TO UNDERLINE THE POTENTIAL CIVIL DAMAGE THAT CAN RESULT from continuing our present presidential leadership, I note the following crucial bulletin: “County Official In Missouri Calls Obama ‘Domestic Enemy’ — But Then Says She Bears ‘No Ill Intent’,” by Darrell Lucus, Oct. 16: “The Republican recorder of deeds in Jefferson County, Missouri is in full […]

AT LAST!!! The hottest development on the Internet! The tea party has acquired its own news site. No longer will tea party truth be torn and twisted with impunity by the unknowing and uncaring and manipulative. The following is from a representative piece by the Tea Party News Network (TPNN) staff: To give the full […]

I SELDOM RESPOND TO COMMENTARY UPON MY COLUMNS. However, given the great significance of this issue, I feel that an exception, as follows, is both justified and crucial. “There is simply no direct evidence that climate change is a man made phenomenum,” writes “Matter.” “No provable theory exists! Pure speculation and erroneous hypothesis based on […]

NOTWITHSTANDING MY BELIEF THAT IT IS THE MOST CRUCIAL ISSUE OF OUR TIMES, I have, as promised, gone easy on the topic of climate change for a few weeks. However there are several dramatic and crucial bulletins on this issue that must be attended. The first and most crucial is that this is not an […]

TODAY I WANT TO BEGIN A REVIEW of some compelling material on the issue of fracking, that process whereby oil companies drill and inject approximately 700 extremely powerful chemicals into the ground to break up rock and open channels for oil to flow and become available for pumping. I always find it fascinating to have […]

I HAVE TRIED! OH HOW I HAVE LABORED to rid my mind of those visions of the future that have led to my expulsion from the ranks of the eagerly read to the lining of the waste basket. Why can I not find and pass on those messages of optimism that open the readers’ day […]

FIRST, AN APOLOGY. For those who weary of my wailing about warming, I can only say in justification, my skin is delicate, I burn easily and the prospect shakes me up. Then again, what you’ll read here just might shake you up too! For a dramatic twist on the story of global warming, we have […]

FIRST, A BULLETIN FROM THOSE GUARDIANS OF OUR FUTURE ON THE POLITICAL RIGHT: From an Aug. 8 DeSmogBlog.com piece by Justin Mikulka and Steve Horn, this reassuring bulletin: “Rail CEOs to Investors: ‘Bomb Trains’ Safe At Almost Any Speed.” Almost any speed!? No problemo, compadres, put the pedal to the metal and keep that oil […]

TIME TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT OUR STARTLING SUCCESS in solving our energy problems with oil — good old American Bakken crude along with a hefty swash of that Canadian tar sands crude. Canada being a very friendly neighbor, this seems a great deal on both sides of the border. And thanks to a […]

FIRST, A CLARIFICATION. Just as it is Carolyn Plath’s assigned role in The Benicia Herald to lighten your day, to bring a smile to your morning, it is clearly mine to bring thunder, lightning and a downpour of whatever pain I can inflict in a handful of paragraphs. Today, once again, I take my cues […]