Rosemary Jenks at ‘The Uninvited’: Amnesty Would Give Terrorists ‘Brand New’ Identities

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At Breitbart News’ “The Uninvited” Panel during CPAC last weekend, Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations for Numbers USA, told the packed audience that Republicans have not thoroughly considered and discussed how giving amnesty to 11-12 million illegal immigrants would allow terrorists to receive brand new identities, cost the government $ 2.5 trillion dollars… Read more »

Damaged Goods: Hagel’s Brand Suffers from Confirmation Battle

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Chuck Hagel, stuck in an arduous confirmation battle to become Secretary of State, has notably pivoted away from his more controversial foreign policy positions—a move that appears to have validated Senate Republicans’ fierce opposition to a reelected Barack Obama. So says Haviv Rettig Gur, a columnist at the Times of Israel. In a piece titled “Hagel’s… Read more »

Stewart Hits Back At Krugman: If Anyone’s ‘Ruining Their Brand With A Trillion-Dollar Coin Idea,’ It’s You

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Jon Stewart responded to criticism from economistPaul Krugman Monday about his “lazy” response to the possibility of minting a trillion dollar coin to solve the debt ceiling crisis. The conclusion Stewart came to? “I stand by our research on this topic, the due diligence and my ignorant conclusion that a trillion dollar coin minted to… Read more »

Teabaggers destroy brand, look for new brand to destroy

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Liberty! Ha ha ha! The South Florida Tea Party — the group that helped Marco Rubio launch his Senate bid and that hosted Donald Trump during his last flirtation with a presidential run — is shedding the words “tea party” as it undergoes a name change. “We felt for branding reasons that we wanted to… Read more »