Congress seems more interested in promoting drone proliferation than in oversight. A Washington, D.C., summit seeks to educate the public on the use and abuse of drones.
DHS has little to show for its drone spending spree other than stacks of seized marijuana and a few thousand immigrants who crossed the border without visas.
Heavy on outsourcing and lacking documented success, the "Texas model"of border security's features are not original, but borrowed directly from the DHS or the military.
The criminal justice system is overwhelmed, our prisons are crowded with immigrants, and the flagging "war on drugs" has been given new life at home and abroad.
The Supreme Court didn't see fit to definitively remove 'under God' from the Pledge. But perhaps 'under God' isn't worth fighting over -- instead, let's fight for liberty and justice for all.
The neoconservative plan to invade and occupy Iraq would not have succeeded without the support of 'centrists' closely associated with the Democratic Leadership Council.
Posted on: Jun 26, 2002, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
In order to regain its lost legitimacy, G8 forum must move away from its free trade ideology which has led to increasing social and economic polarization.