Charles V. Peña
Charles V. Peña is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute as well as a senior fellow with the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, senior fellow with the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute, and an adviser on the Straus Military Reform Project.
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Articles by Charles V. Peña
November 11, 2008
While the Fourth Amendment guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons … and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures," the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) made it clear earlier this week that the Constitution does not apply in D.C. According to...
August 25, 2008
Campaign promises by both Barack Obama and John McCain include sending more troops to Afghanistan. Obama would provide "at least two additional combat brigades [roughly 10,000 troops] to support our effort in Afghanistan." McCain, not to be outdone, states: "Our commanders on the ground in Afghanist...
June 10, 2008
More than four years after the decision to invade Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein and impose democracy, nearly 160,000 U.S. soldiers remain there.
Despite the war´s growing unpopularity with Americans, President Bush is adamant about not setting an "artificial deadline" for withdrawing troops...
October 24, 2007
ACCORDING to Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, “Terrorism is all about getting them before they get us.” But if that's so, you've got to question the wisdom of the Los Angeles Police Department's efforts to spare the city from a dirty-bomb attack.
The LAPD has recently procured—using some...
May 31, 2007
It’s no surprise, in the wake of the April, 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech which left 33 people dead, that gun control has become an issue for the 2008 presidential race. In the aftermath of the shooting spree, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards of North Carolina called for more restricti...