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The Shield and immigration

The recent season of The Shield got me thinking about the horrible immigration bill now being debated in DC, then I wrote this.

Adam Smith's Blues

I heard Benjamin Barber on NPR's Marketplace talking about his book Consumed. It made me so angry - that an educated person could be so stupid about basic economic law - that I had to write this column, also inspired by P.J. O'Rourke's latest.

Vive la France!

A couple of great essays on the French election and Sarkozy:

This one from Michel Gurfinkel is pretty long and deep.

Amir Taheri is more brief, but just as good.

Princely virtue

First read my Examiner column on the need for a Machiavellian outlook in foreign affairs.

Then read Machiavelli's The Prince and Kaplan's Warrior Politics.