The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions of struggling homestead farmers. Instead, it is a vast, self-perpetuating postmodern bureaucracy with an amorphous budget...
I realize that the two Libya Resolutions being considered in the House are more for political than legal effect, but the Resolution that seeks to check the President’s Libya intervention is an especially unfortunate vehicle...
Some time back, I spoke at a panel at Duke Law School on detention policy alongside, among others, Michael Gottlieb, who had just completed a fourteen month tour as the top civilian official in Task Force 435 in Afghanistan...
If President Obama were as good at governance as he is at politics, he would defer to our generals on the best tactics and timing for ending the war in Afghanistan and use his time reviewing the generals’ results and mobilizing public support for a victorious outcome...
One advantage of living near San Francisco is the chance to see how scary it can be when government runs amok. Consider the most recent case—the ballot proposition being voted on this fall to make circumcision of male babies illegal...
