Israel’s Gay Rights Record Touted in NY
The alumni association of Birthright Israel placed a mural in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood last week, which juxtaposed the rights of gays in Israel with criminal penalties for gays...
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Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
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Virginia Detainee Law is Dangerously Unconstitutional
Co-authored by Charles D. Stimson The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in par...
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Are Sanctions Working?
If the purpose is to penalize Iran’s rulers for their crimes and discourage civilized people from buying blood oil, yes.
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The Haqqani Test
If Pakistan fails it, there must be consequences.
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Candidates and Combatants
Monday night’s debate featured an exchange between Mitt Romney a...
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The Real Rules of Detention
Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded...
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A Terrorist Released
Binyam Mohamed is ...
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Bill’s Detainee Provisions Reaffirm the Law of War
Co-authored by Lee A. Casey Gen. David Irvine’s objections to the detainee...
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Iran’s War on Religious Freedom
The Iranian regime is in the news again over an alleged terrorist plot on American soil. Back in Iran, the regime's brutality to its own people continues. As Western governments consider how...
Op-eds
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...
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How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right
In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.
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9/11 Plotters Are Araigned
. . . and, finally, the commissions may prove their worth.
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De-Commissioned
Will Pentagon blunders mean the end of military trials for terrorists?
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Warfare, Lawfare & Jawfare
And one other form of combat to which attention must be paid.
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Welcome to Boumediene World
Here we go. The Los Angeles Times and Voice of America report that a federal appeals court in Washington has presumed to invalidate the commander-in-chief’s determination...
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Blunt Talk on Surveillance Reform
The whip weighs in.
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A Good Deal On Surveillance Reform
Politics, it is often said, is the art of the possible. By that measure, national security has been served by the compromise finally struck Thursday to overhaul our outdated surveillance laws. Th...
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A Quick Way Forward After Boumediene
Either Congress reasserts itself, or terror-friendly bedlam ensues.
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FISA Reform Is Vital to Stopping the Next Terror Plot, Not the Last One
Thanks to a testimonial error that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is now undertaking to clarify, a confusing turn has been taken in the debate over reforming “FISA” --...