No surprise really, but very disappointing all the same, that owing to the activities of a few extremist nutcases, Obama is signaling he's prepared to accept health care reform that does not include a public option.

Obama does not seem to have a taste for conflict; he seems too keen...

Michael Jackson's tragic death put me in mind of a question that first struck me some years ago: How did Jackson keep that boyish treble voice as he matured? The boy who sang on the Jackson Five's early hits became the grown-up Michael Jackson without apparently going through the vocal...

Why does today's New York Times characterize John McCain's actions and motives regarding the first presidential debate in ways that the McCain campaign itself would applaud? The writers and editors seem to agree that McCain's actions are admirable; otherwise why describe them as "daring, unpredictable"? No doubt the Times...

Now President Bush has the law he and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell set out, more than a year ago, to manipulate Congress and the media into giving them, perhaps it's time to consider once again the role played by Spc. Alex Jimenez. Jimenez was abducted by Iraqi insurgents...

To me it is the people criticizing Hillary for her remarks recalling the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy who have lost their minds, not the candidate herself.

It's quite clear that Senator Clinton was merely trying to make a point that, compared to the 1992 campaign of Bill Clinton,...

Something neither the airlines nor Boeing nor Airbus will have been keenly anticipating is a new rule, due this month, that is perhaps the final flicker of regulatory response to the TWA Flight 800 crash, which happened 12 years ago this July. The Federal Aviation Administration's recent new toughness, subjecting...

The Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that the lapse of the Protect America Act, which expired Feb 16 and has yet to be replaced, has significantly impeded the war on terrorism. I think this is probably complete nonsense, and not just because alternative legal tools are available: The Foreign Intelligence...

Is there a moral center to President Bush? He won't allow stem cell research and he's against abortion, but so much of what he says is clearly calculated to prey on our fear of terrorism, and so much is simply untrue. But neither Democrats nor the media are prepared to...

I have been following stories about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act since 2002 when it first emerged as a factor in the investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks.

Back then the Bush administration claimed that FISA was outmoded and ineffective in combating 21st-century terrorist threats. It has fought political battles,...