Leaders at all levels of government should be profiling those individuals who make bombs, smuggle weapons on planes or support those who do. Wire tapping, profiling and undercover operations are less intrusive and cheaper than patting down every traveler’s body. The ACLU’s mission is not to keep Americans safe but to ensure that an individual’s private behavior stays private. Unfortunately, the government is going to have to find and stop some private behavior before it becomes a public terrorist attack.

The Los Angeles Times editorial board can’t get its story straight on the reasons the Senate should pass the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).  Or maybe it just doesn’t understand the complicated issue and what is at stake.  Thursday’s editorial insists that there is bipartisan support for the treaty and that only a few radicals want to kill it and then attacks Senator Jon Kyl from Arizona for not supporting it and “acting not in the interest of the nation but of his party”.  Either the treaty has bipartisan support or it doesn’t.  Either it’s not a partisan treaty…

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President Barack Obama arrived in India this week with a large gift in hand.  After just a few short hours, Obama announced to the world that America would support India as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.  The support from Obama was a huge coup for the Indians but took diplomats at the UN by surprise.  India, after all, was being rewarded despite the fact that it has done very little to help reform the UN.  Ironically, it has been India that has stood in the way of the very sweeping reforms that will now be needed…

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United States Senator Barbara Boxer — she insists on being called by the full title — not only doesn’t work with Republicans in Washington, she doesn’t work very well with members of her own Democratic Party.  Unlike our other U.S. Senator, Diane Feinstein, Boxer consistently advocates for radical views and fringe issues.  Boxer is antagonistic towards California’s business community, votes exactly the way the unions instruct her, rarely meets with people and groups she disagrees with and is known for her grand ego and mean-spirited temper.  Boxer has spent 28 years in Washington and is considered by many to be…

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