At Ronald Reagan Library, GOP Candidates Reject Ronald Reagan's Immigration Vision
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally,” Reagan said in 1984.
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally,” Reagan said in 1984.
"Our party does face a time for choosing," said the former vice president last night.
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GOP presidential hopefuls should be more clear about the school choice policies they support.
A positive vision for America's future at the Republican debate
It’s highly unlikely that it would pass constitutional muster.
"He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt that set the stage for the inflation that we have."
DeSantis has already removed two reform prosecutors from office in Florida. A federal judge ruled he violated the First Amendment in one of those cases.
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Until Congress is willing to acknowledge that it makes no sense to send monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
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The Colorado governor finds common ground with many libertarians. But does he really stand for more freedom?
This awful idea is increasingly popular on the right, and has been embraced by several GOP presidential candidates.
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The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
The GOP presidential candidate also definitively said climate change is real.
In last night's Republican presidential debate, candidates floated various forms of military action against drug cartels.
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Legislators abuse the emergency label to push through spending that would otherwise violate budget constraints.
It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
The surging candidate, a political unknown, articulated a foreign policy that was somewhat more libertarian than his rivals.
Accusing competitors of being "super PAC puppets," just asking questions about conspiracies, and lying about the media is all of the same successful populist piece.
"Donald Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," Haley said during the opening moments of Wednesday's first Republican primary debate.
At best, tonight's debate is a glorified preseason football game—an unwatchable spectacle that no one ought to enjoy.
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It was never a principled fight against special privileges granted to a private company.
Haley seeks to make her relative youthfulness a selling point. It hasn't caught on among primary voters, but it's nonetheless worth considering whether the oldest candidates are always the best.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
The Democrats and Republicans seem ripe for replacement. But how and by what?
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New legislation would intervene in the credit card market to help businesses like Target and Walmart, who don't like the fees they have to pay to accept credit card payments.
He'd be a stronger candidate if he applied that thinking to situations that don't involve former President Donald Trump.
Though the 2024 Republican candidate's proposals vary in seriousness, they feature plenty of prohibition and brute government force.
The crowd at the socially conservative FAMiLY Leadership Summit was not receptive, and Glenn Beck likened the Arkansas governor's performance to the crash of the Hindenburg.
It's a familiar program. And it will result in higher prices, slower growth, and fewer jobs.
Many politicians offer a simplified view of the world—one in which government interventions are all benefits and no costs. That couldn't be further from the truth.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.
Why are some Republicans turning their backs on the free market principles we’ve advocated for generations?
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Unlike Democrats, Senate and House Republicans have released proposals that would actually tackle the root causes of increasing student loan debt.
Left-wing totalitarianism and right-wing authoritarianism are not our only options.
The legislation—which was introduced in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—pushes pet projects and would worsen the status quo.
In 2019, the Trump administration blocked a costly and ineffective mandate for two-man railroad crews long sought by unions. Now, the former president wholeheartedly supports it.
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