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I smell progress. Maybe it’s Judge Hudson’s ruling on the insurance mandate in Obamacare, or maybe it’s the EPA backing off from imposing new pollution rules. It could be better-than-expected retail sales, higher home starts and declining unemployment claims. Possibly it’s having just finished my Christmas shopping. Whatever the cause, …

America’s most senior foreign policy officials defended the merits of the first strategic arms control treaty to be brought before the Senate in almost 20 years last week. Secretaries Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, and Admiral Michael Mullen went to bat on behalf of the Obama administration, which is anxious for …

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 …