Homeland Security

By the time the Fourteenth Dalai Lama fled Tibet in March, 1959, he had gone through a steady period of disillusion with Chinese officials, who had been offering much lip service to communism -- a philosophy he thought was, in theory, practical and promising. The reality of those officials, spearheaded...

At the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, it's fitting to take stock: What has the war cost your community?

Of course there is no greater cost than the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this unnecessary and tragic war. But the dollar cost has other enormous human...

Imagine hundreds of passengers enduring waves of heat outside Terminal 1 on a busy summer day at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). They stand in lines that weave down the sidewalk as a minivan approaches the curb,...

High officials in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies, love to talk about how good they are at "reaching out" to American Muslim communities.

They should be reaching out. It is just possible that folks in these communities might...

The United States is spending scores of billions of dollars to build fences and to train and enlarge the border patrol in an effort to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country, especially from south of the border. However, if an immigrant has few extra bucks and a bit of...

The Democrats' personal hatred towards President Bush - in light of the objective successes of his presidency - make clear the sad fact that they would rather see America fail if that failure made the president look bad.

The most urgent question after 9/11 was when we'd be hit again,...

The philosophical riddle, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" raises vital questions about observation, knowledge, and reality. What is the difference between what something is, and what it is perceived to be?

To this end, can...

Here's another 're-blog' from Max. Take a look at how the world look through the eyes of an 18 year old who's just trying to deal with stress, college, life, and politics.

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Now departing 2007. Welcome to 1984.

Okay, so I just got back from Maine, where...

This week the American Civil Liberties Union amended a lawsuit in a Boston federal court on behalf of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Its intent is to wrest an explanation from the Departments of State and Homeland Security as to why the U.S. government refuses to admit internationally...

It might not be a good sign for the Republican frontrunner when the person he begged George W. Bush to appoint as Secretary of Homeland Security is indicted on 14 counts of fraud and conspiracy.

Bernard Kerik, who was the first to "Join Rudy" and owes...

There are disasters and there are disasters and the way politicians respond to them is certainly not the same. Their response to them, or lack thereof, tells much about their political motives and personal sensibilities. The Bush response to the Katrina debacle versus the California wildfires is a near textbook...

There's been a steady stream of misinformation since the "no match" ruling came down earlier this month. Judge Breyer stopped the government from implementing a new Department of Homeland Security rule that would force employers to fire staff whose names and social security numbers don't match what's in the...