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The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda.

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When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

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In general, liberals fear conservative judges far too much. In almost all areas, in fact, they dramatically overstate the stakes.

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Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.

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Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

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June 10, 2002, the day John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Jose Padilla, marked a low point in Ashcroft's career as Attorney General.

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Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was a fairly commonplace intellectual exercise. But as the scientific method became increasingly refined, particularly through the nineteenth century, science and religion grew apart.

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There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president when he is acting in his capacity as chief law-enforcement officer of the country.

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Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

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How exactly the obstruction-of-justice statutes interact with the president's broad powers to supervise the executive branch under Article II of the Constitution is a genuinely difficult question.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 5th, 1969

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