As we know, the Patriot Act provisions up for renewal passed a cloture vote for a four year extension 74-8. The Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez on the Patriot Act’s extension: Back in February, Democratic leader Harry Reid promised fellow senator Rand Paul that—after...
Today’s violent clashes in Yemen appear to have been instigated when Yemeni soldiers loyal to President Saleh began stockpiling weapons and munitions at the al- Ramah school near Shaykh Sadiq al-Amhar’s residence in the capital Sana’a. Sadiq al-Amhar is the head of...
Word that the Libyan war is illegal has been out for some time now. Here’s just a sampling: Daniel Larison: As far as U.S. law is concerned, this is also wrong. The President has no authority under the Constitution to do what Obama has done in Libya. Doug Bandow:...
Netanyahu’s speech in front of Congress was truly extreme. He said that Judea and Samaria (the Israeli phrase for the West Bank and occupied territories) belongs to Israel. He said the entirety of Jerusalem belongs to the Israelis. He said Israeli settlements are...
Benjamin Netanyahu will soon speak to Congress presumably to reiterate what we’ve heard from him and others for the past week: “no to Israel's full withdrawal to the 1967 borders; no to the division of Jerusalem; no to the right of return for Palestinian refugees; and...
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Muammar Gaddafi, his son, and his top intelligence man under the Rome Statute’s provisions constituting crimes against humanity. Good; they are sick murderous tyrants. But who should be next? The...
While there was nothing all that new in the President's speech on the Middle East, most of the discussion has been centered around the Israeli reaction, rather than the content of Obama's ten-page peroration. In tandem with the usual pledges to keep borrowing money...
The flap over IMF honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn's apparent rape of a hotel maid has the chattering classes nattering a mile a minute, and I've so far resisted the temptation to comment, but what's interesting is who's defending DSK. Leading the charge: Bernard...
In an appearance on Greg Gutfeld's "Red Eye" late night Fox News panoply of buffoons, neocon Godfather Bill Kristol exulted in President Barack Obama's conversion to the "democracy"-promotion foreign policy championed by the Bush administration, reports the Daily...
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The Atlantic: "I was ... taken aback when I read a statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday that he 'expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly...
