Dick Cheney, Still Defending America
by Here is the full prepared text of former VP Dick Cheney’s most recent speech defending the Bush administration’s record on national security. It deserves to …
Category: National Security
Barack Obama Had a Good Day
After hundreds of thousands of Americans protested his economic policies, Barack Obama batted 1.000 today by releasing the disputed Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing the use of tortue on captured terrorists, declaring that intelligence officers responsible for the interrogations would not be prosecuted, and announcing that the U.S. will focus on enforcing existing gun smuggling laws rather than re-instituting the lapsed assault weapons ban.
North Korea Launches Rocket; Sanctions to Follow?
Defying of an alliance of nations that included the United States and China, North Korea has launched its latest rocket, one believed to be capable of reaching Alaska and Hawaii. Unnamed Japanese defense officials have said that Iranian experts with in North Korea helping with the launch. Axis of Evil, anyone?
Obama Takes Guns Out of Pilots’ Hands, Risks Public Safety
Despite the obvious benefits of having weapons in the right hands during airline flights, the Obama administration is reportedly ending that policy. There is no …
No Crime in Doing What They Had to Do
John Yoo’s name has become synonymous with what some on the left consider egregious unethical and illegal behavior on the part of the recently departed …
Remembering 9/11
Seven years ago terrorists started a fight that they thought Americans would be too soft, too self-indulgent, and too fearful to return. They were wrong, …
FISA, Obama, and Reality
A new Newsweek poll shows Barack Obama slipping into striking range of John McCain, 44-41%. This is good news, first because it means that Obama …
Telecom Immunity a Fact of Life
PBS says: The Senate approved a bill Wednesday overhauling the rules on government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecom companies that assist with government-ordered communications …
Liberals Who Simply Can’t Let Well Enough Alone
Unhappy with the deal reached between the parties about the legal fate of telecom companies who helped the feds in the aftermath of 9/11, two …
FISA Immunity
In what must be a blow for folks like Glenn Greenwald, Democrats and Republicans have come to the logical, inevitable conclusion that telecom firms who …