Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same.

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Let’s assume that a U.S. president authorizes the CIA to rape the family members of suspected terrorists as a way to get them to talk. He also authorizes his subordinates to place the suspected terrorists on a rack that stretches them apart until they confess and disclose all details of their suspected terrorism.

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Ain't it a shame our so-called liberal media is obsessed with "death panels" of fevered imaginations rather than death panels that exist in the real world, notably in our present health-care system?

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Should libertarians hope that Barack Obama succeeds or fails in his presidency? The question comes to mind because conservatives got embroiled in the issue when their leading radio star, Rush Limbaugh, said he hoped Obama would fail. Some commentators thought that was a horrible thing to say. Radio stars need regular public controversy to keep their listeners tuned in, so there’s no point in analyzing what the Republican partisan Limbaugh might have meant. But the question may lead us to other insights.

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“On my last day in Iraq,” veteran McClatchy News correspondent Leila Fadel wrote August 9th, “as on my first day in Iraq, I couldn’t see what the United States and its allies had accomplished. …I couldn’t understand what thousands of American soldiers had died for and why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had been killed.”

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I’m waiting for the health-care debate to start. The preliminaries have been spirited and loud, but how about a debate?
 
You may think there’s been a debate, but if you’d been listening carefully, you’d realize it’s a fake, like professional wrestling.

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After a meeting of the Three Amigos (President Obama, President Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada) in Guadalajara, Mexico on Monday, August 10th, President Obama hit back at critics who say the U.S. not doing enough for Honduras. 

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