Monday Links
- 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:
