The Dave Ross Commentary

12 years ago we had the "decider" today we have the "thinker." Today, we have a president, who when he was faced not just with the POTENTIAL use of chemical weapons, but the ACTUAL use of chemical weapons, took a very different approach than the President in 2001.

We're hearing a lot of politicians talking about Syria, I thought for a change we'd hear from someone who as a former staffer at the Obama State Department, was privy to some of the back room debates...

The United States does not hesitate to pull the trigger when we feel threatened. Afghanistan and Iraq have the craters to prove it. But so far the videos coming out of Syria haven't convinced a majority of Americans to feel threatened. That's what's allowing this debate to happen at all: Syria is not a direct threat to us.

Sunday's Video Music Awards drew 10.1 million viewers, up 4 million from last year and credit has to go to Miley Cyrus, who was able to upstage herself with her own ***** which she deftly maneuvered as part of a dance called the Twerk.

Now that chemical weapons have been used in Syria there are two big questions: Can they be destroyed from the air without sending in soldiers, and who will end up running Syria afterwards?

The President is on a bus tour looking for ways to control tuition costs. And the numbers are pretty scary. For the first time, there are kids are entering college whose parents still haven't paid off their OWN college debt.

Cameras are everywhere now. They question is, when it comes to identifying bad guys for purposes of preventing terrorism who's going to watch all that video?

he Egyptian army has obviously overthrown a democratically-elected government and has killed hundreds of protestors in the process. But President Obama can't call it a coup, because that would require him by law to cut off aid.

Seattle' annual marijuana smoke-in known as Hempfest concluded peacefully after one minor confrontation.

I notice that on the CBS News website, the most popular security story isn't the latest development in the Edward Snowden case. It's a gun battle in Oakland, CA.

The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released the CIA's original documents on its U-2 spy plane program.

The latest report from the Agriculture Department says that raising a kid to the age of 18 will cost, on average more than 241-thousand dollars. That's up about 61-hundred dollars in one year.

A young couple in Houston claims that the camera system they were using to monitor their two toddlers was hacked.

Last month, 14 year old Ashley Barbour of Colville Washington took off with a guy she'd met online. Monday police found her using a license plate recognition system in which police cars routinely photograph and store thousands of license plate numbers while on patrol with time stamps and locations.

Lon Snowden says he will travel to Russia to see his son and will again try to persuade him to return home.