Worse Than a Third Bush Term?

If in 2008 someone had said that Obama's war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush's, nearly no one would have believed it. Bush started a preventive war in Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands without any credible correlation to U.S....

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Where Have All the Missiles Gone?

Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time passing Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time ago Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards every one When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? - Pete Seeger Most Americans think the federal...

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Enabling a Future American Dictator

Click to listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address. These are truly troubling days for liberty in the United States. Last week, the 60-day deadline for the president to gain congressional approval for our military engagement in Libya under the War Powers Resolution...

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What Must We Defend?

"We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. "[A] smaller...

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Welcome to Post-Legal America

Is the Libyan war legal? Was bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were those "enhanced interrogation techniques" legal? These are all questions raised in recent weeks. Each seems...

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Monday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 25 Wounded

One of Iraq’s vice presidents resigned today, saying he hoped it would encourage others to reduce the size of government; however, some analysts think it signals dissension within the fragile government. At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 25 more were wounded in the latest attacks.
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