Given the date, I thought it would be a good day to go over the differences between the two presidential candidates when it comes to The War on Terror. (If you were hoping that I’d discuss whether or not Senator Obama believes that Governor Palin is a barnyard animal, I’m sorry to disappoint.) [...]

I am constantly flabbergasted by how “common knowledge”, even and especially among experts in a particular field, can so often be so wrong. And I don’t even mean “wrong if you really know what you’re talking about”; I mean “illogical at face value”. I’ll start with a couple examples from football (it is [...]

Right now, the United States is an active participant in two civil wars: Iraq and Afghanistan.

The GOP is trying to turn this election, in part, into a referendum on President Bush’s handling of the War on Terror. In particular, conservative pundits (cheered by both the White House and the McCain campaign) have attacked Obama for praising the response to the first World Trade Center attacks, bringing back the charge [...]

One of the big issues in this primary season is how the War on Terror should be fought. On the one hand, you have the Democratic candidates, plus Senator McCain and Representative Paul, who believe that the War on Terror is fundamentally a public relations war that the United States can only win by [...]

I’ve bee hearing these kinds of reports for years, but they just keep coming: the Department of Homeland Security backed down off of regulations about the storage and use of industrial chemicals.  We’re told that, for our own safety, we need to have our phones tapped, have guards see us almost nude at airport x-ray [...]

In his New York Times blog Dick Cavett describes how he was once targeted by the Nixon Administration. In particular, he testified as a character witness for John Lennon during his deportation hearings. Within the next three years, every single member of his staff was audited by the IRS. The newly released [...]

I encourage you to take a look at this series of articles being published in Foreign Affairs. In a nut shell, the journal asked each of the “top” presidential candidates to write an essay outlining their foreign policy goals and strategies if they are elected president. So far, four candidates have responded: Obama, [...]

The Bush Administration has reportedly decided to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps–a significant portion of the Iranian military–as a terrorist group. (In case you were curious, by the way, the announcement comes as a result of Executive Order 13224, under authority from the International Emergency Executive Powers Act.) Supposedly this will allow [...]

In the last week, Barack Obama has made three controversial foreign policy statements: that he would not consider using nuclear weapons to strike at terrorists; that if he had “actionable intelligence” about Osama bin Laden’s location and Pakistan refused to act, he would consider striking into Pakistani territory without their permission; and that he would [...]