GOP USA 03/18/2014

White House Orders DHS to Review Deportation Policy Earlier this week, a group of House Republicans said that despite a series of delays, they're eager to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform, buzz words for bills that would legalize 12 million illegal immigrants and issue more than 20 million work visas during the first decade after enactment. Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, a former immigration lawyer and member of the now-defunct House Gang of Eight, leads the charge. Facts and Factions: Republicans Turning on Their Own At a time when polls show public opinion turning against the Democrats, some Republicans seem to be turning against each other. Even with the prospect of being able to win control of the Senate in this fall's elections, some Republicans are busy manufacturing ammunition for their own circular firing squad. Hostage situation The term "judicial overreach" doesn't seem strong enough in the case of Justina Pelletier. You might have heard of the 15-year-old Connecticut girl who has been taken away from her family for more than a year by child-protection officials in Massachusetts after her parents disagreed with a doctor's diagnosis.

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News, Commentary, Discussions The libertarian enters a leftwing hotbed Ronald Reagan famously described the University of California at Berkeley as "a haven for communist sympathisers". Another rightwing politician - who styles himself as Reagan's intellectual successor - will stand at a lectern this week at the Bay Area campus to decry the excesses of government surveillance. Slap on the wrist exposes weakness The reaction of the financial markets to the west's sanctions over Crimea spoke volumes. Up went the rouble and shares on the Moscow stock market, down went the price of crude oil. Conclusion: the steps announced by the US and the EU were seen as a slap on the wrist for Vladimir Putin, the very least that could be delivered without Barack Obama losing face. Sen. Feinstein has drone peek through her window During an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes as part of a segment on the growing controversy surrounding the use of drones for law enforcement as well as commercial and private enterprise, Sen. Dianne Feinstein called for the federal government to regulate unmanned aerial vehicles, describing privacy concerns with drones as "very, very major."