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Via the LA Times today: Los Angeles on Wednesday became the largest city yet to boycott Arizona over its tough new law targeting illegal immigration in a move that likely will affect some $8 million in contracts with the state. The City Council voted 13-1 to bar Los Angeles from conducting business with Arizona unless the law [...]

You can read the speech here.  The word victory is not in it. We should leave Afghanistan immediately even though the resulting chaos will be devastating.  But we simply can not win if we’re not even trying to win.  And if we aren’t planning on winning no soldier should be expected to risk his life.  Bring [...]

Tonight the president will inform the public of his long awaited strategy regarding Afghanistan. The president needs to define victory and make clear our wholehearted commitment to the destruction of the Taliban and any al-Qaeda we find, or we need to leave.  If we’re staying in  Afghanistan, the president should turn the military loose with instructions [...]

Regarding the coming release of “photos depicting the abuse of prisoners by U.S.  personnel”,  Amrit Singh, staff attorney with the ACLU, said: “Their disclosure is critical for helping the public understand the scope and scale of prisoner abuse as well as for holding senior officials accountable for authorizing or permitting [...]

With the Obama administration’s release of what have become known, unfortunately, as the “torture memos” the conversation on the topic is skewed from the beginning. Torture memos? Why not “interrogation memos?” or “legal opinions on the treatment of terrorists?”  The “torture memo” tag casts the verdict on the subject without debating it. Most liberals [...]