Birthright citizenship and the meaning
of American allegiance
Posted By: 4250Luis, 4/4/2026 4:36:03 PM
The Supreme Court of the United States recently heard arguments on the future of birthright citizenship, a moment that forces the country to revisit a question that is both constitutional and deeply personal: What does it mean to be an American citizen? Before parsing the language of the Fourteenth Amendment or debating the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” we have to return to first principles. Citizenship is not simply a matter of where someone happens to be born. American citizenship has always been more than a geographic accident. It is a covenant between the individual and a constitutional framework built on the rule of law, individual liberty,
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Is Los Angeles waking up?
According to the California Post, there's been a change in the polling pattern for the Los Angeles mayor's race, which in a crowded field suddenly shows a conservative in second place, with most voters still undecided. The primary is in June and a runoff will be held in November if no candidate manages to break 50% of the vote.
The Post reports:
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt is becoming a real player in Los Angeles politics, rocketing into second place in the latest mayor’s race poll and scrambling what was already shaping up to be a volatile election.
The Supreme Court of the United States recently heard arguments on the future of birthright citizenship, a moment that forces the country to revisit a question that is both constitutional and deeply personal: What does it mean to be an American citizen?
Before parsing the language of the Fourteenth Amendment or debating the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” we have to return to first principles. Citizenship is not simply a matter of where someone happens to be born.
American citizenship has always been more than a geographic accident. It is a covenant between the individual and a constitutional framework built on the rule of law, individual liberty,
Two relatives of a notorious Iranian terrorist were busted after getting caught living on United States soil like queens on US soil for years.
On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement on X, which revealed that the niece and grand-niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani have been arrested in Los Angeles.
Rubio also announced that he has revoked their green cards.
Here is the full statement: Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States.
While the globalist media clutches its pearls and screams that NATO is “hollowed out,” President Donald J. Trump is once again being proven 100% right.
The latest Iran fiasco has ripped the mask off Europe’s so-called “allies.” France, Germany, and the UK just refused to back America in a real crisis, treating NATO like some kind of optional social club instead of the mutual defense pact it’s supposed to be.
French President Macron, UK’s Keir Starmer, and Germany’s Friedrich Merz openly declared the crisis “Not Our War!” They blocked logistics support, refused to let NATO become Washington’s “auxiliary force,”
A few days ago, according to a leaked exchange, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told an Iranian military counterpart that their nation’s economy will face collapse in three more weeks without an immediate cease-fire.
He’s not wrong.
Conventional wisdom holds that an air campaign alone cannot trigger a popular uprising, so the combined US-Israel effort in Operation Epic Fury won’t result in meaningful regime change.
But that fails to recognize there’s a second front in this conflict: economic warfare.
And on that front, Iran has already lost.
President Trump’s goal in his first term was to resolve the Iran issue through primarily economic means.
Even the Reds are seeing red.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has succeeded in at least one thing during his fresh-faced administration — infuriating everyone, including his typically ride-or-die lefty buds, over his bald-faced lie that the City Council’s budget plan cuts services.
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Trump, NATO, and the Turkey in the room
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I'm so disappointed in NATO, because this was a test for NATO," said President Trump on March 26 while speaking about the Iran war.
While President Trump has long criticized the UN and NATO, there is a major difference between the tremendous failings of the two organizations. A quick review of their structures shows that while the U.N. is probably impossible to course-correct, NATO is a very different story.
The U.N. is bloated, paralyzed, and utterly incapable of meeting the challenges of the world today.
Trump Says He’ll Withdraw From Nato.
Starmer Says He’ll Unwind Brexit and
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Starmer Says He’ll Unwind Brexit and
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He also dismissed Nato as a “paper tiger” and said America leaving the military alliance was now “beyond reconsideration”.
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Virginia Democrats’ proposed redraw of the state’s House map would effectively strip the state’s rural communities of federal representation, a conservative group argues in a new study.
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While actual numbers are hard to find for the number of 3D printers in the United States, we do know that the lion's share of them are sold in the United States, with millions sold each year internationally. That means there are easily a few million 3D printers in private hands. While many of those devices will never make a firearm, many others do.And in most parts of the country, it's perfectly legal to do so for private use. To sell them, you need the appropriate licenses from the ATF, but even then, it's possible.
