The power to conduct Congressional investigations is one of the great powers of the majority party in Congress. This power has been extensively used in this century, contributing mightily to the public's right to know the facts behind the headlines … [Read more...] about Let’s Get Going on Congressional Investigations
SDI Should be Built Now
Thirty years ago in 1965, I was privileged to be escorted with a small group through NORAD, the great hole in a Colorado mountain where our government headquartered its systems designed to track any object that might attack our nation from the … [Read more...] about SDI Should be Built Now
McNamara Should Be Crying for Us, Not for Himself
Robert Strange McNamara belongs on the daytime soap operas. Better yet, his histrionics belong on Donahue or Geraldo or Sally Jesse Raphael. We are not impressed that he would "cry easily" about Vietnam, that he "sweated blood at night about it," or … [Read more...] about McNamara Should Be Crying for Us, Not for Himself
Is Our Government Trading Dollars for Pesos?
Something happened on the way to the first foreign policy crisis of our post November-1994 government. Somehow, the new Republican majority seems to have forgotten its role as the party of the opposition and protector of U.S. taxpayers against raids … [Read more...] about Is Our Government Trading Dollars for Pesos?
What’s So Wrong About GATT/WTO? — October 1994
Clinton is Itching to Take Us into War Again
Desperate to bring himself up in the polls just two months before the mid-term elections in November, President Clinton has apparently decided to start a war. Don't Americans always rally round the President, in a burst of patriotism, after a war … [Read more...] about Clinton is Itching to Take Us into War Again
New World Order, Clinton-Style — June 1994
Weird Writings of Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott has two qualifications to be Clinton's chief adviser on foreign policy, especially Russia, and to be waiting in the wings to succeed Warren Christopher as Secretary of State. He was Clinton's roommate while they were both Rhodes … [Read more...] about Weird Writings of Strobe Talbott
Untangling the Truth About Vietnam
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." The end of the year is a good time to untangle some falsehoods that have crept into our history, specifically, on how the Vietnam War got started. In 1964, this is how the … [Read more...] about Untangling the Truth About Vietnam