Guantanamo Bay: Model for an American Police State?
by John W. Whitehead “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.” –James Madison For most Americans, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay—once the topic of heated political debate by presidential...
Much Ado about Nothing: The Left Responds to the GOP’s New Platform
http://traffic.libsyn.com/tentherradio/Tenther-Rant-52.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:56 — 13.8MB) As if on cue, various members of the left are getting themselves all worked up over the GOP’s new platform. ThinkProgress published a...
The Bipartisan Imperial Presidency
by Gene Healy, CATO Institute This may be the most important election of our lifetimes, conservative opinion leaders keep insisting. We stand on the precipice of socialism; we can either plunge over or be led gingerly back from the brink by … the governor who...