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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other congressional Republicans are floating the idea of abolishing birthright citizenship, which makes the children of undocumented immigrants automatic citizens, to decrease undocumented immigration. The negative consequences would be an affront to conservative values and vastly outweigh any imagined benefits. Legally, there is some controversy …

I don’t know about you, but I have nightmares about Rand Paul, Sharron Angle and Jerry Brown as a result of the onslaught of political ads on television these past few weeks. And, with less than a week to go, there literally isn’t enough time in the day on some …

“The Social Network,” the movie about the creation of Facebook, was number one at the box office again this past weekend for the second week in a row. Who knows? It may even be #1 again this weekend, as well. — Talk about a public relations crisis for Facebook founder …

Can the standard image of the United States government drawn from popular culture and leftist fantasy survive the WikiLeaks revelations? That image suggests the U.S. government controls everything and everybody and does so in a manner that would charitably be described as immoral — almost as though Satan were the …

President Obama was in Pennsylvania on Monday, trying to sell his health care plan to America at a town hall meeting. As Congress continues to debate how to move forward with health care reform its members should take this time to revisit the “purchase requirement” included in both the House …

It has been almost a year since President Obama was sworn in as our nation’s fourty-fourth president. The hype over the “Obama brand” and the promise for “change” was deafening from Obama supporters and much of the media leading up to and after the inauguration. Now, after a year in …

This morning I was in a Northern Virginia grocery store and while waiting in line struck up a conversation with a little girl and her mother. The girl looked as if she might be in first or second grade. “Did you enjoy all the time off from the snow?” I …

The U.S. Supreme Court will need the wisdom of Solomon as it navigates the case of Hastings vs. Martinez. At stake are questions of free speech in America and whether faith groups are being unduly targeted for discrimination. In 2004 Hastings College in San Francisco withdrew the Legal Christian Society’s …

We spend one-and-a-half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we aren’t any healthier for it. — President Obama in his address to a joint session of Congress on health care on September 9, 2009. If you were seriously ill, what country would you want …

As Barack Obama’s poll numbers collapse along with support for his initiatives, the left in our country has continued to shamefully refer to any American that doesn’t agree with the president as racist. On Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter joined this growing list telling NBC’s Brian Williams: “I think an …