Outside the Beltway

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is the latest Republican to reject the idea that America is a secular nation.

Several “correct” answers on the American citizenship test are technically incorrect.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Haley Barbour is making all the moves toward a 2012 Presidential run, but his stand on immigration issues could pose a problem in the Republican primaries.

Two Senators are proposing a Constitutional Amendment to redefine what it means to be an American citizen.

Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, loses in court (again).

The Republicans are increasingly the party of white America. That’s short term good but long term bad for the GOP.

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar discrimination against women, whether it’s done by public or private entities. He couldn’t be more wrong.

The author of AZ’s SB1070 has a new idea.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

UCSD grad student Mark Farrales is a good example of why something like the DREAM Act has merit.

Senate Democrats cancel vote on DREAM Act, meaning the immigration measure is likely dead for the year.

In her new book, Sarah Palin puts forward a view of the role of religion in politics that is in direct contrast with America’s own traditions.

The 9th Circuit has struck down an Arizona law requiring people to show proof of citizenship to vote. No, this doesn’t open the floodgates to illegal alien voting.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declare multiculturalism in Germany to be a “failure.” Proof that anti-immigration activists in the United States are correct, right?

The Washington Post looks around and discovers that the Tea Party isn’t racist after all. Their bad, I guess.

Should members of the Armed Forces and other public employees have the same rights under the 1st Amendment as the rest of us? Or should they be more like journalists?

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.

The effort to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell suffered a setback in the Senate today that likely delays any further moves on the issue until after the midterm elections.

Both Congress and the Obama Administration have stepped up enforcement of immigration laws–at immense cost to both the budget and the courts.

Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.

An obscure U.N. human rights report has become the latest political outrage of the day in the battle over Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.

When John McCain is the voice of reason in the GOP, things are really screwy.

The American Family Association has ramped up the nation’s anti-Muslim sentiment yet again.

A staggering 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2008 were offspring of illegal aliens. What are the public policy implications?

Tonight’s topics: Yesterday’s primary elections, the cost of hiring workers in the public and private sectors, anti-Muslim sentiment, and the move to repeal birthright citizenship.

There isn’t as much GOP unity over the idea of changing America’s citizenship rules as you might think.

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

Wherein only one of the various consequences of altering the current status of birthright citizenship is considered: more paperwork for us all.

Is the GOP really serious about changing the citizenship rules in the 14th Amendment ? Not likely.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.

Immigration “moderate” Lindsey Graham is suddenly sounding not so moderate.