Avoiding the stain of racial profiling is one thing. Controlling illegal immigration is another.

Legalization would add to our citizenry millions of people, most of them poor and less-educated, whose prospects for advancement are decidedly low.

Ehrlich was kind of a tragic story: red-corpuscle Reaganite in a McGovernite state.

Elena Kagan’s partisan loyalties are clear.

If America ditched sanctions tomorrow without first obtaining serious concessions, it would be rewarding the increasingly vulnerable Cuban regime.

My point is to highlight the curious chasm between that rhetoric and the reality of the Kagan pick.

Cameronism is a foolish political strategy that was always likely to fail.