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Bruce Fein

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Bruce Fein served as associate deputy attorney general and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan. He is now a partner in the firm Fein & DelValle, PLLC. Mr. Fein is also the author of "American Empire Before the Fall and Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy." You can contact him at Brucefeinlaw.

Articles by Bruce Fein

Illustration on income inequality by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

FEIN: In praise of income inequality

Simple justice dictates that economic prosperity turn on individual skill, foresight, industry and risk-taking — traits which vary across the broad spectrum of the human species like a bell-shaped curve.

October 16, 2014
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston/File)

BRUCE FEIN: Don’t trust Wesley Clark, generals on foreign policy

Wesley K. Clark, a retired U.S. Army eneral and former NATO supreme allied commander, has sallied forth with wildly naive or misplaced views about the United States and China in his new book, "Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership."

October 13, 2014
HBO's Bill Maher, center, talks with actor Ben Affleck, left, and Sam Harris, author of "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion", during "Real Time With Bill Maher," in Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/HBO) ** FILE**

FEIN: Bill Maher’s reactionary bigotry

Showman Bill Maher needs education in the obvious. The Islamic State's predominant victims are other Muslims, both Shiites and Sunnis. The Muslims are targeted precisely because they have little or nothing in common with the Islamic State.

October 12, 2014
President Dwight Eisenhower stands with Capt. John A. Maurer, skipper of the cruiser St. Paul, as the warship moves along the Southern tip of Formosa during trip from Manila. (AP Photo, file)

BRUCE FEIN: Squinting at the Vietnam War

The Department of Defense's planned expurgated history of the Vietnam War to commemorate its 50th anniversary is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.

October 10, 2014
President Jefferson in 1801 delivered his State of the Union message in writing, worried that a personal appearance before Congress would too closely resemble the British monarch's practice of addressing each new Parliament with a list of policy mandates. (AP Photo/FILE)

FEIN: Downsizing the presidency

President Jefferson in 1801 delivered his State of the Union message in writing, worried that a personal appearance before Congress would too closely resemble the British monarch's practice of addressing each new Parliament with a list of policy mandates.

October 8, 2014
Kate Burns, left, one of the plaintiffs who challenged Colorado's 2006 voter-approved gay marriage ban, responds to questions during a news conference in Denver as attorney Mari Newman looks on after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear appeals from several states seeking to ban same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

FEIN: Supreme Court chooses discretion over valor on same sex marriage

In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff defends his cowardice by lecturing, "'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life." Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court correctly followed Falstaff's instruction by avoiding a ruling on whether the Constitution recognizes a right to same sex marriage.

October 6, 2014
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Associated Press) **FILE**

FEIN: Henry Kissinger’s imperialism

As Secretary of State and national security adviser, Henry Kissinger was a heartless and erring imperialist worthy of Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden."

October 5, 2014
President Bush speaks to Vice President Dick Cheney by phone aboard Air Force One after departing Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo)

FEIN: Airbrushing Bush’s Iraq War debacle

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his bumbling co-authors of the Iraqi War have been busy airbrushing the history of the conflict. They have been falsely chorusing to the mainstream media that the war was won by President George W. Bush, but lost by President Barack Obama.

October 2, 2014
Casey Stengel (right) won seven World Series titles as manager of the Yankees, but none with the Mets. Bruce Fein compares those losing seasons with the CIA: "The intelligence community's chronic blunders bring to mind Casey Stengel's exasperation with the New York Mets: 'Can't anybody here play this game?' "

FEIN: Intelligence community blunders

The intelligence community's chronic blunders bring to mind Casey Stengel's exasperation with the New York Mets: "Can't anybody here play this game?"

September 29, 2014
President Nixon waves goodbye to staff members outside the White House after resigning on Aug. 9, 1974, following revelations of the Watergate and other scandals.

FEIN: Conditioning Senate confirmation of AG Holder’s successor

he U.S. Senate should condition confirmation of any nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder on express commitments under oath to investigate and prosecute through a special prosecutor the Obama administration's rampant lawlessness reminiscent of the Nixon administration and Watergate.

September 28, 2014