In the NY Times, Julia Preston writes that the immigration problem is defying politicians’ attempts to answer it easily.

Coinciding with the mood of apprehension following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the new immigration has provoked more than the traditional suspicion that foreigners are taking jobs from American workers. For many voters in the primary races, immigration has become an urgent national security concern and a challenge to the American identity.

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Lee Harris at TCSDaily examines the old slander that conservatives are from the “stupid party”. What he finds is something that I have been saying about conservatives for a long time: What fundamentally distinguishes conservatives from liberals is not, as some liberals would maliciously suggest, intelligence or sanity or morality, but rather simply a different attitude towards risk. (more…)

John Deady, the co-chair of New Hampshire Veterans for Rudy Giuliani, has been forced to resign from his position after (progressive) journalists and bloggers confronted Giuliani with Deady’s remarks about Muslims. For those who have slight memory problems: Deady told reporters (caught on camera) that the former mayor of New York has “the knowledge and judgment to attack one of the most difficult problems in current history. And that is the rise of the Muslims. And make no mistake about it, this hasn’t happened for a thousand years.| MORE ›

A (short) documentary about Nazis in Russia. Watch it. It’s very, very disturbing. Nazism and racist violence is tremendously on the rise in Russia. It’s one of those developments that Putin allowed to happen. Some say he silently encourages it, others say that he simply doesn’t do against them what he could (and should) do.

The leader of Russia’s Nationalist Socialist Party is interviewed in the video.| MORE ›

The Houston Chronicle says:

Texas anti-nuclear activists are rallying their forces to challenge the so-called nuclear renaissance that could see the state become home to the country’s first new nuclear power plant project in nearly 30 years.

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It seems that Pakistanis haven’t responded calmly to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Instead, her supporters started rioting and Musharraf didn’t handle the sudden death of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister all too well either.

The official story is that she died because her head smacked into the roof of the car. That doesn’t sound all that believable, so her supporters have called on the government to exhume her body.| MORE ›

Buck Naked Politics rightfully crowns my good friend Jon Swift King of the (satirical) blogosphere.

And a big thank you to BNP’s Damozel for the compliment (head on over to BNP to find out what I’m talking about).

With only one week to go before the primaries of Iowa and New Hampshire, former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney has stepped up his attacks against his main rivals in both states: Mike Huckabee and John McCain.

The campaign has made and aired two ads that compare Romney to Huckabee and in the other one to McCain, both indicating that his two main competitors aren’t the best for conservative voters.

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A couple of days ago I read this column by John Derbyshire for National Review Online, which he wrote little over a week ago. In it, the conservative columnist endorses Ron Paul, arguing that the time has come for Libertarianism to be implemented.

One of the main reasons that Derbyshire endorses Paul is that the government has become increasingly bigger, with even the Vice President having a gigantic staff.| MORE ›

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Why am I thanking them? Philips is a Dutch company.

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