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Consequences of misinterpreting the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution

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Births to illegal alien mothers are adding more to the U.S. population each year than did immigration from all sources in an average year prior to 1965.
The Urban Institute estimates the cost of educating illegal alien children in the nation’s seven...

Societies come together slowly, but can fall apart quickly, say researchers who applied the tools of evolutionary biologists to an anthropological debate.

Using archaeological records and linguistic analyses rather than fossils and genes, they created an evolutionary tree of political forms once found in Pacific islands.

The study, published...

By IAN AUSTEN

BELLEVILLE, Ontario — In April, Canadians reacted...

Did you watch the debate between candidates for Governor of New York? Did you see the man with, uh, unique facial hair? Who wore gloves the whole time? That's Jimmy McMillan, candidate for the Rent Is 2 Damn High Party.

McMillen, a former postal worker also know as "Papa Smurf," has been a longtime subject of Gawker's fascination (we endorsed...