High court backs Ariz. employer sanctions law

The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43181537/ns/politics-more_politics/

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2011 Tornadoes: Deadliest Year For Twisters Since 1950

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Watch: Jessica Alba Takes Chemical Safety To Capitol Hill

ABC News' Rick Klein talks chemical safety with Actress Jessica Alba.

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Delta Flight 2284 From Pittsburgh Evacuated After Landing At Atlanta Airport

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Right Turn: A tale of two journalistic stings

We've recently had two episodes of entrapment journalism. I'm a bit old school, so the idea of concocting a story featuring a journalist who then reports on the self-created event seems, well, wrong. But putting that aside, the two episodes were revealing of the character of the targets and the d...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103391.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Right Turn: Will Libya matter in 2012?

A reader e-mailed me over the weekend asking whether "the situation in Libya may affect the 2012 presidential campaigns." He mused: "Depending on how bad it gets in Libya, I envision a whole slew of political ads showing Obama shaking Gaddafi's hand back in 2009."

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030702318.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Add Tim Pawlenty to GOP's list of individual mandate flip-floppers (advantage: Sarah Palin)

With Tim Pawlenty on the list of mandate flip-floppers, Sarah Palin may actually
have a shot at the GOP nomination (Palin photo: Roger H. Goun)
 

Everybody knows Mitt Romney supported a health care mandate. Some people know Newt Gingrich did. A few even know John Huntsman did too (but most don't know who he is). And now you can add Tim Pawlenty to the list of mandate flip-floppers:

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said in a 2006 speech that mandated health insurance was a "potentially helpful" -- but incomplete -- solution to the problem of the uninsured.

Pawlenty described a Massachusetts-style mandate in his speech as "a worthy goal and one that we're intrigued by and I think at least open to," but suggested that the central health care problem was not forcing people to buy insurance but helping them afford it.

As Ben Smith points out, Pawlenty never proposed a mandate for Minnesota, and that does set him apart from Romney in Massachusetts, Huntsman in Utah, or Gingrich on a national level. However, Pawlenty did say he was open to a health care mandate as long as it was combined with things like subsidies and consumer protection regulations:

"If you are poor and don't have the resources or don't have the ability to access insurance because there are barriers to that, a mandate by itself is not much of a solution," Pawlenty said.

"And so, the question then becomes - if you're going to require insurance -- and I think that is a worthy goal and one that we're intrigued by and I think at least open to, how then do you enable people to access the insurance?" Pawlenty said.

The answer, he suggested, was a combination of new efficiencies in health care and new subsidies, starting with a program to insure children -- a move welcomed by Minnesota Democrats at the time. He also suggested both market-based solutions aimed at enhancing competition and transparency, as well as new regulations on, particularly, drug ads.

Sounds an awful lot like the approach President Obama ended up taking, doesn't it? I guess that means that a mere five years ago, Tim Pawlenty was a freaking socialist.

It's tempting to say this is good news for Mitt Romney, as he has a ready-made response to Pawlenty if Pawlenty criticizes him for the Massachusetts mandate, and in truth, it probably does blunt Pawlenty's ability to go on the attack.

But it also means four of the top tier Republican candidates are all vulnerable on health care mandates, and that represents a huge opportunity for a candidate like Sarah Palin or Rick Perry, neither of whom are vulnerable on this issue within the hermetically sealed world of GOP primary voters.

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