American Renewal
Slowly and perhaps even surely, Donald Trump is pulling together a team he believes can help him achieve his goals. Which are what exactly? The most basic are given to him in Article II,...
Article Two of the United States Constitution
War-Power Paranoia
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...
Op-eds
Advise, Don’t Consent
President Obama is writing to the wrong people, and those wrong people are hopelessly confused about his power and their own. This is how bad agreements are born. Senate Republicans coul...
Op-eds
Getting FISA Wrong . . . Again
A federal court in California has dismissed a civil lawsuit that alleged surveillance violations against a Muslim charity the government has formally designated as supporter of al-Qaeda and other...
Op-eds
Federal Judge Intrudes Upon Executive Authority to Designate Terrorist Organizations
In an epic litigation already immensely damaging to government’s anti-terrorism arsenal, a California federal court has yet again invalidated a law that bars private individuals from...
Op-eds
The Time Is Now for a U.S. Africa Command
The last major overhaul of the United States military – the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (PL 99-433) – created nine unified combatant commands &n...
Op-eds
Dead Man Walking
The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a national-security disaster. Forget about its undermining of military commissions. Forget...
Op-eds
Unimpeachable?
Yesterday, NRO ran an article I'd written about the House of Representatives' mishandling of the controversy surrounding Rep. William Jefferson and the search of his congressional offic...
Op-eds
Checked and Unbalanced
George Will's diatribe against the NSA program is meritless.
Op-eds
Spirited Defense
President Bush takes the NSA "scandal" head-on.
Op-eds
Constitution Confustion
President George W. Bush is the latest in a long line of American Caesars who have shredded the foundations of the Republic in an often racist and always imperialistic lust for territory, treasur...
Op-eds
The “Advice” in Advice and Consent
Must the president consult with the Senate on Nominations?
Op-eds
International Law Targets American Sovereignty
The ICRC report is just the latest use of a wolf in sheep's clothing.