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Did that really happen? In America?
My periodic "Did You Know" columns tend to raise the blood pressure of more conservative readers who are embarrassed/angry/frustrated by the increasingly aggressive counter-cultural policies of the hard left and their allies in Hollywood, on campus, and...
Tags: Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Britney Spears, Adam Sandler, Clint Eastwood, Fiscal Cliff
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ANALYSIS-Alienation draws some vulnerable immigrants to jihad
ReutersBy Myra MacDonald LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - In the United States, two Chechen immigrants are accused of the Boston Marathon bombings. In Canada, a doctoral student at a Montreal university is one of two non-citizens accused this week of plotting to...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Jihad, Crimes
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U.S. lawmakers ask if FBI mishandled case of one Boston suspect
ReutersBy Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican lawmakers questioned Sunday whether the FBI had fumbled the case of one of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects, saying it was one of a series in which someone the agency had...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, National Security, Television Industry, Fox News Channel (tv network), NBC (tv network)
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After the Boston bombings, returning to our post-9/11 rituals
In the two months after 9/11, I called Baltimore County police to check out a black-and-tan backpack left by an office door in Towson, reported an abandoned carry-on bag at BWI to Maryland State Police and refused to watch a bulky valise for a stranger...
Tags: Maryland State Police, Police Investigations, The New York Times, Terrorism, Sports
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Will Obama launch a drone attack on U.S. soil?
Who would have thought that within President Barack Obama beats the heart of a civil rights antediluvian? Could Obama, beloved of the American Civil Liberties Union, be guilty of harboring thoughts of calling down a fatal drone attack on an American...
Tags: New York University, Civil Rights, White House, Barack Obama, American Civil Liberties Union
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On drones, U.S. hiding behind tortured definitions
If it is true, as the writer Samuel Johnson once said, that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," then the dictionary must be the first. Consider how readily our leaders, in justifying what cannot be justified, parse definitions down to...
Tags: Times Square, NBC (tv network), National Government, John Brennan, Politics
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In defense of Obama's drone war
— The nation's vexation over the morality and legality of President Barack Obama's drone war has produced a salutary but hopelessly confused debate. Three categories of questions are being asked. They must be separated to be clearly understood. 1....Tags: World War II (1939-1945), The Washington Post, Religious Conflicts, Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Obama must codify the drone war
— In choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire missile...
Tags: George W. Bush, The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Politics, Rand Paul
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Targeting drones
A famous book on negotiation is called "Getting to Yes." Sometimes, though, the better achievement is arriving at "no." That's what Eric Holder and Rand Paul did the other day. It came in a letter from the attorney general to the Republican senator from...Tags: Yemen, Weaponry, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Terrorism
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Regrettable error
Change of SubjectNow we're talking about a larger, more controversial issue: the killing by drone in Yemen of al-Qaida operative Anwar al-Awlaki. Outside American soil, the Constitution does not rule, no matter how much Paul would like it to....Charles Krauthammer in his.... -
Time to rethink, rewrite the rules of conduct for warfare
WASHINGTON - In choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire...
Tags: The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Politics, Rand Paul, Eric Holder
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Rand Paul Is Right About Drones
The Hartford CourantRand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire missile through your kitchen — you, a good...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, The Washington Post, U.S. Congress, Justice System, Lawyers
Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 20, 2013
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Mar 12, 2013
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Feb 18, 2013
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Mar 10, 2013
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Mar 17, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
Mar 14, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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