World-News

http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan167.html

The Obama Surveillance State
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/02-5

Prepare for Cyber-War Tonkin Gulf False-Flag Attacks From the US
http://lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas40.1.html

Time for Obama to Say No to the Fossil Fuel Wish List
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/02-3

Union of Concerned Scientists: Report Projects Health Impacts and Costs from Worsening Ozone Pollution in a Warming World
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/02-16

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A war fit for a king

Reason Reason
by Steve Chapman

06/02/11

[T]he framers stipulated that Congress has the power to 'declare war,' giving it the chief responsibility except when the president needed to act quickly to repel an attack. But in the ensuing centuries, presidents of both parties have often trampled over their original limits, and Congress has usually let them. This has not gone over well with all lawmakers - like the senator who said in 2007 that the president has no right to go to war on his own, barring an actual or potential attack. His name was Barack Obama. But President Obama has thoroughly repudiated the naive and simplistic notions voiced by Sen. Obama. In some ways, he has also been even more aggressive than his predecessors in doing whatever he pleases...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/02/a-war-fit-for-a-king



But he s our imperial president!

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

06/02/11

Sometimes it s hard to remember that the presidency was supposed to be a constitutionally limited office. George Washington didn t imagine himself 'commander in chief of our economy,' in Hillary Clinton s bizarre formulation; our first president doubted that his powers as CINC even allowed him to attack hostile Indian tribes without congressional authorization. Nor did Washington refer to himself by his military title, preferring to call the office the 'chief magistracy,' a far humbler term...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13157


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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