WASHINGTON — President Obama's pro-forma acceptance of responsibility for the latest failure to connect the dots in national security acknowledges Harry Truman's famous ...
Shortly before a double agent for al-Qaida detonated a suicide bomb and killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan last week, a U.S. general issued a report excoriating A...
The Jan. 19 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat is beginning to resemble the 2008 presidential election, when the "inevitable" Hillary Clinton was ov...
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charge...
WASHINGTON — Was Christmas Day 2009 the same kind of wake-up call for Barack Obama that Sept. 11, 2001, had been for George W. Bush?
The near-miss by a passenger flying ...
"Five words: Randomly selected for additional screening."
So counsels Ryan Bingham (played by George Clooney) as he spies a group of traveling Muslims while showing a yo...
When the national service program AmeriCorps was established in 1993, it had its share of harsh critics.
There were those who felt it was simply a feel-good move by the ...
When you go to the market and buy a raw apple, you expect — and get — an apple. Not a fruitlike product injected with liquid that makes it weigh more but that softens th...
When I look ahead to the next decade, here's the question that haunts me: Can America get its mojo back?
In 2000, the great strength of the United States was not simply ...
A lunatic tries to blow up an airplane, so now my 2-year-old daughter can't sleep on her pillow. If this is how we respond as a nation to terror threats, then maybe the ...