Obama, Bound By No Law, May Assassinate Another American

An important story from the Associated Press today explains how the Obama administration is considering whether to extra-judicially assassinate another American citizen in contravention of the suspect's constitutional rights to due process. The suspect, the AP...

The Truth About Cease-fire Violations Between Israel and Gaza

Here's how the relationship between Israel and Gaza works: successive "cease-fires" are repeatedly adopted and continuously violated, leading more often to skirmishes than to lulls in violence. Israel bombs Gaza with airstrikes, Gaza shoots rockets into Israel. Then a...

Author of the Patriot Act Says NSA Bulk Collection Is Illegal

Since the revelations about the NSA from Edward Snowden's leaks last year, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who authored the Patriot Act, has come out in opposition to certain NSA surveillance practices, particularly bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata....

The Jet that Ate the Pentagon

According to the Project on Government Oversight, "The U.S. is going to spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35, and it still isn't meeting its goals. Watch the video and find out how this happened." Several commentators including Winslow Wheeler and William Hartung discuss...