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Our sympathy to the French on the sad anniversary of a revolting massacre.

We’ve puzzled before over the claim that EU expansion is the answer to the problem of illegal immigration. Statements of UN officials such as Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, suggest the reason:

“Europe’s asylum and migration problems cannot be addressed in Europe alone … It is in the regions of origin

Meanwhile, at the birthplace of American liberty, Colin Powell gets 100,000 bucks and a gold Liberty Medal in exchange for a speech in which he “called on Americans to live up to their national ideal of liberty by confronting poverty, bigotry and inequality as the nation pursues its war on terrorism.” Powell “focused on … More ...

A Zogby poll confirms the obvious: students are taught to believe “diversity” outranks ordinary honesty, which is mostly relative to personal and cultural standards anyway. They learn that business is a profession in which an “anything goes” attitude is uniquely likely to lead to success. And 97% of college seniors agree that their studies … More ...

Why are the people at The New York Times convinced they can advise Musharraf how to achieve stability and progress in Pakistan? I would think the man’s situation demands more than blandly self-assured comments about promoting democratic institutions and making people aware that violence causes problems. Apparently not, though—we live in a global age, and … More ...

A tempest in a teapot, I think: WERE STUDENTS GLORIFYING HITLER? Yearbook photo flap erupts in Stratford. The New Haven Register apparently reproduced about a tenth of the original photo. Lucky for the boys they already graduated.

It’s hard at this distance to figure out just who did what and how bad it was, but that’s the point: Albanian terrorists armed by the West to fight in Kosovo are destroying Macedonia. We bombed Serbia for 78 days and nights because we were outraged by a civil war in which more than … More ...

It’s not just multinational corporations and “human rights”, everybody’s responsible for everything. The Ohio Supreme Court has approved the Cincinnati lawsuit against handgun manufacturers, so gun manufacturers are responsible for street crime. The AMA, among other enterprises that are making social conditions more and more a medical responsibility, is getting into the anti-bullying … More ...

At least some types of particularity can maintain themselves these days, but I’m not sure what it shows: Despite the sameness of U.S. media, regional dialects refuse to blend.

Remembering Nixon: Was Richard M. Nixon a closet liberal? He could hardly help but be one functionally. The man was intelligent, ambitious and unprincipled. He had grand strategy but no vision or ultimate principles—what counted was what would work. So how could he do anything but go with the tendencies of the age?