Policy Multiple Choice Quiz

by Pete Spiliakos

A quiz: Which of the following sets of policies is best? Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2015 0

The Conservative Principle in Obama’s Refusal to Act

by James R. Rogers

Conservatives have been critiquing President Obama’s proposed executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. But the principle underlying the proposal is one that conservatives might want to accept rather than criticize. He is refusing, under certain conditions, to take action authorized by law. That is, he is choosing to allow certain categories of private action to stand by refusing to apply authorized responses. Continue Reading »

25 Nov 2014 0

The Ice Is Breaking Part II

by Pete Spiliakos

 To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low-skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low-skill Americans and low-skill noncitizen . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Jan 2014 0

Bobby Jindal Is Right About The Gang of Eight, Wrong About Pretty Much Everything Else

by Pete Spiliakos

Bobby Jindal has written an article on immigration reform. Reihan Salam comes down pretty hard on it . Jindal is against the Gang of Eight plan, but the main difference I see between Jindal and the Gang of Eight is that Jindal wants the process of certifying the border secure to happen before the . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Jul 2013 0

Heroin, the Kid Next Door and Postmodern Society

by Kate Pitrone

This morning a young friend made a Facebook offering referring to people he knows caught up in the heroin epidemic.  The article is actually about the benefits of the drug, naloxone , in preventing death from overdose. “They said it worked right away,” says Trish. “They said . . . . Continue Reading »

24 May 2013 0

What is Terrorism’s Real Threat to Liberty?

by Kate Pitrone

Over at the Ashbrook Center’s website, David Tucker , of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism.   Living in freedom means living with risk.  It means accepting danger.  The only way . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Apr 2013 0

Bombers, COEXISTence and Immigration Reform

by Kate Pitrone

It is hard to imagine that the incident in Boston will not have an effect on the immigration reform debate in America.  All speculations about who the bombers could be, Caucasian, Muslim jihadist, American citizen, foreign born, all seem to be true; all of these possibilities assimilate in the . . . . Continue Reading »

20 Apr 2013 0