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President Trump matches constitutionality to morality. Read More
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President Trump, relying on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as his spokesman Tuesday, rescinded a program created by President Obama that allowed children of undocumented immigrants in the United States to attend school and obtain work permits without citizenship.The president’s decision, reached after months of back-and-forth deliberations and public assurances that he would use “heart Read More
We have entered the most dangerous moment in world politics since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.The nightmare is only getting worse, thanks to North Korea’s increasingly rapid development of nuclear weapons, the missiles to deliver them, and the regime’s chilling threats to use them against the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.Last week, despite U.N. sanctions and China’s public call Read More
If you read any political commentary over the last few weeks, you probably heard that Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has problems. He’s in a feud with a president from his own party. His primary challenger led him in a recent poll. He may have trouble winning the general election in 2018 (if he makes it that far). His state has a large and growing Hispanic population -- which makes it a constant ta Read More
