October 28, 2011
If you're looking for something to sum up all
that is wrong with American politics today, writes A. Barton
Hinkle, you could do worse than the Republican presidential
candidates' debate over immigration. After all, Hinkle writes, the
same GOP conservatives who crack jokes about the efficiency of the
Postal Service and the compassion of the IRS fail to apply equal
scrutiny to big government boondoggles like border fences and
biometric identification cards.
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