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Portland Oregon Doth Protest Too Much?

…what the statute says. In fact, §12406 authorizes the president to use troops where the federal government “is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United…

SCOTUS Decision

…about the Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources, the tariffs case, is that three Justices would have let Trump use a statute that doesn’t mention tariffs to impose ones that are unrestricted…

How We Got Here

…this anti-fact, anti-truth, anti-science, anti-democratic lowest common denominator; their ‘base’. When you ‘just know’, ‘just believe’ something, who needs science, the facts, the truth, or democracy? As we are seeing…

…for Policy Douglas Feith in July. Though the new officials were briefed about terrorism and some of the earlier planning, including that for Operation Infinite Resolve [the military options for…

…to live with terrorism. Since 1959, more than 800 people have died in terrorist attacks by ETA. Spaniards have responded to terrorism bravely, by speaking out and organizing spontaneous demonstrations,…

Bremer Then and Bremer Now Paul Bremer, Feb. 26, 2001: “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger…