Steven White

THINGS YOU CAN BLAME ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR. According to Tom Tancredo, the real reason for the increase in violent crime in Newark, NJ, is — just guess — illegal immigration. He’s encouraging families of victims to file a lawsuit against the city for allowing undocumented residents to live there. Nevermind that immigrants have lower crime […]

SOUTHERN FRIED ELECTION NEWS UPDATE. A new Rasmussen poll shows Hillary Clinton has a pretty remarkable 20-point lead over both Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson in — wait for it — Arkansas. The poll also shows Clinton has a 65 percent favorability rating in the state. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that she was the […]

FRED THOMPSON THEN AND NOW. Via Marc Ambinder, we have two sides of Fred Thompson, who no one remembers was also sort of considering a presidential run back in 1998: Fred Thompson Then From a August 21, 1998 article in Commercial Appeal: Taking a jab at such career campaigners as former Gov. Lamar Alexander and […]

RUDY GIULIANI WILL KILL YOU (WITH LAMENESS). Rudy Giuliani‘s Foreign Affairs article is the dumbest/scariest thing I’ve read in a serious journal in quite some time. In fact, I almost regret reading it, as I could have spent my time doing something more intellectually engaging like punching myself in the face. Here’s the article’s summary: […]

THE PARANOID STYLE OF PATRIOTIC POPULISM. Chris Hayes ‘ new article in The Nation about the mythical NAFTA Superhighway’s populist backlash is interesting both for its exploration of the politics of paranoia and the nuanced manner in which Hayes approaches his subject: In his essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Richard Hofstadter famously sketched […]

GOD, GUNS, AND ABORTION (AND RUDY GIULIANI). Peter J. Boyer‘s examination of Rudy Giuliani‘s surprisingly successful bid for conservative voters is a pretty interesting read. It starts off in South Carolina: The lobby opens at either end to the state’s two legislative chambers, which, in March, ratified an amendment to the state constitution that bans […]

THE TWO SIDES OF AMERICAN POPULISM. I think Yuval Levin is mostly correct when he writes, “Populism for most of American history has tended to be very culturally conservative, and indeed the poor (or ‘the common folks’ to whom populism is generally directed) have tended to be cultural conservatives.” This is an interesting starting point […]

TAP: AS BAD AS SCOTT BEAUCHAMP. Who, it turned out, wasn’t actually so bad. But such trivial details do not hinder bastions of conservative intellect like the National Review’s blog from denigrating another liberal source: The American Prospect. In fact. “As the Beauchamp scandal winds down,” Michael Rubin writes, “it’s important to realize that outright […]

DUKES OF JIHADIST HAZZARD. Two Muslim men were pulled over Saturday in South Carolina because they were speeding. News sources report: DeWitt said the men were pulled over Saturday night on U.S. Highway 176 while driving more than 60 mph in a 45-mph zone. When an officer approached the car, he saw one of them […]