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Immigration reform: Closer to reality or destined for failure? Oh, how much things have changed in just a few months. Last May, Republicans and Democrats couldn't... 05/21/2013, 10:55 p.m.
Immigration bill: Gang label amendment goes down The Senate Judiciary Committee continued its markup of a bipartisan immigration reform bill Monday,... 05/20/2013, 6:26 p.m.
Apple tries not to stand out in the tax-avoidance crowd Apple found itself in the uncomfortable position Monday of being labeled a corporate bad guy, drawin... 05/20/2013, 5:26 p.m.
The GOP pivots on the IRS scandal The scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt statu... 05/17/2013, 2:16 p.m.
Corporate money in politics: Liberals vs. liberals on Prop. C The Times editorial board offended some liberal readers when it urged a no vote on Proposition C ,... 05/17/2013, 10:37 a.m.
Rall: Will California's Senate ban morons next? The state Senate has approved an anti-"swatting" bill. Swatting is the act of pranksters who make fa... 05/16/2013, 5:00 a.m.
Poll: The first firing of the IRS 'tea party' scandal The scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt... 05/15/2013, 5:03 p.m.
New details -- good and bad -- from the IRS inspector general's report A new report by the Internal Revenue Service's inspector general offered a few new details Tuesday... 05/14/2013, 6:04 p.m.
Florida defection costs GOP another Latino leader It seems that Republicans have long held out hope that Florida might be the state where the GOP coul... 05/14/2013, 4:12 p.m.
Outraged over IRS snooping scandal? Readers aren't If the hand-wringing over revelations that the IRS gave additional scrutiny to "tea party" groups an... 05/14/2013, 1:23 p.m.
Catholic 'Sharia' in Pittsburgh In the post-9/11 culture wars over Islamic fundamentalism, American conservatives — properly &... 05/10/2013, 3:07 p.m.
Poll: The feds' selective scrutiny of tax-exempt 'patriots' Vindicating the complaints of some "tea party" activists, a top IRS official admitted Friday that... 05/10/2013, 12:49 p.m.
Lindsey Graham blames immigration woes on south-of-the-border 'hell holes' The GOP’s effort to woo Latinos may have suffered a minor setback Thursday, thanks to Sen. Lin... 05/09/2013, 5:21 p.m.
Mark Sanford and the end of the GOP culture wars In April 1861, South Carolina fired the first shots of the Civil War. Almost exactly 152 years later... 05/08/2013, 12:05 p.m.
GOP fights itself over immigration reform Over the last few years the Republican Party has campaigned hard against comprehensive immigration r... 05/08/2013, 6:00 a.m.
Poll: Should Jerry Brown and Barack Obama tell us to pray? Gov. Jerry Brown, a onetime Jesuit seminarian, issued a proclamation designating Thursday a Day of P... 05/02/2013, 1:49 p.m.
Sen. Ted Cruz, the next Barack Obama? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a "tea party" favorite, may be new to elected office, but that might not st... 05/01/2013, 6:14 p.m.
Air travel: That's one silly victory over sequestration So that’s how you get this Congress to spend money: You cramp their vacation plans. 04/26/2013, 12:46 p.m.
Immigration hearing sparks clash of conservatives On Monday the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first public hearing on the sweeping immigration b... 04/22/2013, 6:35 p.m.
Jim DeMint: Still wrong on online sales taxes When he was a senator representing South Carolina, Jim DeMint argued that collecting sales taxes o... 04/20/2013, 7:00 a.m.
Boston suspects and the threat to immigration reform When it emerged that the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosions were immigrants of Chechen ances... 04/19/2013, 11:48 a.m.
The GOP's hypocritical stance on background checks Congress was extraordinarily busy this week. A bipartisan group of senators filed a sweeping bill We... 04/19/2013, 4:30 a.m.
Gun control: Wait till next year -- or the year after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) formally suspended the Democrats’ drive for new... 04/18/2013, 2:13 p.m.
Lawmakers protect payday lenders, not their customers A bill to limit payday lending that The Times' editorial board championed Monday died in a sta... 04/18/2013, 1:23 p.m.
California 'ag-gag bill' is gagged and gone The so-called ag-gag bill winding its way through the California Assembly has been pulled by its aut... 04/17/2013, 3:55 p.m.
Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun b... 04/17/2013, 12:08 p.m.
We can't let the pro-gun zealots win New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave politicians everywhere some sound advice on gun control recently. 04/16/2013, 12:41 p.m.
State Democrats decide who's a REAL Democrat Real Democrats don’t back school reform, apparently. Or maybe the message is that Democrats do... 04/16/2013, 5:30 a.m.
An end to partisan gamesmanship on judges? Not yet After Republicans successfully filibustered two of President Obama’s high-profile nominees to... 04/15/2013, 2:06 p.m.
Another reason for U.S. to act on Syria: Sending message to Iran In my Sunday column , I argued that events are pushing President Obama toward a bigger role in... 04/15/2013, 8:18 a.m.