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In today’s Washington Post , Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, explain why their groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s policy of “targeted killing” for suspected terrorists. Romero and Warren say targeted killing can be justified 1) on the battlefield as part of an armed conflict (in Afghanistan, for example) or 2) outside of an armed conflict “as a last resort and in the face of a truly imminent threat to life.” But Obama’s policy, based on the view (also espoused by his predecessor) that the entire world is a battlefield in the War on Terror/War on Al Qaeda, gives the executive branch carte blanche to kill people it unilaterally identifies as members or supporters of Al Qaeda, including U.S

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Challenging Obama’s License to Kill

Few essays attracted as much attention from right-wing readers this summer as “America’s Ruling Class—and the Perils of Revolution” by Angelo Codevilla. Now that very long article has been expanded into a very brief book, called The Ruling Class

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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on The Ruling Class

Earlier this summer, 18 states declined to participate in the PPACA’s new network of high risk pools, which the Obama administration had hoped would be a bridge from now until the insurance exchanges are set up in 2014. The states’ biggest gripe? Funding—too little of it

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Yet Another Underfunded Bridge Program Brought To You By ObamaCare

From Obama’s prepared remarks last night: As the leader of the free world, America will do more than just defeat on the battlefield those who offer hatred and destruction–we will also lead among those who are willing to work together to expand freedom and opportunity for all people.

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The President’s Contradiction Soup

Obama declares end to combat operations in Iraq.

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Reason Morning Links: Obama Says Iraq Combat Operations Are Over, Murkowski Concedes, White House Considers Another Stimulus

Perhaps channeling Steve Martin  (another ’70s innovator), Michael Barone wants to get small: The Big Government of 1970 looked a lot like the Big Government of the 1940s. The same Big Businesses that dominated the Fortune 500 list in 1940 did so in 1970.

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Forget Gov’t, Biz, Labor: The Last Big Unit to Perform Worth a Damn Was Randy Johnson

As President Barack Obama helpfully explained last night on the TV, the Iraq War is over. ” Time to turn the page ” and end “the American combat mission in Iraq.” Except for the 50,000 or so troops still there, who will no longer be “combat troops” but advisors, traffic cops, social workers, and bake-sale overseers. Who will stay there until the end of 2011 (or longer, if you believe folks such as Washington Times’ national security correspondent Eli Lake, or the thousands of U.S.

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War Is Over (If Obama Wants It) or, Mission Accomplished Redux

Whole Foods co-CEO John Mackey, a Reason reader who has also supported Reason Foundation , the nonprofit that publishes this website, talks with USA Today in an interesting interview. Snippets: Q: It seems like every grocery store has found a way to look or act like Whole Foods.

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Whole Foods’ John Mackey in USA Today on Health Care, the FTC, Unions, & More

Jane Mayer, 2010 : Of course, Democrats give money, too.

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I Guess it Depends on the Meaning of the Word “Soros”