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Supreme Court overreaches on birth tourism

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is a relic of a bygone era of revolution. The Founders could not have contemplated that it would apply to semiautomatic handguns. The Founders absolutely could not have contemplated that it would apply to machine guns. The Founders could not have foreseen mass shootings. It is silly, therefore, to think the Second Amendment applies to present weaponry and situations. Therefore, there must be some other, more specific meaning to the Amendment related to the “well-regulated militia.” That is the progressive argument, in a nutshell. The 14th ...

Looking back to where it all began for US

As our country celebrated not just any Independence Day, but the 250th anniversary of one of the boldest declarations in human history, the festivities gave us an excellent opportunity to look back on two-and-a-half centuries of this American experiment and check ourselves against what the ...

US maintains proud legacy of service, sacrifice

As our nation marks its 250th anniversary this summer, it is worth reflecting on the principles that have defined American values and success over those two and a half centuries: freedom, liberty, opportunity, and sacrifice. Of those, sacrifice may not be what first comes to mind when ...

Birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants is insane

Weeks after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump looked to cut straight to the heart of birthright citizenship — the notion that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen — through an executive order titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” that looked to impede automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. But in a massive blow to the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court just decided that this executive order violated the 14th Amendment, specifically the first line of Section 1:”All persons born ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfield grant program for awarding the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. a $1 million grant to continue the great progress that it already has made toward revitalizing the Glenwood Avenue corridor on the South Side. The new funds will finance cleanup of at least two contaminated sites on the heavily trafficked road and do testing on others. Among the successes achieved have been targeted sidewalk replacements, ongoing commercial building restorations and the development of a five-year master plan to guide future growth. ...

Celebrate freedoms and history of nation, Valley for America250

“We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Since those eloquent words adopted 250 years ago Saturday as the bedrock foundation of America’s Declaration of Independence, the United States has remained steadfastly true to its nation-defining goals. It’s not always been easy or without pain, anger and bloodshed, but in those 2 1/2 centuries, the United States has worked consistently to slowly but surely expand its ...