Tim Lynch at the Cato Institute on the recent Supreme Court ruling on warrantless breaking and entering by the police: Awful ruling handed down by the Supreme Court this morning in a case called Kentucky v. King [pdf]. The case concerns the power to break into a...
The Washington Post reported yesterday that high level negotiations have been picking up between the Obama administration and the Taliban. The administration has accelerated direct talks with the Taliban, initiated several months ago, that U.S. officials say they hope...
The Huffington Post reports: [Connecticut Representative Chris] Murphy also revealed a comment made to him by one of the Republican lawmakers on the trip, who admitted that there is pressure to publicly avoid any criticism of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan so as not...
News of the Israeli navy firing shots at another Gaza aid ship today has prompted reminiscence of the deadly and illegal attack on the flotilla aid ship to Gaza back almost a year ago now. The ship was carrying sewage pipes to solve what is apparently an ongoing...
Doug Bandow, in an astute piece over at the National Interest, asks a simple question: If America is not in Afghanistan to stop terrorism, then what are roughly 100,000 U.S. military personnel, along with tens of thousands of allied troops, military contractors, and...
NATO commanders are demanding that the intervention in Libya, initially limited to the aim of protecting civilians, be expanded to destroy the civilian infrastructure of the country and remove Qaddafi from power. Civil institutions – not military – are now being...
This Friday is a deadline for the Obama administration in the war in Libya. The sixty day limit on the use of military force without Congressional approval imposed by the War Powers Resolution will be reached on May 20th. Not only does the Obama administration have,...
