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Communist Party Pride! (TV ad) - 11/14/2007

... isn't a take-off on the Center for American Progress "progressive" ads (like youtube.com/watch?v=qnktauTeIeg).

Center for American Progress misleads about "progressive" label - 11/14/2007

... remarks. Another example is the Center for American Progress, a group that can't seem to get anything right.

Marie Cocco's thinking abilities on full display (Washington Post WG) - 11/01/2007

Marie Cocco writes for the Washington Post Writer's Group, i.e., syndicated articles that apparently even the WaPo is afraid to print. An example of the latter is offered in "The Willie Hortons of 2008" [1] about Hillary Clinton's support for driver's licenses for illegal aliens. After initial race-baiting, she shows us her knowledge of this issue and her thinking abilitie...

Center for American Progress' indirect Mexican government link (Henry Fernandez, Kica Matos) - 10/13/2007

... Fellow at the Clinton-linked Center for American Progress, is hosting a CAP event entitled "Strange Bed Fellows? Anti-immigration Organizations and Hate Groups" on October 18 [1]. The panelists are Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government) and Devin Burghart from the Center for New Community. Luckily, I scrolled down to the botto...

SCHIP and illegal aliens (shocker: a Center for American Progress fib?) - 10/11/2007

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP/S-CHIP) appears like it could be abused by illegal aliens to obtain benefits that they should not, under the bill, receive. Whether that's intentional or not isn't known. The bill was recently vetoed by president Bush. The House will try to override the veto next week (link). The bill is HR 976 (link).

The Flake-Gutierrez STRIVE Act amnesty returns... - 9/06/2007

The Flake-Gutierrez STRIVE Act - a House amnesty scheme - was discussed at hearings of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law today (chaired by former immigration lawyer Zoe Lofgren). Here's the text of HR 1645, and here's a somewhat cynical report.

Senate illegal immigration amnesty: cloture or defeat. And: what you can do. - 6/07/2007

[6/7 8pm UPDATE: The bill has ceased to exist... for now. The final try at cloture failed, but the bill might come back later in the year. Please read the original entry below if you'd like to help prevent future tries at amnesty..

Media Matters for America plays word games re: their funding - 4/25/2007

... Democracy Alliance, MoveOn, and the Center for American Progress.

Ruy Teixeira, polling "expert", agenda-driven hack - 4/13/2007

... the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress.

Perp walk: churches to shelter illegal aliens facing deportation - 3/14/2007

... discussion on immigration at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. She says it will start in Los Angeles. The article also quotes Rev. Jim Wallis who, while apparently not involved with CLUE, does promote "comprehensive immigration reform". As has been pointed out many times, the easy way to deal with situations like this is to go to public events where "religiou...

Zoe Lofgren trying to tie ICE's hands (deportations, Return to Sender) - 3/08/2007

Rep. Zoe Lofgren - chair of the Immigration Subcommittee and a former immigration lawyer - sent a letter to Julie Myers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 1 demanding information on their recent sweeps called "Operation Return to Sender" [1].

Judd Legum/Think Progress: propaganda is OK if for a good cause - 11/21/2006

... Clinton-linked joke known as the Center for American Progress) discusses a recent segment of the Neil Cavuto show here. Cavuto claims that the movie "Happy Feet" is "far-left" propaganda: Cavuto saw the movie with his sons and found it "offensive." Cavuto objected to the fact that penguins in the movie have trouble finding food because of overfishing and oil drilling...

CNN BlogParty, Blog Party, BlogStock - 11/07/2006

The latest example of the mainstream reaching out to bloggers is CNN's "BlogStock", aka a "blog party" (1). They've invited a couple dozen mainstream bloggers to blog live from an internet cafe in Washington DC. Apparently this is supposed to be cutting edge, but most of those involved are partisan hacks.

Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone's misleading, pro-illegal immigration propaganda - 10/29/2006

Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone offers his list of the 10 worst Congressmen. As you might expect from that publication, it's biased (9 of 10 are Republicans) and their complaints consist mainly of lightweight analysis and smears. Let's take a look at their entry on Rep. Tom Tancredo.

Bill Winter on immigration - 10/23/2006

Bill Winter is running for Congress against Rep. Tom Tancredo. Like other Democrats, he supports the Senate amnesty, and thus everything said about that horrible bill applies. Moreover, his page on immigration has several questionable or misleading statements: 1. His page twice refers to the "INS", an agency that hasn't existed since March 2003.

More Center for American Progress piffle on immigration - 9/20/2006

The Clinton-linked Center for American Progress has issued a desperate cry for help: "Don't Abandon Comprehensive Immigration Reform". Initially, you might be confused. Did the GOP write this? Or, did they write it for use by the GOP?

Palm Beach Post's joke editorial about Senate amnesty - 8/30/2006

The Palm Beach Post offers an editorial that would be funny if it weren't so utterly pathetic: "Real immigration reform also comes at good price". Like the S.F. Chronical, they call for an "honest" accounting of the costs vs. benefits of giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

AP quotes Peter Schey, fails to mention Mexico affiliation - 5/05/2006

The AP's "Cost to Remove 12M Illegal Immigrants Huge" is a bit more balanced than we've come to expect from the AP. (The author is Martha Mendoza, and that appears to be the AP-supplied title).

Think Progress, Ezra Klein, AP downplay organizers of illegal immigration marches - 4/13/2006

... associated with the Clinton-associated Center for American Progress - downplays the organizers of the recent illegal immigration marches in this one sentence post. That links to this brief Ezra Klein post, which links to the AP article "Groups Help Organize Immigration Rallies" (

Mary Sanchez or Tokyo Rose? - 8/25/2005

Mary Sanchez of Knight-Ridder offers us "The cost of mass deportation". As in "David Brooks or Tokyo Rose?" I invite you to read her editorial with the proper inflection. Sanchez informs us that more than 10 million people have illegally settled in our country and we have no chance of deporting all of them.

"What Would It Cost to Deport Illegal Aliens?" - 8/07/2005

Remember the laughable Center for American Progress study saying it would cost $41 billion a year for five year to deport all illegal aliens currently in the U.S.? It gets eviscerated here: And while wea

"Liberal" study illustrates failed "liberal" immigration policies - 7/26/2005

The Center for American Progress has released a study (press release) that claims it would cost at least $41 billion a year to deport all illegal aliens.

Be patient, my super wealthy friends, our time will come! - 4/20/2005

From "Soros says be patient": George Soros told a carefully vetted gathering of 70 likeminded millionaires and billionaires last weekend that they must be patient if they want to realize long-term political and ideological yields from an expected massive investment in "startup" progressive think tanks. The Scottsdale, Ariz., meeting, called to start the process of building ...

The George Soros/Media Matters/David Brock network discovered - 3/04/2005

If you want the backstory, read this: "Horowitz Exposes David Brock as Paid Hatchet Man for Soros". If you're familiar with the backstory and you want to cut to the chase, read "David Brock Group Backpedals on Soros Funding": Media Matters for America, the group headed by conservative turned liberal writer David Brock, has changed course on its stated association with bill...

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