There was a long, detailed story in Sunday’s Washington Post about how government weapons experts kept telling the White House there was no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program, even as the White House was telling the opposite to the rest of the world. What if the situation was reversed? What if experts from […]

On Sunday, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made the rounds of the political talk shows, making the link between the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden’s Al Quaeda. He said the Islamic fundamentalists who comprise Al Quaeda were outraged in the early 1990s by the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia, […]

Claudette arrived in Texas this week, coming ashore as a weak hurricane. She is not Andrew or Camille, one of those storms that’s remembered for a generation; but she arrives at a turning point in weather history. Earlier this month, the World Meteorological Organization announced that temperatures and storms across the planet are becoming more […]

Out in California, they’ve got an economic crisis. The new fiscal year has begun for the Golden State, no budget is in place and there’s a $34 billion deficit. State offices are closing or cutting back, state services are being stopped for lack of available funds. Because of the budget shortfall, it will be a […]