Feb 6, 2012
During his 2008 campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama pledged to place comprehensive immigration reform among his first acts if elected.
Since then, he has repeated this pledge to no effect. During his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama managed to...
Jan 26, 2012
Recently during a brief hospital stay, I had the opportunity to hear a new silent majority finding its voice.
As the admissions nurse interspersed medical questions with chit-chat to put the patient at ease, our conversation drifted to the program on the bedside television...
Jan 9, 2012
On December 6, 2011, at Osawatomie, Kansas, President Barack Obama set out to re-energize his re-election campaign by praising the new nationalism ideas delivered at Osawatomie in 1911 by then-former president Teddy Roosevelt.
TR s comments were delivered at a dedication...
Nov 28, 2011
Freshmen U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Chris Coons, D-Del., have exercised the unusual for Capitol Hill in this legislative session. On Nov. 15, they joined forces to introduce a bill that addresses job-creating needs, small business needs, research and development...
Nov 14, 2011
The Founding Fathers who crafted the U.S. Constitution intentionally left voting qualifications to the states, which in turn linked voting rights to U.S. citizenship.
Over the years, Constitutional amendments have clarified voting rights: the 14th Amendment granted U.S....
Oct 17, 2011
A front-page article in The Washington Post on Sept. 29 dealt with childhood poverty and concluded, Biggest group of poor kids is Latino .
The article referenced a Pew Hispanic Center report issued the previous day, titled Childhood Poverty among Hispanics Sets Record,...
Sep 23, 2011
On July 7, 2011, the U.S. Department of Treasury's inspector general for tax administration issued a startling report entitled Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable Credits.
No wonder the nation s finances...
Sep 6, 2011
While the New York Times masthead reads: All the News That s Fit to Print, the newspaper picks and chooses facts that support its liberal stance.
On Aug. 28, 2011, for instance, an NYT editorial entitled The Nation s Cruelest Immigration Law maligned immigration...