This Is America, And We Don't Restrict

If Immigration Reform Passes, It'll Be A Big Victory For Sanity - Nobody Really Believes It's Healthy For A Country To Have Millions And Millions Of Undocumented Noncitizens Living In The Shadows. But It'll Also Be A Sign That The Republican Party Has Gotten Tired Of Letting The Tea Party Push It Around.

Phil Gramm Had A Stump Speech About How His Mother's Devotion Kept Him From Being An Academic Failure In Life. She Got Him Into A Special School That Turned Him Around - Under A Government Program For The Children Of Deceased Veterans. He Was Repeatedly Asked At Press Conferences Why He Would Then Turn Around And Support Draconian Cuts In Federal Funding For Education. He Never Had An Answer.

Any Time You Write History, You Insert Your Opinion. You Pick And Choose What You Are Going To Write About. I Feel Really Happy Not Inserting Myself. I Spend Too Much Of My Life Inserting Myself. It's Just Great To Let Other People Carry The Narrative.

For A Border State, I Would Argue That Texas Is Less Lunatic On The Subject Of Immigration Issues Than Other Places Around It, Like Arizona. They're Much More Comfortable With Their Long-term Identity As A Place With A Very Large Hispanic Population.

My Own Dream Is That We Discover That The Nsa Has Been Secretly Keeping Files On Members Of The National Rifle Association.