Senior Editor, Cato Institute
A decade of frantic overreaction and wasteful, destructive policies based on the false promise of perfect safety
The War on Terror has come home, and the "battlefield" is everywhere.
Let's hope separation of powers and the rule of law have better defenders in Congress and the courts.
A decade-plus of bloody, fruitless wars and budget-busting "energetic government"
We're led by people of questionable competence, miserable judgment and a flexible relationship with the truth.
Hard as it may be to remember, conservatives were the original opponents of the Imperial Presidency.
In the sense the Obamaites mean, cynicism is skepticism toward politicians' grand plans.
Obama has added a new term to the doublespeak lexicon, "the disposition matrix."
And it doesn't seem he's losing any sleep over what his successors may do with those new powers.
The incoherence, petulance, and desperation of "90 Days" documents the decline of a presidential cult.
The most quotable line from Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech is a reheated zinger from Rudy Giuliani.
Johnson's on the ballot in some 47 states, and he's registered more than 5 percent support in some national polls. But he's locked out of the debates.
So set your DVR for one of the oddest cinematic displays of power-worship in the history of American film.
Sept. 11th has changed America radically--and not for the better.
On core questions of federal power there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two tickets.
Ryan was a loyal soldier throughout the free-spending George W. Bush years, and a big government conservative under Obama.
Four years ago, few would have predicted that one of President Obama's legacies would be increased militarization of U.S. policy toward Africa.
Two parties with the same bad ideas don't represent the extent of electoral choices in 2012.
It's time for the president to give his hope-and-change act a rest.
Would it shock you to hear that presidents play politics with disaster relief?
As the "most transparent administration in history" shields more operations in secrecy, it's worth asking, What is it so afraid of?
Obama's latest move underscores just how easy it is for modern presidents to "change the laws unilaterally."
Technology forged for gathering battlefield intelligence and waging war is coming home-and the powers that be seem pretty blithe about it.
A Cold War with China is a silly idea.
Pressure is mounting to normalize the use of drones in the United States.
From now on the fully informed voter will have to pore over every nasty prank potential candidates committed as kids
Johnson's presence on all 50 state ballots could offer what a more libertarian GOP candidate once called "a choice, not an echo," in 2012.
Our Constitution envisions a narrower role for the U.S. military than one that would have it responding to "trouble alerts" worldwide.
His case is an object lesson in how dangerous ambitious federal prosecutors can be.
The coming American dystopia will probably look a lot less like The Hunger Games than it does like Idiocracy.
it's increasingly hard to escape those who want to deny simple pleasures to you-for your own good.
Whatever happens in November, the work will have to go on.
Congress must decide if it or the president declares war.
Politics may be a "team sport," but the battle for limited, constitutional government is not.
Nobody who wants the presidency too badly ought to be trusted with it.
The former senator from Pennsylvania is libertarianism's sweater-vested arch-nemesis.
Constitutional law professors should be kept as far away from nuclear weapons as possible.
The threat of terrorism has radically diminished. So why is Obama trying to expand the TSA's reach?
Gingrich's primary success is the ultimate tribute to Barack Obama.
We're picking a constitutional officer here, not anointing a prophet.
Obama isn't the first president to ram through a nominee that the Senate refused to confirm, but he is the first to do it when the Senate is actually in session.
Thomas Friedman to Simon Winchester, the best worst hackery of 2011
If America is the battleground, nobody has any rights
The "New Populism" is unlikely to solve Obama's political woes.
Now is the hour of liberal discontent with the Obama presidency.
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