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The GOP's Immigration Mess

Kepha Wrote: Jan 26, 2013 10:08 AM

The Roman Catholic Church was the mainstay of royal absolutism in Europe. Sure, people like Covarruvias and Mariana worked out a rule of law doctrine, but Mariana ultimately ran afoul of the Inquisition, while early Calvinist theorists of social contract and rule of law (Buchanan, Hotman, Beza, Knox, Rutherford, Goodman, Ponet, Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, and Althusius) would be "saints" if the Reformed Churches had such a category. Carlos_7, you've nailed a problem: corruption in the churches. We need a major spiritual revival, and it needs to be specifically and unabashedly Clavinistic.

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The GOP's Immigration Mess

On Saturday I will be debating Mark Kirkorian on immigration policy before the National Review Institute.

I am a "wet," on the topic. Have been since I opposed California's proposition 187 in 1994.

Mark, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, is a "dry."

Here's the interesting thing about out "debate," to be moderated by National Review's Jim Geraghty: Even if one or the other of us succeeds in persuading everyone in the room of our point of view, it doesn't matter. Not a lick. The GOP is branded as an anti-immigrant party, especially with voters under 30, the...

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