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Opinion

America started as local news; local newspapers delivered it

Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community to community. Most colonists did not witness the debates of the Continental Congress. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 talking ...

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 ...