Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming “It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of ‘geologists.’ Only […]

September 13, 2007 Child’s Play In Iraq By Michael J. O’Shea “I am reminded of the time I saw my 3-year-old daughter trying and failing to tie her shoes. She got angry. Still, she kept trying. “‘This is difficult,’ she concluded. ‘But I like difficult.’” A child grittier than Congressional leaders, spunkier than people twenty […]

They may have won the House and Senate but, the way the Democrats think today is definitely a minority. Their mode of thinking, their view of the world, their view of this country’s place in the world, is a minority opinion in this country. They may not even realize it. When you have a bunch […]

Sept 10-07 Tom Lantos, who is co-chairing the committee (he’s from California) told Petraeus (I’m going to have to paraphrase this) that he knows — he, Lantos, and all Congress knows — that Petraeus and Crocker have been sent up there to convince the Congress and the American people that victory is at hand. Lantos […]

6 years later… Reflections on 9/11 I want you to take, especially with what is happening in the country today and around the world, the threats that we are faced with, take just a few seconds and recall how you felt on that day when you first saw pictures or when you first heard what […]