Angela Merkel tried to have it both ways in her New Year’s message to the German people. First, she talked about the terrorist threat: Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in her New … Continue reading →
Here’s the story: A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The … Continue reading →
Merkel is doing penance for her immigration policy by getting behind the banning of the full-face veil—in other words, the burqa and the niqab. Today there’s an editorial in Bloomberg that states: Pandering to grievances, real or imagined, rarely works. … Continue reading →
Byron York discusses it here. The major points, as he sees them: First, Trump announced that he will aggressively move to deport criminal illegal immigrants – that is, immigrants who have committed crimes beyond the act of entering the country … Continue reading →
I repeat: why is this considered news?: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to “softening” laws dealing with illegal immigrants in a “Hannity” town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. His remarks were the latest sign … Continue reading →
It’s always hard to know what protests represent, because the crowds in the streets are always a very small percentage of a population. The real question is always: how many people sympathize with the protesters, and how many don’t? And … Continue reading →
In separate and seemingly unrelated attacks in Germany, two Syrian “asylum seekers” commit heinous acts of violence that are probably some mixture of terrorism and just plain craziness or psychopathy or vicious rage. This seems to be the new pattern, … Continue reading →
If you reward a behavior you get more of it. When you stop rewarding it, you get less. That’s not as absolute a law as that of gravity, but it’s the way it usually goes, and the phenomenon of the … Continue reading →
Today is a big law news day. Not only do we have the Goodson acquittal, but we have two important SCOTUS rulings. One involves race-conscious admissions policies in colleges. The case dealt with the University of Texas, and this was … Continue reading →
…that there are too many refugees in Europe: “When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering,” said the Tibetan spiritual leader, who has himself lived in exile for … Continue reading →
“Schengen” is the elimination of traditional border-crossing rules in Europe, a development that has been hailed and welcomed for years but which is increasingly threatened by Europe’s Muslim refugee crisis. If you’re interested (and I certainly am) in the topic, … Continue reading →
Reading SCOTUS tea leaves is a difficult but nearly irresistible temptation. This time the case is a big one (and Justice Scalia will be sorely missed by the right, as he has been several times since his death): whether President … Continue reading →