Archive for the ‘Foreign Relations’ Category
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AUMF
Posted on February 12, 2015
Congress used to declare war. Now it authorizes the use of military force. We used to go to war against countries. Now, we use military force against imaginary caliphates....
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Two Reminders of What Communism Looks Like
Posted on December 18, 2014
“I have seen the future and it is now,” the famous Soviet apologist Lincoln Steffens once wrote about the Russian revolution. He turned out to be wrong, but I betcha...
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Moussaoui Might Be Crazy. And He Might Be Right.
Posted on November 17, 2014
When is it easy to believe a paranoid schizophrenic in the courtroom? When it is Zacarias Moussaoui and he tells you that a Saudi prince bankrolled the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui,...
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Pete King’s GOP
Posted on June 24, 2014
This originally appeared in The Hill. Congressman Pete King (R-N.Y.), a familiar pugilist on cable television, took his message of a robust American foreign policy to New Hampshire for the...
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Why is the Federal government so big anyway?
Posted on June 18, 2014
If you ever have any hopes of diminishing the power of Washington, you need to have an understanding as to why it has grown so large in the first place....
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