Critics say that the new Arizona immigration law hearkens back to the days of Jim Crow and apartheid. Actually, it goes back to the beginning of the idea that immigrants coming into this country could be "illegal."

For the first ninety-nine years of America's existence--from 1783 to 1882--there...

When Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, there was much carping about how it was undeserved. That may be true, but it would take a lot for President Obama to do more damage than did the first American president -- and the first American, period -- to win...