France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism?

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.