Archive for October, 2007
Bush’s toilet bowl treaty
When State Department Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger III gave a controversial June 6 speech on the subject of “The United States and International Law,” he mentioned that the Bush Administration had “put forward a priority list of over 35 treaty packages that we have urged the Senate to approve soon, including the UN Convention [...]
What ever happened to cost neutral?
The new Rangel-Pelosi tax plan, like just about every new and improved tax plan since 1913, is being sold to us as “revenue neutral.” The concept of revenue neutrality with taxation is that for every dollar cut from one group’s taxes, a dollar will be added to another group’s taxes somewhere, thus keeping the total [...]
Challenges remain for airport security
Within the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration’s mission is to protect the nation’s transportation network.
Senate Republicans may sink Bush’s U.N. treaty
Can the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty not only be delayed but defeated outright in the Senate? That’s the question that conservatives are delightfully pondering as a remarkable series of events has put the pact, supported by the Bush Administration and the liberal leadership in the Senate, in serious jeopardy. Perhaps the most significant [...]
Blowing the whistle on U.N. corruption
On the eve of a Senate vote on the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, a former senior staffer in one of the key institutions created by the treaty says that U.S. senators should have the complete and honest truth about mismanagement and financial corruption there. The International Seabed Authority, which is one of the [...]
Why President Bush sided with Mexican killers
The U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of the case, Medellin v. Texas, has reminded the American people of President Bush’s terrible tendency to put the foreign interests of Mexico above those of the United States. But the case, being heard on October 10, is significant for another reason. It demonstrates the dangers of passing global treaties [...]
