Novelist • Provocateur
While I served as a senior political appointee in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations with two top secret security clearances, I had routine access to classified information. The current level of electronic spying was inconceivable in those days. Since the passage of the Homeland Security Act in 2002 — legislation that was […]
Do Old Nazis matter? The Holocaust ended with the Second World War 68 years ago, yet some of the Nazis who perpetrated history’s most horrendous crimes are still alive. Recently, the 94-year-old former commander of a SS military unit was found in Minneapolis, where he had been living quietly for six decades. His unit commited […]
All civilized people were outraged by the terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon on April 15. My readers have noted some similarities between the fictional terrorists in mynovel TIME FALL and the ethnic Chechen brothers who slaughtered and maimed so many innocents. I was asked if characters and events in the book – including the […]
Regardless of who wins the White House next week, taxes will go up. I hate to admit it, but the only way to reduce the US deficit is to raise taxes. We’ll never grow our way out of themorass, and severe austerity will only generate more economic misery while merely chipping away at the problem […]
With the Republican Convention in full swing this week, it’s worth taking a look at the third party platform of President Theodore Roosevelt, a GOP icon (“I love Teddy Roosevelt,” says Mitt Romney. “Anybody who says ‘Bully’ is a friend of mine.“) The formerpresident founded the Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party) because he was disappointed […]
