Vox Libertas

I think I understand the FISA bill. Do I?

2008-07-19T20:06:47Z

By way of disclosure, I am something of a Civil Liberties fanatic, and am firmly convinced that Obama did the wrong thing on retroactive immunity and am angry about that. Also, I haven't trusted George W. Bush since the first 10 secs I saw him s...

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A house divided against itself cannot stand.

2008-06-28T23:29:05Z

Just over 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln warned us that "a house divided against itself cannot stand". While the image of national disunion, prophetic as it was, was what captured the national imagination, his actual message was not that the house...

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School Girl vs "Professional Journalist"

2008-02-14T03:23:50Z

Two news stories recently caught my eye, not only for what each one told us about the state of the Republic, but even more so, what comparing them tells us about the sorry state of journalism today. In the first story, Chris Wallace of Fox News m...

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Thank you, Senator Dodd

2007-12-17T15:50:46Z

Senator Dodd, Thank you, Senator. Thank you for doing what so few have these last few years: standing up for the Rule of Law. The Rule of Law doesn't have a big office on K Street, nor does it result in much juicy gossip. And though, for a while...

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In Concord, Cannon Law

2007-10-15T22:00:00Z

This is now the fourth posting in my "In Concord" series, in which I have been trying to capture the thoughts and reflections that occupy me when I go to the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, a hallowed place that has served as my church...

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In Concord, The Minuteman--Unlawful Patriot?

2007-10-09T21:28:12Z

This is the third in my series of postings capturing my thoughts and reflections from my frequent visits to the Old North Bridge in Concord, the site to which I most often go to pray and meditate these last half dozen years. The course of this ser...

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In Concord, Cycles of History

2007-10-04T16:36:46Z

This is the second of my postings, capturing my thoughts and reflections at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, site of the "shot heard round the world". In the first, I introduced the series with a consideration of the import of the m...

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In Concord, Meditations and Realizations

2007-10-01T11:14:56Z

This is the first in a series that I plan to post, capturing the thoughts and reflections that I have when I go to one of my favorite and most sacred places, the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. For most of this new millennium, the brid...

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Khalil, the Heretic

2007-07-29T02:13:39Z

Sigh. It has been far too long since I wrote here, and my review of John Yoo's "The Powers of War and Peace" has sat incomplete too long. My apologies. It seems that life happens while you are busy making other plans. The Yoo review will, sadly, c...

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Yoo: War-time powers NOT in effect

2007-05-29T23:29:10Z

John Yoo Review, part II In part 1 of my review of John Yoo's book, The Powers of War and Peace, I criticized him for his flawed understanding of history, and of how things today differ from from the last century or two. In this article, my focu...

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