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A Nuclear Iran

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

When permanent United Nations Security Council members China and Russia balked at tough language that threatened economic sanctions or military action against Iran if it refused to cease uranium enrichment, the Security Council issued a stern "formal statement" that read--in essence--"Iran, if you don't stop your nuclear program we'll be ...

Immigration

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

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Power and Corruption

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

The fight to protect your privacy is about far more than your privacy While a majority of people have heard--and to some extent agree with--the grand cliche that "the root of all evil is money", when it comes to those in federal offices money is rarely, if ever, the motivation behind ...

Hypothetical examples contingent on speculative conjecture

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

The State of the Union can't be taken literally, according to the administration Having been chastised last night by a long time friend for my dismissive attitude in yesterday's article towards the Presidents bold plan for addressing our nation's addiction to oil, I promised to place my reservations on hold and ...

Reasonable Suspicion is good enough, unless you’re a foreigner

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

How can we set higher standards for the treatment of non-U.S. citizens than our own by the U.S. government? Something that's come from coverage of the president's domestic spying program now, is that the administration feels that "reasonable suspicion" is enough to justify using unwarranted wire-taps and other means of surveillance ...