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Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) has come under fire for suggesting President Trump’s immigration crackdown will leave Vermonters without “anyone around to wipe our a–es.” The congresswoman made the outrageous claim — which she herself called “crude” — during a town hall in Newport, Vt., last week, in response to a question about US immigration policy. “Our economy is completely bound up in immigration and migrant labor,” Balint told her constituents. “We have to come to a place in Congress where it is no longer a political issue, but we see it as an existential issue for the country.” “If we...

"There's been hardly any publicity about it here," wrote one of my west coast US correspondents about the latest Jerusalem cafe bomb attack. I was stunned. The explosion that tore through our neighborhood a few days ago has reverberated through every fiber of the lives of all of us in the area, and consumed our emotions and attention. I had naively assumed that the enormity of the impact of the tragedies would have rippled through the media too, as they had through Jewish communities throughout the world by word of mouth... Here in the close-knit community of English-speaking immigrants, the...

Gary Aldrich (archive)(printer-friendly version)January 31, 2003One man who understood what liberty meantIn the summer of 1996 I traveled to San Diego, California, to speak to a group of Conservatives who were attending the Republican National Convention. There I met people who were considered to be true-blue, totally committed Conservatives. Among the group were Balint and Barbara Vazsonyi. Balint and Barbara were very polite, classy people, but if you engaged Balint in a conversation about Communism, his eyes would come alive with fire. He spoke with a passion that betrayed his first-hand experience of living in a land where liberty was...

Balint Vazsonyi, a columnist for The Washington Times who survived Nazi conquest and escaped communist rule in his native Hungary to become an outspoken advocate of American liberty, died of cancer yesterday at his home. He was 66. Mr. Vazsonyi was also an international concert pianist and the director of the Virginia-based Center for the American Founding (CAF). "By the time I got my citizenship in 1964, I was grateful and immensely proud to be told by the judge in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that I would not be a Hungarian-American, nor any other hyphenated American," Mr. Vazsonyi wrote in "America's...