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Is Congress as
dysfunctional a family as those seen on soap operas? The House of
Representatives passed a sober border and interior enforcement
legislation with no new guest worker programs. The Senate veered in
the opposite direction by granting amnesty “and a path to citizenship”
to millions who snuck across our borders and, in another bout of
insanity, allowing them to collect Social Security benefits accrued
while using fake Social Security numbers. |
About Phil Kent
Philip A. "Phil" Kent is a former president of Southeastern Legal
Foundation, an Atlanta-based public interest law firm and policy
center. As an author, columnist and media commentator, Phil regularly
appears on Fox News Network, CNN, MSNBC, and syndicated talk radio
programs across the nation. He is also a panelist on Atlanta Fox 5
WAGA-TV’s “The Georgia Gang.”
A veteran
award-winning journalist, Phil was an editorial writer, editorial page
editor, and political columnist for The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle for 25
years. He was also a co-founder and chairman of the board of advisors
from 1997-2000 of the Washington, DC-based Editorial Information
Network, and is a former member of the Georgia Press Association.
In 1981-82, Phil
served in Washington, D.C., as press secretary and public affairs
advisor to the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).
A native of Auburn,
N.Y., Phil is a 1973 graduate of the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism at the University of Georgia. He was a member of the Young
Americans for Freedom in college and served as Georgia's state YAF
chairman.
Phil was honorably
discharged from the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant, military police,
and served on active duty at Fort Gordon, Ga.
A member of the
National Conference of Editorial Writers and the Military Order of
World Wars, Phil serves on the board of Atlanta Senior Citizen
Services, the board of governors of the Buckhead Club in Atlanta, is a
former board member of the Georgia Press Association and a partner in
Kent-Scott Communications LLC of Atlanta. |
