Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community – particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI – are not...
Hidden beneath the controversy stirred up last week by the publication of a book called Fire and Fury, a highly critical insider's view of the Trump White House that the president has not only denounced on national television but also tried to prevent from being...
For the second time in two months, someone who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State has plotted to kill innocents in New York City and has executed his plot. According to police, at the height of the Monday morning rush hour this week, in an underground...
On the heels of his worst week in office, during which his crude comments about race were widely perceived as defending racism and hatred – comments that sent some of his natural domestic allies fleeing – President Donald Trump could not bring himself to articulate a...
"The makers of our Constitution ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." ~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928 After the Watergate...
The history of the world is the history of violence. I had planned to write this column about the most critical act of violence in human history and its superhuman aftermath – the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter, which celebrates His resurrection...
The issue of federal government surveillance of Americans has largely occupied Washington politicians and the media since President Donald Trump first accused the administration of his predecessor of spying on him while he and his colleagues worked at Trump Tower in...
The question of whether former President Barack Obama actually spied on President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition has been tantalizing Washington since President Trump first made the allegation nearly two weeks ago. Since then, three...
Those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says have been arguing since the late 1970s that congressional efforts to strengthen national security by weakening personal liberty are unconstitutional, un-American and ineffective. The Foreign Intelligence...
Last week, President Donald Trump erupted with fury over a series of public revelations of private facts – some top-secret and some office gossip – that painted him and his White House in a bad light. The president ordered the FBI to investigate some of these...
