Top Headline Comments 6-14-13

Friday, woooooooo!

Rick Santorum would really like for 2016 to be his "turn" as the GOP candidate.

For funsies, Chris Jacobs for Heritage smacks around Ezra Klein for his silly little protestations that Obamacare isn't raising the price of health insurance.

Philip Klein also has a must-read column on Obamacare rate shock, that I summarize: "Obamacare is a wealth transfer from the young (who haven't had time to accumulate much wealth) to the old (who have)."

If you think the first step of the Gang of 8 bill -- legalization of aliens already present -- is "amnesty," then hold on to your pants, because Sen. Ted Cruz supports "amnesty." "If this amendment is adopted to the current bill, the effect would be that those 11 million under this current bill would still be eligible for RPI [registered provisional immigrant] status. They would still be eligible for legal status. And indeed under the terms of the bill they would be eligible for LPR [lawful permanent resident] status, as well, so that they are out of the shadows, which the proponents of this bill repeatedly point to as their objective."

Finally, with respect to the NSA scandals, the Guardian has finally joined WaPo and admitted that its original reporting on the scope of PRISM was flawed. To read the grudging, passive-aggressive admission, though, you'd have to make it all the way to the 18th paragraph here.

Have a great weekend.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:51 AM

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