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July 8, 2011
Artur Davis: Alabama's Ugly New Immigration Law
Alabama's new immigration law is about to become a flashpoint in the culture wars.
It is the first hard push to the right by a moderate Republican Governor who is an ally of the state's powerful, and liberal, teachers' union and who has soft-pedaled his opposition to what his party calls "Obamacare." I think, taken in its totality, it is a push too far, and the Obama Justice Department should challenge its worst features as fiercely as it has attacked Arizona's controversial 2010...
July 7, 2011
Tomorrow at The Recovering Politician
While much of the media's attention has been focused in the past few weeks on the ongoing national debt ceiling crisis; the polarizing, and seemingly intractable immigration issue continues to divide the country.
Recently, Alabama passed a very controversial immigration statute that some say is even more restrictive and punitive than the very controversial law that was passed by Arizona last year.
Tomorrow morning, contributing RP Artur Davis — a Congressman who represented Alabama for three...
The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Speed
The Politics of Speed
Here is a really nice article explaining how the feud between ESPN and Comcast/NBC is killing the already sputtering sport of Indycar racing. Even though Indycar racing in America is old and well-established, in today's sports world if you aren't making money, you're out. [The Daly Planet]
A street-legal, modified Ford GT set the record in a newly-established category for the Guiness Book of World Records: "standing-mile speed by a street-legal car." The official record...
TUNE IN NOW: The RP is Interviewing Christine Todd Whitman
RIGHT NOW contributing RP Lisa Borders and the RP are co-hosting the weekly episode of No Labels Radio.
Their primary guest is former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Click here to tune into the broadcast.
No Labels is a new grassroots movement of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are united in the belief that we do not have to give up our labels, merely put them aside to do what's best for America. No Labels Radio will offer a weekly dose of news and interviews with the...
The RP: I'm Interviewing Christine Todd Whitman at 2 PM
Today at 2 PM EDT, contributing RP Lisa Borders and I are co-hosting the weekly episode of No Labels Radio.
No Labels is a new grassroots movement of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are united in the belief that we do not have to give up our labels, merely put them aside to do what's best for America. No Labels Radio will offer a weekly dose of news and interviews with the policymakers who are working to find bipartisan answers to the otherwise intractable problems our country...
The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Fame
The Politics of Fame
Pressure rises on British Prime Minister David Cameron as the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal explodes in the press. [New York Times]
Will there be a Texas show-down between Governor Rick Perry and former President George W. Bush? [CBS News]
President Obama holds a "Twitter Town Hall." [Huffington Post]
President Obama skirts questions about the 14th Amendment's place in the debt-talks. [Wall Street Journal]
Senator Cornyn dismisses any talk of invoking the 14th...
Jeff Smith: I'm Thaddeus!
I'm Thaddeus!
Last Friday, in my role as a contributor to Politico's "Arena", I responded to a question about the presidential candidacy of guitar-playing, wise-cracking Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter. Was there room for him in the Republican field?
Sure, I replied. He can join Newt Gingrich in filling the comic relief void. He starts out, I noted dryly, with national name ID approximating that of my dad.
Several people told me they found my remarks amusing. But as I had the chance to r...
July 6, 2011
The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Laughter
The Politics of Laughter
Did you ever play the telephone game when you were a kid? It's the one where you whisper a message to someone, send it around the room and see what it turns into. Well, this website has a similar tool that uses Google Translate to translate your message into over 20 different languages. [Translation Telephone]
Who ever created this advertisement probably was not an engineer. [picture]
Yeah, I'm not sure things work the way you think they do, Observer in Hampton. [
Will Allison: Let's Begin the Conversation
Hello there! My name is Will Allison, and Jonathan has quite generously offered to let me blog at RP. I thought I'd use my inaugural piece to fill readers in on who I am, and where I am coming from.
You might be wondering…who? Well, first and foremost, I am a proud native son of Louisville, KY. I grew up in the Highlands, in a family that passionately mixed politics with the arts. My father was a civil rights attorney, my mother an actress and acting teacher. If we weren't at Actor's Theatre, ...
The RP: Where's the Outrage?
Two weeks ago, I shared with readers of The Recovering Politician a disturbing interview in which Kentucky GOP bigwig Larry Forgy stated his bizarre and pernicious theory that Jews such as George Soros, Barbra Streisand and Steve Spielberg would be pumping in significant loads of cash to support their co-religionist, Jerry Abramson, in his bid for Lieutenant Governor.
The RP Nation responded with outrage — dozens of your comments and emails unanimously denounced Forgy's slur.
As far as the...
