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Obama’s War on Terror By Some Other Name

White HouseAfter he first took office, President Obama jettisoned the use of the phrase “global war on terror,” preferring ‘overseas contingency operation.’ In remarks on his counterterrorism policy (or what he’d like it to be?) to the National Defense ... [Published REASON Online - 12 hours ago]

Entities: War On Terror, Barack Obama, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Terrorism

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

WikiLeaks

Vid: WikiLeaks, Assange & the End of Secrecy: Alex Gibney on "We Steal Secrets"

"It's terribly important that we see the horrors of war, becausethen we know what's happening in our names," says AcademyAward-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney. "If that stuff iskept secret, then we're on our way to tyranny."Watch the video above ... [Published REASON Online - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Alex Gibney, WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Al-Qaeda

Shikha Dalmia in the Washington Examiner on Whether Liberals Will Swallow Obama's Crocodile Tears Over the Drone Program

Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. ... [Published REASON Online - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Drone, Reason Foundation, Al-Qaeda

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Ron Paul

Ron Paul Loses Attempt to Claim RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org Domain Names

As I blogged back in February , Ron Paul angered some of his fans byrelying on a UN-sponsored dispute resolution mechanism, the WorldIntellectual Property Organization (WIPO), to try to claim heshould legally own the domain names RonPaul.com and RonP ... [Published REASON Online - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Ron Paul, World Intellectual Property Organization, FAIR USE, Commodities

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Rand Paul Responds to Obama on Drones: Power Point Presentations May Not Represent Due Process

Rand Paul, who led a thirteen hour filibuster of the nomination of JohnBrennan to head the CIA over the issue of drones targetingAmericans, responded today to the president’s most detailedcomments on U.S. drone policy so far in his administration. Pa ... [Published REASON Online - 11 hours ago]

Entities: DUE PROCESS, Drone, Rand Paul

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

John McCain

Wacko Bird Ted Cruz Goes After Angry Bird John McCain Over the Debt Ceiling

Good C-SPAN fun on an ongoing theme .First up, warhorse Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) accuses newbieliberty-movement Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) of not understanding thebasic Senate rules about reconciliation, as applied to debate overraising the federal debt ... [Published REASON Online - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Ted Cruz, Debt Ceiling, John McCain

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Freed From Partisan Divisions, Press-Snooping Scandal Looks Likely To Linger

The Obama administration has finally createdunity — of outrage over surveillance of news organizations andthreats against journalists. By targeting both media organizationsthat have traditionally been supportive of the administration and organizations ... [Published REASON Online - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Obama Administration, JAMES ROSEN, National Security

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

What Made Jimmy Carter Flip-Flop on Marijuana? And Could the Same Tactic Work on Voters?

In the space of five monthsformer Pres. Jimmy Carter has seemingly done a 180-degree turn onmarijuana policy. Duringa December 2012 CNN panel, Carter endorsed Colorado andWashington's decision to liberalize their marijuana laws:Suzanne Malveaux: What ... [Published REASON Online - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Jimmy Carter, Marijuana, Legalization, Suzanne Malveaux

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Obama's Empty Rhetoric

Like the "War on Drugs," a rhetorical phrase that the Obamaadministration has rejected even while continuingto wage the policy it describes , many ongoing activities of thegovernment he presides over came under verbal attack from PresidentBarack Obama ... [Published REASON Online - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, Drone, War On Drugs, Guantánamo Bay

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Poll: Public Support for Chained CPI; Only Tepid Support for Health Care Law

Both Democrats and Republicanshave criticized the president’s proposal to slow the growth ofSocial Security by using chained CPI to calculate benefitincreases, but President Obama may have the public on his side: 57percent favor “changing the way benefits ... [Published REASON Online - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Social Security, Health Care, Barack Obama, Demographics

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Achieving Privacy in Public

danah boyd, an anthropologist of sorts , highlights somethinginteresting in Pew's new report on teens and social media:Pew's report shows an increase in teens'willingness to share all sorts of demographic, contact, andlocation data. This is precisely ... [Published REASON Online - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Encipher, government agencies, Instagram

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Are Savages Noble?

Paleofantasy:What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How WeLive , by Marlene Zuk, Norton, 304 pages, $27.95The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from TraditionalSocieties? , by Jared Diamond, Viking, 499 pages, $36Modern anthropological ... [Published REASON Online - May 22 2013]

Entities: Jared Diamond, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes

Quotes

"I'm glad the President finally acknowledged that"

Rand Paul Responds to Obama on Drones: Power Point Presentations May Not Represent Due Process [Published REASON Online - 11 hours ago]

claimed that Carter has been "falsely characterized as supporting"

What Made Jimmy Carter Flip-Flop on Marijuana? And Could the Same Tactic Work on Voters? [Published REASON Online - 12 hours ago]

"The very precision of drones strikes, and the necessary secrecy"

Obama's Empty Rhetoric [Published REASON Online - 13 hours ago]

...And as Jesse Walker pointed out in a great piece from 2004, it followed the now eight-decade Hollywood trope about a mythical politician who "survives an accident, sees the light, and starts to stand up for the little guy and fight the powers that be." I would expect political journalists to prefer the lure of Aaron Sorkin-style fantasies over the messy realities of governance, but the sitting American...

Liberals—Including the President!—Fantasize About Obama Acting Like a Wigga Warren Beatty [Published REASON Online - 16 hours ago]

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