It's probably no secret to anyone who reads my column regularly that I will not be voting for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president. But I also will not be voting for John McCain. I could tell you all the reasons and have expressed them already in a number of columns in recent months. But this time, I'll let someone with whom I seldo...

I've been saying it for years: The only reason we can't fix our broken immigration system is because on the issue of illegal immigration, there is no middle ground. But maybe I've been part of the problem; maybe I, too, should move to the middle ground. On one end of the political spectrum, you have those who oppose any kind of "amnesty" ...

In 2006, Congress passed a law to spend more than $7 billion to build a fence to secure our Mexican border. Less than two weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced at a news conference that a high-tech "virtual fence" project along part of the U.S. border with Mexico finally was ready for service as a substitute fo...

After all the unforeseen twists and turns of the Democratic race for president this year, after all the times we thought one particular primary or interest group would be the one that would prop one candidate above all others, it is Latino voters in Texas who finally may determine who will be the Democratic nominee. Latinos make up more than one-th...

One step to the right and two steps to the left. Two steps to the left and one step to the right. It's not easy doing the McCain Shuffle. It's a very delicate dance. One misstep could decide who the next president will be. Everyone is urging Sen. John McCain to lean much farther to the right and to rest his submissive head on the shoulder of his pa...

There are elements in the Republican Party who are trying to turn the GOP into the victim party. No matter how much they've won, they want to see themselves as losers. An e-mail I received from a reader summed up the resentment that has been bubbling up all over the GOP. She had liked Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter as GOP hopefuls and didn't know ...

The conservatocracy is up in arms over whether John McCain, purportedly a "liberal," will be able to hold onto conservative voters concerned about immigration. A less-asked question is how he will fare with those evangelical voters also concerned about immigration, but in a very different way. Evangelicals tend to recognize the need for c...

He's fiercely pro-life. When others were abandoning President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq, and later the controversial "surge" decision, Sen. John McCain was unwilling to break from the president. Yet when you listen to conservatives, they have a hatred for McCain that is close to their absolute dislike of Sen. Hillary Clinton and...

We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives "straight talk" and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the "straight talk express." But endless repetition does not make something true. The fact that McCain makes short, blunt statements does not make him a straight-talker. There are short, blunt lies — ...

As candidates keep dropping out, or getting trounced, in the race for president, the walls are caving in for those seeking to elect an anti-immigrant zealot. After all, those candidates who have practiced the politics of xenophobia are not doing too well. Of the three people who have the best shot at becoming our next president — Sen. Hillary...