PoliticsCommentary
Savor the Border Wins For a While
I’ve been feeling a warm glow this week, despite the bitter cold in Washington. For four years, I’ve been railing in print, podcast, radio, and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
I’ve been feeling a warm glow this week, despite the bitter cold in Washington. For four years, I’ve been railing in print, podcast, radio, and… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The social media site Twitter now “identifies” as “X.” A different kind of “X” now marks the spot where radical gender ideology has trumped national… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Anglosphere is too attractive for its own good. Great Britain, and its largest progeny—the USA and Canada—face the same problem: We attract more foreign… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus? Executive summary: No. As the summer 2020 high… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Over the past four years, President Joe Biden conducted an experiment: What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry? He released… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Joseph R. Biden (reminder: still the president of the United States) will leave office in a month, leaving behind a legacy of achievements and failures,… Read More
Education Commentary
Is there any behavior by a foreign student here on a visa that’s so bad that he should be deported? Apparently under Joe Biden, the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Imagine seeing this on tomorrow’s front page: Biden Announces New ‘Give It to Gaza’ Parole Program: 1,000 Palestinians per Week to Fly in From Designated… Read More
Many Democrats dream of ways to ensure they never lose power again. This is why they want to eliminate the Electoral College, pack the Supreme… Read More
LawCommentary
All across America, people are feeling the effects of four years of mass immigration parole programs and the release at the border of millions of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President-elect Donald Trump is now picking his Cabinet and appointing key executive officers. Nowhere will these picks be more important than in keeping his promise… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Conservatives know that when the American Left wants us to “have a conversation” about an issue, it means they get to talk incessantly until we… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place”… Read More
LawCommentary
There were 959 carjackings in Washington, D.C., last year—up from 148 in 2018. Shoplifting is so bad that stores in some neighborhoods have closed. The… Read More
SecurityCommentary
This is the last BorderLine column before the election. I am often asked what would change on border and immigration policy under a Kamala Harris… Read More
SecurityCommentary
In the United States today, there are over 660,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges for crimes other than just crossing the border illegally. By… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Immigration is a top issue for voters. Unfortunately, the real picture is obscured by several zombie lies—false narratives that are kept alive for political value…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Last week, I went to Springfield, Ohio, to see for myself this town that has symbolized the raging debate about mass illegal migration, which remains… Read More
Editor’s note: This commentary originally was published in September 2023. Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Welcome to the 52nd edition of “The BorderLine”! For the past year, every week, I have tried to capture the unprecedented nature of the Biden-Harris… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Back in February, the Senate voted down a supposedly “bipartisan” and “compromise” border bill co-sponsored by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Last week, I looked at the effects of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy on crime and jobs. This week, I want to look at its… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s movie “Am I Racist?” is a hybrid of mockumentary in the tradition of “Spinal Tap” and his signature ironic take on… Read More
SocietyCommentary
To sum up the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies in a phrase, I’d say “America Last.” Over nearly four years, we have seen the results of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
In the run-up to November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to rewrite history and absolve herself of her administration’s policy of facilitating mass… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Nothing illustrates the grave price of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy like the preventable crimes that occur with dismaying frequency across the country. At the… Read More
LawCommentary
In June, I wrote about “parole in place” for alien spouses when the Biden administration first announced this latest in its series of gimmicks that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
All repressive and authoritarian regimes, from Caracas to Pyongyang, suppress speech. Rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or China’s Xi Jinping cannot tolerate truth, as it… Read More
LawCommentary
En route to a recent vacation to New England, I stopped in my old hometown of Princeton, New Jersey, for coffee and picked up a… Read More
SecurityCommentary
In July, the Biden-Harris administration extended and “redesignated” something called Temporary Protected Status for Somalis who are present in the U.S. illegally, allowing them to… Read More