Lockheed Claims Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough If this is true, we are on the verge of an energy revolution WASHINGTON – I have observed in previous pieces that our long season of economic stagnation here in America (and...
Is Wall Street Going To Crash? Are sharply lower stock prices just a "healthy correction"? Or is this the beginning of a serious downturn? WASHINGTON – If you believe that US stocks are priced fairly, then the current sharp dip experienced by Wall...
Ebola: We Should Design Better Protective Clothing For Health Care Workers It is incredible that doctors and nurses have to get in and out of cumbersome "space suits" WASHINGTON – Here we go. In America we are in the middle of a media-induced “Ebola scare”. Indeed, we have...
First US Ebola Case Reveals Inability To Follow Basic Health Protocols Medical staff failed to notice that the patient with Ebola-like symptoms just came from Liberia, they sent him home WASHINGTON – Thomas Eric Duncan flew into Dallas, Texas from Liberia, via Brussels and Washington. After a couple of days, he...
Bombing ISIL, One Vehicle At A Time – How Many Years To Achieve US Goals? Each air strike gets a small target. At this rate it will takes years to "degrade and destroy" this terrorist army WASHINGTON – How is the air war against ISIL waged by the US and a coalition of European and...
Major FAA Facility Disabled By Just One Person – US Air Traffic In Chaos If one disgruntled former employee can destroy, all by himself, a major air traffic control facility, imagine the damage that may be caused by trained terrorists targeting critical US infrastructure WASHINGTON – Just one (mentally imbalanced, it seems) disgruntled contractor, (his name is Brian Howard), upset because he had...
Obama’s “Ferguson Remarks” In His UN Speech Provide Ammunition To America-Haters Bad idea to place in the same sentence slaughter in the Middle East and one killing in America WASHINGTON – In an otherwise good UN speech (September 24, 2014) focused on the need to fight for international law...
Flex Fuel Engines Allow Trucks To Use Natural Gas – No Downside Engines that operate with both diesel and LNG/CNG allow an easier transition to natural gas as transportation fuel WASHINGTON – While American energy firms have made major progress in exploiting new “unconventional” (mostly shale) oil, this way...
The Roots Of Islamic Fundamentalism Are In The Crisis Of the Arab World We can and should fight against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. But we cannot defeat radicalism through bombing campaigns WASHINGTON – Denmark, a NATO country, just joined the fight against ISIL, (also ISIS or IS) in Iraq. We are...
Have Zero Interest Rates Created Another Wall Street Bubble? Stock market valuation inflated by artificially low interest rates. Investors have no other place to go WASHINGTON – The real threat against America may not be terror attacks against the homeland engineered by ISIL, after...