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Intelligence services gather our data fingerprints

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 12:34 am

If you've been following the fallout from the NSA surveillance revelations, you may have seen repeated reference to a certain "recent MIT study." "Unique in the Crowd: The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility," published in Nature's Scientific...

Prop 13: Message from another time

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 6:56 pm

If the national tax revolt has bookends, the first bracket was placed 35 years ago this month. That's when California voters passed Proposition 13, a law curbing tax increases.

Of course, taxes have been a subject of complaint in this land...

Snowden did no harm; and Perry is welcome to visit Connecticut

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 6:56 pm

What's the big deal about Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor on the run for "disclosing" that the U.S. government is spying on U.S. citizens and the whole world, recording and archiving all electronic...

Snowden not heroic outing legal program

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 10:24 pm

Journalists have a professional commitment to the idea that more debate is better, so we instinctively side with leakers. But I'm skeptical about some of the claims of Edward Snowden, the young NSA contractor who leaked secrets about that...

Americans do have 'some problems' trusting the government

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 7:11 pm

Without the slightest hint of irony, President Obama said last week, "If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress, and don't trust federal judges, to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution...

The wonder of curling up with a real book

 June 10, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

According to his critics, Stephen King is not only callous to the desires of some of his most ardent fans but also clinging to the past in deciding to release his new book "Joyland" in print only.

But I'm with him on this one.

Truth...

'Never enough' or 'enough already!'?

 June 10, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

Connecticut's new state budget, entirely a product of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly's Democratic majority, may contain more financial gimmicks - accounting tricks - than any state budget before it. The budget borrows hugely for...

Iran outmaneuvers U.S. in the Syrian proxy war

 June 9, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

Syria's uprising offered the possibility of a strategic defeat of Iran. In this scenario, Iran would be weakened by the collapse of Bashar Assad's regime, its single Arab ally and a vital link to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. Isolated, Iran would...

Malloy: 'Budget gets the big things right'

 June 9, 2013; Updated: 11:48 pm

The following comments are excerpted from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's speech at the closing of the recent legislative session.

I want to thank you for all of the hard work you've done over these months in service to the people of...

Labriola provides Republican response

 June 9, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola, Jr. released the following statement in response to the close of the legislative session.

The spending plan adopted by the Democrats will unfortunately perpetuate economic...

Feckless and clueless as Assad strengthens

 June 8, 2013; Updated: 3:41 pm

On Wednesday, Qusair fell to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Qusair is a strategic town that connects Damascus with Assad's Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean, with its ports and Russian naval base. It's a major strategic shift. Assad's...

Time for Obama to drop Eric Holder

 June 6, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm

People are looking for the wrong "scandal" about Attorney General Eric Holder. The problem with Holder is the plain fact that, in the judgment of a wide range of legal colleagues, he has been a mediocre attorney general.

Holder's mistakes...

Obamacare slowing the rising costs of health care is a very big deal

 June 6, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm

The sky isn't falling. The train is not wrecking. The end is not nigh. And to drag this out a bit, the tidings are not all bad.

The Social Security and Medicare trustees have spoken in their latest annual report: Social Security's...

Displacing persistence with gov't dependence

 June 6, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm

The annual ritual known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee came and went last week with kids spelling words that, I suspect, many with graduate degrees couldn't spell.

The winner was Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from...

Bells chime, the geezers are alright

 June 4, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm

Last month the Congressional Budget Office released its much-anticipated projections for debt and deficits, and there were cries of lamentation from the deficit scolds who have had so much influence on our policy discourse. The problem, you see,...

Secret bank deals should anger public

 June 3, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

The conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was eager for publicity in September 2011 when it sued 17 financial institutions, accusing them of ripping off the two government-backed housing financiers. It isn't so enthusiastic...

Best of Bachmann

 June 2, 2013; Updated: 12:25 am

During 2012 presidential campaign:

"Well what I want them to know is just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too," confusing John Wayne Gacey - the...

A recession just might be good for your health

 June 2, 2013; Updated: 12:21 am

This is a morbid column about some unexpected and encouraging news: Deep economic declines, such as the one we experienced in the United States a few years ago, probably lengthen life expectancy. This is exactly the opposite of what most people...

Obama clicks heels with Dorothy Doctrine

 June 1, 2013; Updated: 4:59 pm

"This war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises ..."

- Barack Obama, May 23

Nice thought. But much as Obama would like to close his eyes, click his heels three times and declare the war on terror over, war is a...

New railroad safety rules are off track

 May 30, 2013; Updated: 4:46 pm

On May 17, a Metro-North Railroad commuter train hit a broken rail and sideswiped another train near Fairfield, The crash injured more than 70 people. Miraculously, no one was killed.

It could have been much worse. In 2008, the crash of...

Foolish to keep poking Russian bear

 May 28, 2013; Updated: 6:17 pm

Why the hysteria about Russia? From the tone of what passes for policy discourse in Washington, one would think that Russian troops were massing on the country's western border and that opposition activists were being executed by the hundreds.

Arlington Cemetery: War comes home

 May 27, 2013; Updated: 4:20 pm

Even as America's longest war grinds down, reminders of the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan haunt Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the crack of rifle salutes, the rattle of caissons, and the sounding of "taps" still echo...

'This war, like all wars, must end'

 May 26, 2013; Updated: 6:17 pm

Watching President Obama's compelling speech on counterterrorism policy Thursday, you couldn't help wondering what he might accomplish if he could apply the same intellectual focus and intensity to governing the nation that he has shown as covert...

Administration's dangerous game threatens our free press

 May 26, 2013; Updated: 11:37 pm

It's one thing to go after officials who leak classified information to the press. Officials with security clearances sign a contract pledging not to share material with the outside world. However, it's something else entirely to go after a reporter...

Political reality trumps their economic purity

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 6:17 pm

For those of us trying to sort out the debate over economic "austerity," there's a limit to what can be learned by inspecting the credentials of the contending economists.

Yes, the fiscal-stimulus vanguard includes a couple of famous Nobel...

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