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Some conservative bloggers and talking heads, including Glenn Beck and Newt Gingrich, have accused President Obama of "ceding American sovereignty" over an executive order granting Interpol the same immunities and privileges granted other public international organizations with offices here in the US.This practice is an outgrowth of Ronald Reagan granting Interpol immunity from prosecution for official acts and from lawsuits in 1983 and the culmination of a request lodged with the Bush Administration when Interpol...

Yesterday, we had a pretty good mini-debate about Liberty vs. Security.  We all have different levels of comfort with how invasive we are willing to let airport security get in order to Keep Us Safe.  (I capitalize Keep Us Safe because it's become a catch phrase to the media as much as Just Say No and War on Terror have.) We all agreed we wanted to stay true to the constitution and had a very...

Welcome to my friendly little debate on political theory. There has been a lot made about the Christmas bomber on both sides of the equation. I usually don't do this, but I have to disagree with a fellow writer here at the Hurricane. Desperado wrote this piece  earlier on the Hurricane and while I agree with many of the points in the blog entry, I disagreed with the general tenor of the piece. Essentially, it made...

Whatever happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave? In the aftermath of the failed attempt of the Christmas Day underpants (Fruit of the Boom?) bomber will we become the land of the strip-searched and the home of the paranoid? Apparently so. Let the overreacting, pantswetting, and cowering in fear commence. And let the newer, simpler Bill of Rights be written, "Whatever it takes to keep us safe."Under the new...

In what is probably the dumbest political strategy ever, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint is defending his decision to ensure the Obama appointee for the head of the TSA, Errol Southers,  is delayed - even after the Christmas Day terror attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.  Senator DeMint has placed a hold on the nomination of the agency that keeps our skies safe, after an attempted terror attack on an airplane on its way to Detroit,...

It happened innocently enough. I took a quick trip to Tampa Bay back when I was engaged to watch some basketball with my friends. It's something I haven't been able to do since my daughter was born. Well, this was back in the winter of 2002 and you know what that meant in terms of airport security. Well, it was a weekend trip, so I didn't check any bags. I guess I should of. Someone...

We all remember how Jack Bauer of 24 was idolized by the Neocons for torturing terror suspects on the network television series.  Here's a different take on his tactic, just for the Holidays.  Presented without further comment:...

What world do these people live in? From Media Matters, former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino on Hannity: "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term."<br />....

At the risk of giving some of my readers a heart attack, I'm going to cite a Fox News article, because I think it provides the best summation I've found yet.It has been reported that the US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, has expressed to the President serious reservations about sending additional troops to Afghanistan to bolster a government seen as corrupt and illegitimate by many.Retired Lt. Gen. Eikenberry is no State Department wallflower, though. ...

Sometimes I wonder what has happened to us as a people. Then, I stop and think about basic human nature and realize the truth. We as people hate uncertainty. Everything must have an explanation to it. When it doesn't, we feel powerless and that is the last thing anyone wants to feel. Simply put, we don't want to be faced with our own mortality. That's what all of this comes down to. If we admit...