When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profou... Read More
Last June, after news reports revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) was surreptitiously c... Read More
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In times of war and national emergency, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice civil liberties to sec... Read More
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Happy New Year. Just when you thought the NSA spying scandal couldn't get any worse, it has. Last w... Read More
When crossing the international border, you do so with your privacy at risk — at least that se... Read More
This week, a guard insisted on looking into my handbag as I entered Radio City Music Hall to see the... Read More
If you're part of the U.S. national security apparatus and you torture someone to death during an in... Read More
After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls fro... Read More
I suspect the NSA may have thought they got lucky when one of the first post-Edward Snowden cases to... Read More
Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the N... Read More
Readers of this column know I spend a considerable amount of time dissecting what's wrong with our c... Read More
So, George Orwell was off by 64 years. In 1949, Orwell's masterpiece novel, "1984," wove ... Read More
Last week, I reported on the federal government's massive new student-tracking database, which was c... Read More
Last Tuesday, Republican Ohio state Rep. Robert Mecklenborg — a self-described "Catholic ... Read More
Nearly three decades after the Police first sang of watching "every move you make," modern... Read More
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