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How Immigrants Affect Our City, State and County  The cliché that every American is an immigrant exists for a reason: the vast majority of Americans are of foreign descent, with many able to trace their lineage to individuals a few…

“BY its legislation to finance the war, emancipate the slave, and invest public land in future growth,” wrote Civil War historian James McPherson, “the 37th Congress did more than any other in history to change the course of national life.”…

Charles “Buddy” Roemer III served as the 52nd Governor of Louisiana, from 1988 to 1992.  Originally elected as a Democrat, Roemer switched to the Republican Party in 1991.  He was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1981…

The Governor of Puerto Rico A Heartbeat Away From the Presidency? John Adams once described it as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.”  John Nance Garner said the it was worse than “a pitcher of…

Could ‘Amtrak Joe’ Swing the 2012 Election?  There have been some pretty terrible Vice Presidential nominees in America’s history.  Andrew Johnson, for example, likely chosen by Abraham Lincoln because he added geographic diversity to the ticket, reportedly showed up drunk…

NUCLEAR weapons issues have become a more prominent part of political discourse over the past year. This recent upsurge in attention is due at least in part to the debate around and successful ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction…

New Strategies to Confront 21st Century Reality AMERICAN leaders have misunderstood American power,” writes Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, in his recent book Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy. Power in…

It has not taken long for former supporters of president Barack Obama, particularly on the Democratic Party’s left wing, to label Obama’s presidency a disappointment. Obama ran for president largely to counter eight years of increasingly radical conservatism under George…