In September, I commented on an editorial from the Evansville Courier & Press which wanted to make homeschooling an election issue for a local school boa...

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As Halloween recedes, Turkey Day looms. Yessir, the elections are upon us. But not all the monsters have decamped. Shove over inflatable Pilgrims an...

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In 2003, the Transportation Security Administration wanted to pull federal air marshals off the highest-risk nonstop flights, just after the U....

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, that part of the government responsible for preventing people from immigrating to the U.S., rolled ou...

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Google released a brief statement Thursday denying that it was providing information about its users to the U.S. intelligence community. Google’...

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The Transportation Security Administration . . . Vigilant, Effective, Efficient. Yes, and pigs can fly, too. Here are three examples of how th...

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Last week I reported on apparently overblown news that the U.S. was interdicting Vegemite, the national food of Australia, at the border. At ...

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The U.S. intelligence community now has its own top-secret wiki, modeled on the popular Wikipedia site, for the sharing of intelligence information. Called ̶...

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Going through airport security is such a pain these days. They’re still taking tubes of toothpaste, bottles of water, and anything else over three ounces away from passengers, and they’re still letting guns and bomb-making...

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Something strange happened over the weekend. A story I wrote over eight months ago about Google’s quiet cooperation with the U.S. intelligence co...

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