How easy is it to cross the border from Mexico without hassles? Polipundit. Very.
Bill Gates needs a basic econ course. RCP
Candidates: Who gives you the creeps? Somebody did a poll.
Shuttle update. They had an interesting trip, but it's time to come home.
EU running scared of the people. Brussels Journal/ Tell me what the difference is between what Napoleon wanted and what the EU wants. More: Editorial on the subject of the EU Constitution at NY Sun. I remain confused about why the Europeans would want anything more than an economic treaty. What for? To solve what problem?
French regs putting French grape growers on the ropes.
Newt's immigration video. To the point.
What if the middle east doesn't want peace? What if many of them like to fight, and find peace a bore? What if many of them don't care whether they live or die?
A bad time to be a Christian in Gaza. But Gaza's wishes all came true, didn't they?
This kid has balls. RTLC. And so does this kid.
Aussies building a big new navy. At the same time that the Brits are shrinking theirs to nothing.
The immigration bill is back, key vote Friday.
Not your father's NH. NH bans bar and restaurant smoking. Trans fats next, and then guns?
Charles Kesler in the Claremont Review, via No Left Turns. A quote:
"The writ to use force against him [Saddam] and his regime was cogent and persuasive. But the decision to turn that deterrent, punitive, and preventive action into the occasion for elaborate democratic reconstruction was, alas, ill-conceived. Iraq was not that important to us. It could seem that important...only by imagining that an utterly transformed Iraq would be an outpost of liberal democracy in the Middle East...and that Iraq in turn would utterly transform the whole Middle East into a land of milk and honey, not to mention democracy and peace."
A reader quoted at Insty about Congress' terrible poll numbers:
I think there is a greater disconnect between the Political Class and the Public than ever before -- and, to quote a phrase -- deservedly so. The most liberal senator has more in common with the most conservative senator than either has in common with you or me, and we know it.
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