Acts of bravery, dedication amid tragedies
The bombings in Boston and the explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas, again showed Americans the bravery and dedication of law enforcement and other first responders. Boston police and...
View ArticleWhistleblowers will contradict officials on Benghazi
Benghazi will be back in the news this week, as a U.S. House committee will hold more hearings on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. Testimony by State Department whistleblowers...
View ArticleOur enemies are not contained
President Obama wants to end the open-ended “war on terror” and refocus on individual terrorists or terrorist cells. But that doesn’t mean the threats are gone, columnist Kathleen Parker warned. “We...
View ArticlePompeo warns against releasing Gitmo detainees
A recent visit to Guantanamo Bay did not persuade Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, that the prison needs to close or that the detainees’ hunger strike is a crisis. “It is not a crisis mode,” he said last...
View ArticleNSA phone snooping shows need to scrutinize Patriot Act
It’s hard to know which is more disconcerting – that the National Security Agency is getting telephone records for millions of Americans via a secret court’s order or that such sweeping intelligence...
View ArticleHuelskamp steps up for NBAF
When last year’s redistricting landed Manhattan in the 1st Congressional District, many Kansans wondered whether fiscal hawk Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Fowler, would advocate for the federal funding needed...
View ArticlePro-con: Is Edward Snowden a hero?
Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old National Security Agency whistle-blower, is a hero. In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government’s eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the...
View ArticlePompeo’s claim about Muslim leaders was ‘irresponsible’
What possessed Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, to give a speech on the House floor last week claiming that Islamic religious leaders across America don’t publicly and frequently condemn acts of terrorism?...
View ArticleDon’t surrender civil liberties
What is most troubling about the NSA’s data-collection program “is that Americans are not particularly troubled by any of it,” columnist Leonard Pitts wrote. “According to a new poll by the Pew...
View ArticlePompeo’s criticism of Snowden draws Guardian response
Is Edward Snowden a whistle-blower or a traitor? Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, labeled Snowden (in photo) the latter in a recent commentary in The Eagle, arguing that the former National Security Agency...
View ArticleAn ‘Ellison said, Pompeo said’ situation
In an ABC News interview highlighting his status as the first Muslim elected to Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison (in photo), D-Minn., mentioned a fellow House member who “said Muslim Americans are not...
View ArticleHow much libertarianism does GOP want?
The GOP presidential race in 2016 “will be heavily defined by just how much libertarianism Republicans want in their party,” Chris Cillizza wrote in the Washington Post. “The answer isn’t certain yet....
View ArticleMost Muslims oppose violence, al-Qaida
Large majorities of Muslims surveyed in 11 foreign countries oppose violence in the name of Islam, the Pew Research Center found. For example, 89 percent of Pakistani Muslims surveyed think that...
View ArticleTerrorism plot a sobering reminder of danger
The threat of domestic terrorism just became uncomfortably real for south-central Kansas, with the announcement about a foiled suicide bombing at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. Congratulations and...
View ArticleHuelskamp, Jenkins at odds on NBAF factor in budget deal
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Fowler, who voted “no” last week on the Ryan-Murray budget deal, challenged as “completely inaccurate” the argument that the deal was needed to provide funding for the National...
View ArticleObama tries to strike balance with new surveillance rules
President Obama likely went too far for some and not far enough for others Friday when he ordered the end to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. He also barred...
View ArticlePublic doesn’t like surveillance, but it’s not a policy priority
Though 63 percent of Americans don’t like government surveillance of U.S. citizens, only 42 percent consider it an extremely or very important priority for Congress and the president, lower than 15...
View ArticleIs another investigation of Benghazi needed?
Though the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a bipartisan report last week on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya, columnist Cal Thomas wants more investigation. “What is needed is for...
View ArticlePompeo: Obama directive hurts intelligence capabilities
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, and former White House attorney David B. Rivkin Jr. argued in a Wall Street Journal commentary that President Obama’s recent intelligence directive “undermines our...
View ArticleCould Pompeo lead the House intel panel?
Roll Call and other Capitol-watching media have included Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, among the lawmakers interested in succeeding Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., as chairman of the House Intelligence...
View ArticleMore death, heartache at Fort Hood
Americans again have Fort Hood on their minds and in their prayers after Wednesday’s shooting spree. The gunman, an Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness, killed three people and injured 16...
View ArticleHuelskamp thinks Benghazi worth $5 million reward
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Fowler, second to none in Congress in opposing federal spending, found one expenditure to endorse last week: a $5 million reward to anyone who could provide information about the...
View ArticleNow Hillary Clinton is to blame for kidnapped girls?
Not only are Republicans trying desperately to blame the Benghazi attack on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but some conservative commentators and lawmakers are now trying to blame her for...
View ArticlePompeo needs to keep Benghazi probe from being partisan circus
The appointment of Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, to the special panel investigating Benghazi reflects how much GOP leadership respects him. As a Thursday editorial argued, he needs to do his best to...
View ArticleErect safeguards against mass surveillance
“One year ago this month, Americans learned that their government was engaged in secret dragnet surveillance, which contradicted years of assurances to the contrary from senior government officials and...
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