Gitmo Continues to Haunt
Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first…
Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first…
What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted, the…
My family and friends are angry with me because I won’t tell them for whom I plan to vote for president. I…
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that…
In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution — which would become known as the Bill of Rights –…
When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act of 1986 (SCA), it claimed the statute would guarantee the privacy of digital data that service providers…
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive.” –Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The case of the…
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” –First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When…
It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prosecutions. Yet, present-day America is replete with…
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against…