The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf has written a good post on an unfortunately seldom-made argument against so-called "humanitarian intervention" - namely that there are huge opportunity costs. "Almost every time someone calls for a war to be entered on humanitarian...
According to Peter Scheer, a lawyer and executive director of the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), "the real outrage about the Justice Department's use of secret subpoenas for the phone records of Associated Press journalists is that...it was probably legal." Although...
Adam Kokesh got his start in anti-government activism as an Iraq Veteran Against the War. He admirably broke Army military rules by protesting the war in his U.S. Marine uniform, and was soon discharged as punishment. Since then, Kokesh, who had a short-lived...
"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison As previously discussed in these spaces by Kelley...
Via NPR, Holder said yesterday in a news conference that he's not sure how many times he's signed off on Justice Department requests to spy on journalists: "I'm not sure how many of those cases...I have actually signed off on," Holder said. "I take them very...
With the manufactured Benghazi scandal tying with the IRS for the story that the right is pretending is a story, it’s worth looking back at what a real scandal looks like. Most people think of Watergate when they think “scandal” but by Nixon standards, Watergate is...
Israel's official silence following its airstrikes on weapons depots in Syria earlier this month fueled accusations in every direction. Damascus condemned it as an attempt to destroy the regime, Tehran said the real targets were Iran and Hezbollah, analysts in the...
When the Iran-Contra scandal broke out, President Reagan went on national television and played dumb. He claimed he had no knowledge that high-level members of his administration were illegally selling arms to the Iranian regime and using the proceeds to fund the...
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, The Washington Post reports this week that in addition to the escalating sexual assault problem in the the military, there have been an uncomfortable number of sex crimes, convictions and what can only be called criminal...
The 1993 Waco siege is often categorized as one of the more violent, militaristic, domestic actions by U.S. law enforcement in recent memory. And it should be. At the Branch Davidian's "compound" a fatal combination of government arrogance, fear, impatience, and...
