The New Republic

Briefly digressing from a PowerPoint presentation on global trade that he was making to the Greenwood, South Carolina, Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mitt Romney had this to say: READ MORE >>

No Amnesty: [Brendan Farrington and Libby Quaid, AP]: "In his first major policy proposal, Thompson challenged presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney by criticizing 'sanctuary cities' where city workers are barred from reporting suspected illegal immigrants who enroll their children in school or seek hospital treatment. … Under Thompson's plan, sanctuary cities would lose discretionary federal grants, as READ MORE >>

More from Eric Kleefield on the burgeoning scandal that threatens READ MORE >>

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As long as we're picking on Rick Davis today, what was up with this nugget from that New York Times profile: READ MORE >>

Nicholas Sarkozy is not “pure” French.  In fact, his grandfather was Jewish but he has an acute sense of how authentic symbols make the nation one.  Sarkozy has established as an iconographic piece of history a letter from Guy Moquet, a seventeen year old boy, to his family on the eve of his execution by the Nazis.  Guy was a READ MORE >>

  “Make walls, not war,” says Peter W. Galbraith.  It’shis solution to Iraq.  After all partition may be just what the country needs.  In fact, that’s what the Holy Land has needed for decades, and it is precisely why the government of Ariel Sharon began to build barriers to separate Israel from whatever will be Palestine.  Thank you, Peter Galbraith, for adding your sensible voice to this discussion.     READ MORE >>

Rich Lowry passes along something I hadn't heard about Mike Huckabee before, though it makes perfect sense: READ MORE >>

Barack Obama's campaign was quite quick to release a forceful statement  this afternoon rebuking Mitt Romney for his rather bizarre confusion of Obama with Osama bin Laden. This was probably the fitting thing to do under any circumstances. Yet I can’t help READ MORE >>

Just a quick reminder to help us fill in the censored parts of Valerie Plame Wilson's memoir!  Winners will run in next week's magazine. --The Editors  READ MORE >>