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By now it is pretty obvious that the House GOP leadership is essentially devoid of ideas outside of Social Darwinism and Objectivism. But I noticed the other day that its cultural pose is also one of pure puffery. Consider “Young Guns,” the “book” theoretically authored by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy. “Young Guns” [...]
Archive for the ‘National Security’ Category
May 23rd, 2011
Category: National Security, Republican Party, Terrorism and its control, Torture, Watching Conservatives
April 11th, 2011
A couple of my students approached me today with what they thought was a rather disturbing discussion in their first year Constitutional Law class (I teach Property to the same group). The class was discussing Korematsu v. United States, the infamous Supreme Court case from 1944, which upheld the internment of Japanese-American citizens. Nothing so [...]
February 8th, 2011
Category: Clash of Civilizations, National Security
Does befriending non-Americans harm one’s chances for security clearance?
February 4th, 2011
Glenn Beck has revealed himself, finally, as a covert agent of the communist/socialist left-Islamic-fanatic-Code Pink-Obama-fluoridation-currency-abasing-job-killing conspiracy. While ill-informed and unqualified naïfs like Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow give him the cover of ridicule, Beck advances his masters’ designs by describing just enough of the plotters’ workings (and for credibility, sticking assiduously to facts) to conceal [...]
December 3rd, 2010
Category: International Affairs, National Security
The OMB tries to stop civil servants from learning anything from the Wikileaks.
November 30th, 2010
Category: Don't ask, don't tell, National Security
So DADT repeal won’t wreck the armed forces and leave us naked to our enemies. The Marines’ honor has been a little besmirched by that noble service registering the highest fraction (40-60% compared to 30% average for the whole military) expecting negative effects, but they will get over it and they will follow orders with [...]
October 21st, 2009
The Pentagon’s excuse for opposing Al Franken’s anti-rape amendment doesn’t pass the laugh test.
September 11th, 2009
Category: National Security, Uncategorized
Eight years after 9/11, the least reformed part of our intelligence establishment is not the CIA or the FBI. It’s Congress. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission called congressional oversight of intelligence “dysfunctional.” In 2007 former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton pleaded with the Senate Intelligence Committee to do something. And last May, when Speaker [...]
January 6th, 2009
Category: National Security, Politics and Leadership
Isn’t the fact that so many in the CIA are telling the media that only one of theirs counts as a legitimate boss the single best reason for appointing from outside? The same goes for the military, in fact.
