Time To Put Defense Cuts On The Table
With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.
Ivory Coast By Any Other Name …
Is calling Côte d’Ivoire “Ivory Coast” linguistic colonialism? Where do we draw the line when English names for countries go out of vogue?
Obama Wants to Give America Back to Indians!
President Obama is supporting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Is this the end of America?
Treason And The Wikileaks Case
There’s been much talk recently about treason charges in the Wikileaks case, an most of it has been entirely wrong.
Interpol Issues Julian Assange Arrest Warrant
The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?
Why NATO? A Europe Whole and Free
Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 9/11 Truther
If it’s September, it must be time for Mahmoud Ahmadinjad to stand up before the United Nations General Assembly and say something completely insane.
The High Cost of Immigration Enforcement
Both Congress and the Obama Administration have stepped up enforcement of immigration laws–at immense cost to both the budget and the courts.
Iroquois Passports OK in UK, Not USA
The Iroquois lacrosse team has been caught in a classic Catch-22. The U.S. government won’t recognize their passports and they won’t use U.S. passports as a matter of principle.
