A somewhat rambling blog post that references and comments on other blog posts.

This is an on-line opinion piece, which in a somewhat disorganized way takes fellow pundits to task for refusing to clearly denounce the Barack Administration's policy of assassinating American citizens overseas, whom it accuses of being terrorists. The best quote is this, from Constitutional scholar and blogger Glenn Greenwald: “To justify the abridgment or even suspension of the Constitution on the ground of ‘war’ is to advocate serious alterations to our Constitutional framework that are more or less permanent....First, there’s no ‘war exception’ in the Constitution. Even with real wars — i.e., those involving combat between opposing armies — the Constitution actually continues to constrain what government ... More »