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A Stab in the Back Tom Smith
President Obama's decision to cancel plans for U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic is a knife in the back for those countries. The implications for U.S.…
Legal Profession Blog
Missiles and Judgment
Posted by Jeff LipshawI suppose it's timely that President Obama has today made a bold and both criticized and supported decision about missiles. Quite coincidentally, I started watching last night…
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Foreign policy train wreck Tom Smith
Ernest Hemingway offered a memorable description of the experience of going broke: it occurs at first very slowly, then all at once. The Obama foreign policy remains as yet in…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Number 9, Number 9, Number 9: Some Significant 9th Circuit Decisions on Federal Preemption
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
On this numerically significant day (09/09/09), readers may be interested in the 9th Circuit’s recent decisions in Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, No. 07-56691, 2009 WL…
International Law Prof Blog
New Treasury Regulations Lift Restrictions on Cuba
The US Treasury Department issued new regulations yesterday that lift restrictions on most family visits to Cuba and ease restrictions on sending money to close relatives in Cuba. President Obama…
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Ted Kennedy’s Soviet gambit Tom Smith
Golly. I had missed this. (hat tip hls.) I remember the 'eighties. It was a different time. If you were a good liberal, you hated Reagan and were understanding of…
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Obama and the Middle East Tom Smith
This is quite interesting -- apparently the Saudis are immune to Obama's Jedi mind tricks.I view this "nobody ever gets rich betting against Obama" as very immature stuff and not…
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More on Obama’s Foreign PolicyMike Rappaport
Powerline sums up Obama's foreign policy pattern very well: Obama's position on Honduras is part of an emerging, and very sad,pattern. His bogus catch-phrases may vary ("meddling," "illegal," orwhatever), but…
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The Real ObamaMike Rappaport
President Obama's relative silence about Iran -- its almost as if there is no teleprompter available for him to talk about Iran -- raises an extremely interesting question about the…
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Maybe it’s time to stick up for democracy in Iran Tom Smith
Like Roger Simon, I am starting to get a little sick over our silence while brave men and women are getting the living shit kicked out of them fighting for…