Tamara Audi in the WSJ writes, “The world’s Islamic population is growing so rapidly that by 2050, the number of Muslims will be nearly equal to the number of Christians across the planet—possibly for the first time in history.” In “The Paralysis of Europe,” Pat Buchanan writes, “The differences between a liberal secularized Europe and […]
Marine Le Pen Challenging the Globalist Consensus
The American Conservative’s Scott McConnell writes: The FN’s upside potential is truly vast. Marine Le Pen’s National Front is far and away the largest party in a major country to challenge the Washington-dominated, neoliberal, and globalist consensus. It is easily the largest anti-immigration party to emerge in the West, and one, which is clearly striving, […]
Can the President Be Trusted?
Kevin D. Williamson of NRO writes, “The serial dishonesty of the Obama administration in the near term involves a question about whether we can have honest government. In the long term, the question is whether we can have effective government at all.” Read more here on how the Obama administration misled and broke a promise […]
Perverse Incentives for Long-Term Dependency
That’s how Cato Institute senior fellow Dan Mitchell describes the mix of high taxes and high spending on welfare that stunt the assimilation of immigrants to the developed world. Dan writes: So what’s the problem? Why are immigrants failing to prosper? Nima suggests that government policies are the problem, creating perverse incentives for long-term dependency. […]
Governor Rick Scott Runs off the Rails
I twice voted for business friendly Florida Governor Rick Scott. And, on balance, Rick has done a good job. But as John Fund writes, the governor’s failure to block non-citizen voting in Florida is off the rails. After years of legal battles between the governor’s office and the Obama administration, a federal-appeals-court panel issued an […]
UKIP—Britain’s People’s Party
Timothy Stanley, in the American Conservative, writes, “To meet him (UKIP’s party leader Nigel Farage) is to instantly like him—if you like that sort of thing. To centrist politicians raised on a puritan diet of political correctness, he is like some horror from the mummy’s tomb. But to those who wear a hangover with pride, […]
Immigration Humpty Dumpty
As Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro (senior fellow in constitutional studies) points out, the U.S. immigration system “serves nobody’s interests—not big business or small, not skilled or unskilled workers, not the economic or national security.” And while there’s plenty of blame to land squarely on the shoulders of Congress for not fixing our immigration mess, nothing […]
Our Rogue President
President Obama, asserting a legal and constitutional authority he himself said he did not have, is going rogue issuing an executive amnesty to 4 to 5 million illegal aliens, writes Pat Buchanan. Rand Paul, in a RANDPAC communiqué, writes that he is 100% committed to stopping President Obama’s immigration executive order by any means necessary. […]
Green Card Executive Action?
President Obama has just received a striking vote of no confidence from the American voters. Americans are rightly fed up with “policy Obama.” Most any executive order this president attempts will be met with harsh negative feedback. There is, however, one potential executive action that makes a whole lot of sense for America. The Cato […]
Halt Obama’s Immigration Recklessness
The WSJ quotes Rep. Randy Webber (R., Texas) who states that the voters have endorsed the conservative view and that they’re are tired of the president circumventing Congress. Obama has threatened to act unilaterally by year-end to change immigration policy, an appallingly brazen statement given that the policies of this president just cost his party the […]