[LarryLied]

the intensifying politics of hate that likely produced the Monday murder of Holland's anti-immigrant politician Pim Fortuyn and the killing in March of a senior Italian official whose job was to reform Italy's labor market. It is the politics of hate that has synagogues burning and helps Le Pen reach the French election's final round.

The left is responsible for all this (except Le Pen) yet the writer implies it is the fault of the right. Such "haters".

[MarkWar]

>Yet it's hard for the center-right to celebrate any new political wind favoring freer markets and individual initiative amid Europe's ugly new stench of intolerance

I'll admit that I stopped reading this article at this sentence. But I must say that the writer has captured a profound truth about the modern world here in the thoughts behind this sequence of words.

Until we all learn to rid ourselves of our own "ugly new stench of intolerance," until we all learn to embrace the people blowing us up and shooting us and knifing us and dragging our dead and dying bodies through their street celebrations, and flying jet liners into our office buildings, we will never fit in with the Establishment, we will never be ready to take our place as global citizens in the New World Order.

Could anything be more clear, really?

Mark W.

[skeeter]

How does a paper historically seen as 'conservative' reconcile itself to the fact it is beginning to have more in common with the one-world no-borders socialist left?

The WSJ sucks harder every year.

[Clemenza]

The WSJ is a great paper (the only one I subscribe to), but it is DEAD STUPID WRONG on immigration.

[Paradox]

He notes that George W. Bush Sr. is taking over leadership of the International Democratic Union, the worldwide gathering of conservatives, from the leader of Britain's Conservatives, William Hague, at its June meeting.

"Wouldn't be prudent...."