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• WILL GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA? June 16, 2013
  For those who oppose President Barack Obama, it's easy to make him the force behind what's transforming America. I suspect, however, that history will view him as a bit player. What historians more likely will highlight is the evolving role of government surveillance.
• NSA DATA MINING: THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS June 9, 2013
  Even the United States of America is not immune from tyranny and totalitarianism if its government becomes too powerful and too intrusive.
• DETERRING CHINESE CYBER-ATTACKS: MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION June 2, 2013
  When I was an analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency in the early 1980s we used to say that if grains of sand on a beach were bits of intelligence information Moscow would send a large bulldozer onto the beach and scoop up as much as it could. Beijing, on the other hand, would send a million Chinese and each person would put a handful of sand in their po […]
• OBAMA'S DISREGARD FOR THE NATURE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM May 26, 2013
  President Obama's fundamental disregard for the nature of Islamic terrorism, no doubt, has Islamist-jihadists around the world cheering.
• FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA THE JIG IS UP May 19, 2013
  The trifecta of scandals plaguing President Obama and his administration will get a lot worse before they get better, casting a paralytic pall over his second term and greatly reducing the likelihood American voters will coronate Hillary Clinton as his successor.
• IS BENGHAZI OBAMA''S ACHILLES' HEEL? May 5, 2013
  The testimony this week of three senior State Department officials before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee could provide information that will blow the Benghazi scandal wide open, or will it be a dud?
• WHY MUSLIM TERRORISTS WANT TO KILL US AND YOUNG MUSLIM MEN WANT TO BECOME TERRORISTS April 29, 2013
  In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, media coverage has been full of people telling us we have to better understand why Muslim terrorists want to kill us and some young Muslim men living in America want to become terrorists, suggesting something about America is at the root of the problem.
• WHO DO YOU TRUST ON GUN CONTROL? April 14, 2013
  The most often heard argument in the ongoing gun-control debate is whether or not gun control prevents gun crime. Gun-control advocates believe it does. Second Amendment advocates argue that it doesn't. A more cogent question when it comes to gun-control, however, is who do you trust?
• TIME FOR REGIME CHANGE IN NORTH KOREA April 7, 2013
  The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the perfect example of what will happen when rogue regimes acquire nuclear weapons. They use them to intimidate their enemies, extort concessions from those that will negotiate with them, and sell the technology to the highest bidder. Regime change or war is the only way to stop them.
• VIETNAM, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: LESSONS AMERICA NEVER LEARNS March 24, 2013
  The United States has fought three counterinsurgency wars in the past half century, all of which have or are about to turn out less than resoundingly victorious, to say the least. You would think American would get the hang of counterinsurgency warfare, getting it right eventually; but there are lessons American political leaders never learn.