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For Illinois, the bills come due

After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says "our rendezvous with reality has arrived."

Shrinking problem: Illegal immigration from Mexico

The illegal immigration problem is going away. That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.

'Reagan's Roots' proves there is much to learn about America's 40th president

Even with almost 1,000 books now published about Ronald Reagan, there is still much to discover, still much to learn about this endlessly fascinating man.

The Assault on Food

For every study that says X is bad for you, another study disagrees. How is a layman to decide?

Romney doing the job Republican establishment just won't do

Both as governor of Massachusetts and as a presidential candidate, Romney has supported a fence on the border, E-Verify to ensure that employees are legal and allowing state police to arrest illegal aliens.

Big Labor Tramples Employee Rights

The Employee Rights Act, introduced last year by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Tim Scott, seeks to grant workers the right to leave the union or to stop funding their political activities.

Conservative consumers: Stand your ground

Who is Rashad Robinson? And why has his fringe, race-baiting organization been able to pressure several major corporations into abandoning a pro-limited-government legislative association?

Devious taxation

It turns out that American taxpayers worked this year from Jan. 1 to April 17, 107 days, to earn enough money to pay their federal, state and local tax bills.

So far from God, so close to the United States

This day in history: Shots fired on the American-Mexican border

Who is 'racist'?

An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking -- and lack of thinking -- that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South.

Romney should choose bold colors, not pale pastels

Should the GOP presidential nominee run as a conservative or more of a centrist?

Something rotten in the State

With the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal, how much wider and deeper does this go?

Attacks on ALEC hypocritical and unfair

A cadre of liberal groups has decided the scourge of the nation is a little-known conservative organization that provides model legislation to state legislators across the country.

Liberal nostalgiacs don't understand jobs of the future

I don't know how many times I've seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line.

Hope isn't what it used to be

Young people gave Obama their votes. Obama has given them debt and despair.

The distractor-in-chief

President Obama has a unique capacity to draw the media's attention away from the serious and significant and toward the trivial and tedious.

Ted Nugent: Gibson Guitars, my favorite, harassed by feds

With a veritable arsenal of Gibson guitars and 6,500 flame throwing concerts under my belt, so far, I have turned the skulls of millions of fun musical gluttons to a fine dust over the past 50 years. As I write this, my gang of mighty Gibson Byrdland guitars are howling in savage delight as they know I will lovingly unleash them nightly all spring. . .

The Man in the Arena

This Day in History: Theodore Roosevelt gives a speech, describing the duties of free citizens.

Ann Romney should lead a 'Moms for Mitt' campaign on Facebook, Twitter

It's time that those in the GOP and Romney camp began making decisions based on the immediacy of online first and thinking print and television next.

Cruel and unusual -- a test case

Denying juveniles even a chance for parole defeats the penal objective of rehabilitation.
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