Ben Shapiro on Obama’s immigration speech: “Using American children for props once again, today President Obama spoke at the majority Hispanic Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada to stump for a general amnesty plan for millions of illegal immigrants. Unlike the bipartisan framework presented by eight Senators, which includes an attempt at enforcement, Obama had no interest in actual border protection; that would thwart his goal of creating millions of new Democratic voters out of whole cloth, then using that measure as a magnet to attract millions of potential Democratic voters across the border.” As a special bonus, the high school where Obama spoke is failing several objective measures associated with No Child Left Behind.

The former president of a California SEIU-affiliated union with 150,000 members, Tyrone Freeman, was convicted of embezzlement and faces up to 180 years in prison.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood resigned. Matt Purple writes: “He stepping down now, presumably to spend more time with his moped.”

A bipartisan group of Senators is working on legislation to expand background checks for would-be gun purchasers.

An academic study of Occupy Wall Street concluded that a disproportionately high number of the “occupiers” were college educated white kids from middle class backgrounds (disproportionate relative to New York City’s general population). The leadership was similar in composition: “The protests were largely organized by a core group of experienced activists who were ‘disproportionately white and male,’ according to the researchers.”

It’s time for another Victor Davis Hanson ode to the failed state of California: “In the flesh, the energetic people I associate with during the week in Silicon Valley and see on the Stanford campus and on University Avenue are, it must be said, innovative folk, but soft apartheidists: where they live, where their kids go to schools, where they eat, and whom they associate with are governed by a class, and de facto racial, sensibility that would make Afrikaners of old proud.”

Chinese and North Korean missile technicians have been spotted in Egypt, apparently working to modernize that country’s SCUD arsenal. We should definitely be shipping F–16s and Abrams tanks to Egypt. Definitely.

Chinese authorities hauled away senior monks from the Drepung, Sera, and Ganden monasteries in Tibet earlier this month and they haven’t been heard from since.