In 1986 on a sunny September afternoon, “N”, her toddler son and her father, “L”, went camping in  Tennessee. *

The soft fall breeze and flickering sunlight through the red and gold leaves provided a welcome relief from the hostilities and threats N endured before separating from her husband, “D”....

Is it possible that the future of real journalism is in the form of a non-profit entity?

A new "news" non-profit, The Bay Area News Project, was announced Friday by KQED public radio and the New York Times. The project is funded by $5 million grant from F. Warren...

It's been 34 years since Sara Jane Moore stood on a sidewalk 40 feet away from the back door of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco with a gun in her hand and assassination in her heart.

After all this time, the Secret Service is still trying to understand...

Two women, two potential presidential assassins, are free today, 34 years after they attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford.

Has the Secret Service learned anything from Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, which will help them in their attempts to protect Pres. Obama?

Some things to think...

It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.

Sara Jane Moore, the middle aged woman and a mother who shot at Pres. Ford in 1975 was released from prison December 2007. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the Manson...

Is an extremist tall, short, young, old, thin, fat? Would you know if the person standing next to you was about to pull out a gun and shoot?

Scary thought, isn't it?

Think about the pressure our protective and security agencies have been under since President Obama took office?...

Doesn't the person who saved the life of the President of the United States deserve a name?

The woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, has her name out there. Although we still know little about her.

But we hear nothing about the person who...

Tell me how you really feel about it?

Seriously, though, reading through the strong reactions and comments regarding Sara Jane Moore's interview on the Today Show are not really surprising given the lack of knowledge about the times and San Francisco in the 1970s.

If one were to casually glance...

Sara Jane Moore was interviewed on the Today show this morning.

I want to thank Matt Lauer for not giving away all the official, unofficial and exotic details of my book.

As the author of, Taking Aim At the President, I reveal the unpleasant, hidden, unpopular, unseemly, talented,...

Melting polar ice caps, decreasing fertile land, dying species, floating islands of waste and unstoppable virus strains.

What is happening? How is this happening?

The Right (read Republican) says this is all "hog wash." They trot out doubting scientists who dispute the claims of natural global warming and...

OK, so maybe it's just me, but all this Social Networking is just too much pressure! I have more guilt now than when I was a young mother sure I was the worst person in the world because I didn't find every living moment with my child the most satisfying...

Twenty-seven years ago I promised a convicted felon I would store her art collection until her son would take for it for her.

This collection is not some small assembling of prints or photos. The collection includes seven oil paintings, some as large as a doorway. There are wall-size...

I would not dare to say Bernard Madoff will have the last laugh? However, he may pull a clever trick by pleading "not guilty."
In true Madoff style, he's created a formidable and expensive challenge for the prosecution's task of investigating the sources of his Ponzi...

What is "Everyday Rage?"

It is daily anger that festers just under the skin of frustration, a loss of control from feeling oppressed due to acts in this country that has stripped us of our money and our dignity. This was imposed upon us by the elite few who...

At the risk of using a worn-out cliché', I am the poster child for, "No good deed goes unpunished."
I have been paying to store Sara Jane Moore's art collection for almost 30 years. Sara Jane was the middle-aged doctor's wife and mother who fired at the...

Will the E-book replace ink and paper books?
No.
However, get used to seeing E-books share retail space along with a 1,500 page War and Peace.
Portable electronic books are not about to invade the business or consumer world quickly as the...

The loss of advertising revenue for daily newspapers has resulted in the lay-off of experienced journalists as a way to control costs.

As news papers continue to shrink and more focus is paid to the Web version, the problems continue to rise. The Web becomes both an...

My husband Rick and I were talking about the nomination of Leon Panetta to head the CIA, and Rick's immediate comment was "Of course he's a right choice -- you appoint from inside when you want continuity, and from outside when you need change."

We've been hearing...

President-elect Barack Obama says he has confidence that his Secret Service security detail will do their job so he can do his job.

I'm glad he is not worried -- but I am. I'm hopeful, but not sure, that our Secret Service has learned from some hard lessons from the...