Tag: Gene Healy

Nobody wins when you go nuclear on filibusters

Gene Healy · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

New America concluded that the NSA's phone record collection program "has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism." (Photo: Thinkstock)

It’s not the Stasi, but the NSA is bad enough

Gene Healy · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

Introversion isn’t Obama’s problem, his inability to tell the truth is

Gene Healy · November 11, 2013 5:00 am

Fifty years after President Kennedy's passing is not too soon to take a clear-eyed look at his legacy. (AP file photo)

Fifty years after Dallas: Time to see beyond John F. Kennedy’s many Camelot myths

Gene Healy · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a rally to demand that Congress investigate the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs on Saturday, Oct. 26.ÃÂ In one month in late 2012, the NSA quietly sucked up data on some 60 million phone calls in Spain, and the agency has had a tap on German chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone for years.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Healthcare.gov may not work, but the National Security Agency does

Gene Healy · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama finally nominated Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's replacement, former top Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson. (AP Photo)

Instead of confirming Jeh Johnson, Senate should abolish Homeland Security

Gene Healy · October 22, 2013 4:00 am

Al-Shabaab is a repugnant and evil bunch, formally allied with al Qaeda, but the group's focus thus far has been regional: the creation of an Islamic state in Somalia, and, as an AS spokesman put it in 2010, "sending a message to every country who is willing to send troops to Somalia," like Uganda and Kenya. (AP File)

Obama opens another bloody front in the war on terror, Somalia

Gene Healy · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

New America concluded that the NSA's phone record collection program "has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism." (Photo: Thinkstock)

‘No place to hide’ from NSA, then or now

Gene Healy · September 30, 2013 12:00 am

NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander wrote a letter to the NSA and CSS employees. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

A deceptive letter to the NSA’s spy family

Gene Healy · September 22, 2013 4:00 am

Counting the high cost of Obama’s Libya, Syria debacles

Gene Healy · September 17, 2013 12:00 am

President Obama will deliver a prime-time address on the situation in Syria. (AP Photo/SANA)

No matter why Obama backs off Syria attack, it’s right thing to do

Gene Healy · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama announced over the weekend that he'll seek congressional approval for military strikes against the Assad regime, now the Obama administration is trying to rally support among Americans and their congressman and senators. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

John Kerry can’t see it, but Congress may vote ‘No’ on Syria

Gene Healy · September 6, 2013 4:00 am