The current version of John McCain, which we can call John McCain 2.7, is remarkable. He is a conservative warrior! He is the very model of a family values man! Of course, he is nothing like John McCain 2.6, the…
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Loading ...Under the heading, “Within it’s power,”(June 27) a reader took exception to my previously published position that the SCOTUS had no Constitutional authority to make decisions in foreign policy or military decisions.
James D. Wilson of Ladue opines that the Supreme…
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The recent Supreme Court decision restoring the habeas corpus rights of Guantanamo detainees may be the most important ruling in our lifetimes. The unconstitutional Military Commissions Act had allowed the President to designate anyone an “enemy combatant,” to detain them…
(6 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5) Loading ...The Post is jumping on Yoo as an ongoing liberal media effort of implicating President Bush because Yoo was his lawyer. But the effort is calumny and slander. It is ridiculous to call for sanctions over a lawyer’s interpretation of the law. Yoo is more than likely…
(8 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Last week ABC News broke the story that a group of top Bush advisors, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Tenet, Powell and chaired by Condoleeza Rice met in the White House and approved torture techniques on prisoners. Days later Bush himself admitted…
(10 votes, average: 2.2 out of 5) Loading ...President Bush’s continued support of torture flies in the face of American values and international law. There is little support for the use of torture as a viable means to secure accurate information. More importantly it is a practice that…
(8 votes, average: 2.38 out of 5) Loading ...As a little kid, I recall seeing movies wherein monstrous people (who of course did not look like me) threatened and tortured American prisoners of war; this was the era of movies about World War II, and all Americans were…
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