Measure Fails to Live Up to Promises

After a full week of consideration in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill is in trouble.

It is not living up to its billing; it is wilting under scrutiny.

Proponents of the bill conducted a full-scale media blitz to promote the measure; opponents countered with questions about the full impact of the bill.

While the sparring in the Committee was only the opening round, proponents of the bill are determined to mov...

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If the U.S, dollar loses its status as the global reserve currency, we are in for a rocky ride. We’ve pointed this out before, here . . .

The dependence kills good-paying jobs thereby reducing both household purchasing power and government revenue. It creates a serious trade imbalance righted by the sale of paper securities. Yet the value of those securities depends on a dollar whose strength has been steadily diminishing as our debt increases and the Federal Reserve maintains unusually lo...

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