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Of Slaves and Slaveholders
In 1865, the 13th Amendment officially ended the institution of race-based slavery in our country. It took another 100 years for deeply held prejudices to dissipate and for state and local segregation...
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The Immigration Straw Man
An immigrant was once asked “Why did you come to America?” He answered “I’ve always been American, but I was born in the wrong country.” Being American is not primarily about your country of birth; it...
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Dare We Dream Of Immigration Reform?
News out of Washington proclaims a bipartisan effort to reform immigration. I’m leery of anything labeled “bipartisan”; more often than not it translates to more individual rights violations: higher...
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REAL Immigration Reform – What My President Would Do
Here we are some six months after the bipartisan immigration “reform” effort was introduced. As I said at the time, I’m leery of anything bipartisan but decided to be a good sport and consider the...
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Immigrants Too Have Inalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of...
Freedom and liberty loving Americans rightfully revere Thomas Jefferson’s immortal words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
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(Part 1) The Moral Case for Separating State and The Economy – What’s That...
Most Americans understand, explicitly or implicitly, why we have separation of state and church. We agree that faith is a personal matter; that choosing a faith, or no faith, is part of our inalienable...
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(Part 2) The Moral Case for Separating State and The Economy – What’s That...
In our last post, we pointed out the similarities between a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire market for religious ideas and a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire...
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Making The Moral Case For Immigration Reform
Note: As the immigration battle continues in Washington D.C. with Congressional Republicans waging a self-destructive internal war cheered on by both House and Senate Democrats and the White House,...
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The Moral Dimension of Immigration Policy
As Donald Trump is garnering support for expanding his condo, resort, hotel and golf course empire with “Trump wall” around our country (we gotta keep them Canucks out), the timing is good to take a...
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Uniting Immigration and Foreign Policy
As the presidential primaries get underway, Republican candidates are competing for the title of “Mr. Anti-Immigration” (as of writing this Carly Fiorina had dropped out of the race so only Misters are...
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Want Jobs, Mr. Trump? Look No Further
We admit we thought it a long shot, and it was not the outcome we had desired (it rarely is). But reluctant hats off to our President Elect for apparently reading the mood of the nation perfectly....
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Want Infrastructure Improvements, Mr. President? Abolish Government...
Editor’s note: As of publishing this, the President’s executive order on immigration is the issue of the week. Regular readers know that with a couple of exceptions SEPARATE! is unabashedly pro free...
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How To Support The “Forgotten” Americans
In a recent Forbes article “Be Compassionate, But Never, Ever, Pity The ‘Forgotten’ Rural Americans” John Tamny comments on a WSJ article “Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’” (gated) about the...
View ArticleReturn Immigration Policy To Its Moral Roots: Our Inalienable Rights
Children separated from their parents at the southern border. U.S. AG Jeff Sessions, absent rational arguments, defending the actions of the administration on biblical grounds. The media predictably...
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