Finally
Last night revealed that Republicans have their first articulate presidential candidate since Reagan in 1984. After McCain, W., Dole, and Bush 41, we finally have someone who is able to make coherent...
View ArticleNew Minnesota Social-Studies Standards: America the Ugly
Nine years ago a group of history professors from the University of Minnesota sent a letter to the state’s education department. They complained that the history/social-studies standards for Minnesota...
View ArticleThoughts on Bork's
Robert Bork has been justly lauded in these pages as one of America’s greatest legal thinkers in the fields of antitrust and constitutional law. His major work and books have been in this area. And...
View ArticleWe Have Much to Learn from Coolidge on Immigration
In K-Lo's interview with Amity Shlaes about her great new book Coolidge, Kathryn asked the author “Can we learn from Coolidge on immigration”? Shlaes’s response was “Not so much.” Actually there is...
View ArticleSmearing the Center for Immigration Studies
It has become clear that some conservative supporters of comprehensive immigration reform have mounted a smear campaign against Mark Krikorian and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), of which he...
View ArticleAmerica’s System Is Broken
On Monday, the Hudson Institute published a paper entitled “America’s Patriotic Assimilation System Is Broken,” which I co-authored with social scientist Althea Nagai. Nagai’s quantitative analysis of...
View ArticleThatcher the Democrat vs. Slaughter the Post-Democrat
Permit me to join Andrew Stuttaford and pile on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s disingenuous critique in the FT of Margaret Thatcher’s opposition to the European Union. Slaughter, a Princeton professor and...
View ArticleSaul Alinsky and the Gang of Eight
At the press conference introducing their bill, the Gang of Eight evoked the spirit of Ted Kennedy. But the 24 pages of the 844-page bill (pages 370–94) dealing with “immigrant integration” stand as a...
View ArticleGang of Eight’s Alinsky-ite Integration Section Gets Worse
In a recent NRO piece entitled “Saul Alinsky and the Gang of Eight,” I discussed how, if Schumer-Rubio becomes law, federal dollars devoted to “immigrant integration” will pour into left-wing and...
View ArticlePatriotic Integration
Within the next day or two, the U.S. Senate will pass a 1,100-page immigration bill that weakens border security, provides amnesty to 11–12 million illegal immigrants, and doubles low-skilled...
View ArticleTransnational Progressive Nominated as Legal Advisor for State
The Transnational Progressive assault on the sovereignty of the American liberal democratic nation-state has just kicked into high gear with the nomination by the Obama administration of Yale Law...
View ArticleAfter Lott
After Lott, the GOP's conservative base does not need a "heart transplant" as Senator Frist suggests, it needs a "memory transplant." Shortly after the downfall of Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader,...
View ArticleWrong On The Founders
Before 9/11, the Wall Street Journal always used to celebrate Independence Day by publishing an editorial endorsing a constitutional amendment proclaiming that "there shall be open borders." Since the...
View ArticleZiglar Defects
How many American lives has John Ashcroft saved? Plenty. Across our nation, enemy terrorists have been apprehended since 9/11 - in Portland, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, Peoria, Columbus, Buffalo,...
View ArticleComprehensivly Wrong
On June 19, 41 conservative intellectuals and civic leaders released an open letter on immigration calling for “enforcement first” by declaring that “border and interior enforcement must be funded,...
View ArticleNo Proof in Pence
Once again, Tamar Jacoby and Cesar Conda have demonstrated that they are not serious either about protecting the United States from terrorists or about assimilating immigrants. (See “Immigration...
View ArticleImmigration Is No Joke
In 2006 something extraordinary happened in immigration politics. As Al Gore might put it, the people defeated the powerful. The much-maligned Republican 109th Congress passed immigration-enforcement...
View ArticleThe Rise of the "Civ-Cons"
The standard conservative taxonomy appears to cover the universe. There are economic conservatives, social conservatives, national-defense conservatives, neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, and even...
View ArticleComprehensively Bad
Deputy White House chief of staff, Joel Kaplan, a key negotiator in the Senate immigration bill, told the Washington Post that there are “things in this bill that Republicans and conservatives have...
View ArticleRaindrops Keep Falling
The Senate immigration bill could mean reparations for German Nazis. No, I’m not making this up. Look at Title IX, the “Study of War Time Treatment of Certain People,” also cited as the “Wartime...
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