May 19, 2013 | 09:44 AM

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Linda Chavez

Could we have prevented the Boston bombing?

Linda Chavez

Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

Twelve years after September 11, our intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies still haven't fixed the data-sharing problems that make us vulnerable to more attacks. It's difficult to reach any other conclusion after unnamed counterterrorism officials at the CIA this week revealed that...

Linda Chavez: Gang of Eight's immigration bill is good enough

Linda Chavez

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

The immigration reform bill introduced this week by a bipartisan group of senators will please few die-hards on either side of the immigration debate, but it's likely to please most Americans. Polls consistently show majority support for allowing the 11 million people who reside illegally in the...

Discrimination does not cause the wage gap

Linda Chavez

Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

ifty years after the passage of civil rights laws outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and sex, blacks, Hispanics and women still earn less than white men. In many circles, this fact alone reinforces the belief that discrimination is widespread and only greater government...

Linda Chavez: The decline and fall of American liberal education

Linda Chavez

Published: Thu, Apr 4, 2013

Liberal education once stood for something grand and good: the study of the arts, humanities and sciences with the aim of improving the mind through the acquisition of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. But some of America's most elite colleges and universities have all but abandoned this goal....

Linda Chavez: Conservatives should get behind legalizing immigrants

Linda Chavez

Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

Jeb Bush's recent backtracking on the question of whether we should grant legal residency but withhold citizenship to the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the country today is far less Draconian than some advocates for legalization are claiming. It is an idea that has been floated by...