Wedgie: When a political party's "wedge" issue turns on them and instead of dividing the other party, begins to divide their own.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) believes that, were it his decision to make today, former President Ronald Reagan would force the 11 million undocumented immi...
Rather than lobbing loaded words like "amnesty," let's have a civil discussion about how to solve the problem that we've gotten ourselves into and how to prevent it from happening again.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), one of the most adamant opponents of the Senate's immigration reform bill and a longtime hardliner on immigrati...
WASHINGTON -- The limits of Marco Rubio's persuasive powers and charm, and the depth of conservative reservations about immigration reform, are beginn...
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the threat of d...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) suggested Sunday that the bipartisan immigration reform currently being negotiated by eight senators would not...
I support gay rights. Same-sex couples should have all the rights of heterosexual couples, and discrimination of any type must not be tolerated. But the marriage equality movement's desire for same-sex couples to be included in immigration reform is a recipe for disaster.
The Republican Party is at a crossroads. It could modernize some of its positions and attitudes, in a bid to stay relevant to national politics in 21st century America. Or it could shrink to becoming a party of the South, the Plains, and a dwindling portion of the Mountain West.
Alejandrino Honorato's journey began with a smuggler who led him across the Rio Grande, into the Texas desert with little food or water and finally to...
Remember when a big takeaway from the 2012 elections was the changing political calculus behind immigration reform?
Some knee-jerk immigration advocates would have the American public believe that nothing less than a speedy "path to citizenship" for 11 million illegal immigrants is the only just and humane solution to our dysfunctional immigration system. Nonsense.
WASHINGTON -- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) was noncomittal on Saturday when asked if Hawkeye State conservatives will warm to Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fl...
The president and Republicans are looking to move forward with an immigration debate that may not be as divisive as once thought. Recently, President...
So, the GOP are finally making some compromises with Democrats on illegal immigration. Why the sudden turnaround? As Jon Stewart explained -- or, more...
My piece on Marco Rubio's successful interview with Rush Limbaugh is up on the site. I point out that Limbaugh is, like Mark Levin, giving himself a w...
WASHINGTON -- Marco Rubio's plan to appear on conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh's radio show Tuesday had seemed, a day before, like a bad idea. Limbau...
WASHINGTON -- Immigration reform hit its first speed bump Monday when conservative talk radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh came out against a new bipartisan ...
Earlier this month, I asked someone close to Marco Rubio what they thought I should watch to see how the right reacts to his push for immigration refo...
To Congress I say: Round up the experts, look to the future and forget about tomorrow's vote. Pass an immigration reform bill that will heal our country and that will last for 50 years or more.
WASHINGTON -- More than two-thirds of Americans believe immigration reform should be a priority during President Barack Obama's second term, according...
Border control will be most effective - and least expensive - when our immigration laws look like they were written in the 21st century, rather than the 19th.
Why does the press feign puzzlement about what Romney is hiding by not revealing his 2009 tax returns?
Now that Mitt has trashed half the country for not paying taxes, we are entitled to know whether Mitt is in that half or not.The only way to do that is to do what his father told him: release 12 years of your tax returns.
Like you, I would like to get back to the big issues. But, my readings about Watergate prevent me from shirking my civic responsibility in putting to rest one of Nixon's own criteria: "The American people are entitled to know whether their president is a crook".
