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Is mass migration from Mexico to the United States a thing of the past?

It's official. Rick Scott is the best governor in the nation.

Besides revelry, this new year will ring in $500 billion in tax hikes and $110 billion in spending cuts unless Congress and the president can come together to steer clear of the "fiscal cliff" beforehand.

WASHINGTON -- Americans are justified in feeling numbed by the car alarm of Washington politics.

Discussing the role of single people in the election of 2012 on my weekly podcast with Jay Nordlinger "Need to Know" (available on Ricochet.com or Nationalreview.com), your humble columnist chose the insensitive way to address it.

The fiscal cliff negotiations seem to be foundering on Barack Obama's insistence on higher tax rates on high earners and House Republican leaders' insistence on opposing them.

The incomparable Walter Russell Mead, writing in the American Interest, offered a glimpse into the coming dystopia:

Nutrient pollution, the excess nitrogen and phosphorus that causes algal blooms and fish kills, is a major source of water quality impairment across the state of Florida.