The Bush/Cheney administration claims they have successfully prevented another Sept. 11 attack. ...more

January 8, 2009

Due to a brief hospital stay and some weeks of recuperation, I have been unable to wish a happy, healthful and more secure 2009 for my readers, so I start by doing that today. ...more

January 8, 2009

A new nuclear plant may be nothing but a big bombing target. Any nation with nuclear power plants offers its adversaries, in effect, a quasi-military capability to use against it, proliferation expert Bennett Ramberg, an official in the George H.W. Bush administration, warned in 1984. ...more

August 26, 2008

Imagine a President McCain or a President Obama receiving the following top-secret briefing from his national security adviser: "Iran has successfully developed a nuclear warhead and may have already mated it with a medium-range Shahab-3 missile targeted at Israel. A preemptive strike could trigger a nuclear exchange. What do we do, Mr. President?" ...more

July 6, 2008

Regarding "Lead Fears Dampen Holiday Cheer" (front page, Dec. 9): The specter of this mostly media-manufactured crisis of lead paint and the resulting lack of toys for poor children would be comical if not tragic. We are so deep in it now; however, there may be no escape from the psychosis. No action figures for Tiny Tim this year. ...more

December 12, 2007