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An article in the October 23 Washington Times points to what I think may be the next important evolution in Fourth Generation war. The piece concerns Mexico’s third-largest drug gang, La Familia. La Familia is best known for beheading people it does not like. But according to the article, its real claim [...]
Filed under: Immigration, War, World
September’s unemployment figures were not only disappointing — they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work — 5 million for more than six months.
But as the Washington Times asserts, “America’s jobless crisis is much worse [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Politics
A week ago (sorry, I missed it earlier), The Washington Post ran an op-ed by Roberto Suro denouncing Emma Lazarus’s poem The New Colossus (“Give me your tired, your poor…”). (Hit tip Mark Krikorian.) Mark Steyn piled on here. It is indeed an awful poem. Almost everything about it is wrong, beginning with the opening spondee: “Not like the [...]
Filed under: Immigration
So grave was the crisis in western China that President Hu Jintao canceled a meeting with President Obama, broke off from the G8 summit and flew home.
By official count, 158 are dead, 1,080 injured and a thousand arrested in ethnic violence between Han Chinese and the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs of Xinjiang. That is the huge [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Immigration, Trade, World
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall.
And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading.
In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the ballot, Gov. [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Politics
Lecturing a conscript conclave of Justice Department bureaucrats, Attorney General Eric Holder last week called America a “nation of cowards” for not spending more time talking about race.
Reading his speech, however, one recalls the sage counsel of Pat Moynihan to President Nixon in 1970: This whole subject might benefit from a long period of “benign [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration
(And not tears of laughter) The mobility of labor is becoming the forced march of labor: IBM offers help to displaced workers.
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Trade, libertarianism
With reports circulating of its imminent demise, the New York Times announced in January that it had found a white knight.
Sort of. For the knight in question, who already owns 6 percent of the sinking Times and was investing $250 million in notes carrying 14 percent interest, was Carlos Slim. Reputedly the richest man in [...]
Filed under: Immigration, media
The Obama team is taking shape and the new rainbow coalition will include maverick Republicans who see the light. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have already confirmed the same leadership team that lost earlier this month while the Great White Hope of the GOP is in Alaska writing her book, with a little help from her friends no doubt. Hillary [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Uncategorized
TAC is surely the only conservative magazine where an editor will receive hate mail for endorsing the GOP candidate—however backhandedly. I am at best a hypocrite, at worst—shiver to say it—a Republican.
My favorite response:
I was reading Kara Hopkins and had to stop. She said one thing that disturbed me highly, ‘a war we cannot win.’ [...]
Filed under: Books, Election, Immigration