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H-1B visa reform safeguards jobs
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H-1B visa reform safeguards jobs

President Donald Trump may have just built his most crucial wall yet. Project Firewall, the result of a Sept. 19 Presidential Proclamation, is an ambitious overhaul of procedures governing the application and entry of foreign skilled labor into the U.S.  Project Firewall modifies the H-1B visa program, which has granted “temporary status with the ability...

Christianize the Liberty Walk
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Christianize the Liberty Walk

Hillsdale’s Liberty Walk is incomplete. The current collection honors historic and contemporary advocates for freedom, among them Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan. Although the individuals enshrined in the Liberty Walk celebrate Hillsdale’s steadfast commitment to liberty, none embrace liberty’s deepest significance. Only one man in history bestowed universal, eternal, and ineradicable liberty: the...

Trump is right to target political violence
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Trump is right to target political violence

A recent surge in organized political violence is undermining the rule of law in this nation. A Presidential Memorandum signed recently by President Donald Trump offers hope for stopping it. Charlie Kirk and former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman are dead. Other high-profile figures, such as Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, have barely...

After Eden: To find love, throw a party
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After Eden: To find love, throw a party

Courtesy | Unsplash My maternal grandparents met on a ski train from Kansas City to Colorado when my grandfather asked my grandmother for a light. They were married for 52 years.  We wax nostalgic about the way things once were, especially in the realm of love and marriage. It’s hard not to feel as though...

Invite Usha Vance to speak at commencement
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Invite Usha Vance to speak at commencement

Before she was Usha Vance, she was Usha Chilukuri, an alumna of Yale University, summa cum laude; a Cambridge scholar; and a Yale Law School alumna. Even her husband, Vice President JD Vance, described her as “way more accomplished” than he. A woman of intelligence and duty to her country, Usha Vance deserves to be...