The Founding Fathers set up a limited federal government. Statists have turned it into an unlimited one, eager to perform any and all superfluous tasks while neglecting core ones.

That security debacles, both large and small, increasingly define the Obama administration is to be expected given his frivolous and excessive view of the federal government. Perhaps Janet Napolitano spoke more truly than she realized when she said that the "system worked." The problem is not that the system failed; it's that a failed system is in place, and the Obama administration is too blinkered by PC and ACLU anxieties to change it.

The nation saw a no-profiling system "work" in the Fort Hood shooting and now sees it work in the attempted Detroit bombing. ...