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Posted on September 29, 2008, 4:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

If power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, as Kissinger said, and in a National Enquirer world we always learn about the sex lives of the powerful, we have to get smarter about how we react to what we always find out.

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War Powers, War Lies: Part 4: Willingly Deceived

Posted on April 29, 2005, 6:08 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

The Big Picture Home Page | Previous Big Picture Column | Next Big Picture Column War Powers Page | Previous War Powers Column | Next War Powers Column War Powers, War Lies: A Series Part 4: Willingly Deceived Published in the Maryland Daily Record April 29, 2005 Last time, we considered the dishonesty of President Lyndon Johnson in […]

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War Powers, War Lies: Part 2: Imperfect War

Posted on February 25, 2005, 5:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under Uncategorized.

Thus the Supreme Court’s solution to the problem here was to rely on Congressional authorization of war as a sufficient substitute for Congressional declaration of war. The Court never directly addressed the ship-owner’s point that the Constitution speaks only of declarations of war, not of authorizations. The Framers would have been spinning in their graves.

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