The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America begins:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

If you are human, and you are born here, you are a citizen, period.

For all they talk about small government and constitutional conservatism, the GOP are just as much big government idiocrats that Obama and his friends in the Democratic Party are.

"So they won't go on our welfare roles" is not a reason to deny our citizens their rights based on something their parents did. In a sane world, we'd just stop subsidizing poverty to begin with.

The gall of suggesting an unconstitutional measure to mitigate a small portion of the damage done by another unconstitutional measure is staggering.

We need universal breakfast. Parents are having children they can't afford to feed, not feeding their children even when they receive WIC vouchers and food stamps to buy the food for them, and feeding them food that the government didn't pick out. This must stop.

Read this article if you'd like to know about a another boy beaten in a Chicago neighborhood last night. To be honest, I think this is only making the news because of the pending Olympic question. It happens here all the time.

Chicago's culture breaks people up into two categories -- criminals and victims. There is a culture that associates strength and accomplishment with victimizing others. It exists in some form everywhere, but here in Chicago it is dangerously wide-spread because of the other culture -- the apologists, the victims.