Several weeks ago DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced DHS has decided to emulate the widespread World War II strategy of actively involving the public in terrorism and disaster planning and response. As the Secretary said, "For too long we've treated the public as a liability to be protected rather...

The Obama Administration created Recovery.gov as a critical stimulus component, taking a "don't trust us, track us" approach to assure funds are distributed quickly and fairly and "recipients and uses of all recovery funds are transparent." It will also provide clues about how serious the Administration is about campaign...

There's been a lot of talk in recent days that what we need isn't more regulation of banking and business in general, but "smart" regulation. It seems to me that we also need more regulation, but we certainly need to make sure whatever is imposed is also as technologically sophisticated...

Whoever wins in November faces record voter skepticism about whether "government is on the right track," while record deficits will make it difficult to add new programs that might rebuild public confidence. The new administration must simply get more from less.

One novel solution, which I'll address...