A Senate report on the Benghazi attacks didn’t mention Sec. Clinton but did mention that Ambassador Stevens refused military offers of security assistance at least twice (possibly because Stevens thought the tighter security would impair his efforts to build relationships with the locals.) So the buck may have stopped…

I’m saying that our rights are already limited and we’ve come to accept this as part of the shared burden of living in a country of people with competing interests. We aren’t free to say just anything without legal consequences — libel and slander, inciting riots, etc. — and there are limits to gun ownership,…

You sound like Samuel “Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights” Wurzelbacher. And what privacy rights are even being compromised here when the entity that owns the iPhone in question has given the government permission to “break” into it?

Nevah!

How artfully misogynistic of you! And racist, of course.

The artful smear! Sounds like a British foodstuff.

Pres. Obama might be trying to show that he’s “tough” on illegal immigrants so he can sell a new immigration policy to Congress. Although, I would be surprised if Obama himself directly ordered ICE to arrest a bunch of women and children for deportation. He probably gave some vague order about stepping up enforcement…

You don’t think the attacks in Cologne and elsewhere in Germany on New Year’s Eve were coordinated? I highly doubt that those attacks were independently carried out and didn’t have some common impetus.

Sanders is more a pandering politician than a gun nut. Vote Bernie, damn it!

Well, breaking the Nazis’ Enigma codes helped the Allies win WWII. So a case can be made that the U.S. government needs to be able to decrypt whatever it wants, if we want the U.S. to win the war on terror.

Uh, it seems like it’s the police and politicians who have been the source of shocking news lately. What should the media cover if not shocking events? At this point, if the media just abruptly stopped reporting violent acts with the vague hope that it would curb copycat crimes, then I imagine the people prone to acts…

Everyone in Switzerland may be covered by health insurance, but it isn’t “free” as you stated. Like with Obamacare in the U.S., the Swiss government provides subsidies to 35% to 40% of the Swiss population to help pay for health insurance. But, according to that New York Times article, in Switzerland:

The Swiss model for healthcare appears to be like Obamacare — everyone is required to buy health insurance and they can’t be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Say what you about Lindsey Graham and his ilk but I don’t think most of them are pandering to the murderous white supremacist sect of the Christian Coalition.

Not murdering people seems to be a significant difference between the way the Religious Right operates here in the US and the way ISIS carries out their beliefs. There is plenty to complain about how religion is tainting our political landscape here in the US, so I don’t find it helpful to add hyperbolic declarations…

While the Religious Right are appalling in their own ways, they are also quite a few shades-of- gray different than ISIS.

Western powers haven't been able to get rid of the Taliban, even after all these years of costly efforts to do so. What makes you think we can get rid of ISIS?

We may all start these discussions about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by mentioning some observable truth — usually some action, like Hamas firing rockets into Israel — but it seems to quickly turn into a mess of people editorializing on the significance of said observable truth. We end up trying to judge an…

Isn't the other commenter just saying that one can never be completely assured of privacy when using today's technology? If privacy is that important to people, they best think of ways to communicate off the grid, so to speak. We're more likely to have our webcams hacked by someone we know than the government,…