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Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

We should have listened to Eisenhower

More than 50 years ago, Ike all but predicted the factors that led to the NSA's massive snooping enterprise

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

How much privacy will you trade for security?

They are both important. But they don't always coexist nicely

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

How Obama's scandals could swing the GOP primaries

And why this is terrible news for Marco Rubio — and good news for Chris Christie

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

My advice to high school grads

For starters: Beer is really an awful thing to drink. Costs too much, tastes lousy, and makes you fat.

 
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

Bradley Manning and James Rosen are not the same

The notorious WikiLeaks secret spiller isn't a reporter. He's a source

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

Why we don't need the Keystone Pipeline

Proponents claim it will bring down gas prices, create jobs, and preserve national security. Not so fast...

 
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

The root of all (IRS) evil

It's an absolute travesty that the tax collection agency was ever the arbiter of political speech

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

Should conservatives start sticking up for Bradley Manning?

The Obama administration's recent bullying of journalists might create sympathy for the WikiLeaks secret spiller, who is being aggressively prosecuted by DoJ

 
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

How the White House's war on media backfired

The DoJ's journalist-snooping controversy is the one scandal that will cause the media to report aggressively on all the others

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

D.C. is obsessed with scandal. America isn't.

No wonder the nation is disillusioned with its lawmakers.

 
Daniel Larison
Daniel Larison

There is no good reason for the U.S. to intervene in Syria

But there sure are a lot of bad ones.

 
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

A flood of scandals engulfs Obama

From spinning Benghazi to politicizing the IRS to spying on the AP, a raft of embarrassing revelations is crippling the president

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

Obama is not weak on terrorism

And conservative critics who say he is are proving they have very-short, very-partisan memories

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

My advice for the class of 2013

No one has asked me to deliver a commencement address at a university graduation this spring. But if they did...

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

The dam bursts on Benghazi

Thanks to a bombshell report from ABC News, GOP accusations that the White House politicized a tragedy no longer seem so unsubstantiated

 

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