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When I was seven years old, I moved to an American Navy base called Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba.  I moved there in 1998, at that time not many people knew that it existed. Then, on September 11, 2001 my life changed. I was young at the time, but I knew that something bad had happened [...]

President Obama faces several important decisions in the coming months. With oil prices soaring, with unemployment still near 9 percent, with major conflicts occurring abroad and major fiscal decisions to be made, Issues vital to domestic and international security remain unanswered by President Obama. More importantly, he confronts these issues now lacking a Democratic majority [...]

As shown on The Foundry There is no shortage of criticism of our immigration laws from detractors who contend that they are unjust and immoral. And though criticism of U.S. immigration laws can be fierce – particularly in the case of Arizona’s SB 1070, the Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Acts – Mexico’s much harsher immigration [...]

Only in Obama’s America could a congressman who made the right statement at the wrong time be called a racist. But that’s exactly what happened to South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson, herald of the now infamous “you lie!” interjection that sent on-call Washington hyper-partisans into a raving frenzy after the president’s big health care speech [...]

We hear a lot about how President Obama has bypassed the senate judicial process to appoint czars to control sections of public policy, but, unless you watch Fox News, you have not heard the full extent of the controversies. I am simply providing a snapshot of just a few of Obama’s 38 czars to give [...]

In today’s society, conservatives often get stuck with the stigma that we do not have any fun, and that we are boring people.  We are stereotyped as prudes with only a few things on our minds: enforcing the Bible, killing the rights of minorities, gays, and women, waging unnecessary wars, teaching abstinence from everything, and [...]

We Hispanics care more about the economy and job creation than gay marriage. The most recent figures (October 2011), show that 11.4% of Hispanics are unemployed. This is more than the national average of 9.0% and 8.0% of whites. Maybe we can all agree that gaining economic freedom should be at the forefront of any group, because with it comes prosperity, liberty, and political freedom. The Heritage Foundation released its most recent version of the Index of Economic Freedom in February. What is economic freedom? Heritage defines it as “the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property.” The notion of economic freedom is about American as it gets and it is at the foundation of the American dream, which is what all people who move to this country wish to achieve.

In the light of President Obama going to campaign, er, give a speech about immigration in El Paso, TX let’s look at the president’s long history of “cooperation” with Hispanic organizations, namely the National Council of La Raza (NCLR).As we know, Obama’s political beginnings were in Chicago, a city and state know for giving political [...]

In the wake of the killing of the most wanted man on Earth, it is perhaps time to start to focus on our enemies that are closer to home. This title used to belong to the “president” of Cuba, Fidel Castro, but if you didn’t know already, he has officially retired from the Cuban Communist [...]

Governor Gary Herbert gave an impassioned speech at Heritage while I was interning there about the principle of state’s rights and how Washington is interfering on those rights with the new monstrosity of a law known as Obamacare.  He described the law as “the biggest social change since FDR” and that it is “the most [...]