Critics of America’s immigration system point to many flaws and shortcomings within it, but here’s one critique that has gotten relatively little attention: It’s an expensive and burdensome regulatory labyrinth. Now a new light is about to shine on that argument for reform. The American Action Forum, an economic think tank founded by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former head… Read More

Paul Brown, considered one of the most influential coaches in football history, once said, “You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.” So my good friends from Resurgent Republic, a conservative nonprofit, which gauges public opinion about public policy through national polls and focus groups, have done an excellent… Read More

It was no coincidence that, a few months after Latino voters rejected Republicans at the ballot box, delegates poured into a talk on Latino outreach at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento this weekend. Surveying the capacity crowd before him, former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado acknowledged that the landscape has shifted. “Listen, I’m sad… Read More

EDMOND — Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb has invited New Mexico Lt. Gov. John Sanchez to Oklahoma to visit with the state’s Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Hispanic business leaders in July. They will discuss this week’s private enterprise announcement of transforming the former Crossroads Mall into a Hispanic Cultural Center there on south Interstate 35… Read More

As President Obama arrives in Miami Friday to discuss the economy, I welcome and encourage him to visit some of South Florida’s many small businesses. Our community’s job creators would certainly discuss with him — as they often do with me all over town — how much more difficult operating a business has become in… Read More