The Clash Over Immigration, Part 3

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As we approach another election, the immigration debate will intensify. The competing factions will ramp up their influence campaigns hoping to gain our support. These marketing efforts have and will include real stories of hardship, abuse and criminality. The stories are likely true. The difficulty is they engage emotions over critical analysis diverting us from …

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To Save Social Security Retirement, Stop Giving Disability Payments To Healthy People, Transfer Disability Fund To Retirement Fund

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To Save Social Security Retirement, Stop Giving Disability Payments To Healthy People, Transfer Disability Fund To Retirement Fund

One thing I noticed during my 34 years (1986 to 2020) practicing law in Oregon, if you knew how to play the game, non-disabled people could “qualify” for monthly Social Security Disability benefits which, if one timed it right, would guarantee lifelong monthly payments more than the person would receive as a retiree. Share STEP …

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Exxon Lawyer Joins DOJ. The Green Panic Brigade Loses Its Mind.

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America is about to need more electricity than at any time in generations. AI, reshored manufacturing, data centers, and national security don’t run on hashtags—they run on abundant, reliable energy. So when a veteran ExxonMobil attorney joins the Justice Department, the usual professional panic merchants act like civilization is ending. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy. Maybe it’s just common sense. If America wants to outbuild China instead of outsourcing its future, we’d better start hiring people who know how to keep the lights on.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught!

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The credentialed media rarely tell us outright lies, but sometimes you have to look pretty closely to find the parts they don’t want for you to know. From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Getting ‘legal status’ in America is harder than most people think. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE before he could.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist | Monday, July 13, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday in Houston. He arrived in the U.S. from Mexico 35 years ago, built a construction business, and became one of five people killed by federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s plan of mass deportation.

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The Clash Over Immigration, Part 2

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History is a continuum, an endless stream where the past informs the present, and the present shapes the future. Consequently, the historical record helps us interpret today’s heated immigration debates and chart a course forward. In Part One of this series, we reviewed two recent immigration flash points – the SAVE Act and the partial …

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Lindsey Graham, a profile in courage

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Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend from a heart attack, two days after his 71st birthday. He left behind no wife, no children and not much of a fortune—at best $3 million after 33 years in Congress.

But he bequeathed to the American people a fair and impartial Supreme Court that had the boldness to take on the powers of the federal bureaucracy (West Virginia v. EPA) and return to the states powers previous courts and Congress had stolen (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization).

“21st Century ROAD to Housing” Act is a Highway to Socialist Hell

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The Republican part of the bi-partisan housing bill passed (Senate: 85-5, House: 358-32) is typically Republican. Clueless. Short-sighted. Un-principled. Needless spending the Nation into bankruptcy. Un-Constitutional. Foolish beyond contempt. Enabling the Democrat road to Socialism.

The Monroe Doctrine 2.0: Europe, It’s Time to Grow Up

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For 75 years, America has been Europe’s security blanket. Maybe it’s time to fold it up. The Monroe Doctrine wasn’t about policing the entire planet—it was about protecting our own hemisphere first. NATO still matters. Article 5 still matters. But Europe’s wealthy democracies aren’t helpless children anymore. Build your armies. Fund your defense. Guard your own neighborhood. Uncle Sam can still be the backstop—but it’s time to stop treating him like an unlimited credit card with a standing military attached.