Have you ever given some thought to how politicians and the media are well-schooled in the use of connotation versus denotation? Denotation is the basic definition of a word as found in the dictionary. Connotation is the emotion that comes…
There are two activities that mankind has engaged in relentlessly throughout pretty much all of history: peeing and paying taxes. And it is likely that earth’s first inhabitants did not have to pee. The Romans, with Vespasian, consolidated both activities…
Exactly 10 years ago, economist Michael Clemens published a paper in the prestigious Journal of Economic Perspectives called “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” He urged fellow economists to consider a paradigm shift in their research about immigration….
Rarely is the sequence of cause and effect so clear. The current surge of migrants at our southern border is the direct result of the Biden administration eliminating the Trump rules that had once tamed the flow. Gone are the…
In recent days, conservative media outfits have gleefully presented one of the least surprising headlines of modern times. Namely, that Joe Biden’s presidential approval rating has sunk below the waves. In the latest Rasmussen poll, Biden is now at a…
Republican governors are responding to the Biden administration’s bungling of the southern border situation by taking measures on their own. Earlier this week, The American Spectator and other outlets reported that Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas plans to secure Texas’s…
During the Trump presidency, Democratic activist groups routinely assailed the administration’s immigration policies as “lawless.” What really bothered these groups, however, was the Trump administration’s commitment to enforcing immigration law, which violated the non-enforcement ideology now in vogue among liberal…
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is leading the Biden administration’s response to immigration from Central America, embarked on a two-day trip to Mexico and Guatemala Sunday. Harris stressed that the purpose of her trip was to focus on the “root causes…
As illegal crossings at the southern border reach record-shattering levels, the Biden–Harris administration has struggled to reconcile its management of the surge with its attempt to break from Trump-era policy. Vice President Kamala Harris’s weekend visit to Guatemala highlighted this…
