This post looks at the McCain's campaign's apparent flip-flops on Presidential authority to ignore FISA.

More learned writers clearly prefer to avoid using the term flip-flop and wish to debate the changing positions McCain has taken on FISA and Article II authority as a matter of divining what McCain thinks. This article is an attempt to do just that. However after writing at some length about the constitutional arguments and court rulings swirling around the issue, the author sums up his frustration with McCains thinking as "so internally inconsistent". That one explanation offered for this obfuscation is that - it's a deliberate ploy by McCain's campaign in order to avoid alienating any group in the way of true politican posturing - is not I would suggest a very smart campaign strategy. The article implies that this writer has ... More »

This is an opinion piece, and whether I like what it says or not, it does include point of fact and analysis there of. Most of the piece is fact rather than opinion. It is informative, fair, and very much in context. Well written.