Consider two cases. In one, a suburban housewife posed as a teenage boy on MySpace to learn more about her daughter's on-again, off-again friend. In the other, a gang of computer geeks broke into the personal e-mail account of a vice-presidential candidate because they were seeking smear material. Here's the odd thing: In all likelihood, both - the housewife…

If Congress needed a kick in the pants to get moving on intelligence reform, this is it: A San Francisco judge ruled Wednesday that the federal government's program to spy on terrorists and their affiliates is not protected by the "state secrets" privilege. This means that government officials and companies that helped to implement the program may be forced…

"Assuming that Heller is not disqualified from the exercise of Second Amendment rights [e.g., a felon], the District must permit him to register his handgun and must issue him a license to carry it in his home." So ordered the Supreme Court this morning. When the High Court decides matters of great national importance and interest, it is too easy to forget that its…

Employees of United Airlines recently got a frightening lesson in the "ownership society." The lesson was: If you don't own and control your retirement assets, they can be slashed or taken away at any time. A federal bankruptcy judge approved United's request to dump its pension plan into the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., a federal agency that takes over…

Newly hatched deficit hawks in Congress publicly sweat at the thought of supporting personal accounts for Social Security. But they overlook the big-ticket elephant in the entitlement-spending room. As Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson recently noted, when Congress approved a drug entitlement for Medicare, it approved the largest single spending…

Could this be the beginning of the end of the debate over drug re-importation? Advocates of the practice argue that American consumers, particularly seniors, could benefit from legal re-importation of prescription drugs from abroad, which in some instances are sold at lower prices than in the United States. Opponents contend these lower prices result from price…

"Your flu shots are canceled because this administration was unwilling to play straight with the American people." So said Sen. John Kerry. Overblown rhetoric aside, Sen. Kerry is right to fault the government for creating this problem. But the lesson that policymakers should take from the flu fiasco also argues against Kerry's own approach to prescription-drug…