Obama and Civil Liberties
When Barack Obama took office, he was the civil liberties communities’ great hope, but he has become a civil libertarian’s nightmare.
View ArticleObamacare and the Southern Strategy
How is it that so many Americans can express such strongly felt opposition to a thing that they actually favor?
View ArticleNew World Murder
Across Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the Obama administration has launched more than 390 drone strikes in five years. These strikes have killed more than 2,400 people, at least 273 of them reportedly...
View ArticleSOTU 2015 Full Text
Do these words from last night's State of the Union Address ring true to you?
View ArticleMy SOTU 2015 Post-Mortem
As usual, President Obama is extremely good at saying the things that many of us are thinking.
View ArticleObama’s “Middle Class” Budget
Here are the highlights of President Obama's proposed "Middle Class" budget.
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New Report: Death by Drone
In 2013, President Obama promised that before any U.S. drone strike, “there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.” Death by Drone, a new report by the Open Society...
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Don’t Say Drone
President Obama has chosen to operate his drone war in such unprecedented, absurd and arguably illegal secrecy that even in a rare burst of compelled transparency yesterday, neither he nor his press...
View ArticleThings That Caught My Eye This Week
Here are some links of interest that I ran across this week. Rauner, Public Unions Not Close On Contracts The contracts for more than 40,000 Illinois state workers will expire at the end of the month,...
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The Drone Papers
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a...
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Metadata Can Be Murder
From Ars Technica UK: In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that “we kill people based on metadata.” Now, a new examination of previously published Snowden documents suggests...
View ArticleObama Took My Lawn-Boy
I should have heeded the warning signs First it was my lightbulbs Then they came after my junk food And by the time They got to My Lawn-Boy I was too blind and hungry To fight Now I’m tripping over...
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