So we want to do a better job vetting visa-holders and applicants from certain countries to prevent terrorists and extremists from entering the United States.  A practical, commonsense precaution, right? For practical people with common sense, yes.  But then, there are the media and those who don't think we should try very hard to keep these undesirables out of the country.  They see such a measure as draconian and overkill.  Their attitude: Better to allow a few terrorists to slip through the cracks than do everything possible to keep U.S. citizens safe in their own country. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is asking tech companies to develop software that will allow the government to track the social media postings of visa-holders from some Muslim countries.  Is this discrimination, that we vet some people from terrorist countries more thoroughly than others?  ProPublica: Speaking to a room of information-technology...(Read Full Post)