Some half wit at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) write a similiar editorial and he was a WSJ staffer. Murdoch bought WSJ/Dow Jones about 6 months ago. The paper has been going downhill. The editorial page was conservative but always pro-illegal. The writers of stories were okay usually conservative.
Now the writers of stories sound like AP writers - awful. The editorial board is also going downhill. Peggy noonan’s stupid editorial the other day bashing Palin was more evidence. I will be dumping WSJ for Investors Business Daily (IBD) very soon. I have subscribed to WSJ for at least 15 years. IBD is awesome.
Doesn't do any good to just cancel your subscription.....they could think you have passed away, LOL.
Leni
I am sorry to tell you this, but you are simply mistakened. WSJ has always been an extremely liberal paper on the “story” side, and I have been reading it for over 30 years now. The editorial pages have been very positive, conservative and for a while were the only mainstream voice critical of Bill Clinton’s healthcare and tax plans. I remember one article in the New Republic asking if the editorial board at WSJ had lost its mind, and fuming that the more “mainstream” journalists who wrote feature could not engineer some kind of coup.
The “pro-illegal” stuff on the editorial page was not as you describe it at all, but rather insisted that the illegal immigration problem here was market and economically driven, and thus needed to focus more on markets and economics rather than simply focusing on law enforcement. This is a typical libertarian picture, and addressed a problem from the pov of the business owner and entrepreneur, rather than the lineworker, blue collar worker perspective.
You are right, though about the stuff on IBD. Bill Oneill is a true American hero and icon, and the articles there are top notch. IBD is, indeed, awesome