Monthly Archives: June 2007

The amnesty bill got voted down in congress again. No fear, they’ll put it up again – and again and again until they get it passed. Never mind that the overwhelming majority of Americans, of both parties, want border security … Continue reading →

Thomas Sowell recently made one of those throw-away remarks that really get you thinking. The kind that seems like a statement of something obvious – perhaps something so obvious that people have forgotten it. He said that nobody is born … Continue reading →

* Yesterday I picked up my family at the airport after a month visiting family in Poland. The boy didn’t seem changed, but the baby looked huge compared to what I remember last month. (“What are you feeding her? Smaller … Continue reading →

The government of Iran is holding four Iranian-Americans on charges that appear either bogus (spying) or simply tyranical (working for NGOs that promote reform and human rights). According to the L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-usiran2jun02,0,750031.story?coll=la-home-center they are: “… Haleh Esfandiari, director of … Continue reading →

* The Prague conference must have been the greatest gathering of dissidents and freedom fighters since, well perhaps since the Continental Congress that signed the Declaration of Independence. They arrived at a set of points, evidently in remarkably short time, … Continue reading →

I mentioned in my last post that in Europe, that if you call yourself a liberal, it is understood as something far closer to ‘libertarian’ or even ‘conservative’ in America. In America you’d have to say ‘classical liberal’, since ‘liberal’ … Continue reading →

As I write this, George Bush’s speech in Prague is on the television. In the audience are Vaclav Havel and Natan Shransky among other luminaries. I’d cheerfully take a job as usher in that auditorium just to be in the … Continue reading →