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.

Yesterday, I wrote about a bill that would treat income differently based on the job description of the person earning it.  A New York Times editorial, bravely posted without a by-line, announced "The Unemployed Held Hostage".  It described this same bill, acting as if a gun was being held to the head of every jobless person in America by those lawmakers who weren't on board with using the tax code to punish this week's unpopular crowd.

While Support for congressional health care reform has fallen to a new low (Rasmussen), there are still people who seem to want it. Today, I talked to an acquaintance still rooting for health care reform about what he believes it will look like and why he wants it.

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.