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...reply that no vital U.S. interest is at stake. Buchanan has been leading the charge, arguing, "There are lots of things worth fighting for, but an extra 10 cents for a gallon of gas isn't one of them." Ted Galen Carpenter, director of foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, cautions that "making the U.S. the guardian of global stability is a blueprint for the indefinite prolongation of expensive and risky U.S. military commitments around the world." Edward N. Luttwak of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies even accuses the President of "fleeing from...
...68th year, modern Russia's greatest humanist and libertarian died in the way that most befitted his life -- in the midst of combat for his country's freedoms. He had spent the day of Dec. 14 at a tempestuous meeting of the Interregional Group, a coalition of liberal members of the Congress of People's Deputies that he had helped found. Exhorting, cajoling and arguing with his colleagues, he pressed for the establishment of an alternative political party in opposition to the Communists. Witnesses were shocked at how dramatically Sakharov had aged lately, as he made his faltering...
...FOUND Dershowitz's letter most interesting. In his response, the noted civil libertarian challenged my accusation that he was an apologist for Israeli human rights abuses who defends the curtailment of civil liberties in the occupied territories...
...reef on which a breakup of the conservative coalition is hourly expected is composed of social issues, particularly that most inflamed social issue, abortion. How can libertarian baby boomers raised on the Pill and Fundamentalists raised on the Seventh Commandment stay under the same tent? Probably more easily than anyone suspects. The fight for blanket antiabortion legislation will be bruising, and many purely economic conservatives will want no part of it. But the question of Government funding of abortions unites laissez-faire and Old Testament moralists alike. Many other social issues, such as day care, lend themselves to similar cross...
...politics, people who rationalize human rights violations are called apologists. Professor of Law and noted civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz, who attacks public nativity scenes as grave threats to the U.S. constitution, has no trouble rationalizing egregious curtailments of civil liberties in Israel...