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By George Scoville

Habeas corpus applies to anyone, citizen or not, in custody under American law, no matter what President Bush and President Obama decree.
House Republicans’ cuts to the Department of Education, which will spend over $70 billion next year, didn’t even amount to $1 billion.
“Regardless of whether Pakistan gets its way, its impudence in pushing Afghanistan to abandon America exposes the real balance of power in the region.”
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to refer to a government whose intelligence service assists military efforts by al Qaeda and the Taliban against U.S. troops in Afghanistan as an ‘ally.’ ”
Here are five ways to cut military spending today without changing our strategic focus:

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