Talk about missed opportunities. Since no real journalists are likely to get a sit-down with Sarah Palin during her book promotions blitz, it sure would’ve been… more »

Lobbying for Cao’s vote was intense, with President Obama and Cantor both vying for the man’s attention, reports The Hill in details here. … more »

Rep. Joseph Cao, a Vietnamese-American who represents a New Orleans-area congressional district, is being called a Judas by fellow Republicans after he broke with them… more »

So much has changed since then, and though one wall went down, several more went up, most notorious probably are those between the US-Mexico border… more »

Viewed through the lens of the immigration issue, the overall results of yesterday’s elections might be called a mixed bag. Republican gubernatorial candidates who promised… more »

Today’s elections, many of them in eastern seaboard states, are the first big political test for the Obama administration. While most pundits focus on whether… more »

Obama’s prize gives me hope, in a sense. It means you can be awarded for BEING someone, rather that DOING something. And that’s good news… more »

Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, is demanding the 2010 Census ask about immigration status in order to “prevent states from counting” those who entered… more »

Last week, Washington D.C. groups reported on two pieces of favorable news for the cause of comprehensive immigration reform. First, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago… more »

Right wing commentators have floated wild hypotheses on why Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old Census worker, might have been killed in rural Kentucky. Sparkman, a cancer… more »

Kentucky bloggers are still trying to make sense of the death of Bill Sparkman, the 51-year-old Census worker found dead in rural Kentucky, hanging from… more »

It’s beginning to look like Bill Sparkman’s a martyr of the 2010 Census effort. The website Talking Points Memo confirmed today the 2010 Census worker… more »

It’s quite appropriate President Obama’s health care speech was interrupted by a heckler hung up on a single issue—illegal immigration. South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe… more »

Michael A. Kroll Since learning of Senator Kennedy’s death last evening, I have found myself — unexpectedly — weeping intermittently. Perhaps it is because of the… more »

I recently attended a special gathering at the Office of Public Defenders near 850 Bryant in San Francisco.