In an interview on last Sunday's 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl asked if the term "cruel and unusual punishment" applies to someone "being brutalized by a law enforcement person," Scalia replied: "To the contrary, has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don't...

After an absence of a couple of weeks, ICasualties.org is coming back online. ICasualties.org is the best source for details on US casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They have compiled an extensive database of this information, which is sortable by state,...

Justin is completely right to criticize Bob Barr for failing to adhere to libertarian, non-interventionist foreign policy principles concerning Latin America. But for the sake of clarification for our readers, I must take issue with something Justin said regarding the...

For 3 Years! On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed a law imposing a penalty of three years imprisonment on Israeli vehicle-owners who take their vehicles to mechanics in the West Bank. I cannot even guess at the justification.

Ron Paul gets 5 minutes to question General Patraeus. Check it out. A longer statement and questions will be submitted in writing and will be available within a day or so.

Finally, the premier antiwar conservative magazine has a blog! Among many others are posts by Philip Giraldi, Daniel McCarthy, James Antele, Leon Hadar, Scott McConnell, James Pinkerton, Tim Carney, Kelly Vlahos, Tom Woods, Steve Sailer, Kara Hopkins, and our own...

This is Ron Paul's statement before the US House of Representatives on House Resolution 997, "expressing the strong support of the House of Representatives for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to enter into a Membership Action Plan with Georgia and Ukraine." Mr....

Ron Paul gave this speech before the US House of Representatives as they voted on House Con Res 154 "expressing concern" over Russian involvement in Alexander Litvinenko’s murder. Mr. Speaker: I rise in strong opposition to this ill-conceived resolution. The US...