Obama Has Legal Authority for Attacks in Syria
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 24th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Obama Has Legal Authority for Attacks in Syria
Eric Posner, Slate
The United States is now officially at war with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. U.S. planes began dropping bombs on targets in Syria this week. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told the Senate that ground troops may be needed. But President Obama did not ask Congress for legal authority to go to war. Bruce Ackerman, a professor at Yale Law School, thundered in the New York Times that Obama’s declaration of war “marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition,” reflecting the theories underlying “Bush-era abuses…
The Astroturf Campaign to Silence Limbaugh
Patrick Howley, Daily Caller
The recent campaign to silence conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh is led by ten liberal activists engaged in a more than four-year long effort to destroy Limbaugh by targeting his advertisers, including a Media Matters executive vice president.A former Kent State university professor even targeted a small businessman advertising on Limbaugh’s show using her official university email account.
Global Warming Can Still Draw a Crowd
Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Before the climate change demonstrations got underway in New York City, I was thinking about writing a belittling piece on how the crowd that would gather in the streets would primarily be made up of the usual suspects: Wannabe Occupy-ers, malcontents, public service unions and assorted liberal groups with nothing better to do. But the fact is, I respect their turnout.
