Posse Comitatus
Gene Healy in today's Washington Times: Soldiers are trained to kill; policemen, to use force as a last resort. Accordingly, there's a deep-rooted American hostility to the idea of using the military for domestic...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
On Trial in Upsidedown Land
Dahlia Lithwick writing for Slate: "…Moussaoui is interested in only two things: telling his story and doing absolutely everything he can to flout the judge. So his assumption—that if Judge Leonie M. Brinkema wants...
Dead Terrorists
The Associated Press – FBI Official Thinks bin Laden Dead: The head of the FBI's counterterrorism effort thinks Usama bin Laden is dead. The statement by Dale Watson marks the first time a senior...
Draft Dodging
Carl Campanile writing for the New York Post: "U.S. military recruiters have the authority to demand that education officials turn over the names, addresses and phone numbers of high-school students under a new federal...
Jose Padilla
Newsday gets one right. Padilla is "one nasty piece of work" as their editorial from yesterday states. But he is also an American citizen. "Our tripartite government of executive, legislative and judicial branches, was...
Strange Coalition
This has got to be one of the strangest coalitions I've ever seen. The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism descibes itself as: "Representing business insurance policyholders throughout the construction, entertainment, manufacturing, real estate, retailing...