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I'd long since given up on the other newscasts and turned to Stephen Colbert and the

Let's see if I can get through this without an ad hominem attack on Bush that would detract from the serious nature of the issue.

In March,

I assume that, years from now, we'll al

OK, I was wrong: I thought that, after the House report on FEMA ("A Failure of Initiative") set a high standard for analysis, straight talking and good recommendations, that its successors wer

I'll get to the Collins-Lieberman proposal on FEMA later today, but first, I want to urge you to join me, an Exxon-Mobil stockholder since 1957 (I hold onto the stock because it gives me the right to vote against management eve

On the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, let's put to rest the spin about

There's no question that one of the most dangerous ways that a flu pandemic could quickly spread world wide is through passengers on trans-oceanic flights who'd all be breathing the same already godawful air, and that one of the best means to help contain

Don't get me wrong, I hate reality shows with a passion: if any terrorists ever capture me, the most effective way to get me to break would be to force me to watch any of those shows (probably, from what I've heard

Christian Beckner, who writes the invaluable Homeland Security Watch, makes a low-key contribution to the Mary McCarthy debate. Chris, who used to work at the 

I'll admit I'm a bear of very little brain, but why is it that Bush can selectively declassify information in order to gain political advantage, while Mary McCarthy gets crucified?

We'll have to see how this comes out when all the investigation

After all the time, money, and human lives lost by all concerned, Bin Laden remains at large and in the game. Al-Jazeera has broadcast a tape by him evidently made in the past 5 weeks ( because he referred to a raid by Israeli forces on a Palestinian p

Yes, boys and girls, it's time for a little Search 101 refresher on why we put quotation marks around our search terms when we are looking for a specific phrase!

Otherwise, you're like the poor Australian bloke who was searching for (search term

Just a little Earth Day reminder that there is a causal link between issues that this Administration has tried to treat in isolation from each other, namely, terrorism, Iraq, Iran, gas prices, global warming (oops, the Condition That Must Not Be Named), p

I was in extremis (ok, it wasn't that dramatic, but it felt that way) during the height of the students' immigration rallies, so I didn't blog at the time about how they used SMS texting to rally huge crowds -- whi

County's schools, factories and government to be assessed

Course brings anti-terror concerns home to rural communities

Country patterns its increase off UK use of video surveillance for security purposes

Bush signs 2-year extension to law providing federal insurance backup for catastrophic losses

Passports will contain digital photo and chipset to hold biometric info

Hamadi, who is believed to have killed a passenger, released after just 19 years from German jail