News and politics

So Mitt Romney has pumped some life into his campaign by going all-out to win the Iowa Straw Poll–good for him.  It makes sense that candidates would spend time early in the campaign jockeying around in small markets to test their logistics and messages, before moving on to larger states.  Tommy Thompson certainly read the… Read more

Now that Durbin and Kerry are swooning over the possibility of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, perhaps it’s time for the skeptics to start demanding equal time in the global warming debate. Read more

Mark Steyn: Building a border fence? Enforcing deportation orders? Can’t be done, old boy. You’re dreaming. Cloud-cuckoo stuff. Pie-in-the-sky. But refrigerated pie-in-the-sky with frozen whipped cream once we cool down the planet: that we can do. Tip from The Discerning Texan. Read more

…but when Hud tells it, it’s pretty funny. Read more

…comes from Peggy Noonan: The dislike for Americans evinced by the Americans-won’t-do-hard-work crowd is, simply, astonishing, and shameful. It says more about the soft and ignorant lives they lived in Kennebunkport and Greenwich than it does about the American people. Amen. Update (28 May).  Just in case you need details, Mark Kirkorian has them aplenty:… Read more

…and not in a good way. Forty-one illegal aliens voted in the recent Bexar County election? Why don’t they just franken’ move into my guest bedroom, use up all the clean linen, drink all my booze, and order pizza on my credit card? Oh, never mind–Congress and President Bush* are working on just that. *Long… Read more

Why is this missing oil hot news for the NY Times, but this missing oil only gets a blog mention?  Surely the folks at PEMEX can figure out a way to blame George W. Bush, so they can grab some headlines, too. Read more

From Nicolas Sarkozy’s victory speech I want to say to them that France will always be at their side when they need her help. But I also want to say to them that friendship is accepting the friends can think differently about things and that a great nation like the United States has the obligation… Read more

Victor Davis Hanson provides an update in City Journal: Since Mexifornia appeared, the debate also no longer splits along liberal/conservative, Republican/Democrat, or even white/brown fault lines. Instead, class considerations more often divide Americans on the issue. The majority of middle-class and poor whites, Asians, African-Americans, and Hispanics wish to close the borders. They see few… Read more

From what I read, John McWhorter is smarter than anyone I know. He writes IT is reasonable to surmise that Barack Obama will be the next President.Mr Obama has a once-in-a-lifetime charisma that Hillary Clinton could never approximate, and she also suffers from the handicap of not being black. For all of his other plusses,… Read more