Text: Americans Lose While Immigrants Gain American-born workers have had a net loss in jobs since 2000, while all of the job growth since then has gone to immigrants, according to a remarkable new study by the Center for Immigration … [Read more...] about Americans Lose While Immigrants Gain — July 2014
Furor About Plan for Illegal Kids
Officials of the Obama Administration trekked out to a tiny rural community in southern Virginia to teach the local yokels a thing about immigration policy. Yet the lessons learned were not by the local farmers, but by the bureaucrats who got more … [Read more...] about Furor About Plan for Illegal Kids
Amnesty Lost Big in Cantor’s Defeat
Elections have consequences, and the stunning defeat of the heir apparent for leadership of the Republican Party, Eric Cantor, continues to reverberate throughout the political world. Completely caught off guard by this spectacular upset, the liberal … [Read more...] about Amnesty Lost Big in Cantor’s Defeat
Growing Rejection of Common Core
The most controversial current issue in education today is clearly Common Core. It’s being more hotly debated than bullying, zero tolerance, sex ed, abortion, or even school lunches. Common Core is the title of a new set of standards that the … [Read more...] about Growing Rejection of Common Core
The Racket of Guest Workers
Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president, just hurled a challenge to Republicans. If they don’t pass amnesty for illegal aliens, they “shouldn’t bother to run a candidate in 2016.” Somebody probably told him that … [Read more...] about The Racket of Guest Workers
Growing Rejection of Common Core — June 2014
Text: Growing Rejection of Common Core The most controversial current issue in education today is clearly Common Core. It’s being more hotly debated than bullying, zero tolerance, sex ed, abortion, or even school lunches. Common Core is the … [Read more...] about Growing Rejection of Common Core — June 2014
Window Into the Future
The problems with the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) giving inferior and delayed care to veterans is a good window into the future of Obamacare. Both the VA and Obamacare suffer the endemic problems of a government-run single-payer system (a.k.a. … [Read more...] about Window Into the Future
Semicentennial of LBJ’s War on Poverty
This year, the cheerleaders for big government are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the launching of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. This should be an occasion for mourning, not celebration, because that was the most expensive legislative … [Read more...] about Semicentennial of LBJ’s War on Poverty
My Child Is Not Common
“My Child Is Not Common” are the words on the attention-getting signs carried by a group of white and African-American mothers protesting the adoption of the aggressively promoted Common Core standards. Common Core is scheduled to take … [Read more...] about My Child Is Not Common
China Overtaking America
Financial Times sent shock waves through the U.S. business community last week when headlines announced that China will overtake the United States as the “world’s leading economic power this year,” a title we’ve held … [Read more...] about China Overtaking America
