"The nation-state is finished": Robert Bartley, a closet one-worlder at the WSJ, used his newspaper's "conservative" clout to seduce American business leaders into sacrificing U.S. sovereignty for trade.(Sovereignty)

"What in blazes can President Bush be thinking?" That has been the general response--on talk radio and in media surveys, Internet postings and letters-to-the-editor--of many current and former Bush supporters angered and confused by the president's immigration proposals. These folks would not have been surprised by the president's outrageous announcement on January 7 or his remarks the following week at the Summit of the Americas in Mexico if they bad been paying attention to his immigration themes from the get-go. While still governor of Texas, Bush had already indicated his tilt toward open borders between the U.S. and Mexico. However, like most well-coached ...