Today’s Florida primary is said to be make or break for Rudolph Giuliani. The question is how he does among his natural constituencies: * Can enough Cuban Republicans in Miami be convinced (given their group’s Cold War era special immigration status) that they somehow benefit from the influx of millions more Spanish-speakers from countries like Mexico and El Salvador? Despite his … [Read More]

1001 Inventions describes itself as “a unique UK-based educational project that reveals the rich heritage that the Muslim community share with other communities in the UK and Europe.” It says that it is “a non-religious and non-political project seeking to allow the positive aspects of progress in science and technology to act as a bridge in understanding the interdependence of communities … [Read More]

“Just because you didn’t find every Easter egg doesn’t mean that it wasn’t planted.”  So said Mike Huckabee about the lack of WMDs in Iraq at the Thursday night Republican debate in Florida.  He then later suggested in an interview that the missing weapons had been secreted into Jordan. That would probably come as a shock to King Abdullah. Huckabee distinguished … [Read More]

GSTAAD—The fat cats were all over Davos last week, greedy bankers, self-important bosses of publicly-owned multi-nationals, craven hedge-funders, and shameless publicity seekers such as Bono and others of his ilk mixing freely with Gordon Brown, Al Gore, and Bill Gates. No, Carla Bruni did not attend nor did Amy Winehouse, who had better things to do—like being filmed smoking crack. Some … [Read More]

I must admit I was taken aback by the hostile reactions I received last week for offering an enthusiastic endorsement of the Web site VDare.com—albeit one in which I included mild caveats concerning three VDare writers (Brenda Walker, Jared Taylor, and Kevin MacDonald), whose views I do not share. The torrent of comments, which has spread to other sites, came not … [Read More]

Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Doubleday, 2007). Reviewed by Paul Edward Gottfried Reading Jonah Goldberg’s sprawling text is for someone of my years a rude encounter with a younger generation, one that knows very little about the history of civilization but which has gained a certain … [Read More]

Via Matt Yglesias, Paul Krugman’s got that right: “Even now, it’s better for your reputation not to have noticed until, say, 2005 that we had some dangerous people running the country. If you noticed earlier — or, worse yet, you caught on to the administration’s essential mendacity right from the beginning — it’s not a sign that maybe you had good … [Read More]

The tale is told by M. F. Barnes, in her 1931 study Renaissance Vistas (and it has often been depicted by great painters, notably Botticelli and Carpaccio), of Saint Augustine, wandering along the seashore. Lost in cogitation upon the Holy Trinity, the saint meets a small boy who busies himself filling a hole in the sand with teaspoonfuls of water from … [Read More]

There once was a time when presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani led the Republican field as “Mr. 9/11”—the symbol of America standing tall against terrorism. How Rudy’s steadfastness (however admirable) actually amounted to foreign-policy acumen or experience was a question most were too polite to ask. Well, as we await the benefits of Rudy’s brilliant “finish no higher than fourth in the … [Read More]

In his latest editorial in The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol expressed a general satisfaction with the non-Ron Paul major Republican candidates—all seem just fine to him, what’s everyone complaining about? Kristol chalks up the prevailing sense of unrest among the conservative base to the fact that it’s caught up “waiting for Reagan,” that is, expecting that perfect conservative movement ideologue with … [Read More]