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Opinion pieces reflect the views of their authors, not necessarily Citizens for Global Solutions.
A Fair Bill for the World’s Farmers
More than 70 years ago, Congress created the Farm Bill. It was designed to give American farmers a safety net when the...
A Tale of Two Reviews
I have no interest in paying $27 for John Bolton's Surrender is Not an Option, even if he were willing to sign...
Bipartisan Partisanship
Yesterday I took my annual pilgrimage from the global to the local and spent the day as poll watcher in Virginia. One...
Daniel Levin: History Take Note
Years from now, hopefully not too far off in the future, historians will note the heroism displayed by Daniel Levin. Who is...
Retired JAGs: ‘Waterboarding is Torture’
Just in case our recent array of posts and our organization's stand against Attorney General nominee Judge Mukasey are not convincing enough,...
The Weekly Gaff and John Warner’s Wisdom
This is the second "Weekly Gaff," a feature inspired by Frank Gaffney, who has engineered a campaign of misinformation in the pages...
The Carbon Tax and a Bloomberg Foreign Policy
It's amazing that what passes for political courage in national politics seems commonsense at the municipal level. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg...
Mukasey: ‘the last, best hope’…oh my!
As Raj Purohit and Scott Paul have noted, we are strongly opposed to Judge Mukasey's nomination to be our country's next Attorney...
Reject Mukasey
My colleague Howard Salter and I had a funny conversation a couple of weeks ago that evolved into this blog post of...
We are opposing Mukasey
We have been following the AG nomination process closely and decided yesterday that we needed to oppose Mukasey - here is our...
Foreign Relations Committee Overwhelmingly Approves Law of the Sea; Coleman Flips and Flops
I just got back from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meeting on the Law of the Sea. The final vote was...