Outside the Beltway

A travel ban sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions, though, it becomes far less appealing when you think about the details.

ISIS at the Gates Edition.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

An inevitable outcome for the head of a once proud agency.

The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.

The TSA is up to its usual shenanigans.

Just when it became safe to keep your shoes and tablets on, a new threat to the friendly skies has emerged: toothpaste.

The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

In the end, it doesn’t appear that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented by law enforcement.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

Effective immediately, Texans will have to show photo identification to vote.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

The man some of called America’s toughest Sheriff has been dealt a setback by a Federal Judge.

Just how serious was the leak that the Associated Press reported on last May?

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

The Senate looks like it’s about ready to take up a bipartisan immigration reform package.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

President Obama’s immigration policy shift is legal, it’s good policy, but bypassing Congress won’t solve our immigration problems.

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.

No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

The Establishment opposition to the current frontrunner has little to do with his policy ideas.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Why was the ATF allowing thousands of weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug gangs?

Under new policies, deportation efforts will be concentrated on people who pose a threat to society. It’s a sensible policy, so of course it’s being denounced.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.