Tag Archives: National Security

Government Secrecy

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Interrogation Memos, Universal Jurisdiction, And Forgotten Complicity

I would be remiss if I didn’t give my thoughts on the release of the interrogation memos that occurred on Thursday.

Marque And Reprisal

My colleague, Ben Domenech, has penned a very nice examination of Ron Paul’s very good idea to use letters of marque and reprisal to create a new class of privateers that can take on pirates abroad:

Barack Obama Is Not The Messiah. He’s Just Another Politician.

The latest proof for the proposition comes in the form of a New York Times story on detention policy:

The North Korean Rocket Launch

It appears to have “fizzled,” but it has made enough of an impression to attract the attention of the UN Security Council.

On A Nuclear Iran

Daniel Larison tells us that we have to accept a nuclear Iran because . . . well . . . we just do.

The Centrist President

As liberal as his legislative solutions to the current economic crisis have been, if President Obama holds to his promises on other policy fronts, there are several areas where he could become a paradigm-busting figure who ignores unrepresentative opinion on both sides to offer centrist solutions to the American people.

- March 17, 2010 -

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