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Obama’s Troubling Civil Liberties Record Obama’s Troubling Civil Liberties Record

News, Opinion | July 1st, 2009 | 2 Responses
By Charlie Sprague

The Obama administration wisely made a rhetorical shift when it replaced the phrase “War on Terror” with “overseas contingency operations”.  Not only does a “war on” anything sound like a trite government campaign, More »

Randomizing Democracy in the Golden State

Patrick Atwater | News, Opinion | Comments (1)

The Constitutional Convention movement seems  sadly to be coalescing around selecting delegates by lot from the jury pool.(1) This idea seems stupid on its [...] More »

A CMCer at OSHA?

Charles Johnson | Opinion | Comments (29)

At Claremont McKenna, we salute those who join the civil service. This tradition stems from CMC’s founding when our first president, George C. S. Benson [...] More »

California’s Political Horizon

Patrick Atwater | Opinion | Comments (2)

Leaving Sacramento for the first time last weekend, my initial suspicion was confirmed: this is just a small blip in the vast expanse of the [...] More »

New Priorities for Combatting Global Warming?

Charlie Sprague | Opinion | Comments (15)

The green movement seems to be finally well entrenched in the U.S. political system.  For CMC’s Environmental Crusaders and like-minded people such as myself , [...] More »

Like it in the Ath More

Charles Johnson | Opinion | Comments (18)

If you’re like me, you really like it in the Ath (notwithstanding this lackluster past semester). And what’s not to like? Good(-ish) food, the company [...] More »

The Economic Argument for Euthanasia

Charlie Sprague | Opinion | Comments (14)

America has serious health care problems, and as Paul Krugman makes clear in a recent column, serious cost control in the health care industry needs [...] More »

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