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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

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, applauds after handing the gavel to House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress, on Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

BRUCE FEIN: End House speaker dictatorship

Immediate changes should be sought in the House Rules to end the dictatorship exercised by House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, in favor of a democratic dispensation.

September 26, 2015
Orrin Hatch (Utah)

BRUCE FEIN: Protecting privacy in the age of globalization

Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, is atypical in championing legislation -- the Law Enforcement Access of Stored Data Abroad (LEADS) Act -- that optimizes privacy protection consistent with proven law enforcement needs in a globalized digital age.

September 21, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said the Iran nuclear deal is a step in the right direction. (AP Photo)

BRUCE FEIN: Hillary vows unconstitutional Iran war

Hillary Rodham Clinton hoped to bolster her presidential campaign last week by promising to initiate war against Iran as president if she became convinced it was pursuing nuclear weapons.

September 15, 2015
Actor-producer-director Mel Brooks strikes a heroic pose in the Roman Empire scene from his film, "History of the World, Part I." (AP Photo)

BRUCE FEIN: A wise and virtuous citizenry

If learning is confined to the classroom, the result will be a nation of imbeciles incapable of self-government and the preservation of liberty. That describes the American citizenry today.

September 4, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., left, speaks to veterans at the American Legion Post 23 in Bowling Green, Ky., Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

BRUCE FEIN: Let Rand Paul be Rand Paul

Americans have collectively voted no confidence in the powers that be. A plurality of registered voters is independent, neither Republican nor Democrat. Outsiders are besting insiders as the 2016 presidential campaign unfolds.

August 22, 2015
President Obama said the U.S. and its allies have made significant progress in halting the advance of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, through Iraq and Syria. Now, he wants the blessing of Congress to finish the job. (Associated Press)

BRUCE FEIN: Obama-neocons are useful idiots to al Qaeda, ISIS

The greatest balance sheet assets of al Qaeda and ISIS are what Vladimir Lenin called "useful idiots", i.e., President Barack Obama and neocons like Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham who inflate the danger of international terrorism manifold in the service of the military-industrial-counterterrorism complex.

August 4, 2015
President Obama tours the Roman Empire's Colosseum with Barbara Nazzaro in 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/file)

BRUCE FEIN: Happiness and war: U.S. is aping Rome

The search for truth without ulterior motives is the secret of happiness. It entails an unstarry-eyed understanding and appraisal of yourself and the world uninfluenced by a desire for self-aggrandizement in any of its moods or tenses.

July 7, 2015
This Oct. 26, 2014 photo shows a statue of Englishman William Penn in Old New Castle, Delaware. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

BRUCE FEIN: Rand Paul should filibuster Patriot Act extension

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, should filibuster the impending attempt by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, also a Kentucky Republican, and his jihadists for a risk-free existence to extend section 215 of the Patriot Act past its scheduled June 2015 expiration date.

May 20, 2015
Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Where is Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas?

Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, was quick to lecture Iranian officials on the constitutional power of Congress to override any executive agreement with President Obama to scale back or end economic sanctions in exchange for limits on Iran's nuclear program.

May 14, 2015
Shiite fighters, known as Houthis, wearing army uniforms escort the convoy of Ismail Weld al-Sheikh, new U.N. special envoy to Yemen, at the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition kept up their airstrikes targeting the positions of Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies around the capital, Sanaa, hours ahead of a humanitarian cease-fire set to begin on Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

BRUCE FEIN: Yemen: The lunacy of empire

The U.S. predator drone warfare in Yemen -- an artificial nation cobbled together from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire -- illustrates the lunacy of the American Empire.

May 12, 2015
FILE - In this March 10, 2015 file photo, The Inspire 1, a drone manufactured by DJI, is flown in Davenport, Calif. Mexico published rules governing the use of drones on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, allowing people to operate the smallest drones in daylight without a permit but with safety rules. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

BRUCE FEIN: The case against predator drones

Something is rotten in President Barack Obama's classified, programmatic use of predator drones to target suspected international terrorists for death anywhere on the planet.

April 29, 2015