Harry’s Place is running a Do Something for Iraq campaign to promote ‘campaigns, projects and charities that are directly helping Iraqi people’

Recently, Samuel Huntington laid out his reasons for being afraid of Mexican immigrants to the US in an essay in Foreign Policy. You should read it. But even more importantly, make sure to read our AFOE co-editor Scott Martens’ most excellent three part (one, two, three) point by point refutation of Mr Huntington’s effort over at pedantry. While the case study is about the US, there are important lessons to be drawn for European immigration, too – “It’s all Tim Berner-Lee’s fault.”

According to the people who voted in the Bloggy^tm category “best European weblog”, the best one is Textism. The four runner-ups are, in order of appearance on the award’s website – Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent, Open Brackets, Giornale Nuovo, Chocolate & Zucchini. The overall winner is, by the way, BoingBoing, the directory of wonderful things.

My favorite blogger, Kevin “Calpundit” Drum, has gone professional. He now blogs at the Washington Monthly.