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A maverick no more, Ariz. senator fends off challenge from the right What's to become of John McCain? Until Nov. 4, 2008, the Arizona senator could cherish the hope that his future depended more on New Hampshire and Florida voters than on those back home. But with his loss to Barack Obama in the presidential race, McCain's Arizona electorate reclaimed its career-ending power over him.

I was readying to write about an immigration article I found interesting and then a TARP article I found depressing, but then I realized that both articles were actually about John McCain and I could cover them in one post. The first is by Joanna Lydgate, and it examines the border-security bill McCain is pushing now that he's decided to stop supporting the comprehensive approach to immigration reform that he once understood to be necessary. It includes an expansion of Project Streamline, a policy aimed at criminally prosecuting and imprisoning every illegal immigrant picked up by authorities. Lydgate, who's studied...