The Oscars' Battle of the Exes "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow faces off against ex-husband and "Avatar" director James Cameron in two Oscar categories. Hollywood is taking sides.  

  Prosecutors to Question Rove
 Former Bush adviser will be interviewed tomorrow as part of criminal investigation into dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006, sources say. (Photo: Getty)    

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 Immigration Bill Reflects a Firebrand’s Impact "Passage of the law, which would, among other things, allow the authorities to demand proof of legal entry into the United States from anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, testified to the relative lack of political power of Arizona Latinos, and to the hardened views toward illegal immigration among Republican politicians both here and nationally."     Read Article   

 Why Reagan would never have taken the Tea Party's ‘purity pledge’Tim Reid: commentary Members of the Tea Party invoke their hero, Ronald Reagan, at every opportunity. Yet the reality is that he would fervently disagree with them on the issue of immigration, and as a deeply pragmatic politician find their rigid ideological purity unappealing.There is no doubt Reagan would have approved of the call for smaller government, less spending and lower taxes, but one thing many Tea Party members do not mention — or do not know — is that Reagan actually raised taxes three times as President.The Republican National Committee recently adopted a “purity pledge” for candidates — a list of ten priorities pushed by the Tea Party movement and named after Reagan, which includes “opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants”.Yet Reagan was a chief proponent of immigration and opportunity even for America’s illegal immigrants. He signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, a law that set three million illegal immigrants then in the US on the path to legality and eventually citizenship. Reagan saw the move as bowing to the reality that illegal immigrants would not leave, and a recognition of the hard work many do.So the Tea Party’s golden boy would not have enjoyed the anti-immigrant fervour emanating from the convention. He came from an age when ideological purity always came second to pragmatism. That is something that is being lost in the modern Republican Party.