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For over a century, immigrants coming to America had to show that they were healthy before they were allowed to stay. The present disaster at the southern border is now bringing to light another aspect of sensible immigration that the Obama administration is ignoring. The tight conditions at the ad hoc holding areas and camps…
Considering its participation in the new Palestinian unity government, Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel should lead the U.S. to cut the hundreds of millions in assistance it gives to the Palestinian Authority each year. The Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to form a unity government with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas raises questions about the significant…
After a relatively successful first round of presidential elections in Afghanistan in April, the second round—held June 14—has led to a full-blown political crisis that jeopardizes both the future stability of the state and the hard-won development and security gains by U.S. and NATO forces over the last 12½ years. If Afghans can’t achieve a…
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund claims 20 million Americans “gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act as of May 1.” But a closer look at that number reveals it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. First, the authors, Dr. David Blumenthal, president of Commonwealth, and Vice President Sara Collins, get to the…
American foreign policy has traditionally treated Pakistan as a security-seeking state, but C. Christine Fair suggests in Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War that Pakistan is an ideological and greedy state. Fair has observed the statements and actions of Pakistan’s military and has produced a seminal work that challenges conventional wisdom…
Despite statements from past and present Obama Administration officials that the U.S. border is secure, the recent influx of thousands of illegal aliens from Central America proves otherwise.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is not happy that conservatives are claiming the mantle of the Constitution. “You cannot talk for very long to a conservative these days without hearing the words ‘constitutional’ and ‘constitutionalist,’” Dionne wrote in a column published Sunday . Dionne urges his fellow progressives to “reclaim the Constitution” and “think constitutionally themselves.”…
Generation Opportunity has just released a new video with warnings about Obamacare featuring the character they made famous last year, “Creepy Uncle Sam.” This time, Uncle Sam is part of a carnival with shady looking characters, terrifying games and rides symbolic of various problems individuals have encountered in the Obamacare marketplace. The message? “They turned…
What started out as a normal Sunday morning for Jeffrey Williamson of Blanchester, Ohio, turned into a nightmare when police officers showed up to his front door and arrested him in front of his family. His crime? Child endangerment—as the authorities described it—because his son skipped church to go play with friends. He now faces…
Obama administration officials have said for years that the border “is as secure as ever,” but the huge increase in the number of illegal aliens crossing the U.S. southern border in 2014 alone prove otherwise. Heritage Foundation experts say a multitude of factors are contributing to the recent influx, including President Barack Obama’s lax enforcement…
Principals in Washington, D.C.’s public schools are taking on a new role this summer: neighborhood canvasser. They have been going door-to-door in an effort to retain and recruit students amid a growing charter and choice sector in the nation’s capital. As the Washington Post reported last week: “The District’s traditional public school system is sending…
Hong Kong may sound remote and exotic to many Americans, but what happens there affects many here and its continued success and prosperity is in our national interest. So when China, Hong Kong’s ruler for 17 years, behaves with truculence toward this former British colony, the Obama administration should do better than shrug its shoulders…
Once again, the U.S. government’s international broadcasting is at the center of a storm of its own making. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced deep cuts in services for Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia shortwave transmissions to Asia, effective end of business June 30. These cuts include programs…
Japan is one of the few countries in the world likely to experience something that popular movies have predicted for years: a robot revolution. That isn’t to say that the human race is at risk of extinction from Skynet taking command of a robot army (The Terminator, 1984), or needs Will Smith to shut down…
“We wanted to do things right” is the theme of the love story between newlyweds Doug and Magdy Sampson. An American and a Guatemalan, the Sampsons were determined to live and marry in America as quickly as possible, but soon found out the U.S. immigration process was far from easy or quick. Their story gives…
School’s out, and I’m terrified my two teenage boys won’t get a job this summer and will sit around watching TV, playing computer games or just eating me out of house and home. Idle hands really are the devil’s workshop, and at this stage, I’d pay an employer to get the kids out of the…
Flip through the latest National Security Strategy and the Pentagon‘s Quadrennial Defense Review — these are the documents describing how President Obama envisions using foreign and defense policy to keep the United States safe, free and prosperous in a world that appears increasingly unfriendly to America’s interests. The words “strategic early warning” don’t figure in…
June’s Supreme Court ruling limiting President Obama’s authority to make recess appointments is a victory for constitutional government. But before Americans celebrate too much, they should take heed of the White House spin the next day. After saying how deeply disappointed the president was, Press Secretary Josh Earnest added: “The president is in no way…
President Barack Obama again sought to make the case to the American people for “dealing with the rapidly growing threat of climate change” last month, in a speech to the League of Conservation Voters. Right up front he said that his speech would not have “a lot of spin, just the facts.” When a politician…
University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides is refusing to comply with a state law that requires all public universities to teach students about America’s founding documents, including the Constitution, calling it “archaic.” In a bit of irony that is apparently lost on Pastides, USC claims the state law is itself unconstitutional. Section 59-29-120 of…