A Biblical Threat to National Security
Can a Bible be a "threat to national security"? For years, the government has employed the risk of "national security" excuse to infringe on a wide range of freedoms — like the right to pass through an airport security checkpoint unmolested, or read library books...
Unconstitutional Use of Drones Must Stop
Listen to Rep. Paul deliver this address. Last week I joined several of my colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama requesting clarification of his criteria for the lethal use of drones overseas. Administration officials assure us that a "high degree of...
Has the President Become a Law Unto Himself?
“What lies at the nexus of Obama’s targeted drone killings, his self-serving leaks, and his aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers is a president who believes himself above the law and seems convinced that he alone has a preternatural ability to determine right from...
More Iraq Bloodshed: 36 Killed, 82 Wounded
Till Death Do Us Part
"Do you do this in the United States? There is police action every day in the United States.... They don't call in airplanes to bomb the place." – Afghan President Hamid Karzai denouncing U.S. airstrikes on homes in his country, June 12, 2012 It was almost closing...
Creepy Nicholas Kristof Rejoices in Murderous Iran Sanctions
There is something more than a little creepy about Nicholas Kristof’s incessant interest in prostitutes — only out of concern for their well-being, of course — as he travels across the planet. But in his most recent trek across Iran, he abandons his obsession for a...
Rand Paul’s Oedipal Drama
Every time Rand Paul opens his mouth, he seems to put both feet and a couple of other appendages in it. There was that unfortunate interview with Rachel Maddow, there was the “couldn’t get any gayer” quip – and now this. In an alternately opaque and all-too-revealing...
Peace Is Profitable
Most discussions about the costs of war focus on two numbers: the cost in dollars and cents and the more profound and heartbreaking cost in lives. Yet even as depressing as these numbers are, the figures discussed rarely encompass the whole truth. Over many...