A Friday Hodgepodge1. "Iran Is Not Venezuela," by Elan Journo and Ben Bayer (Orange County Register):Eliminating the threat from Iran's Islamic totalitarian regime necessitates discrediting its ideology, making it a lost cause. Some may doubt this is possible, in the shadow of the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles, and indeed, it has been decades since America has followed the right approach. History, however, provides a compelling model.850 words/3 minutes 2. "Ending Birthright Citizenship Won't Make America Great," by Agustina Vergara Cid (RealClear Politics):[Cato's Alex] Nowrasteh writes that birthright citizenship "means that every descendant of immigrants has a stake in this nation and does not grow up in a legal underclass." He goes on to cite the example of Germany, where birthright citizenship didn't exist, and that created a "parallel society" prone to radicalization. When the German parliament took action to boost assimilation and grant citizenship to the children of some…
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