By Aaron Borders

I want to start this article with this thought in mind. Republicans don’t need to change their platform to bring in Latinos to the GOP, they need to get their message to the Latino people. I base that comment on my MANY conversations with Hispanic and Latino Arizonans. It seems that when I approach a Hispanic or Latino Voter I ask them what they think about the Republican Party. I usually get one of these two answers or both. “Republicans are racist and they hate Latinos”...

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Occasionally, we like to highlight conversations that take place in our comment threads. Below is one such exchange. It took place in the thread of Gay Marriage – A misnomer of an issue. In a way, it is also a reply to elements of Can social conservatives and the GOP break up but stay friends?, specifically that portion suggesting ending government licensure of marriage as a partial solution to current questions about the redefinition of traditional marriage.

This is a subject to which we h...

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Anyone who watched Mitt and Ann Romney being interviewed on Chris Wallace’s Sunday morning show and didn’t regret that they aren’t ensconced in the White House, instead of the Obamas, has a very weak grasp on reality.  When even Bill O’Reilly, who was busy telling his viewers just a few short months ago that Barack Obama was a nice guy and didn’t have a socialist bone in his body, has finally seen the light, I say that any Republican who sat home last November because he didn’t thin...

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Conservatives should welcome the Supreme Court’s inquiry in “standing” issues.

The U.S. Constitution makes clear that:

“The judicial power of the United States shall extend to all Cases…arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and…-to Controversies to which the United States shall be a party…” – Article III, Section 2.

This “cases and controversies” clause makes clear that courts do not exist to serve as ph...

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There is a scary part of this debate over same-sex marriage that few people are talking about, and it was illustrated on last night’s panel discussion on Fox News Special Report.

I respect Kirsten Powers as an honest, blue-blooded Liberal, and I pay attention to what she says. And I was struck by her comments last night on the Special Report all-star panel, when asked if the Supreme Court should just let states decide on same sex marriage. Her underlying assumptions are scary. Let’s ...

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Only by emasculating the Equal Protection Clause, again, could the United States Supreme Court strike down the will of Golden State people to maintain traditional marriage.

Oral arguments were heard today in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry by the nine justices of the nation’s highest court, with the fate of same-sex marriage and the constitutional rule of law hanging in the balance. Twice in the past 14 years, majorities of California voters have voted to reject allowing two persons ...

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