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Democrats headed for doomsday

Charlie Cook, the veteran political handicapper who successfully predicted the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and forecast a Democratic return to power in 2006, says Democrats are headed for…

The American right to invade privacy?

A disappointing feature of the Obama administration is its continuing support of the Bush administration's assertion of the federal government's unfettered right to snoop.

Last July, the Department of…

Obama goes to war…with himself

Regarding aggressive intelligence gathering, the Obama administration is now clearly at war -- with the Obama administration. Very soon after assuming office, President Obama opted not to pursue prosecution of…

The doctrine of ‘plausible deniability’

As every school kid knows, Harry Truman instituted the doctrine of ultimate responsibility. The "buck stops here" became the symbol of strong leadership from an Oval Office where the phrase…

Another year, another mortgage crisis

Just as the economy is showing hopeful signs of life and the federal government is turning a profit on the early bailout money, the…