However,
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail really stepped in it with its so-called reporting on the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk. It was an absolute trainwreck of misinformation, much of which was based on a complete lack of understanding about bullet matching.Cam covered the story for Bearing Arms. I wrote about it at our sister site, Townhall. In short, the whole thing was stupid and wrong.
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I was just getting ready to wrap up my day and kick back with a little Golden Girls and ginger ale zero (living on the edge!), when I saw that Secretary of State Marco Rubio's schedule for tomorrow says he's meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. Admittedly, that made my heart sing a little bit. I know she is the future of that country, and I've become so invested in the future of that country that watching all the progress we're making unfold in real time is quite a thrill.
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US forces have successfully extracted a downed American airman from Iran, with the rescued crew member and the special operations team now “safely out of Iran,” according to reports.
The airman was one of two aboard an F-15E Strike Eagle shot down earlier this week. Both had ejected over southwestern Iran, triggering a high-risk rescue mission.
The second crew member was recovered following intense fighting near the crash site, as US forces carried out a complex operation deep inside Iranian territory, according to Fox News. The airman and the rescue team that pulled him “from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran,”
President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, released on Friday, asks Congress to spend $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as a “state-of-the-art secure prison facility.”
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Iran told mediators that it will not meet with American officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, and has rejected U.S. demands, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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A veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent ripped the famed CBS programming as a “snake pit” plagued by “no civility.”
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The 80-year-old former correspondent described the prestigious newsmagazine not as a dream job, but as a brutal grind and psychological battlefield that wore him down over time.
Daughter of top Iranian official ousted
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from Emory University after outcry has
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The daughter of a powerful Iranian regime insider who was forced out of Emory University after a firestorm of backlash is set to be booted from the United States completely.
Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, whose father is a top official in Tehran, was removed from her post at the prestigious Atlanta school following mounting outrage over her family’s ties to the regime, as first reported by The Post.
She worked as an assistant professor at Emory University’s prestigious Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. The controversy surrounding Ardeshir-Larijani sparked backlash from critics who questioned how someone so closely linked to Iran’s ruling elite had secured a position at a leading American research institution.
The State Department has added business formal dress code guidance to its internal policy manual for the first time, establishing department-wide standards for employee attire.
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The updated policy applies broadly across
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Older Drivers Could Be Forced to Take
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At the age of 85, those requirements kick in annually. Many seniors did not like the concept.
“I don’t know if I’m too happy about this,”
Democrat officials from 23 states and the District of Columbia announced Friday they’re suing to block President Donald Trump’s recent executive order regulating mail-in and absentee ballots.
The suit was slated to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. A copy of the lawsuit wasn’t available as of press time.
Trump doesn’t have the constitutional authority to control elections, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told reporters during a news conference Friday morning. Bonta, a Democrat who’s co-leading the coalition of plaintiffs, noted the authority rests with states and Congress, not the federal executive branch. “The framers of our Constitution made sure that how we
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) and other local authorities are under fire over a recent string of very high profile and preventable crimes committed by illegal aliens in the sanctuary state.
One of Spanberger’s first actions as governor was to sign an executive order barring state and local authorities from cooperating with federal authorities for federal immigration enforcement.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to rain “hell” on Iran if it fails to reach a ceasefire deal or open the Strait of Hormuz by Monday, when time runs out on an ultimatum that he has extended twice.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike Iran’s power grid if Tehran fails to comply with US demands. On Saturday, a senior Israeli defense official said Israel was preparing to attack Iranian energy facilities, likely within the next week, but was awaiting a green light from the US.
Ever notice how sometimes you stumble across a story where, about one paragraph in, you already know how it will end? Well, here's another; it turns out that building a huge solar panel farm in tornado country, sooner or later, is going to produce perfectly predictable results.
Case in point: A billion-dollar solar farm in Indiana has been wrecked by an EF-1 tornado - not a big one, as tornadoes go, but big enough.
An article from the German climate science critical Report24 reports on a major disaster involving a solar farm in Indiana that was destroyed by a tornado, underlying the fragility of PV systems as a source of energy.