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Various groups are focused on a perceived national security threat at our southern border, a threat that to the extent it exists is the result of making it too difficult for Mexican migrant workers to cross legally at controlled border crossings in turn making it harder to track who is crossing that border. Meanwhile the […]

Michael Chertoff should resign. Why? Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose “Web logs” include political rantings and musings about current events. His department knowingly conducted an exercise designed to simulate the silencing of […]

The doom-and-gloom crowd has regularly ignored the substantial interest rate spreads that make dollar denominated assets more attractive than yen and euro assets. (4% versus 2% and 0% respectively for main central bank interest rates.) The near constant refrain is that “runaway” US borrowing, whether by consumers or the government, has the dollar on the […]

The CIA is asking the Justice Department for a criminal probe into the leak of real, sensitive national intelligence information regarding actual covert CIA operations. The kind of information that could easily have cost CIA agents in the field their lives. Those prisons were secret for a reason and I doubt it was torture. There’s […]

The Washington Post’s tempest in a teapot for Tuesday is over the fact that Judge Alito participated in a case in which the Vanguard mutual fund group was involved. Alito at the time owned somewhere between $390,000 and $975,000 in shares in various Vanguard funds. The other litigant was one of his fellow shareholders whose […]

Some of the reaction to the withdrawal of the Miers nomination seems to, barely, miss the point. Hopefully the President’s advisors get the message better than some of the media. The Miers withdrawal is deeply embarrassing to Bush, who should be able to get his pick of Supreme Court justices with a 55-seat Senate GOP […]