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Another Amnesty in the Works
The Washington Post acknowledged recently that “establishment Republicans” were behind the effort to marginalize the border-hawk organizations, and that this “campaign . . . is another sign of how...
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Sovereignty and Activist Judges
Both citizens and states have cognizable rights under our federalist system of government, the regime set up by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Activist rulings by federal judges chip away at both...
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Killing the Death Penalty
Capital punishment loses its deterrent value as it is delayed long after murder and conviction at trial. The penalty is nullified entirely as death-row inmates increasingly die a natural death, while...
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“Me Too” Amnesty and the Hispanic Vote
The Republican Party’s challenges with Hispanics are of long standing and seemingly not connected to illegal immigration, but instead involve broader issues with the party’s platform and brand. By...
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The Tempting of Republican Governors
Obamacare’s promise to pay added Medicaid expenses upfront and the desire of the health-care industry to obtain government funding for uninsured walk-ins to local hospitals have eroded some governors’...
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Affirmative Action Times Two before the Supreme Court
By Andrew Thomas | April 25, 2013 University of Texas, Austin/photo: by Brandon WattsUniversity of Michigan/photo: Becas Education USA Two cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court will clarify...
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Biometrics, Visas and Immigration Reform
In building a case for a biometrics requirement, Sessions referred to what he described as a suppressed 2009 report from the Department of Homeland Security. The analysis concluded that a nationwide...
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Delivering the $10,000 College Degree
Governors and other leaders promoting the $10,000 degree are, with the same stroke, addressing two major challenges. They strike a blow against student debt and rising education costs. And they finally...
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Proposition 187: Arizona’s page from California’s illegal immigration playbook
In 2012, at the request of the Obama administration and U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the provision that made it a crime to enter Arizona illegally from a foreign country,...
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Debt Reduction Comes Back into Style
Federal debt now exceeds 70 percent of the nation’s annual GDP and stands at a higher percentage than at any time since right after World War II. At its current trajectory, federal debt will consume 77...
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Nullifying the Federal Leviathan
As states react to Obama initiatives that press the outer edges of mainstream public policy, they are passing laws that defy the federal government and federal power. By Andrew Thomas | August 14, 2013...
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Foreign Law, Sharia and American Jurisprudence
Increasingly, state legislatures have voted to ban the use of Sharia law in federal and state courts. Legislators in almost two-thirds of state legislatures have introduced bills in the last three...
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Ted Cruz and the Battle against ObamaCare
The visceral reaction to Cruz’s speech by media elites and even fellow Republicans was extraordinary. A few months before, another Texas politician, Democrat state senator Wendy Davis, received glowing...
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Media Bias and Conservative Setbacks in the Federal Shutdown
Staunch support from major news organizations was a trump card held by Obama and the Democrats throughout the dispute with congressional Republicans. They recognized early on, if not before the fight...
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Holder’s Assault on State Election Laws
The lawsuit was but one half of a two-pronged assault by the Holder Justice Department on Texas election practices. The department pursued separately a legal challenge to Texas’ congressional and...
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Ending the Filibuster
On November 21, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid followed through on threats to use the so-called nuclear option to overcome Republican opposition to President Barack Obama’s nominees to executive and...
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Barack Obama’s Tyranny by Executive Decree
By picking and choosing the laws he wishes to enforce, Obama has abrogated the duties he solemnly pledged to honor upon taking the oath of office as well as those responsibilities outlined in Article...
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The Renewed Pursuit of Amnesty
Senator Ted Cruz believes the House GOP leadership’s amnesty plan will prevent Republicans from retaking the Senate in November. Cruz told the conservative online publication Breitbart, “Amnesty is...
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The Closing of the Presidential Mind – Part 1: The Making of Barack Obama
Obama is the first product born of a broad-based effort by the political left that began in the 1960s to capture U.S. higher education and convert it into an incomparable device for molding young minds...
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The Closing of the Presidential Mind – Part 2: Growing Government
Beginning in the late 1970s, an offshoot of Marxism known as Critical Legal Studies took hold in the American legal academy. Born in May 1977 at a law and society colloquium at Madison, Wisconsin,...
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