I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a friend of mine who spent a couple years in the Ukraine with the Peace Corps. Obviously we started talking about the situation in South Ossetia and the conflict between the Russian Federation and Georgia, and her concern that the Ukraine was next on Russia’s radar.
I have [...]

The McCain campaign is lagging behind the Obama campaign in national opinion polls in many subjects, most recently polls that show the American public believes Obama is better prepared to deal with the energy crisis than Senator McCain. So, like the good little neo-con he has spent the last eight years becoming, Senator McCain [...]

The new book by Jane Mayer (writer for the New Yorker called The Dark Side asserts that President Reagan issued a secret executive order sometime in the 1980’s that “established a means of re-creating the executive branch” that violates the accepted (and legal) order of succession. Bruce Ackerman asks a pertinent question in a [...]