Sep 21, 2006 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, ISLAM AND THE WEST, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2006 The national argument has turned to guidelines for interrogating terrorist prisoners and instead of reaching a consensus that provides some legal specificity, our leaders are lunging for ambiguity in the name of international law. Their true...
Apr 12, 2006 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Times There are more than 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, while another 400,000 enter from Mexico every year. The tedious and atrophic arguments of “stop being xenophobic because we need them for our...
Feb 16, 2006 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ, WARRANTLESS WIRE TAPPING
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner The rhetorical wars surrounding President Bush’s warrantless National Security Agency surveillance of terrorist suspects have exposed a frightening want of knowledge and reasoning skills on the part of both supporters and...
Jan 6, 2006 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ, WARRANTLESS WIRE TAPPING
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Times Democrats are trying to lob political bombs at President Bush because he authorized the warrantless NSA spying on terrorist suspects in the United States. Unfortunately for them, their munitions expert appears to be the wild...
Dec 22, 2005 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ, WARRANTLESS WIRE TAPPING
By Alan Nathan © 2005 Washington Times Clearly Americans are great fighters. Just look at the efficiency we apply to kicking our own backsides. Whether deciding how long we should give enemies the benefit of the doubt before attacking them, or weighing civil liberties...
May 4, 2005 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW
By Alan Nathan © 2005 Washington Times Often when clashes occur between Republicans and Democrats, it sounds like an argument between two kids in class, each declaring his intent to beat up the other but neither having the temerity to take it outside. Such profiles in...