Complicity

By now you’ve heard that the President authorized the NSA to perform domestic surveillance in order to nab suspected terrorists. If you’ve read some of the other blogs–for example, Political Animal and the Agonist–then you’re aware that the President’s secret order violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was well-nigh unconstitutional, to boot (it violated [...]

Out at home

By now, most of you have heard that Cuba, one of the few remaining Communist countries in the world, had its bid to participate in the World Baseball Classic denied by the U.S. Department of the Treasury because of the embargo. You can read the particulars here. Dick Pound, one of the Olympic world’s heavyweights, [...]