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In a rare show of bipartisanship last month, Congress approved a $600 million border-security bill to help cut off the flow of illegal immigrants.The bill is to be financed in part by doubling the cost of an H-1B visa. This is the category that allows foreigners with the technological, scientific and medical skills our economy needs into the country for up to six years, during which time they can apply for permanent residency.That’s how badly...
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This spring a blue-ribbon roster of retired military leaders issued a report titled, with characteristic bluntness, “Too Fat to Fight,” in which they said the epidemic of childhood obesity was posing a threat to America’s national security.They found that 27 percent of all young adults, ages 17 to 24, were too fat for military service and that the problem was quickly getting worse. In 10 years, the number of states with 40 percent or more of...
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The Obama administration is considering further easing the restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, as it should. As a general principle, Americans should be free to travel where and when they want. But as several recent developments have clearly demonstrated, it’s a right that should be exercised with both care and common sense.On Friday, the administration again urged the release on humanitarian grounds of an ailing U.S. contractor whom...
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