Ilion, N.Y. — it is reasonable to assume, I would venture, that nobody much cares if his toaster was made in China. Nor are we greatly vexed that our television ...
‘The FISA court is a rubber stamp.” The ongoing NSA controversy has revived that shopworn talking point, relentlessly repeated by progressive and libertarian opponents of national-security surveillance. The notion is ...
Some conservatives believe that it was reverence for the Constitution that constrained the growth of government in the early days of the republic, while the economist Arnold Kling has argued ...
As Justin Amash zips along a parade route in Cutlerville, Mich., on June 8, there’s a method to his movement. Rather than marching down the middle of 68th Street behind ...
Looking back 20 years after it was fought, Alexander Stewart Webb declared that the Battle of Gettysburg “was, and is now throughout the world, known to be the Waterloo of ...
Rolla, Mo. — There are many summer camps, something for everyone. But there’s no other camp quite like this: an explosives camp. A hands-on explosives camp. Such a thing would ...
For some people, the debate over the immigration bill before the Senate ended on June 18. That day, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports, one suggesting that the bill ...
Ilion, N.Y. — it is reasonable to assume, I would venture, that nobody much cares if his toaster was made in China. Nor are we greatly vexed that our television ...
Politics is the competition of interests and the competition of ideas. The advantage lies with interests that are organized and entrenched (teachers, farmers) and with ideas that mobilize effective interest ...
General readers in search of a reliable and readable single-volume biography of Edmund Burke have had few options in recent decades. Although some significant new material (including especially Burke’s complete ...
Heraclitus called war “the father of all things”; James Lacey and Williamson Murray see war as the father of civilization and, more specifically, of major global shifts of power.
That’s a ...
For decades, the United States has largely dodged the secular tide that has engulfed Europe. Indeed, for much of the last half-century, religion has continued to play a notable role ...
Something fundamental has changed about American society, and it’s weakening our nation, both economically and culturally.
Analysts have worked to identify potential causes, and have come up with many suspects: the ...
Life is change. What could be more obvious? I grew up with a phone number that had letters in it: FIllmore 2-3769 (the number finally died when my father moved ...
Gettysburg remains the greatest clash of arms ever to occur in North America. It is also the most studied battle in American history. In 1900, a historian remarked that “another ...
From an early draft of the immigration bill:
1.223 (b) The government shall construct a fence across the entirety of the border. Upon completion of the fence the government may, at ...
PASSED BUT NOT READ:
Senate Bill 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.
With Amendments and Revisions
FULL TEXT EXCERPTS:
From Title I:
9 SEC. 4. SOUTHERN BORDER SECURITY COMMISSION.
10 (a) ESTABLISHMENT. ...
THE TEDDY BEAR
That is a human curiosity –
endear what might destroy you in the wild.
Give children emblems of ferocity
to cuddle when they’re frightened, sad, or riled.
Take what is fierce and ...
Timing is everything, even in apocalyptic doom-mongering. When my book America Alone came out in 2006, the conventional wisdom was that its argument about Europe’s demographic death spiral was “alarmist” ...
Bad Artists Steal, Too
In mentioning the works George Lucas “borrowed and repurposed” in the making of Star Wars, Ross Douthat omits the films of Japan’s Akira Kurosawa — but I ...
‐ Harry Reid, looking up to the sky from the Senate floor, said that Ted Kennedy would “smile at all of us” when the immigration bill passed. Smile, sure, Mr. ...