Category: Legal Affairs
Arthur Goldwag: Bullets, Obama and How a Conspiracy Theory Threatens to Become Law
by Arthur Goldwag | May 2, 2013 | Legal Affairs, Politics(Some Americans believe President Obama is trying to effect gun control by buying up all the ammunition. Ads like this can be found on U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe’s Facebook page.) On Feb. 26, as the sequester crisis loomed, Sarah Palin took to Facebook to administer Washington a sharp tongue-lashing. “DC: Cut the Drama. Do Your […]
New Case Turns Heat Up on Obama to Address Human Trafficking
by Yuko Narushima | May 2, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Legal AffairsEditor’s Note: Federal and local authorities were called to the compound of a diplomatic mission from Soudi Arabia this week to “rescue two women,” according to Jackie Bensen, a TV reporter for an NBC affiliate in Washington, citing an unnamed source. “One woman had reportedly tried to flee by squeezing through a gap in the […]
Massive National Security Leaks Are Good for Us
by Chase Madar | May 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs
As a general rule, important decisions—say, for instance, deciding whether or not to invade a Middle Eastern nation—turnout better when they are well-informed. Poorly informed choices tend to end in disaster.
Consider our invasion of Iraq—a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and is by no means over, even though our troops have mostly left. That war killed 4,500 American soldiers, injured at least 32,000 at a dollar cost measured in trillions. If you measure defending our national security in blood and money, this war was more damaging to our national security than the Sept. 11 attacks themselves.
Yvette Carnell: For Jackie Robinson, It Was the White Man’s Way or No Way
by Yvette Carnell | Apr 29, 2013 | Legal Affairs(Jackie Robinson, the subject of the movie 42, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949). I am not a person who romanticizes Jim Crow. Separate but equal was never equal, and activists were right to upend that system of apartheid. But everything comes at a price and the price Jackie Robinson paid, at […]
REVEALED: Documents Show Gun Makers Saw Gun Control Coming and Did Everything to Kill It Off
by Darwin Bondgraham | Apr 23, 2013 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsThe defeat of the Senate’s gun bill last week reflects the strength of the NRA and other pro-gun membership organizations. But it also reflects the potency of a less examined political force: the gun industry. Senators who scuttled the most ambitious gun regulation bill in decades weren’t just representing their constituents. They were also protecting […]
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