From 1991, a taste of things to come. We’re not familiar with Australia’s Clarke and Dawe, a sorry situation we plan to rectify immediately.

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“Wha’ choo talkin’ about, Willis?”

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And the Fourteenth Amendment be damned…

Paul recently suggested to a Russian TV station that the U.S. should abandon its policy of granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants — even if they’re born on U.S. soil…

“We’re the only country that I know that allows people to come in illegally, have a baby, and then that baby becomes a citizen. And I think that should stop also.”

Although Randy doesn’t apparently use the term, might as well start getting used to “anchor baby”, which Arizona’s Russell Pearce is using to pitch a sequel to the state’s new anti-immigrant law. Because “Born Free” only applies to lions, y’know.

Rand Paul Suggests Children Of Illegal Immigrants Should Not Be U.S. Citizens [TPM]

Honestly, we should be saving this for Monday…

[Gus] Lepping, a technician with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., said he got the tattoo last June while on a routine assignment in Alaska. He and a few colleagues were sent there to clear ordnance from Air Force bombing ranges, and apparently had quite a bit of fun enjoying the nightlife after work each night.

“On the way back, I decided I wanted to get a tattoo that reminded me of Alaska, because we really had a good time,” said Lepping, currently attached to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. “I decided, ‘What could be better than getting a tattoo of the hottest cougar in the Republican Party?’”

We hope you enjoy our cute fuzzy bunnies, and thank us for not depicting Sgt. Lepping’s tattoo on the homepage.

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Joshua Green, a senior editor for The Atlantic since 2003 and named one of ten young writers on the rise by the Columbia Journalism Review, last Friday, ignoring that the Louisville Courier-Journal originally broke the Rand Paul civil-rights story he’s writing about:

The second point, which gets directly to why Rand Paul is suddenly flailing, is that the local Kentucky media — in particular the newspapers, and especially the flagship Louisville Courier-Journal — has been decimated by job cuts, as has happened across the country. This came up several times in discussions with Kentucky politicos and local journalists. The reason it matters is that because there is no longer a healthy, aggressive press corps — and no David Yepsen-type dean of political journalists — candidates don’t run the same kind of gauntlet they once did. They’re not challenged by journalists.

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What can we add?

Rand Paul, who rushed from the operating room Tuesday to give a talk while still in his surgical duds, seems to advocate free-market doctor certification:

Rand Paul’s reputation for marching to his own drummer may extend to his medical career. The GOP Senate candidate is the founder and president of a certifying board for eye doctors, which he appears to have set up as a rival to the existing certification board. But his organization has left little public record, and the legitimacy with which it’s viewed remains unclear at best.

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