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Can We Still Solve Problems?

What if we pried ourselves away from Fox News and MSNBC long enough to do some thinking? Maybe with some effort a large number of us, half or more, could identify a political agenda that spanned the...

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An Agenda for Republican Dissidents

It makes sense now to start building an alternative agenda, a foundation for Republican dissent. A party that has come to rest so solidly on fundamentalist religion, latent racist appeals, and paranoia...

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Which immigration problem do we care about?

There is no small irony in the fact that the same people moaning about government spending, liberty, and Federal power happily embrace the exploding economic and political cost of a militarized border....

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Markets could end illegal immigration

Illegal immigration would cease to be a meaningful political problem if we took simple steps to make the hiring of legal or illegal immigrants much more expensive. We will not be implementing such a...

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American workers doing ‘dirty jobs’

Debates over immigration often pivot on the belief that Americans are not willing to do dirty jobs. The reality is that Americans commonly perform harsh, dirty, dangerous work. They just insist on...

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Perry builds the perfect conservative pitch

Perry’s claim regarding terrorists crossing the Southern border may be idiotic, but it is also scary and that’s all that matters. Since it is not based on evidence, no one can prove that it’s...

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Ebola, ISIS and illegal immigration are the same problem

Terrorism, Ebola, mass immigration of unaccompanied minors – these are all essentially the same problem. Pockets of anarchy created by the collapse of poorly adapted institutions can be the birthing...

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A Republican agenda that could win nationally

The challenges we face today are in many ways unique, but the same commitment to limited but intelligent government holds the key to solving them. A willingness to look honestly at the inconvenient...

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Hiding behind the border

Want to secure the border, spend less taxpayer money, improve American economic competitiveness and create a massive economic shot in the arm? Fix these two problems.

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Trump has Republicans Whig-ing Out

By loudly embracing the party's nastiest impulses, Trump threatens to topple a domino that could force the GOP into an open split and a full rebranding. Though rare, there is a precedent for this...

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