Julia Preston at the New York Times reports: President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week…. Continue Reading »
Mary Lou Byrd at the Washington Free Beacon reports: School districts in Pennsylvania, Alabama, New Jersey, and Rhode Island have hired armed officers in the weeks since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the Free Beacon has found. Additionally, schools in Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, and New York are in the process of hiring armed officers or recommending they… Continue Reading »
Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard reports: President Obama said he’d take “executive action” to deal with guns at his press conference today: “My understanding is the vice president’s going to provide a range of steps that we can take to reduce gun violence,” said Obama. “Some of them will require legislation, some of them… Continue Reading »
Bruno Waterfield at the UK Telegraph reports: Identical twins were killed by Belgian doctors last month in a unique mercy killing under Belgium’s euthanasia laws. The two men, 45, from the Antwerp region were both born deaf and sought euthanasia after finding that they would also soon go blind. The pair told doctors that they… Continue Reading »
Nanette Byrnes at Reuters reports: Hopes for overhauling the federal tax system are fading in Washington, but in some state capitals, tax reform experiments – some far-reaching – are fast taking shape. Across the South and Midwest, Republicans have consolidated control of state legislatures and governorships, giving them the power to test long-debated tax ideas…. Continue Reading »
