Why We Like The Agitator

Who says you can't polish a turd? In an interview given to the blog-on-blog site Bloggasm, Radley Balko deftly massages a crap question posed to him about "Mexicans" voting in the U.S., giving a typically thoughtful and well-informed response...

Simon Owens: As the election season begins to warm up, how do you think the Immigration issues will affect the election results? Will there be a mass mobilization of Mexicans to the polls to vote for Democrats?

Radley Balko: I’m not sure about that. The Democrats seem to be pretty pro-immigrant. But then, so is the White House and the RNC. I suppose it’s possible that Hispanics might try to send a message to the anti-immigrant wing of the GOP, but remember, only U.S. citizens can vote. That rules out all of the undocumented immigrants, as well as all non-citizen immigrants here legally.

...and also identifies this very blog as one of his lesser-known faves.

I like To the People, a group blog that skews heavily libertarian, but branches beyond public policy into sports, celebrity, and irreverence. They’re very, very funny, too.