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Military Spending Reflects Our Flawed Policies

Monday, June 30th, 2008

President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond...The legislation will bring to more than $650 billion the amount Congress has provided for the Iraq war since it began more than five years ago. For ...

The Homeland Doesn’t Feel So Secure

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Even with all the money spent on counterterrorism, the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, a National Intelligence czar and a federal government that pretends to prioritize national security to the detriment of fiscal responsibility and civil liberties, we still are no safer today than we were before ...

Notes on Abatement

Friday, February 8th, 2008

At what point did members of the left begin to embrace totalitarian behaviors they once berated the right for? What happened to openness, understanding and dialog? Is it all an illusion, or is the left becoming so intolerant of others that it is willing to dispose of counter-opinion at any ...

Stopping The Taliban Should Be Bush’s Focus

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Even now, over six years after 9/11, the President still can not correctly prioritize his foreign policy. After a brief but successful military campaign in Afghanistan, the administration quickly shifted the focus to Iraq and more recently, has attempted to broker a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. ...

If Wiretapping Was So Vital, Feds Would Pay Up

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

What's worse, eavesdropping on Americans without a warrant or losing evidence acquired via this unconstitutional search for unpaid phone bills? Where is the FBI conducting this operation, in a fraternity house? We have lost our civil liberties and privacy to insecure control freaks and are no safer today than ...

Al Qaeda Is Stronger Than Ever

Friday, December 28th, 2007

"We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto," Pakistan's Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Six years ago, the United States had a chance to completely dismantle the Al Qaeda terror network and its supporters within the Afghan Taliban government behind a worldwide ...