For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.