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...during a period of enormous stress over immigration and the meaning of being an American. He was unequivocally for control of immigration and for encouraging immigrants who wanted to be American while opposing those who would radically change America. As TR put it, "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this...
...days and weeks ahead is on immediate military action, in the long term Olmert's choices are unpalatable: He can heed right-wingers such as former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and simply reoccupy Gaza, or he can follow the advice of those, like his Defense Minister Amir Peretz, who insist that Israel's security ultimately requires a peace agreement with the Palestinians. The latter, of course, means dealing with a credible Palestinian government - and for the foreseeable future, Hamas would likely be the leading element of such a government. As remote as the possibility of an Israel-Hamas government peace...
...Stephen Colbert Funny? If you didn't laugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the bloggers insist, you're a White House lackey...
...line position. But a more subtle game may be afoot among Republicans, designed to strengthen the compromise plan of Rep. Mike Pence - first reported on TIME.com - that leans in the direction of the hard-line House; it would crank up border security, have a modest guest worker program and insist that illegals leave the country before reapplying for citizenship...
...flip side of that equation, as Khalilzad has also made clear, is that the Shi'ite militias must be brought under government control. Maliki has signaled that he plans to achieve this by integrating the militias into the national security force. But the Sunnis, backed by the U.S., insist that existing militias must not simply be turned into units of the national security forces - their fighters must be dispersed across the existing security forces...