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Birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants is insane

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Weeks after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump looked to cut straight to the heart of birthright citizenship — the notion that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen — through an executive order titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” that looked to impede automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. But in a massive blow to the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court just decided that this executive order violated the 14th Amendment, specifically the first line of Section 1:”All persons born ...

US legacy of service, sacrifice

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As our nation marks its 250th anniversary this summer, it is worth reflecting on the principles that have defined American values and success over those two and a half centuries: freedom, liberty, opportunity, and sacrifice. Of those, sacrifice may not be what first comes to mind when talking about what makes America prosperous, but it is among the key ingredients to what has made our republic great. Every generation of Americans has sacrificed so that the next generation would be better off. My own life is evidence of that sacrifice. My birth mother, unable to care for another ...

Looking back to where it all began for US

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As our country celebrated not just any Independence Day, but the 250th anniversary of one of the boldest declarations in human history, the festivities gave us an excellent opportunity to look back on two-and-a-half centuries of this American experiment and check ourselves against what the ...

Do Dems have the guts to let toxic nominee lose?

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One of the saddest posts this weekend featured Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a moderate, welcoming three Democratic Socialist of America candidates who had won primaries with a handful votes. They included Darializa Avila Chevalier, a nutcase who called for abolishing the borders, police and prisons in addition to accusing Joe Biden of rape. That she deleted those posts doesn’t erase the intellectual deficiencies behind them. Republicans are already putting together a compendium of quotes from Chevalier and other DSA nominees to slow or even reverse expected GOP ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Some sobering and sad thoughts to consider DEAR EDITOR: I find it incredibly sad to know that: Not only is racism rampant in our country and accepted by so many, but that it is led first and foremost by our president. That this administration is working to erase black history and replace it with lies. Almost 7,000 immigrant children are in detention centers right now. The number of children killed in these latest wars numbers in the thousands. Immigrants are being rounded up, thrown to the ground and beaten by thugs who would never let that happen to their own family ...

War and constitutional indifference

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Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has resulted in federal regulation of matters too infinitesimal to measure, that are not ...