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There's a lot about Ted Cruz that should worry constitutionalists considering voting for the senator in the presidential election of 2016.Recently, Infogram published brief but illuminating biographies of several of Cruz's key foreign policy advisors. The information disclosed in these revelations could trouble many constitutionalists otherwise keen on the senator and who rely on him to restore the rule of law to the White House.The first person highlighted in the article is the chairman of Cruz's foreign policy team, Chad Sweet.Sweet's professional and political background betrays Cruz's claims of being someone who promises "not to continue going in the same...

Decision Brief No. 05-D 44 2005-08-31 On eve of U.N. push for global government, advocates urge Senate to approve a building block: The Law of the Sea Treaty (Washington, D.C.): As concern grows that the United Nations is intent on replacing what the National Security Guidance calls "an orderly arrangement of sovereign states" with a proto-world government - complete with the ability to impose international taxes, a new push is being made for a treaty that would advance that purpose: the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). This sovereignty-sapping agenda is at the heart of a dispute now playing...

"John Bolton is "tough-talking undersecretary of state." He has "often ignited controversy in his dealings with foreign countries," and so President Bush yesterday nominated him "to be the US ambassador to the United Nations and will replace John Danforth." Bolton is a tough talker. He's right out of the Jeanne Kirkpatrick school. She was ambassador to the United Nations during part of the Reagan presidency. I remember hearing her speak once, it was at UC Davis. I snuck in there because I was not a student but I snuck in there, and I'll never forget. She said: "The only difference...

Some things just don't change.

Former U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, whose indictments of the blame-America-first crowd have reverberated through debates on foreign policy for two decades, will testify against the controversial Law of the Sea Treaty next week.....

<p>"Kirkpatski, Kirkpatski," Andrei Sakharov exclaimed when he met Jeanne Kirkpatrick in Moscow. "I have so wanted to meet you and thank you in person. Your name is known in all the Gulag."</p> <p>The reason why, wrote National Review's Jay Nordlinger when he related that incident in June 2001, was because she had named names of Soviet prisoners, "giving men and women in the cells a measure of hope."</p>

I remember reading several years ago an article by Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick in which she explained that America has more success winning wars with conservative leadership than liberal leadership. Liberals just do not have the principle and insight to win wars. I have been thinking about her premise lately during my recent work drive time and my Tennessee back roads bicycle time. Especially since the war with Iraq is so successfully near completion and especially since the clear anti-war pessimism of the leading Democrat leaders. I do not remember Kirkpatrick's specific arguments, but recently I have come to the same...