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Obama’s recent choice to reauthorize the Patriot Act with no additional privacy protections is more than disappointing—it is disingenuous. President Obama campaigned on a platform of transparency and strengthening civil liberties, and, although he made no commitments to letting the Patriot Act expire, he did, according to his own campaign literature, consistently assert that, “He would support a Patriot Act that would strengthen civil liberties without sacrificing the tools that law enforcement needs to keep us safe.” Instead, Obama’s extended support for the tenets...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: To Forfeit Freedom | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Many of us caught our last glimpse of Mitt Romney in the winter of 2008, when his presidential campaign was sputtering to a close, dogged by the perception that the former Massachusetts governor was a shape-shifting candidate with a focus-grouped platform. Since then, as potential 2012 primary rivals like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee took Fox News gigs and stayed in the public eye, Romney has quietly receded from the spotlight. But his new book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, leaves little doubt that he's spent the time away rebooting his message in preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitt Romney's No Apology | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

According to German Medina, who has advised presidential campaigns for over 15 years and is currently head of strategy for Fajardo's campaign, Colombians tend to vote for a candidate and not their party. So who will the die-hard Uribe fans gravitate toward? "They are a block of ice that hasn't wanted to move. But with Uribe gone, it will melt, and the question is: To whom will the waters flow?" says Alvaro Forero, a political scientist and newspaper columnist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Gets Ready for Life After Uribe | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...voters who switched their allegiance to support Uribe will return to the Liberal Party. In any case, the candidates have precious little time to gear up for the vote. "It's clear the [debate over the term-limits] referendum did a lot of damage because it cost the electoral campaign almost a year of analysis, and a country as complicated as Colombia needs a lot of analysis," says Forero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Gets Ready for Life After Uribe | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Baquba, the provincial capital and center of Iraq's citrus-growing region, is a largely colorless place, except for the winter orange harvest and the hundreds of campaign posters for Sunday's nationwide elections that now line the city's trash-filled streets. Still, at least the sectarian power struggle between Sunnis and Shi'ites that once raged through the city is now mostly confined to the ballot box. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Omens for an Iraq Without U.S. Troops | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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