In Europe conservatives long ago gave up the principled battle against the welfare state, became just another set of claimants and have taken up the anti-immigration cause, not without racism. If you want to see a conservatism more niggardly and with less of a future than Nixon's, Dole's, Pete Wilson's, or Christine Whitman's, just go to Europe. The American conservative tradition, which began with Washington and Adams, is founded on a concern for character. Mr. Wallop correctly asserted that America, with each passing year, resembles less what the Founders intended and more like the countries our immigrant forefathers fled. But like big ships, great social movements take time to turn around.
Conservatives are on the right course.
The love of money Harold Nicholson was a day away from his 46th birthday when he checked in at Dulles airport for a flight to Switzerland to mix business with pleasure, and ultimately meet up with the woman he'd planned to marry. Then the FBI arrested him. He's the highest-ranking CIA official ever charged. The next day, FBI officials said the Russians may have inadvertently given evidence that Mr. Nicholson was working for them. The land down under President Clinton got out of town one step ahead of potential legal troubles.