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Well, that didn't take long. After Democratic supermajorities rammed through their health care bill, Republicans were full of sound and fury about how this injustice will not stand. Even John McCain was on board, telling a television interviewer, "Outside the Beltway the American people are very angry and they don't like it and we are going to try to repeal this." But in the GOP, cooler heads always prevail. What these Republican heads want to cool down is the campaign to repeal the health care takeover. Reports the Associated Press: "Top Republicans are increasingly worried that GOP candidates this fall...

This week President Bush will meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox to discuss a number of thorny issues, primary among them: immigration and border control policy. George W. Bush has long been supported a pro-growth, pro-freedom immigration strategy and clearly sees immigrants as assets to the United States. On this issue, his world vision collides with the Republican Party's more nativist faction, which would drape a "No Admittance" sign over the Statue of Liberty. On the economics of immigration, Mr. Bush is more right than his critics. Whether skilled scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley or the migrant laborers who...

Ordinary Americans are deeply concerned about the nation's current level of immigration and consider it to be a threat to national security, but elite U.S. opinion leaders appear unconcerned, according to a new study. The Center for Immigration Studies, a non-partisan think tank that examines the impact of immigration on the U.S., said it found in its recent study that "an enormous gap exists between the American people and opinion leaders on the issue of immigration – a gap that seems to be increasing." "The gap between the opinions of the American people and their leaders on immigration is enormous,"...