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Sure, George W. Bush did away with the White House Women’s Office of Initiatives and Outreach. He’s given us a first lady who prefers to be seen and not heard. He hired women with much fanfare, then promptly dismissed their input and humiliated them in public. (Think Dick Cheney usurping Condoleezza Rice’s authority and the […]

You may not have heard of Antonio Villaraigosa, but in about a month he is likely to be on the cover of Time and Newsweek. Villaraigosa is the front-runner to become the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles in the June 5 election. Almost more important, his likely win is the fruit of a remarkable […]

You could be forgiven for not knowing that Linda Chavez, George W. Bush’s appointment for labor secretary, is a fierce opponent of a minimum wage hike. Or that she opposes affirmative action. Or that she supports school vouchers. Or that she once served as the president of a group called U.S. English, which lobbied to […]

This article is a response to “The End of Ellis Island” by Paul Donnelly. In the online article entitled “The End of Ellis Island,” Paul Donnelly ties a guest worker proposal being formulated by Senator Phil Gramm to proposals on U.S.-Mexico immigration policy developed by a binational panel of immigration experts. Both were announced just […]

Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Attorney General John Ashcroft worked with high-level officials from the Mexican government in the first meeting of an immigration committee approved by American President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox. But even as the committee held its inaugural meeting, it was clear that the eventual outcome […]

“The Statue of Liberty says, ‘Send me your poor, your sick, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’” sermonized John McCain, admonishing government officials to keep Elián González in United States rather than returning him to his father in Cuba. When the Clinton Administration decided to return the boy, George W. Bush and […]

“Here’s a happy consequence of the war: More Americans are exercising theirSecond Amendment rights and arming themselves.” — The Wall Street Journal‘s James Taranto, November 6, 2001 See The Journal‘s compilation page, Best of the Web .

It was Sunday morning, Mother’s Day. In Washington, D.C., the Clintons were welcoming Million Mom Marchers at the White House before their rally, while near the Washington Monument, the Second Amendment Sisters were beginning to assemble. But in North Michigan, in the town of Menominee near the Wisconsin border, it was also the morning after […]

In the last few weeks we’ve heard endless reiterations of the phrase about the world never being the same again. And who can really deny it? Anyone looking at the scene where the World Trade Center used to be, or trying to imagine what madness would drive human beings to such acts, could hardly think […]