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 [...]