By: Hans von Spakovsky – dailysignal.com – June 21, 2018 Who truly is responsible for the 2,000 alien kids who, according to the Associated Press, recently have been separated from their detained illegal alien parents? There is a lot of blame to share. That includes President Bill Clinton and the alien parents themselves, as well as the courts and immigration...

By: Nikki Haley – humanrightsvoices.org – June 2, 2018 “The president of Venezuela, whose government shoots protesters in the street, recently thanked the international community for its ‘universal vote of confidence’ in that country’s commitment to human rights. The Cuban deputy foreign minister, whose government imprisons thousands of political opponents, once said Cuba has historic prestige ‘in the promotion and...

By: Kate Shellnutt – christianitytoday.com – June 15, 2018 Trinity Western University has lost a years-long legal fight to launch what would be the only Christian law school in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada considered a pair of appeals cases involving regional law societies that refused to accredit the Trinity Western program due to the evangelical institution’s student covenant,...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – June 20, 2018 Immigration should be a winning issue for a restrictionist White House. Instead, the Trump administration keeps shooting itself in the foot. Whenever the populist advisers in the White House get their way on immigration policy, the result is chaos, disorder, hysteria, outrage, diminished popularity for the president, and an intensification...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 20, 2018 Will your actions match your rhetoric on family separations? Spend much time online, and you’ll quickly learn. It’s not enough to be opposed to family separation. It’s not enough to believe that Congress should act now to overturn the Flores consent decree, override administration policies, and keep families together at the...

By: Dennis Prager – stream.org – June 19, 2018 “Antifa” is to violence what the Southern Poverty Law Center is to words. In short, it is a hate group on the left. The Moral State of Culture The SPLC smears individuals and groups it differs with by labeling them as some form of “hater”: “racist,” “white supremacist,” “extremist” and the...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – June 19, 2018 Much has been written — some of it either inaccurate or designed to obfuscate the issue ahead of the midterms for political purposes — about the border fiasco and the unfortunate separation of children from parents. Rich Lowry’s brief analysis is the most insightful. The media outrage usually does not...

By: Daniel Darling – nationalreview.com – May 31, 2018 Sometimes fighting the problem can end up perpetuating it. It’s a conversation I have almost weekly with a friend or colleague. Can you believe how nasty our politics are? Incivility seems to be an epidemic. Many of our leading thinkers are telling us that our inability to get along seems to...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 18, 2018 It’s time for legislative impotence to end. One presidential administration enters into a consent decree that creates a “nationwide policy for the detention, release, and treatment of minors in the custody” of federal immigration authorities and makes it binding on future administrations. Another administration unilaterally implements a “catch and release” policy...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – May 28, 2018 The latest furor over Trump immigration policy involves the separation of children from parents at the border. As usual, the outrage obscures more than it illuminates, so it’s worth walking through what’s happening here. For the longest time, illegal immigration was driven by single males from Mexico. Over the last decade,...