We hope President Obama gets his Afghanistan-Pakistan team in order FAST. Not only are these predator strikes bad moral policy they are increasingly bad tactics, undermining the broad strategy … [Keep reading >>]
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Tom Paine
---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.
