Immigration Lawsuit

The new Arizona law is “controversial” in a very typical way: it is immensely popular with everyone other than the elites in Washington D.C.  Obama is throwing down the gauntlet by challenging it in court claiming, among other things, that it is “preempted” by federal law.  But this is an unusual argument; preemption normally means [...]

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Calderon the Conqueror

Today Felipe Calderon addressed the U.S. Congress.  As has become the Mexican custom, he castigated the United States for its unreasonably liberal gun control laws, unreasonably harsh treatment of illegal immigrants, and the alleged U.S. role in his country’s troubles with drug kingpins and violence. He said, for example regarding Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, “It [...]

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Candid Admission

There is much worry over Arizona’s new law.  We’re told it’s racist and mean and will lead to profiling.  But the law is neutral:  it deals with illegal aliens wherever they’re from.  Opponents implicitly are saying (a) there are a great many illegal Mexican immigrants (which there are, of course) and (b) comparatively few that [...]

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Whose Team Are You On?

The recent legislation in Arizona is a good opportunity for American-born and naturalized Hispanics to show if they’re loyal to this country and care about its welfare, or, alternately, if they are what their spokesmen describe:  an insular, self-interested, foreign group with the spirit of a colonizer, resentful, angry, contemptuous of, and alienated from the [...]

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Internet Roundup

A roundup of a few interesting things from the internet this week. Great pieces by establishment conservatives George Will and Charles Krauthammer pointing out the increasingly wide gap between Obama’s rhetoric of post-partisanship and his narrowly partisan agenda. A scathing editorial by Robert Samuelson on Obama’s phony economics agenda. A nice tribute to one of [...]

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Free Trade and National Independence

I’ve long thought the Republican obsession with free trade was not only bad politics but a bit of bad policy.  A recent Washington Post article asks the question whether trade–which had a lot to do with our lopsided economy, as US dollars overseas filtered back looking for a safe investment and found it in Mortgage-Backed-Securities–has [...]

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The Moral Dementia of the Libertarians

Radley Balko evinces a typically obtuse libertarian reaction to a typically horrifying Mexico drug war murder:  in this case, a police chief and his family gunned down in Monterrey.  Of course, it’s always the drug war itself that has the chief responsibility with libertarians.  There is no condemnation of the murder or the murderers.  They [...]

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Viva Cristo Rey!

  In time of despair, and on this Feast of Christ the King, let’s not forget the example of the 20th Century’s numerous martyrs, who witnessed Christ unto their death and demonstrated the world-changing power of a single, defiant act against the spirit of the age.  On Nov. 22, 1927, a man dressed in street clothes [...]

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