As talks between Iran the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) conclude, all parties should be commended for returning to the negotiating table. Obama should be commended for having turned diplomacy into a process rather than the one-off meetings that existed in the past. There is no other way to [...]
RT: Lawmakers in New York State are proposing new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet. Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte says that the legislation he co-sponsors, Bill no. S06779, would cut down on “mean-spirited and baseless [...]
A lot of people are puzzling over the Obama Adminstration’s stance on the P5+1 talks going on in Baghdad right now. In particular, the administration has said that even if a deal is reached with Iran at the summit, they aren’t going to remove any sanctions from them in return. This is, of course, the [...]
From the indispensable Just Foreign Policy: Help Rand Paul Call the Question on War with Iran Sen. Rand Paul introducing his amendment to S. 2101. Before we have any military conflict with Iran, the Senate and the House should have at least one debate and vote on it. That’s what the Constitution and the law [...]
Under statutory mandates, Congress is required to impose automatic budget cuts if an agreement on “debt reduction” is not reached. It is already clear Congress is ignoring its own self-imposed requirements, which Americans overwhelmingly support. As I recently wrote: “Essentially, Congress mandated action on cutting spending by force of law, and then ignored their own [...]
In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in [...]
