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“Am Joy” host Joy Reid quickly cut off a segment with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-az) due to his “incredibly offensive” comments about illegal immigrants on the Sunday MSNBC show. During a panel discussion with Latina activists Rosie Perez and Maria Hinojosa, Hayworth claimed to understand what Latinos go through in America due to his own brushes with the Border Patrol. “When I was moving from Cincinnati to Arizona and driving along our southeast border, I have been stopped by the Border Patrol,” he said. “I have been asked if I was a citizen, my car has been examined and the same.

In a stunning turnaround, Arizona Republicans killed 5 of the state's notorious immigration bills. Terry Greene Sterling obtains a report showing deportations pummeling the local economy.

In a surprise St. Patrick's Day coup, conservative Republican senators in Arizona slapped down five harsh immigration bills that aimed to deny state birth certificates to babies born to unauthorized immigrants, turn school teachers and hospital workers into immigration enforcers, prohibit undocumented immigrants from attending college, and criminalize them for driving.

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The roundly defeated measures signal that Arizona is ticking slightly towards the right-center. And, like many states that have rejected immigration measures this year, is beginning to recognize that immigration-crackdown laws can derail already fragile economic recoveries.

An embargoed report obtained by The Daily Beast details how deporting all of Arizona's unauthorized immigrants would spell disaster for the already stressed economy. Not...

Former McCain adviser Mark Salter, alleged to be the author of the anonymous novel about Obama, told The Daily Beast months ago about his failures at writing fiction.

So, another Washington mystery has been solved. Time's Mark Halperin has put two and two together and declared Mark Salter, John McCain's once trusted adviser and political alter ego, the author of O, the gimmicky anonymous novel about the Obama White House. Not that Halperin had to put much shoe leather into reporting this one out. Page Six all but declared Salter the winner last week. (Of course, Primary Colors, the Clinton-era novel which O apes, had many authors before Joel Klein aroused himself from anonymity.)

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The reviews so far have been less than sterling. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times sniffed, "Well, now we know why the...

As politicians across the spectrum weigh in on the Arizona shooting, the state's senior senator has been surprisingly silent. Eve Conant on McCain's low profile-and the calculus behind it.

Barack Obama jump-started his presidency. The local sheriff became a national figure overnight. And Sarah Palin once again rallied her base while enraging everybody else. Politicians all over the country have been speaking out to great effect-positive and negative-about the Arizona shootings and the toll they've taken. But one normally voluble elected official has been conspicuously quiet amid the din. After releasing a powerful statement branding Jared Lee Loughner a "disgrace to Arizona, this country and the human race," the state's senior senator has gone radio silent. You have to wonder: Where the heck is John McCain?

The decision by Arizona's best-known statesman, whose own style of speech has grown increasingly heated in recent years, to stay out of the fray...

Railing against Don't Ask Don't Tell, shooting down an immigration bill he once sponsored, pushing his own changes to Start-the tougher John McCain who emerged in the primaries may be here to stay.

When Sen. John McCain took the floor before the groundbreaking vote to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, he furiously told the Senate, "Today is a very sad day," and announced, "There will be high-fives over all the liberal bastions of America," from "the elite schools that bar military recruiters from campus" to "the salons of Georgetown."

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John McCain, the fighter pilot, war hero, and the man who would be king (twice), has been left fighting an opponent that has already left the ring. On the same day as the Dadt repeal, he voted against the Dream Act, legislation he initially sponsored. On Tuesday, he voted...

The senator doesn't go as far as Sarah Palin, who ripped Obama for the documents "fiasco," but he calls the Times' publishing of the cables "hurtful." McCain talks to Howard Kurtz about the diplomatic fallout, Don't Ask Don't Tell, and more.

John McCain is upset about the huge pile of secret diplomatic cables that hit the press this week. And he isn't just blaming WikiLeaks.

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The Arizona Republican points an accusing finger at the American newspaper that obtained the cache of documents and is publishing them in nine lengthy installments.

"I wish The New York Times had chosen not to," McCain says in an interview. "It's harmful to the United States of America and our national security interests. Their argument is that it was coming out anyway. But there's a certain imprimatur of The New York Times...

Apparently now that he has defeated dogged opponent J.D. Hayworth in the senate primary it is safe for the old John McCain to raise his head again. McCain popped up on Fox News Sunday this morning and essentially told Chris Wallace that if the Gop intends to make permanent inroads in the midterms this fall it needs to be something other than the party of No.

For all the hype surrounding the John McCain-J.D. Hayworth Arizona Senate primary, all the entertainment Hayworth gave us - this was an anticlimactic conclusion. The AP reported McCain as the winner with barely over 10% of precincts reporting, and McCain holding an overwhelming 59%-30% lead. As for whether McCain will shift away from the right now that he's won - not if his victory speech (notably absent from two major cable news networks) is any indication.

Rick Sanchez is the sometimes combative and often entertaining CNN anchor, who is not only of proud Cuban-American heritage, but also a rather vocal advocate of immigration reform. J.D. Hayworth is the conservative talk radio host who is in a bitter primary running against Arizona's Senior senator John McCain, and a loud voice for anti-illegal immigration reform in the state of Arizona, the current hot spot from which this political discussion is being hotly debated.

J.D. Hayworth is a former conservative radio talk show host who is now running for U.S. Senate against Republican stalwart John McCain. On his own website, he refers to himself as the "consistent conservative" and claims "no greater danger to the security of our nation than our national debt." Yet now it appears that Hayworth once participated in an infomercial promoting a conference designed purely for attendees to take advantage (get rich!) of government grants (quickly!) Perhaps Hayworth should rethink the moniker of "consistent conservative?"...

Yesterday, brought us media pundits stumbling through basic citizenship questions, today brings us John McCain nemesis J.D. Hayworth stumbling through basic U.S. history questions...sort of. Hayworth is making some headlines for telling an audience member at local Gop gathering that technically speaking the U.S. never declared war in Nazi Germany. Cue collective gasp (and a lot of Texas textbook jokes). But does he have any wiggle room?...

A recent bill in the Arizona state legislature is requiring future presidential candidates to show his or her birth certificate in order to be on the state’s ballot. The controversial bill was brought up to Arizona Senatorial candidate, and former conservative radio talk show host, J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging John McCain in what's becoming a contentious primary. Hayworth's take on the bill? It doesn't go far enough.

Sick of talking about Glee while not being able to watch the series yet? Well, I’m not done. It’s starting to look like Fox is going to make a super-season of their hit show next year, with 25 new episodes instead of the planned 20-22 episodes.

If you want to watch HBO’s extremely boring-but-pretty WWII series The Pacific but don’t subscribe, you can watch the first episode online for free.

You can vote for several out actors and gay favs like Neil Patrick Harris and John Barrowman for Actor of the Month.

Director Michel Gondry already has one time travel film, The Master of Space and Time, in the can. Now he says he’s working on another one about “kids who travel [into] the future by mistake and a machine [that] keeps people younger.” They have some of the good stuff down at SXSW, don’t they?

Speaking of the good stuff,...