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Tom Tancredo is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Foundation and founder and co-chairman of Team America PAC. He is also a former five-term congressman and presidential candidate. Tancredo is the author of "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security."
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The 'Dream Act': Amnesty for millions

by Tom Tancredo -- When Congress convenes for its lame-duck session on Nov. 29, it will be asked by Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid to vote on an amnesty bill deceptively more…

Bipartisan games or downsizing government?

by Tom Tancredo -- Bipartisanship is greatly overrated as a formula for good government. Every major government boondoggle in recent memory was launched with bipartisan enthusiasm. Bipartisanship has its role in the more…

Confessions of an 'alarmist'

by Tom Tancredo -- Political labels can be misleading, even when they are accurate. In my 30-plus years in politics, as a state legislator, a Reagan appointee in the U.S. Education Department more…

Time to boycott Mexico?

by Tom Tancredo -- On the afternoon of Sept. 30, Coloradan David Michael Hartley was shot and killed by a Mexican gang of "pirates" on Falcon Lake, a 60-mile-long reservoir on the more…

Border Patrol veterans speak out

by Tom Tancredo -- The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, or NAFBPO, has issued a proposal for "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement and Reform." Unlike the speeches by Homeland Security Secretary Janet more…

Out-of-control spending

by Tom Tancredo -- Most state governments have a constitutional requirement to balance the budget each year, and, as we all know, the federal government does not. But here's a question few more…

Teachable moment for the West?

by Tom Tancredo -- Millions of Muslims worldwide are protesting the planned burning of the Quran by a Christian congregation in Florida on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, while the more…

Republican elites still don't get it

by Tom Tancredo -- One of the oldest axioms in American politics is that "all politics is local." Well, not always, and definitely not in 2010. When a tsunami rolls a thousand more…

Wake-up call at the Ground Zero mosque

by Tom Tancredo -- By now every American not on Haldol has an opinion about the Ground Zero mosque. My opinion is that we should be grateful to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf more…