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Arizona and illegal immigration
Matt C. Abbott |
May 20, 2010
CLIFF KINCAID The late CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite is named in a just-released FBI document from 1986 as being targeted in a Soviet "active measures" campaign against President Reagan's anti-communist foreign policy... (more)
May 19, 2010
FOX NEWS Rep. Joe Sestak sent Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter into retirement Tuesday with a stunning come-from-behind victory in the Democratic primary... (more)
May 19, 2010
CONNIE HAIR Political newcomer Dr. Rand Paul has easily won the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, according to Associated Press reports... (more)
May 19, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS An aide to the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha won a special election to fill the final months of his boss's term
May 19, 2010
FOX NEWS If Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight. That's the message from a member of Arizona's top government utilities agency, who threw down the gauntlet Tuesday in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution... (more)
May 19, 2010
WALTER E. WILLIAMS My sentiments on immigration are expressed by the welcoming words of poet Emma Lazarus' that grace the base of our Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Those sentiments are probably shared by most Americans and for sure by my libertarian fellow travelers, but their vision of immigration has some blind spots... (more)
May 19, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman moved quickly Wednesday to advance Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan down a so-far smooth road to confirmation, setting hearings for June 28... (more)
May 19, 2010
TERENCE P. JEFFREY Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has expended a great deal of intellectual energy searching for a rationalization that would preserve freedom of speech for viewpoints she likes while imposing government controls on speech she does not like... (more)
May 19, 2010
NEWSMAX Although comedian/director Woody Allen seemed dead serious with his star-struck comment that President Obama is doing such a stellar job that he should become dictator, bloggers are having fun jeering at not only Allen but also the idea... (more)
May 19, 2010
MICHELLE MALKIN Back in 1984, when the late Jeane J. Kirkpatrick gave her famous "Blame America First" speech to the Republican National Convention, liberals at least waited for something bad to happen before blaming America... (more)
May 19, 2010
JOHN STOSSEL In America, we're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Life, liberty and property can't be taken from you unless you're convicted of a crime. Your life and liberty may still be safe, but have you ever gone to a government surplus auction? Consumer reporters like me tell people, correctly, that they are great places to find bargains. People can buy bikes for $10, cars for $500... (more)
May 19, 2010
A.W.R. HAWKINS In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan used every means at his disposal to bring Communist dictators to their knees because he believed that the human heart, by God's design, longed to be free... (more)
May 18, 2010
CNSNEWS.COM The pro-abortion left appears to be losing the battle for the heart and soul of the rising generation of Americans, according to new data released by the Gallup poll... (more)
May 18, 2010
JOSEPH FARAH It's always surprising to me when I hear from people calling themselves "conservatives" or tea- party members who say they only care about "economic" issue, not "social issues." First of all, as I've explained before, all political issues are "social issues" because they are about people... (more)
May 18, 2010
WORLDNETDAILY Buried in the recently passed health-care reform bill is a new law granting one of the nation's largest corporate lobbyists what it has been targeting for years: Death to its competition, and, consequently, a heavy blow to patient choice... (more)
May 18, 2010
NEWSMAX There are growing signs the White House is trying to distance itself from what it now expects to be an embarrassing defeat of incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter at the hands of Rep. Joe Sestak, a candidate the Obama administration staunchly opposed... (more)
May 18, 2010
FRANK J. GAFFNEY JR. President Obama will formally begin today one of the greatest bait-and-switch operations since the fabled "Emperor's New Clothes." With high-profile appearances before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by his secretaries of state and defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he will try to persuade senators to vote for the defective New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START)... (more)
May 17, 2010
DAVID LIMBAUGH You surely know the drill by heart: Barack Obama promised to run the most transparent White House in history
May 17, 2010
THOMAS SOWELL One of the many shallow statements that sound good
May 17, 2010
SEN. JIM DEMINT There's been a lot of hand-wringing over Arizona's attempt to enforce our nation's immigration laws but not much information about how the federal government has dropped the ball... (more)
May 17, 2010
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, should share with us her view of Arizona's controversial immigration law. No excuses. The law's validity will be under her purview either as the current Solicitor General or as a future Justice... (more)
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