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Path toward Citizenship or Legalization

By Alex Nowrasteh. The Hill (Online). August 30, 2013.
Controversy over a path toward citizenship is the most important roadblock to immigration reform. …

The Never Ending Greek Tragedy

By Dalibor Rohac. US News and World Report Online. August 30, 2013.
As fall draws nigh, Europe faces the Greek sovereign debt problem again. Both the German and Greek finance ministers, Wolfgang Schäuble and George Papaconstantinou, recently suggested that Greece might need yet another bailout to meet its financing needs. …

Another Failed Gun Control Experiment

By Daniel J. Mitchell. TownHall.com. August 29, 2013.
It sounds strange, but my two favorite columns on gun control were authored by self-identified leftists. But they didn’t let ideology trump common sense. …

Work Can Pay Less than Welfare in R.I.

By Michael D. Tanner. Providence Journal. August 29, 2013.
Most decisions in life are the result of a cost-benefit analysis. When residents in Rhode Island consider getting a job, they assume they would be better off having a job than not. They’d be wrong. Because in Rhode Island, it pays not to work. …

Where Are Protests against Murders of Christians?

By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. August 28, 2013.
Largely absent from nearly all our sources of news and commentary is deep, continuing coverage, if any, of the horrifying massacres of Christians in Egypt and especially Syria and the burning down of their churches. …
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