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Birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants is insane

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Weeks after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump looked to cut straight to the heart of birthright citizenship -- the notion that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen -- through an executive order titled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship" that looked to impede automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. But in a massive blow to the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court just decided that this executive order violated the 14th Amendment, specifically the first line of Section 1: "All persons born or ...

Days of disgrace: America tells refugees to pound sand

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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," reads the iconic welcome to the world's oppressed inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus, the poet who penned those words, had herself helped Jewish refugees from the anti-Semitic pogroms of Eastern Europe ...

'Toy Story 5': A reminder of imagination's importance

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I found the "Toy Story 5" theme of tech versus toys very intriguing, as folks like me from older generations often lament that today's kids are missing out on one of the most wonderful parts of childhood: using your God-given imagination. Screentime on tablets can lock so many kids in, and while tech toys can teach them useful skills they will need, such as problem solving, language development and trial-and-error learning, they cannot replace the joyfulness and thrill that emanate from toys coming alive through the extraordinary power of creativity. "Toy Story 5" continues with Bonnie ...

Bill Maher, liberalism's apostate

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Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper -- yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it's only in Donald Trump's Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves. He's now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by the late, legendary Richard Pryor in 1998 and last year given to Conan O'Brien. Not every recipient has been politically left-wing, but Maher stands out as a rare left-leaning comic who dares criticize his own tribe, and he's paid a price for it. Liberals like Maher ...

We all stand to lose in Hegseth's war on diversity

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Is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth resegregating the military? I hear that question a lot since the news broke that our nation's current secretary of defense has actively blocked or delayed the promotions of dozens of senior military officers -- with women and people of color ...

In days of yore, adrift on waves of Chianti

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It's summer, the season of vacations, therefore the season of air travel and the season of people getting kicked off planes because they've had too much to drink. The culture has shifted, though, and because of regulations or health consciousness or sheer panic at the idea of getting sued, I'm sure that I'll never again experience what I did on a transatlantic Alitalia flight from the U.S. about 25 years ago. I was broke at the time, and I'd somehow managed to snag a round-trip ticket to Athens on the Italian carrier for about $600. When I sat down, I noticed that I'd been placed in ...