I find it fascinating that the angry Tea Party crowd that is so intent on making the election a referendum on what they see as an intrusive, over-reaching federal government seems so unconcerned about domestic spying. The government is now making the case that it needs expanded powers to track email messages sent from cell [...]

Question for you Tea Party devotees: If you hate government so much, where were you when the Bush administration was building the massive, secret, overreaching, unwieldy national security apparatus after 9/11? Today, more than 1,200 government agencies and 1,900 private companies at more than 10,000 sites, employing a mind-boggling 854,000 people with top-secret clearances, who [...]

It’s clearly time to end the ludicrous “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that allowed gays to serve their country only if they hid their sexual preference. The nation has moved on, but the military, evidently, hasn’t. They want to kick the can down the road with a year-long “study” of the potential effects of ending [...]

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, and neither side has a monopoly. That said, former vice president Dick Cheney is taking it to a whole new level with his constant attacks on the Obama administration’s conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the handling of terror cases. Wasn’t it just a few years [...]

Yet another take on air safety. Short of strip- and cavity-searching every passenger and hand searching every piece of luggage, I have no idea how you make air travel perfectly safe from terrorists, and neither does anyone else, especially the people in charge of actually trying to make it safe. Their bureaucratic approach so far [...]

They say the gods punish you by granting your wishes. Now I’m really regretting all that time I wished that Dick Cheney were not so secretive. For eight years we could barely get him to talk; now he’s popping up everywhere, doing his best to undermine the new administration. Let’s have a show of hands. [...]