Only in the United States Congress could a legislative provision
entitled “Market-Based H-1B Visa Limits” actually mean that “the
number of visas calculated under subparagraph (A) for any fiscal
year shall not be less than 110,000 or more than 180,0...
In 1987, on the evening of her third general election victory as
leader of the Conservative Party, the late and great Margaret
Thatcher gave a speech
before her constituents in the district of Finchley. It was mostly
boilerplate stuff—thanking...
Rookie Florida Senator Marco Rubio continues to work tirelessly
to get the United States to annex Mexico, though an exhaustive (and
exhausting) search of his 2010 election campaign reveals no
promises to do, nor even a mention that he might consider doing...
New Jersey alcohol enforcement officials raided bars up and down
the Garden State Wednesday on suspicion that mixologists were
pouring generic rail-drinks from high-end liquor bottles. Earlier
samples of 150 liquors ordered by name yielded a 20 percent fr...
Why should we remember places with strange names, inhabited by
tribes whose languages and religions and customs are unfamiliar,
most of whom hate us? Why should we remember valleys called the
Gowardesh or the Khien Phuong, towns and hamlets with names we...
Beijing’s leadership expertly follows a tricky path of
maintaining close financial and commercial relations with
Washington while simultaneously strutting about militarily.
American businessmen and visiting politicians are wined and dined
by well-connec...
Republicans’ capacity for destruction seems to rank up there
with Mother Nature’s in the eyes of some Senate liberals. And
rarely has that been more evident than after Monday’s terrible
events in Oklahoma.
In the aftermath of the tornado that de...
If the Tribune Company were Biblical Egypt, the Koch brothers
buying its papers would be the 11th plague. They are probably
behind billions of red, bulgy-eyed cicadas poised to swarm the East
Coast this year, too. Or so think many liberals.
So bad is...
When an opportunity comes to do something good, one must grab
it.
At 2 p.m. central time Thursday afternoon in Mobile, word spread
that U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, a six-term Republican from a dark red
district, would announce that he is resigning mid-term (Aug....
