The Senate Judiciary Committee’s passage of a sweeping immigration bill was expected. But the explosion of chants of “Yes we can! Yes we can!” and “Leahy! Leahy!” came as a surprise.

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The three Republicans voting “yes” were Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.), who are members of the Gang of Eight, which crafted the bill, and Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah).

DENVER – Colorado’s governor will sign a bill Tuesday overhauling the state’s education system.

However, the changes will only take effect if Colorado voters approve about $1 billion a year in higher taxes.

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Read the Bill: This is a rob Peter to pay for Pedro tax increase.

Cradle to grave Socialism for Democrat party voters.

Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday it’s important for the United States to pass immigration reform to maintain respect throughout the Americas.

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The push to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws is officially going Hollywood.

More than 100 musicians and actors have signed a letter to President Obama and members of Congress urging them to pass a bill that provides a “clear road map to citizenship” for the nation’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants.

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Dear President Obama and Members of Congress,

Immigrants are Americans. They are our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters, our partners, our children, grandparents, co-workers, neighbors, and friends. As members of the creative community, we are committed to seeing and showing the humanity of the immigrant story. Through music, theater, visual art, literature, film, television, dance, and other genres, immigrant and refugee artists have defined and redefined our American culture and history. They help renew our national story.

Yet immigration policy in this country has become incoherent and inhumane. In recent years over a million deportations have divided American families, often separating parents from children. Some immigrants have waited almost a quarter of a century to be reunited with family members. With federal policy in tatters, states have passed immoral laws of questionable constitutionality that profile, isolate, and criminalize immigrants. A broken and unjust immigration policy is bad for us all—it erodes the social fabric and undermines our shared values of equity and empathy.

Sincerely,

• Daniel Alarcón
• Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam)
• Antibalas
• Jason M. Aragón
• René Balcer
• Russell Banks
• Ceci Bastida
• W. Kamau Bell
• Ross Bleckner
• Cake
• Cindy Campbell
• Bobby Cannavale
• Jeff Chang
• Stockard Channing
• Margaret Cho
• Teju Cole
• Robbie Conal
• William Cordova
• Chuck D
• Blythe Danner
• Kimya Dawson
• Rosario Dawson
• Zack de la Rocha
• DeVotchKa
• Junot Díaz
• Abigail E. Disney
• Steve Earle
• Dave Eggers
• Ron English
• Shepard Fairey
• Negin Farsad
• Eric Fischl
• Flobots
• Tom Fontana
• Sia Furler
• Merrill Garbus
• Gogol Bordello
• Louie Gong
• April Gornik
• André Gregory
• Sonia Guinansaca
• Jessica Hagedorn
• Ed Harris
• Logan Hicks
• How and Nosm
• David Henry Hwang
• Indigo Girls
• Vijay Iyer
• Pramila Jayapal
• Ha Jin
• Gaye Theresa Johnson
• Wayne Kramer
• Hari Kunzru
• La Santa Cecilia
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Jon Langford
• John Leguizamo
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Liz Manne
• Adam Mansbach
• Peter Matthiessen
• Frances McDormand
• Erin McKeown
• Tom Morello
• Wangechi Mutu
• My Morning Jacket
• Mira Nair
• Graham Nash
• Edward James Olmos
• Ozomatli
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña
• Tony Plana
• Joel Rafael
• Robert Redford
• Ishmael Reed
• R.E.M.
• Retna
• Rise Against
• Favianna Rodriguez
• Salman Rushdie
• Julio Salgado
• Yosi Sergant
• Gary Shteyngart
• Sarah Silverman
• Sam Sparro
• State Radio
• George Stevens, Jr.
• Swoon
• Jim Taylor
• Ed Templeton
• Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
• The Roots
• Hank Willis Thomas
• Justin Torres
• Chase Twichell
• Luis Urrea
• Jose Antonio Vargas
• Sage Vaughn
• Vendela Vida
• Alice Walker
• Colson Whitehead
• Alfre Woodard
• Jasiri X
• Z-Trip

Lawmakers in Colorado’s House gave an initial OK on Monday to a contentious measure that would allow those in the country illegally to obtain a state-issued form of a driver’s license.

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Rep. Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, countered that argument by saying those seeking a license who are in the country illegally should not have to abide by different road safety standards.

“We have safety parameters in place so that those on our roads understand the laws of the road. We should not be making those who might be undocumented have to undergo a different process to get a license,” Pabon said.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Libertarian activist and radio host, Adam Kokesh plans to lead an armed march on Washington, D.C. this Independence Day.

Launched as a group on Facebook, the “Open Carry March on Washington” hopes to get 1,000 supporters to march into the nation’s capital with loaded rifles.

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Don’t be duped by Kokesh

It’s spring, and the U.S. Supreme Court is lifting a mighty hammer. When the justices bring that big hammer down, they may change forever the way the races interact in the United States, and may forever redefine the millennia-old definition of marriage.

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WASHINGTON — An influential network of some of the country’s wealthiest liberal political donors is steering resources to an advocacy group backing President Obama’s agenda and to organizations working to pass immigration reform, providing a surge of money that could boost the president’s legislative goals.

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Virtually every time one of the Senate Gang of Eight emerged from behind closed doors to update the American public on the progress of their negotiations on what is now an 844-page immigration bill, it included an impassioned denial that what was being cooked up was amnesty for illegal aliens.

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