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A great philosopher and statesman comments on the Bush-Obama tweaks to the Constitution

Summary:  The Bush-Obama tweaks to the Constitution include claims that Americans’ rights stop at the border.  Once outside we become subject to indfinite detention or even assassiation without warrant, charge, or conviction — based only on unsupported assertions of the President and his minions.  We have the words of a great philosopher and statesman to …

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What should we do in Iraq?

Summary:  This is part 2 in a series looking at the Iraq War. Advice from past to the present. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — Advice from Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith in a letter to President Kennedy, dated 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith’s Ambassador’s …

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