Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder how the human race has avoided self-extinction and prospered on the planet. That is to say some groups of people, normally spurred on by governments, but not always, ignore obvious ways to resolve a dilemma peacefully, undertake irrational wars that devastate all sides and innocents to boot, and then ultimately find the previously ignored solution for peace. Ugh!

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The New York Times reported last week that the Bush administration considered sending in the U.S. military to arrest the so-called Lackawanna Six in 2002. Ironically, one of the worst prosecutorial overreaches by the Justice Department in the war on terror almost resulted in a temporary period of martial law.

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Jacob Hornberger, in his excellent essay “Waging War on Terrorism on American Soil” puts forth a timely cautionary warning of the danger of military dominance of our domestic life.  We have seen how this has played out in history when the military assumes a law enforcement power base independent of domestic police control.

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Professor Henry Louis Gates and his arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley, have been invited to the White House for a beer. It might take more than a tall cool brew to cure all that ails the US.

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Some time has passed now since the incident between distinguished black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge’s finest over a mistakenly reported burglary on July 16, 2009.

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"I want to cover everybody," President Obama said at his news conference Wednesday night. "Now, the truth is that unless you have a -- what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody's automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual. . ."

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The seeming irrationality behind the George W. Bush administration’s “against the grain” (and the law) policies on torture, warrantless domestic surveillance, and now notification of Congress about CIA covert operations was not irrational at all.

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