Reality Check continued

The National Bureau of Economic Research is always looking over its shoulder. It is the non-profit organization that officially announces American recessions.... keep reading

Vice President Cheney warned in late 2001 that Afghanistan was only the first in a series of wars against terrorism. He was not whistling Dixie. It was more like "Matching Through Georgia."... keep reading

Two centuries ago, I would have died a horrible death. We should appreciate the blessings of modern technology.... keep reading

What is clear to everyone today seemed obvious to me in 2001: "No Exit." One of Rumsfeld's laws is this: "Things are easier to get into than out of." He proved it in Afghanistan.... keep reading

In 2001, I argued that the war in Afghanistan was one more example of bait-and-switch. The war was not going to end in Afghanistan. America was about to enter into the West's "Great Game" in the region, which Britain and the USSR had lost.... keep reading

The escalation of the American war on terrorism in 2001 has created a predictable counter-response. The terrorists are multiplying. Our troops are not. The winner of a guerrilla war is the side that does not leave the battlefield.... keep reading

Step by step, crisis by crisis, decade by decade, the U.S. government has pursued the national ID card. Yet a national ID card program is useless against the most cost-effective of all weapons of mass destruction: an anthrax attack on a major city.... keep reading

In the back of our minds, we know there is no defense. The day a major city is hit, there will be a run on the banks like no other in history. The division of labor will collapse. There is no defense. Yet we sit complacently, pretending that it will not happen.... keep reading

Year after year, decade after decade, the American Establishment ignores the obvious: Saudi Arabia has been bankrolling recruiting schools for radical Islam. This has backfired on the Saudi ruling family, which is trapped by its clerics.... keep reading

The official story of the so-called crash of Flight 007 is a lie -- on both sides of the Russian border. Yet it is still accepted. Almost no one thinks twice about it. I hope you will.... keep reading

The war against radical Islamic terrorism is the forever war. I said so in 2001, and I say so in 2005. It is more obvious today.... keep reading

The Bush Administration's spending had only just begun. The red ink had only just begun to flow. The era of the surplus was over, I said. Here were my reasons . . . still valid in 2005.... keep reading

Some stories go down the memory hole. This was one of them. It had disappeared by 2005, but it still shows up in Google's cache.... keep reading

The Bush-Hinckley family connection outrages a conservative lady. It can't be relevant . . . and it really should not be true!... keep reading

The media are selective in what stories they pursue. There are big, big stories that are not pursued. They are "spiked" by editors. This is getting tougher because of the Internet, but not impossible.... keep reading

As to who was the source of the original warning on the Saddam Hussein-bin Laden connection, it still remains a mystery. But whoever it was, this disinformation worked, if its goal was to take down Saddam.... keep reading