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...
As London reels from the beheading of a British soldier, 1,200
miles away in Stockholm, Muslims, er,
youths have been rioting in the streets of Stockholm and
elsewhere in Sweden for the past four nights.
News outlets such as Reuters are
focusing o...
So Quin Hillyer is throwing
his hat into the ring and is running for Congress.
I have enjoyed Quin’s contributions to The American
Spectator whether the subject be politics or sport. Quin
and I have had a couple of spirited disagreements, but w...
In my
initial reaction to the terrorist attack yesterday in London
was not to be surprised if the perpetrators were British born. One
of the two men responsible for murdering British soldier Lee Rigby
yesterday has been
identified as Michael Abdebolajo....
Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the IRS scandal, has
been put on administrative leave.
The Washington Post is reporting:
Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations
division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on
a...
That was the takeaway from a discussion of his new book The
End Is Near, and It’s Going to Be Awesome. In it, the
National Review ace noted at Thursday’s event hosted by
the Cato Institute that fiscal crisis is inevitable as a matter of
simple arithme...
