Sarah Palin doesn’t think that there’s any “ability or opportunity” in Arizona’s new immigration law for racial profiling. Surprisingly, her Fox News colleagues disagree: One of the most objectionable things about Arizona’s law is the blatant racial profiling, but that doesn’t seem to phase most conservatives. Jonah Goldberg doesn’t see a problem with it. George [...]

I think George Will is trying to be clever here, but it really just comes off as incredibly obtuse and not a little bit racist: Non-Hispanic Arizonans of all sorts live congenially with all sorts of persons of Hispanic descent. These include some whose ancestors got to Arizona before statehood — some even before it [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — Omar Khadr’s a Canadian citizen. So, as you might expect, there’s a large contingent of Canadian press here in the hangar that serves as our makeshift newsroom. Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star is one of the best, and indisputably the most badass. First, she scooped all of us by reporting the [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — So. About half a day before the pre-trial hearing for Omar Khadr, the Manual for military commissions finally gets Robert Gates’ signature. Press was briefed about the Manual’s finality right as the military judge who’ll preside over the hearing got word. The word around the bar from prosecution staff is that the [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — This is a self-portrait in H Block of Camp Six, a communal-living detention facility modeled on a Michigan prison. I got to see Camps Four and Six today, two of the nine facilities that comprise Camp Delta. A surprisingly text-heavy slideshow is at the Washington Independent. Every photo I snapped was vetted [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — I don’t know what the Ethiopian Review is, and I’m going to operate on the presumption that A. Christine Maxfield is an innocent bystander here. But the Ethiopian Review is stealing my stuff from Guantanamo and republishing it under Maxfield’s byline. Even my David Iglesias video — I mean, you can hear [...]

My birthday was a few weeks ago, but if I could go back in time and make a different wish, I’d ask God — or whoever is responsible — to keep clueless columnists from comparing the Tea Party Movement to everything under the damn sun. For instance, here’s Anne Applebaum: Here is a riddle: What [...]

Most of the outrage over Arizona SB 1070 has focused, deservedly, on its magic-legalism approach to racial profiling. But if that’s not enough to persuade you to boycott the state, you might want to look at some of the other provisions in the law that are only slightly less disgusting. Take, for example, the section [...]

Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism, isn’t too alarmed with the reach or scale of Arizona’s new immigration law: I support the Arizona law, but I’m also worried that it could lead to civil rights abuses. It seems that whenever government expands either its powers or its enforcement efforts, you should be worried that it [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — Any second I’m about to run out to tour the detention facilities here. But check out this post on an apparently-emerging concept in military academic circles called DIME, for Diplomacy/Information/Military/Economics, about how to measure a country’s geopolitical heft. Or so I gather from the post, I’m not clear about precisely what this [...]