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GOP voters ready for immigration reform

Immigration reform has more traction with Republican voters than you’d imagine from listening to some talk show hosts and bloggers. A poll out Wednesday shows the gap between the noisemakers and voters on the right.

Broken systems + bad ideas = lame recovery

Five years after the financial meltdown, the global economic recovery is hardly worthy of the name. The International Monetary Fund has just revised its forecasts for the world economy down — again.

Welcome to Venezuela, Señor Snowden

Dear Mr. Snowden,

Kudos to judge who owns DUI mistake

There’s this saying: Sometimes it’s not what you do, it’s what you do after.

Young white women, killing themselves by tanning

Despite the hoopla over dysfunction in Washington, the government can still do useful things. To prove it, the Food and Drug Administration should move aggressively to implement and then strengthen its proposed cancer warnings about tanning beds.

Why does Washington still think it can control what happens in Egypt?

Here we go again. It has been barely a week since the Egyptian military removed Mohammed Morsi from power, and Washington is already knee-deep in the blame game over who’s responsible for the current mess and what America must do to fix it.

Detroit’s Greek tragedy

Liberal economists have a ready response to conservatives who fret that U.S. debt might spiral out of control, a la Southern Europe: “America is not Greece.”

Snowden’s links to WikiLeaks and journalists raise questions

Did Edward Snowden decide on his own to seek out journalists and then a job at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Hawaii facility as an IT systems administrator to gather classified documents about the National Security Agency’s worldwide surveillance activities?

Rick Perry’s plan

So, summing up, here’s what we know: Gov. Rick Perry’s not running for governor again and he might (and probably wants to) run for president again.

Fire seasons are starting earlier and lasting longer

In early May, as my plane banked on approach to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., a plume of smoke fanned out below from Banning Pass. The fire that time was the Summit fire, a bad enough blaze – about 3,000 acres burned, one house destroyed, two firefighters injured – but one that evoked a much worse fire. Six years earlier the Esperanza fire in Banning Pass took the lives of a five-man Forest Service engine crew.

So we’re ready to forgive Eliot Spitzer. But what happens to Ashley Dupré?

Eliot Spitzer is launching a bid to reenter the political arena this week, five years after his generous contributions to a high-priced prostitution ring knocked him from his perch as Governor of New York. As The New York Times notes, Spitzer’s candidacy for New York city comptroller comes at a time when politicians “have shown that public disapproval, especially over sexual misconduct, can be fleeting, and that voters seem receptive to those who seek forgiveness and redemption.”

The idiot’s guide to snooping on Europe

American spies have been taking it on the chin from European Union officials since it was disclosed in the files leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that U.S. secret agents were eavesdropping on their conversations in Brussels, New York and Washington, D.C.

Gaming the globe: a short history

If you’re checking in on Foursquare or ramping up the “strength” of your LinkedIn profile, you’ve just been gamified — whether or not you know it. “Gamification,” today’s hottest business buzzword, is gaining traction everywhere from corporate boardrooms to jihadi chat forums, and its proponents say it can revolutionize just about anything, from education to cancer treatment to ending poverty. While the global market for gamification is expected to explode from $242 million in 2012 to $2.8 billion in 2016, according to market analysis firm M2 Research, there is a growing chorus of critics who think it’s little more than a marketing gimmick. So is the application of game mechanics to everyday life more than just a passing fad? You decide.

How to understand Scalia’s originalism

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia may be the most polarizing figure in all of American law. Conservatives tend to see him as an icon who is faithful to the Constitution, unfailingly clearheaded and outraged when the occasion calls for it. Liberals tend to see him as an ogre who is on the wrong side of history, unbecomingly strident and hypocritical to boot.

Comey is a bad choice for FBI director

It was probably the most famous hospital visit since Bob Woodward snuck into the room of dying CIA Director William J. Casey in 1987. This time it was James Comey, a deputy attorney general, who in 2004 rushed to the bedside of Attorney General John Ashcroft and implored him not to reauthorize the government’s warrantless spying program. Ashcroft stayed his pen — and Comey, having virtually committed an act of civil disobedience, became something of a Washington legend. He is now President Obama’s choice to head up the FBI. I applaud him with one hand.

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