Author: McQ

The New York Times has decided that opposition to illegal immigration has to be based in race hatred. It couldn’t possibly be based in anything else: Think of America’s greatest historical shames. Most have involved the singling out of groups of people for abuse. Name a distinguishing feature — skin color, religion, nationality, language — […]

Obviously everyone knows what’s at stake in ’08 when voters head to the polls. The House of Reps is in Democratic hands, and most likely will remain that way. And there’s a very real possibility that a Democrat may end up in the White House. There’s little doubt of what sort of agenda will then […]

Gerard Baker takes an interesting look at anti-Americanism and finds that the harshest critics of the US come from the US. That has some interesting and ironic implications. Anti-Americanism is on the wane at last. All over the world, Americans are being fêted once again as farsighted, liberating heroes. Al Gore has won a Nobel […]

I‘m as big a fan of “A Band of Brothers” as the next guy. I thought it was fabulous. And I don’t say that about many “war movies”. And I’m as pleased as I can be that two of that band, William Guarnere and Edward Heffron, both in their 80s, have written a book about […]

I‘ve heard some lame reasoning before but this ranks right up there as some of the worst: With tensions rising between the United States and Turkey over a resolution that labels the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces “genocide,” many are asking why the House is debating the resolution now. It was […]