Street corners full of arm-waving, shouting, eager workers provide help employers want when they want it. No planning or paperwork required. But illegals depress wages, and people want laws enforced. Business prefers making today’s mess legal. Practical politicians side with their benefactors. Bush’s “comprehensive immigration reform” fell victim to public outcry, but a crafty Congress [...]

Smiling traffic officers once worked busy corners controlling cars by stylishly waving arms, nodding heads, spinning in big belly ballets, and fiercely pointing fingers at anyone slow to follow their directions. In December cars paused to slip bills into open hands to show thanks for the daily entertainment. Like Congress, the traffic corps didn’t care [...]

As a youth I ran without getting winded, unloaded boxcars of empty beer cans all day, steered a snow blower without huffing until forty, a lawnmower without puffing through my fifties. The sight of a pretty girl took my breath away, but that was imagination, not effort. Over the years, age eroded my once strong [...]

The President’s view of what SCHIP will do, differs from the bill’s supporters, in almost all respects. At least that’s what the papers and TV report ― without a hint of which opposing facts resemble what the new law says. Surely there are sources that could tell them and us what is true and what [...]