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John Yoo reduces Congressional power to declare war to a merely symbolic act, as his in view, the President can engage in war without limits (except by cutting off funding after the fact). At time of ratification, no one suggesting that the Constitution gave the President this authority, the...

Your interpretation reduces the Congressional authority to being purely nominal. When Congress acts, it can grant pretty broad authority, as it did with the 2001 AUMF and give the President some discretion as with the 2003 AUMF. It already has granted narrow authority for military action under...

I always cite the actual Constitution or the actual statute, not the Fox New summary. I suggest you do the same. I recall reading a WSJ piece by John Yoo where he claimed that the Torture Memos did not reflect his point of view, but he was simply writing what was requested of him.

A Fox News video from a professional apologist for anything done by a Republican President. John Yoo was the guy who said that torture was legal (contrary to the actual statute). Cite the actual Constitution, not John Yoo.

Where in the Constitution does the President have the authority initiate military action? Are you saying that the authority of the Congress is nominal. Cite the Constitution, not Fox News videos.

The Constitution assigns the power to declare war to the Congress. The President has no authority to initiate military action. I am going to quote Abraham Lincoln on this.

You seem to have a lot of problems with our obsolete constitution. Are you proposing amendments or the overthrow of the US government?

If you think that we need faster decision-making call for a constitutional amendment. Wars often last years. Only aggressors need to achieve initial surprise. Note that security treaties (ratified by the Senate) allow the US to move rapidly to defend our allies. Launching wars of choice needs...

Saudi Arabia recently reestablished diplomatic relations with Iran. Their big concern is Iran closing the strait of Hormuz which deny them their oil revenue. Pat, what is your source for the secret deliberations of the Saudi government? Here what the Saudis are actually saying. The ruler of...

Name the country other than Israel who is calling for the US to do this.

We have a President who does not have the guts to cancel the F-35 and is contemplating starting another forever war. The difference between rhetoric and reality is extreme for Trump.

The Iranian government has been avoiding giving the US a Casus Belli. And their is not much world support for the attacking Iran.

America was united about Afghanistan, and we still lost. If Trump wants Iran to think he is serious, he should go to Congress for authorization just like G W Bush did. And nothing is going to make Iran give up their nuclear program. The Iranians have seen what happened to Iraq, Libya and Ukraine.

Has anyone noticed that Trump is now claiming he can start a war with Iran, despite the Constitution and his own campaign promises. Write your congressman to support the Massie/Khanna resolution to require consulting with Congress before we go to war.

I have certainly seen some strange costumes at a line dance. (The cowboy costumes are of Mexican origin). The Texas 2-step is a mix of German and Mexican dance. With some African influence. In other words, it is thoroughly American. If you think protecting culture means American cuisine, you...

I met Ron Paul back in 1990's. Ron Paul (and his son Rand) have some problems. They want the government to force pregnant women to continue their pregnancies. Rand Paul was apologist for Putin, even travelling to Moscow to meet the mass murderer. They both have a strange obsession with gold. I...

People are entitled to fair treatment from their government. People are entitled not have their persons or property harmed by others. They are not entitled to have a right over the behavior of other people, unless those people are directly harming them. To make such claim would violating the...

Gorsusch talked about the case of fisherman John Yates, whose conviction for destroying records in a government investigation (three small fish!) was overturned by a 5-4 Supreme Court decision. Sounds a lot like the case of Ksenila Petrova, who facing smuggling charges for failing to declare...

Government policies are supposed to increase our overall standard of living, by providing services that we can't obtain as individuals or corporations. It is not the job of the government to provided special benefits to every group that thinks it has been treated unfairly by somebody. China's...