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Brown Brokers prisoner--for-oil deal: England's Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he's innocent, but evidence is mounting that he played an important role in freeing the terrorist who brought down a plane over Scotland.		Oct 12, 2009	3089
Figuring out the founders: from the masses of material about the founding of our country, four recent books are chosen for review, owing to either their scholarship or the reputation of their authors.	Book review	Oct 12, 2009	2346
Are you the enemy? Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, you could be. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 allows the Executive Branch to circumvent the Constitution, endangering the due process of law for all Americans, not just terrorists.	Cover story	Oct 30, 2006	2431
A son's agonizing choice: Edmund Randolph chose a path that tragically led him away from his father, but toward becoming a key player in the formation of a new nation.	Biography	Sep 18, 2006	2815
Presidential power grab: President Bush has been quietly attaching pronouncements to the bills he signs into law. These signing statements amount to a grab for legislative power belonging to Congress.		Aug 21, 2006	2246
Scholar, soldier, statesman: if James Madison represents the cool, contemplative head of the early republic's body politic, then Alexander Hamilton is undoubtedly its passionate, fiercely palpitating heart.	Biography	Mar 20, 2006	3020
Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on terror" and the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece are separated by over 2,400 years, their similarities are striking, instructive, and cautionary.		Jan 9, 2006	2641
Wise man among wise men: James Wilson was so knowledgeable on the subject of government that he was generally regarded as the most erudite of all the learned Founding Fathers.		Dec 12, 2005	1233
Debunking the Da Vinci Hoax: filled with errors, falsehoods, and blatant, anti-Christian bias, The Da Vinci Code has received phenomenal promotion from the major secular media.		Mar 21, 2005	2136
Marriage and the law: understood properly, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution actually protects the right of states to refuse to recognize same-sex "marriages" legitimized in other states.		Mar 7, 2005	1666
The hemispheric security puzzle: invoking the fear of terrorism, the Power Elite is moving to build a "security perimeter" encompassing the entire Western Hemisphere.		Jan 24, 2005	1769
Bush's "striking shift" on global warming.		Oct 18, 2004	628
Are you on the terrorist watch list? Sen. Ted Kennedy and 350 other Americans have been delayed or prevented from boarding flights after their names mistakenly appeared on the terrorist "no-fly" list.		Sep 20, 2004	575
The Founding Fathers & the classics: the stream of classical history was one of the primary tributaries of American political thought at the time of the Founding.		Sep 20, 2004	2954
Deliberate decline: the jobs needed to live the American Dream are fast disappearing--not because of unrestrained market forces but because of government policies including NAFTA.		Sep 6, 2004	2250
Penman of the Revolution: as the author of many of our nation's most fundamental documents, including the Articles of Confederation, John Dickinson was one of America's greatest Founding Fathers.		Jul 26, 2004	2412