Illegal Immigrants

Death penalty supporters launch petition drive

2013-05-03 17:14:50

One day after Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation to abolish capital punishment in Maryland, death penalty supporters said Friday they will launch a petition drive to give voters the opportunity to overturn the new law. At a news conference,...

Immigration deformed

2013-05-04 04:00:00

There's the story of a woman with five kids who was asked: If she had to do it all over again, would she have five children? "Yes," she said, "just not these five." That's the way I feel about the immigration "reform" bill introduced by the Senate's...

Opposed to O'Malley, Democrats in general [letter]

2013-05-02 15:32:16

Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Democratic cohorts have done it again, increased the gas tax. Will the tax be used to improve our highways? Not if the previous use of the fuel tax is repeated. It is noteworthy that not one Republican voted for the tax...

O'Malley signs death penalty repeal

2013-05-02 15:46:11

Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Thursday repealing the state's death penalty. Unless the law is overturned in a...

Boston bombing brings out the new xenophobes

2013-05-01 00:00:00

The Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil lies...

America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants

2013-04-29 03:00:00

Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...

Did that really happen? In America?

2013-04-28 05:00:00

My periodic "Did You Know" columns tend to raise the blood pressure of more conservative readers who are embarrassed/angry/frustrated by the increasingly aggressive counter-cultural policies of the hard left and their allies in Hollywood, on campus, and...

Petition effort begun to overturn gun law

2013-04-26 17:07:00

If you hate Maryland's new gun law and wish you could vote against it, Sue Payne is looking for you. The Montgomery County woman this week filed paperwork with the Board of Elections to petition the controversial new gun-control bill to referendum. �She...

Boston bombing has nothing to do with immigration reform

2013-04-25 06:00:00

Many people apparently would just as soon cut off an arm than allow illegal immigrants to enjoy the rights of U.S. citizenship, but when was the last time a Hispanic immigrant planted a bomb in this country with the intention of inflicting death or...

NRA plans to challenge Maryland gun law

2013-04-09 17:03:00

National Rifle Association President David Keene said Tuesday that the organization intends to challenge the constitutionality of Maryland's newly passed gun law, as a conservative group readied plans to try to overturn the law through voter referendum....

The AP's complicated word-association test

2013-04-08 04:00:00

In what may be the greatest victory to date for the sophisticatedly asinine organization "No Labels," the Associated Press has embraced a new policy against "labeling people." For instance, its widely used and influential style guide is being purged of...

Cooksville victim's friends, family fight parole one signature at a time

2013-04-14 15:08:00

When Christopher Cheswick learned that the drunken driver who killed his son Matthew might be paroled after little more than a year in prison, he turned to Facebook to post his outrage and heartbreak. Carl Braun had a different reaction: He launched...

Seven undocumented immigrants bound themselves together with pipe and blocked a road that leads to the Broadview Detention Center in Broadview, Ill. to protest the deportations of thousands of undocumented immigrants.

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Hugo Dominguez, center, is led away by police after being cut from six other undocumented immigrants who had bound themselves together and blocked the road to the Broadview Detention Center in Broadview, Ill. The group was protesting the deportations of thousands of undocumented immigrants.

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Dr. Alfredo Qui�ones Hinojosa is an associate professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience, oncology, and cellular and molecular medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Qui�ones-Hinojosa, was an illegal immigrant working in the vegetable fields, worked his way to a Harvard education,

2013-04-13 00:00:00