The Heretic at Heritage

Jason Richwine, the young conservative scholar who co-authored the Heritage Foundation report on the long-term costs of the amnesty bill backed by the “Gang of Eight,” is gone from Heritage. He was purged after The ...

The Fence Around the Ivory Tower

With immigration policy back in the news, I’m reminded that when I was a lad 40 years ago, the cutting-edge wisdom was that rapid population growth was a major problem. (Granted, my parents didn’t let me stay up school ...

Israel’s Fertility Policy Bears Fruit

With the Washington establishment agreeing that what America needs right now is to double down on guest workers and amnesty for illegal aliens, it’s worthwhile to notice how a serious country such as Israel deals with past ...

The Right Not to Commit Suicide

The other evening one of my dinner clubs had a meeting. I’m getting addicted to these clubs—I now belong to three of them. This one is conservative-dissident. By “conservative” I mean skeptical of social change, ...

Somalis All Over

I quipped in a column here a few months ago that the Pacific island nation of Niue may be the world’s first country to be completely emptied out by emigration. As you were. I have a new candidate for the title: Somalia. Its current ...

Yemen, Ye Gods

Do you know anything about Yemen? No, me neither. Hang on, let me do a little checking at the CIA World Factbook. Here we go. Size: a tad bigger than Spain. Mostly desert, only 2.9 percent arable land. Population: 24 million plus, ...

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Muscular Liberalism

Psychologists tell us that a sense of control is a key characteristic of a mentally healthy, well-adjusted adult. Whether we actually possess free will can be left to the neuroscientists who study brain processes. The current consensus ...

The DREAM Act: ¿Reconquista Mañana?

Countless self-described "€œDreamers"€ were rudely awakened on December 18th when the US Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to proceed with the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, a bill ...

Behavioral Guidelines for New German Immigrants

In Germany, much of the talk these days is about immigration and integration. It all started when former Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin published a book in which he claims that the Bundesrepublik's mostly Muslim immigrant ...

The Unemployment Solution

When Barack Obama completely ignored the problem of uncontrolled immigration during his Jobs Summit, my former colleague Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) issued the following statement that was signed by 21 conservative Republican ...

The Mexican Flu

If the swine flu is as bad as the media is implying then ignoring the potential damage due to illegal immigration from Mexico is not only journalistically irresponsible, but immoral. And yet nothing, not even this latest alleged health ...

The Swine Are Loose

Whether they are armed with bombs or bacteria, stopping weaponized individuals from harming others"€”intentionally or unintentionally"€”falls perfectly within the purview of the "€œnight-watchman state of classical-liberal ...


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