If President Bush achieved nothing else in his Inaugural Address lastweek, he at least provided fodder for media pundits to chew on for a solid week or more. This is an unusual accomplishment, ev...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/bush-inaugural-embraces-liberalism/
The most recent installment of Politically Correct mind control comes from Harvard University itself, the world capital of Political Correctnessand at least a major metropolis of mind control. It...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/sex-summers-and-the-return-of-human-nature/
Mr. Barone's advice was no criticism, since he fairly gushed with toasty sounds about the similarities between Wilson's beliefs and Mr. Bush's"vision of an America spreading freedom and democracy...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/what-conservatives-can-expect-from-bushs-second-term/
Like the fog in Carl Sandburg's insipid poem, Martin Luther King Day this year seems to have crept up on the nation on little cat feet. We have heard few of the usual neo-conservative slobberings...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/for-mlk-day-a-tale-of-two-murders/
"No issue, not one, threatens to do more damage to the Republican coalition than immigration," gasps neoconservativeDavid Frum in National Review's Dec. 31 cover story. . Mr. Frum, the original "...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/immigration-policy-bad-for-america-not-just-gop/
Despite what the Republican leadership would like us to think, all is not harmony and light between the Republicans in Congress and the Republican in the White House. Emerging unpleasantness on t...
If it's a tsunami you're afraid of, what happened in the Indian Ocean last month is probably not what you should be worrying about. The tsunami Americans need to fear is the man-made wave of glob...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/globalization-now-eats-the-hands-that-fed-it/
Last summer a flurry of press reports disclosed the FBI's investigation of a man named Larry Franklin who works in the Defense Department under neo-conservative policy chief Douglas Feith. The su...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/will-administration-cover-up-a-major-israeli-spy-scandal/
In Europe, if not in the United States, some people are beginning to grasp that just maybe they made a mistake when they decided to welcome millions of immigrants over the last several decades. T...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/anarcho-tyranny-where-multiculturalism-leads/
It's beginning to dawn, even on American politicians, that you cannot have something like 34 million immigrants in the country and not expect immigration to become a major political issue. The la...
The Christmas wars just won't stop, even though Christmas is right upon us, at least for a year and maybe forever, if the anti-Christmas warriors have their way. While the warriors have been wagi...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/christmas-and-the-national-question-2-thumbs-down-on-dionne/
A tip of the hat to Charles Krauthammer, Jewish neoconservative (not necessarily a redundancy, despite what many neocons claim) who last week lobbed a much-merited smack at the face of the anti-C...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/christmas-and-the-national-question-one-cheer-for-krauthammer/
"Who is such a sap as to take the word of such a person?" asked journalist Christopher Hitchens about David Brock, another journalist (sort of) who confessed to having penned what he later admitt...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/david-brock-phony-media-watchdog-demands-i-be-muzzled/
December is not even half over, and already the war on Christmas has started. Out in the Red State of Colorado, where traditional culture supposedly thrives, the city of Denver has waded into a l...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/war-on-christmas-is-a-war-on-the-west/
So who says Islamic fanatics don't celebrate Christmas? This week our friends in Al Qaeda sent Americans a little present in the form of a massive murderous attack on the U.S. consulate in Jidda ...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/war-on-terror-clearly-not-winnable/
Only a few days after the national election, President Bush appointedhis campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, the new head of the Republican National Committee. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Mehlman offered ...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/discredited-hispanic-vote-share-myth-goes-marching-on-at-rnc/
On a recent Thanksgiving trip to Washington, relatives of mine had their car stopped near the Capitol and subjected to a "bomb search"by—somebody or another, the local cops, the federal cops, t...
Just exactly how many murders will it take to convince the Open Borders lobby, whose leader now seems to be President Bush, that mass Third World immigration is not such a good idea? Up in Wiscon...
ABC Sports last week took careful aim at the "moral issues" that are said to have driven this month's national election and delivered a good swift kick to their dentures on national television. T...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/morality-not-the-only-target-on-monday-night-football/
Well, I guess you can't expect a guy to know what's going on inside this country just because he's the President of the United States. This week President Bush took a trip to Chile, where he more...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/bushs-amnesty-arrogance-riling-republicans/
The Bush administration has read the political tea leaves that this year's election left at the bottom of the electoral cup and concluded that amnesty for illegal aliens is the message they send....
It didn't take the neoconservatives long to figure out the real truth about the election and explain to us, hanging breathless, what we should think about it. David Brooks in the New York Times w...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/neocons-downplay-moral-issue-in-election-stupid-party-believes-them/
Barely a week has passed since 84 percent of the nation's self-described conservatives cast their ballots for George W. Bush, and already the president and his administration have delivered at le...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/bush-betrays-conservatives-already/
If last week's election returns tell President Bush anything about immigration policy, it is that he ought to continue and even expand the"guest workers" program he unveiled last January. What wa...
https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/hispanic-voter-polls-last-exit-for-america/
When a drunken man tries to walk a tightrope, it is never possible topredict whether he will make it across or fall. Nothing you can reasonably foresee happening can possibly affect the outcome o...