Bruce Fein

BRUCE FEIN: Open Skies pacts benefit American travelers

Competition in international air travel is flourishing under the aegis of more than 100 Open Skies Agreements.

April 17, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Bombing Iran would be criminal and morally wrong

The United States is trotting toward bombing Iran's nuclear facilities.

April 13, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Stick with the Constitution on religious freedom

Let's stick with the U.S. Constitution's protection of the free exercise of religion as expounded by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in Employment Division v. Smith (1990).

April 4, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Rand Paul’s defense leadership undiminshed

Even John Milton stumbled in "Paradise Lost," and Michael Jordan occasionally missed jump shots

March 27, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Limitless counterterrorism stupidity

What legendary German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer lamented about mankind in general applies to the United States counterterrorism establishment in particular: "The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity."

March 20, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Justices, lawyers hallucinate about Congress

An air of unreality about how Congress enacts laws floated this week through the U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell.

March 6, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Benjamin Netanyahu wrong on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is monumentally wrong about the Iranian threat, an echo of his ill-conceived Sept. 12, 2002, exhortation to the House Foreign Affairs Committee to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein to secure "enormous positive reverberations" throughout the region.

March 4, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian sepulcher

Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine should be undisturbing to the United States. It will prove Mr. Putin's sepulcher. Let's not stand in his way.

February 20, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: The Fourth Amendment and law enforcement abroad

After decades of slumber, Congress has awakened to the need to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (EPCA), enacted in the "horse and buggy" stage of the Digital Age.

February 18, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Only Rand Paul can save us

Of all the Democratic or Republican presidential aspirants for 2016, only U.S. Sen. Rand Paul can save us from ruination born of perpetual, purposeless, unfunded global wars and limitless presidential power.

February 15, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Foreign policy midwifery

U.S. foreign policy is informed by expert dunces, who chronically give birth to calamities.

February 11, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Ignoring America’s true greatness

The United States was founded on exceptional principles that we are ignoring at our peril.

February 3, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Liberal paternalistic opposition to Rand Paul’s audit the Fed

If you covet Platonic Guardians in lieu of self-government, you'll love the antagonists of Sen. Rand Paul's Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015.

February 2, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Neo-con stupidity

Stupidity, thy name is neo-cons. Their trademark is to hallucinate about "moderate forces" from South Asia to the Sahel; and, to urge the United States to partner with them to defeat extremism and spread democracy, the rule of law and secularism throughout the solar system.

January 29, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: A nonpartisan national security agenda

Benjamin Franklin was right. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately."

January 19, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: The superiority of Western culture

A clear lesson should be drawn from the Charlie Hebdo terrorist murders by Islamic radicals and the response in France and elsewhere in the Western world.

January 16, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Protecting the press within the journalistic sphere

New York Times reporter James Risen should enjoy an absolute constitutional privilege to refuse to testify about anything he did or learned in the course of traditional journalistic activities in the Espionage Act trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey A. Sterling.

January 7, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: The Surveillance State has arrived

President Obama's National Security Agency (NSA) is the digital equivalent of the Panopticon but spies on the entire U.S. population.

January 6, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: Marco Rubio repudiates George Washington

A President Rubio would initiate war or covert CIA action to overthrow any government of Colombia whose economic policies diminished American jobs.

January 6, 2015

BRUCE FEIN: No U.S. obligation to Cuban democracy advocates

President Obama correctly normalized U.S. relations with Fidel and Raul Castro's Communist tyranny without doing anything for Cuban democracy advocates.

January 5, 2015