• President Bush says critics of the immigration bill haven’t read it. Just imagine how angry they’ll be when they do.
• Fred Thompson got a step closer to entering the presidential primaries by forming an “exploratory committee.” He has ardent fans – the polls have him in the top tier of the race he has not even entered – but there are off-the-record scoffers in the other Republican campaigns. They say his first day in the race will be his best; that his major strength is not having bored everyone by campaigning over the last year. That is a mistake. Thompson has the most consistently conservative record of any of the top candidates; he is a serious man with well-thought-through positions; and he has a knack for presenting conservative philosophy as simple common sense. His rivals would do well not to underestimate him.
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