Countless intelligence officials have confirmed that detainees interrogated by the CIA provided information that helped lead us to bin Laden. But the CIA deniers continue to insist it is all a "big lie." Well, if they won't believe these sources, perhaps they'll believe WikiLeaks.

It used to be tough and unrewarding to be a crank, but new media technologies may be contributing to the lunacy of the "birthers" and other recent conspiracy theorists.

If the CIA “deniers” won’t accept the word of the former vice president, and the four CIA directors who have testified that CIA interrogations produced invaluable intelligence, perhaps they will believe WikiLeaks.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether the United States should resume using enhanced interrogation techniques (as it appears it will if a Republican assumes the presidency in January 2013).  But we should at least debate this proposition based on facts.

It's not exactly a secret that the president would very much like to wind-down military operations (and he is hardly alone). It will surely be tempting to use the death of bin Laden as an opportunity to declare victory and withdraw from Afghanistan, in whole or in part.

While many of the GOP candidates are pundit-candidates and overexposed, all of them are united on core economic and policy issues, and to make Obama a one-term president.

There is an element of convenient fantasy in Obama's health care statements that we are going to save money by spending money.

The leading conservative figures of our time are now drawn from mass media, and conservatism has been reduced to sound bites.