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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, like the political leadership of Kentucky, has been taking the Fifth. If you take the Fifth, do they have to stop torturing you right then under the new paradigm that says that we are in a permanent war, and when in war, torture and spying on any of them is legal if 1 in 260 million Americans says so? Homeland Security was fresh off its success as a cumbersome bureaucracy in New Orleans when it was impolitely called the "new Gestapo" by one of the few Americans who are American enough to stand astride...

"The road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting, yet it ends in danger and decline," railed President Bush in his State of the Union. Again and again, Bush returned to his theme. "America rejects the false comfort of isolationism. ... "Isolationism would not only tie our hands in fighting enemies, it would keep us from helping our friends in desperate need. ... "American leaders from Roosevelt to Truman to Kennedy to Reagan rejected isolation and retreat." Why would a president use his State of the Union to lash out at a school of foreign policy thought that...