Top-level Torture
A hidden bomb will detonate in an hour, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. You have the bomber in your power. Do you torture him to discover the device’s location?...
Politics
Obama’s Bill Would Commit the United States to UN Poverty Goals
Thanks to the alternative news media, many conservatives are familiar by now with some aspects of Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S. 2433). Although this bill should...
Climate-change Bill Would Devastate Families and Industries
Undeterred by record cold temperatures worldwide for the winter of 2007-2008 and recent admissions by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization that global temperatures have been in decline for the past decade...
No Compromise Against Gun Control: Aaron Zelman Interviewed
Interview of Aaron Zelman by John F. McManus Aaron Zelman is executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a pro-Second Amendment group based in Milwaukee. ...
Arizona Legislature on Verge of Nixing Real ID Program
On March 19 the Arizona state House passed a bill (HB2677) that would prohibit the state from putting Real ID into effect without the legislature’s approval by a vote of 51...
Constitution Party Chooses Baldwin
At its April 24-27 national convention in Kansas City, the Constitution Party nominated Florida pastor/political activist Charles O. “Chuck” Baldwin as its candidate for president of the United States. Baldwin received...
Ron Paul Fights On
Although Senator John McCain has been the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee since early March, Congressman Ron Paul has continued his campaign for president. “Victory in the conventional political sense is...
Did McCain Really Say the Iraq War Is About Oil?
Has the United States gone to war in the Middle East for oil? That allegation has generally emanated from opponents of our military interventions in the Middle East, and it has...
Administration Pushes Dangerous Law of the Sea Treaty
President Bush startled conservatives in his own party in 2005 with his support for U.S. ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The Republican rank-and-file has adamantly...
The DNA Train Has Left the Station
The passage of two recent bills — by both the Senate and the House, and the signing of those bills into law by the president — provides an object lesson in...
Partners Across the Pond
Approximately 50 persons gathered in a plush conference room at the State Department on March 10. They were there for a meeting of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP),...
“Funding Father of the Right” Backs Hillary for President
Neoconservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife has had a change of heart concerning Hillary Clinton. Scaife, the partial heir of the Mellon family fortune, once was involved in the Barry Goldwater presidential...
Transatlantic Two-Step
A few quick showers moved through the Washington, D.C., area on the morning of April 30, 2007, but they wouldn’t stay long. By the time a smiling Angela Merkel, the German...
Main Concern Doesn’t Sway Voters
As part of the pulse-taking of the electorate to see what makes Americans’ hearts beat faster as the United States heads toward another presidential election, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll found...
SPP Moves Forward Under Different Name
The leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico met in New Orleans on April 21-22 for the fourth round of annual talks formerly known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership....