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It’s entirely fair to ask why this administration -- or the next -- should expect us to believe it will live up to the promises of border security and enforcement that are being made and will be made in the 2008 campaign. We don’t believe those promises for two reasons. One: if President Bush were sincere about border security, he would have done a lot since 2000, and he hasn’t. And he could do a lot right now, without demanding the Bush-McKennedy bill in trade. Two: if any candidate wants us to believe he is sincere about border security --...

We did what we set out to do: the Senate immigration “compromise” bill became another “Miers Moment” for President Bush. Last week conservative political power was asserted more strongly than it had been since we forced the withdrawal of Hapless Harriet’s nomination to the Supreme Court. We -- which means all of you who took to the phones to call Congress and talk radio, who made the effort to send the thousands of e-mails senators received asking them to opposed the bill -- were the key factor that enabled the bill’s opponents to prevent passage last week. We should feel...

APR. 29, 2003: FREE SPEECH AND AK-47S As many as thirteen Iraqis were killed yesterday in Fallujah, near Baghdad, when demonstrators fired on U.S. troops. Many of the demonstrators, some carrying pro-Saddam signs, were children and young men aged 5 - 20. Demonstrations such as this are part of the precious right to free speech. But in Iraq, as in many other places around the world, the people don't see a difference between demonstration and fighting because they don't understand that their freedom doesn't include random violence. We don't know whether yesterday's incident was the product of local frustrations...