Surprise, surprise — Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas, plus fellow (but unreliable) Republican Anthony Kennedy, have decided to hand Bush a major victory in his campaign to silence whistleblowers (though the particular case in question had to do with an LA county official, the precedent is one that's sure to make the president very happy [...]
Robert Samuelson has another very good immigration column, this time on what the major media didn't deign to cover in the Senate's immigration bill.
he White House's projected increases [as a result of the Senate bill] of legal immigration (20 million) are about twice the level of existing illegal immigrants (estimated between 10 million and 12 [...]
My brief review of Stephen Cox's The Woman and the Dynamo, from the Fall 2005 Modern Age, is now on-line here.
This year's glut of summer books brings with it several new specimens of "Founders' Chic," a sub-genre of pop history for which there seems to be a just about unlimited market. At least one of this season's offerings comes from a reputable scholar: Gordon S. Wood of Brown University. Berkeley professor emeritus Robert Middlekauff [...]
…for having a hidden tapping room in its San Francisco switching center. Then the company tries to redact the excuses from court filings — but doesn't quite succeed.
Somehow I don't think Bush would have returned the William Jefferson papers even without Gonzales threatening to resign, but it's interesting that Gonzales — who, lest we forget, is pro-affirmative action and abortion — is so committed to expanding executive power that he would resign if he weren't allowed to keep the papers snatched from [...]
That's Ralph Adams Cram, and I don't mean that he designed the Old Right — he was literally an architect, who happened to be on the Old Right. Alan Wall had a very good article on him on LRC a week or so back; check it out.
Cram was a late but seminal influence of [...]
Robert Novak asks. Congressman Henry Hyde, now that he's retiring and has nothing to lose, is putting a little heat on Israel's settlement plans, as Novak reports:
Hyde's committee report employs stronger language than the congressman had used previously. It calls for insistence that Israel ''honor its pledge to stop settlement expansion'' and suggests the [...]
Robert Higgs gets a savage reception from the war-loving Babbitts in St. Louis. I think I know the group to which he was speaking, and I'm only half-surprised: it's a collection of superannuated and very rich right-wingers, including a handful of outright paranoics, eager to hear free-market arguments that justify their pocketbooks but mentally mired [...]
"Milicrats" — short for military bureaucrats — is a term William S. Lind uses in his piece in the new issue of The American Conservative, which prints tomorrow. It's apt, and being a resident of Arlington, Virginia, I live close to the precincts of milicrat central.
We have art here. Here's what kind of art [...]