Electronic Border Searches: An Open Letter May 1, 2008 Chairman Bennie G. ThompsonRanking Member Peter T. KingUnited States House of RepresentativesCommittee on Homeland Security Dear Chairman Thompson and Ranking Member […]
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Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com Okay, okay, okay. It’s time for another confession: My son-in-law Dick is a Republican. No really, a Republican. […]
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Where’s the Food? by Alvaro Largas Llosa WASHINGTON — In the 1830s, Richard Cobden and John Bright started a campaign against the protectionist laws that were keeping food prices high […]
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The Schizophrenia of U.S. Farm Policy by Ernest C. Pasour Jr., Randal R. Rucker The price of the new farm bill, final details of which are being hammered out by […]
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Dangerously Counterproductive War on Terror by Ivan Eland At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon—the first large suicide bombing […]
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The Other China by Alvaro Largas Llosa WASHINGTON — The Olympic torch relay has galvanized international public opinion against the communist regime in Beijing, not a bad thing considering that […]
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Things Unsaid at the Petraeus Hearings by Ivan Eland According to General David H. Petraeus’s progress report to Congress on Iraq, the latest worst threat to the shaky U.S. position […]
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Executive or Imperial Branch? by Ivan Eland More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department's Office of […]
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Franklin Delano Bush Pushes a Bad Idea by William F. Shughart II By signing legislation creating Medicare Part D, George W. Bush became responsible for the most significant expansion of […]
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April 22, 2008 Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman Hon. Arlen Specter, Ranking Minority Member Senate Committee on the Judiciary 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: […]
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