28 May 2007
Senate Sellout: Everything Really Does Hang On American Backlash This Week

Peter Brimelow] @ 12:39 am

A snobbish European once surprised me by conceding that the Americans have made a great capital out of George Washington’s swamp, and in the spring sunlight of late May, it looks glorious. But Washington D.C. is also, to a surprising extent, a little town—a city-state like Athens or Venice, where people meet on the street or bump into each other in restaurants, all the while mutually preoccupied with the affairs of what is, in fact, the greatest empire in the history of the world. “[b]Inside the Beltwayâ€