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George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man’s papers are to be housed. “What’s interesting about our country, if you study history, is that [...]
Filed under: History, Immigration, Trade
Is “Big Sis” one of us? Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security — Big Sis to regular readers of the Drudge Report — held a press conference last week that might cause critics to reconsider their views. Napolitano claims that in fiscal year 2010, ending Sept. 30, the Obama administration set a record for deportations [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Politics
The mark of brilliant parody is an inability to distinguish between the mocker and the people being mocked. And no one blurs the line quite like Stephen Colbert. Anyone familiar with Colbert and his antics know the particular quirks of his satire: bumper-slogan rhetoric mixed in a paradoxical milieu of faux xenophobia, self-belittlement, delusions of [...]
Filed under: Congress, Culture, Immigration, Satire
It’s practically Jim Antle week at The American Conservative, as our long-time contributor looks at why grassroots conservatives are so quick to believe the sweet little lies Republican politicians tell about immigration. Last week, Jim scrutinized “Hawks for Peace” — today our spotlight is on the equally unexpected phenomenon of “Minutemen for McCain.” No other [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Politics
James Webb had a sensible op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago criticizing “diversity” affirmative action which often privileges recent immigrants over working class whites: I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Immigration, Politics
Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union. Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to desegregate. But Barack Obama’s war on Arizona is not a war of necessity. [...]
Filed under: Immigration
Don’t miss Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce’s TAC piece today, in which he argues against the federal government’s (and immigration lobby’s) expansive interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Are children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants entitled to automatic citizenship? That was never the intention behind the amendment, and Pearce attacks the idea that a stricter [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Politics
Trent Hill at the Independent Political Report breaks the story that former Republican Congressman (and before that, former Democratic Congressman) Virgil Goode has joined the Constitution Party. Is Goode eyeing a third-party presidential bid in 2012? It’s a curious move if he plans to try for his old congressional seat. (Update: As Hill notes, polling [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Politics
Gordon Brown may have torpedoed his last chance to be prime minister in his own right when, in the privacy of his limo, he called 66-year-old Gillian Duffy that “bigoted woman.” What had widow Duffy done to deserve the slur? After taking the Labor Party leader to task for several minutes, Mrs. Duffy raised the [...]
Filed under: Immigration, World
Major demonstrations are to be held in 70 cities on May 1 to protest the new Arizona law to cope with an army of half a million illegal aliens now living there. Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed that law a week ago, Arizona has been subjected to savage attack as the modern embodiment of Jim [...]
Filed under: Immigration