Migration Madness 2010: Racial Profiling Tournament Brackets

Arizona's recent bid to lead as America's biggest racial profiler has already received backing from Michigan, Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, and the Northern Mariana Islands, among others. But now seven of Mexico's fellow Latin American countries have followed its lead with motions in supports of lawsuits challenging Arizona's immigration enforcement law SP1070…

Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru filed separate, nearly identical motions to join Mexico's legal brief supporting the lawsuit filed by U.S. civil rights and other advocacy groups….

Mexico says the law would lead to racial profiling and hinder trade, tourism and the fight against drug trafficking.

You know what that means, don't you? It's time for Migration Madness, the tournament in which political entities slug it out in the headlines for the title — no, the legal right, actually — to have or not have Constitutionally unsound racial profiling implemented within the United States.

And, no that we know which governing bodies have qualified, we can finally draw up the tournament seedings, which are based upon several factors, including country ranking, win-loss war record, ethnicity, and whether or not I think a country had a funny name. Continue after the jump to see how it shakes out…

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Tags: Alabama, Arizona, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Immigration, Michigan, Mike Cox, Nebraska, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia

"The Only Good Communist Is a Dead Communist," at Least According to This Very Loud Person

This teabagger guy seems like a nice, reasonable, even-keeled fellow. I wonder what gems of political science he has to offer the world. Let's find out…

I wonder if this guy has considered running for Congress.

(via BuzzFeed)

Tags: Communism, Health Care, House of Representatives, Military, Nicaragua, Socialism, Tea Party