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What Would Ronald Reagan Do?
Ilya Somin at Volokh Conspiracy quotes Reagan’s 1989 Farewell Address: I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it....
View ArticleA Better Immigration Policy Proposal: No Policy
The Immigration Bill didn’t really please anybody (except for George W. Bush, and who cares what he thinks?), and died a deserved death last night during a procedural vote in the Senate. Becky Akers...
View ArticleImmigration Bill Dies, and Some Rightwing Bloggers Hurl Abuse
The failed cloture vote dooming the deeply-flawed Immigration Bill was not necessarily, practically-speaking, a bad thing. The bill represented an incoherent compromise between the political forces...
View ArticleThe Case For Open Immigration
Freakonomics’ Mellisa Laffey interviews British economist Philippe Legrain. Legrain has served as special adviser to the director-general of the World Trade Organization and worked as the trade and...
View ArticleFive Things the Candidates Should Be Saying
Melanie Scarborough thinks US presidential candidates should be running against socialism and stupidity, not using them as tools to manipulate voters. 1. It is not the responsibility of your fellow...
View ArticleDutch Labor Party Changes Position on Islamic Immigrants
Violence and social unrest have finally awoken the Dutch left from its Rousseau-ian dream. A new Labor Party policy paper calls for an end to the politics of victimhood and a quick dip in the melting...
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Obama Guantanamo Release Policy in Trouble
Coming soon to a city near you? Congressional Republicans (1, 2) and democrats are raising serious questions about Barack Obama’s plans to release terrorist detainees from the US holding facility in...
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Paul Marshall reviews Christopher Caldwell’s new book Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West in the Wall Street Journal. In his reflections on Europe’s slide into a...
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Labour Ministers Conspired to Change the Population of Britain
Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, Jack Straw, and other Labour panjandrums, revealed recently, in a column in the Evening Standard defending Labour immigration policies, that...
View ArticleSunday, February 14, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson finds that the wisdom of the commentariat has changed. Via the News Junkie. ———————————————————— Labour deliberately set out to alter the culture, character, ethnic composition,...
View ArticleThe GOP Could Win the Hispanic Vote
This Dallas Morning News story demonstrates that Hispanic voters are a natural GOP constituency. A bent to conservatism and family makes Hispanics a promising pool of votes for Republicans, but the...
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Immigration Reform: The Next Battle
Italian immigrants at Ellis Island, 1911 They look smaller and they dress differently from the American functionary, but one of these funny-looking little guys could be grandfather of a conservative...
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Good Things Sometimes Come in Bad Packages
Two of the three senators from New York. Reality is strange. The draconian immigration law passed in Arizona is bad for Republicans in the long run, but even the worst blunders can sometimes have a...
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“Your Papers, Please!”
Rassmussen finds that a comfortable majority of Americans think this kind of thing is just fine. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer last week signed a new law into effect that authorizes local police to stop...
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Pima County Sheriff Won’t Enforce Immigration Law
Pima County ABC15: An Arizona sheriff is the latest person to speak out about the state’s new immigration legislation, saying he does not plan to enforce the divisive law. Pima County Sheriff Clarence...
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Inevitably
When Republicans are doing bad things, you can count on democrats to offer to go them one better. The Hill: Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national...
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The Politics of Immigration
A century ago, they could come here legally. Michael Gerson discusses how Republicans are committing political suicide, attempting to apply the precise same strategy that cost the GOP its political...
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Conservatives Are Anti-Immigration
Conservatives like Barack Obama. Alex Nowrasteh, in the Detroit Weekly News, explains that there is no need to elect a anti-immigration Republican, we already have a president hostile to immigration....
View ArticleThis System Is Worth Enforcing?
We hear a lot of talk from people on the right about how important it is to enforce immigration laws. Ilya Shapiro offers up an illustrative example of why we would do a lot better to drastically...
View ArticleSunday, July 25, 2010
Texas ranches invasion story is a hoax. (Confederate Yankee). ————————————————————- Get your free Rod Blagojevich ringtone. Top favorites: “I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden.” “I’m stuck...
View ArticleForget Trying to Eliminate Jus Solis*
We should simply adopt Rand Simberg (and Robert Heinlein)’s suggested policy of earned citizenship, with respect to voting. The right of citizenship by birth on a country’s soil. Well, the government...
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Muslims Insult British War Dead on Armistice Day
The Daily Mail reports on an outrageous demonstration of Islamic insolence in London yesterday. Islamic protesters sparked fury today after they burned a model of a poppy and deliberately broke the...
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Conservatives Commonly Wrong on Immigration
Conservatives are overwhelmingly right on our political and cultural issues, but the Immigration issue stands out as the rara avis example of a particular case in which most of the political right is...
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“I Don’t Want To Live In A Country That Has A Fence Around It”
Apart from the fact that it would be tremendously costly and wouldn’t work, Kirsten Powers is right: the most important reason not to build a border fence would be its symbolism. Powers was about to...
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I’m Right, and Rush Limbaugh and the Others Are Wrong
In 1905, we had gold money, like this $20 Double Eagle. I’m right about Immigration, and unfortunately much of the rest of the Right, El Rushbo, Michelle Malkin, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles...
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The “Law-and-Order” Argument
The Immigration debate has a tendency to turn red-blooded conservatives into censorious old ladies, who are shocked, shocked and indignant and offended that Hispanic immigrant laborers would have the...
View ArticleGood Arguments
Pretty Naomi Broadwell looks at immigration the way I do. Hat tip to John Hinderaker.
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Etiology of Large-Scale Illegal Immigration
Ezra Klein explains that Princeton Professsor Doug Massey identifies the recent decades’ great influx of Hispanic illegal immigration as a classic case of unintended consequences. However, if you...
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Visit Romania
Examples of brilliant Romanian tourism campaign response to British anti-immigration campaign. Ratak Monodosico
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