Bruce Fein

BRUCE FEIN: Elon Musk: Let the public be fleeced

Billionaire Elon Musk manipulates government to extract billions more for himself. He is the child of an illicit relationship between business and politics just as Pearl was the child of Hester Prynne and the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in National Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

May 3, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Sue Saudi Arabia for complicity in 9/11

Without tarry, Congress should pass pending legislation (S. 2040) to authorize 9/11 victims or their families to sue Saudi Arabia for alleged complicity in the international terrorist abominations.

April 25, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Make America great again by ending specualtion on public measures

Let's make America great again by following the genius of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison, and end the trillion dollar speculations on public measures that earmark special interest groups -- aka, crony capitalists -- who sap our moral fiber while impairing consumer welfare.

March 22, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Sweet are the uses of Donald Trump’s stupidities

To paraphrase Touchstone in Shakespeare's "As You Like it," sweet are the uses of Donald Trump's stupidities, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

March 3, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Donald Trump a one-man wrecking squad for the Constitution

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a one man wrecking squad against the Constitution.

March 2, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Michael Hayden’s flawed salute to drones

Contrary to the retired general's quantitative measures, drones don't work. They are not a strategy. They are a tactic that may -- at best-shift the international terrorist danger from one place to another. Thus, diminished ISIL forces in Iraq and Syria are immediately offset with a spike in ISIL strength in Libya as in a game of Whack-a-Mole.

February 29, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Congress: Awaken to your privacy responsibilities

On Feb. 25, 2016, the House Judiciary Committee headed by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) will hold a hearing on "International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow and Law Enforcement Requests."

February 22, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: To Donald Trump: ‘They’ (Apple) are the Founding Fathers

The proper response to Donald Trump's fuming, "Who do they [Apple] think they are [in resisting the FBI]?" thundered forth in 1763 from William Pitt the Elder to the British Parliament and echoed throughout the American colonies as they assailed British Writs of Assistance.

February 18, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Needed: A justice who has served in Congress

The U.S. Supreme Court urgently needs a Justice who has served in Congress to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, would fit the bill.

February 17, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Secret government is stupid, reckless, incompetent, lawless

In 1961, after The New York Times downplayed the impending Bay of Pigs debacle, President John F. Kennedy remarked to editor Turner Catledge, "Maybe if you had printed more about the operation you would have saved us from a colossal mistake."

February 15, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Military-industrial-terrorism complex turning failure into triumphs

The modus operandi of the multi-trillion dollar military-industrial-terrorism complex (MITC) is as transparent as is Donald Trump's narcissism.

February 10, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Hillary Clinton yearns to be a mendicant priest

Hillary Clinton yearns to be a mendicant priest. She covets a mega-austere existence that betters the instruction of Diogenes. She needs a substantial palimony reserve in anticipation of future claims against Bill.

February 8, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Pray to God, but read James Madison

At the Battle of Marston Moor during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell sermonized to his Roundheads, "Pray to God, and leave the powder dry." And thereby hangs a tale.

February 3, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Hillary Clinton’s appalling enthusiasm for war

Hillary Clinton exhibits an appalling enthusiasm for United States wars not in self-defense, i.e., legalized murders on an industrial scale that create enemies while destroying our liberties and prosperity at home.

February 1, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Regulatory state endangers civil liberties

The annual economic cost of the federal regulatory state exceeds $2 trillion. But its seldom-mentioned toll on civil liberties is equally troublesome.

January 29, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Architects of Libya fiasco should be pilloried

Every American death or injury in wars not in self-defense is morally repugnant.

January 27, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Bankruptcy bill for Puerto Rico is unconstitutional

An unconstitutional movement is afoot fueled by President Barack Obama and crony capitalism enthusiasts to enact federal bankruptcy legislation for Puerto Rico to make sport of the legitimate expectations of its creditors.

January 20, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: American Empire heightens dangers

All empires are alike. They are all begotten from the DNA of the species that craves power for the sake of power -- an evil that has persisted unchanged since Adam and Eve.

January 15, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Architects of foreign policy blunders treated like Montessori School students

Our chronic gratuitous interventions abroad at staggering expense under the delusion of spreading democracy and peace have diminished our security and spiked the world's misery index. Yet the architects of these failures have paid no price. They have been neither punished nor professionally ridiculed. The establishment treats them like Montessori School students with grades based on effort irrespective of the catastrophic results.

January 6, 2016

BRUCE FEIN: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau another menacing encroachment on privacy

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sounds benign --evocative of a robust defender of consumer interests. It's the last institution you would suspect of shipwrecking your privacy.

January 5, 2016