obama Administration’s push for immigration reform — “it actually began months ago” — it is significant that up until this …

Links of the Day, November 17

No word from Zondervan on the Deadly Viper controversy. Come ON, people! News 17,000 children die every day from hunger. That’s about one every five seconds. China and the US agree to work together on stuff, including climate change. Corruption ratings are out: Afghanistan, not surprisingly, doesn’t do too well. Health care Rachel Laser urges …

Oh no, Barack bowed!

Barack bows to the Japanese emperor and the world–particularly, but not exclusively, conservative media–goes interculturally ignorant. Eugene Cho tries to bring some sense to the madness. UPDATE: Jake Tapper’s friend corrects both the right and the left.