It sounded like a crackpot idea to the political and cultural elite. Hundreds of citizens, angry about the effects of illegal immigration on our country, would travel down to the Mexican border and do something about it. The Minuteman Project would attract kooks, said the naysayers. It would encourage racism, they moaned. It would be divisive, others whined. It would provoke violence, some claimed. It would be vigilantism, cried some, including the president of the United States. Now that we've seen the Minuteman Project in action, we all know it did none of those things. What it did was shut...
