There may be less sex on the internet than you thought.

The latest internet big scare has finally been exposed: the alleged danger of cyber-net predation is largely the product of the overactive imaginations of puritanical hysterics rather than a true crime wave sweeping the nation and endangering our kids.

Memo to Gov. David Patterson
Re: Two Birds With One Stone

He may not be everybody's role model but it might be time to take a page from the playbook of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to solve two of your most pressing problems: closing a multi-billion budget deficit and...

Does anybody feel good about New Hampshire?

I'm busy trying to keep an eye on Iranian attack boats in the Middle East and our presumed future leaders are concentrating on this season's brand of swift boating. Let's put aside Hillary's tears, Romney's religion, Edward's haircut, Obama's youth and Giuliani's wives.

It looks like the American backed Plan B for Pakistan is to re-establish the dynasty.

The US government should have long ago gotten over its puerile crush on Benazir Bhutto. She was a "democrat" the way Boris Yeltsin was a democrat: steal while you are in power, blame evil forces...

Once upon a time, many, many Christmases ago, a crowd of Pakistani generals sat on the knee of Uncle Sam, aka Santa, and asked him to load up the sleigh with guns and drop them in Islamabad.

"Ho, Ho, Ho," replied Santa. "Have you been good little generals?"

"No we...

Police Officer Michael Capobianco isn't afraid of much. A member of the elite Bureau of Special Operations he is a skilled marksman who practices jumping off building roofs, storming tenements and tackling drug crazed lunatics.

The one thing that terrifies Officer Capobianco is the specter of a wandering autistic child.

What does an Asian leader, bankrolled primarily by the United States, do when faced with a collapsing country, a renegade judiciary and a charismatic female political opponent? It all depends on who is living in the White House.

Today's resident of the White House is George W. Bush. The president...

The war in Iraq is clearly a failure of integrity rather than a failure of intelligence.

The leading political question of the day should be:

Why are none of the presidential candidates running on a platform of integrity?

This is what a candidate's platform should be:

1. Why I...

The epidemic of autism that is ripping through our country now has a terrific new spokesman from its own ranks. His name is John Elder Robison.

John made his national debut last week at the inaugural reading of his astounding book, Look Me In the Eye, (Crown Books) a...

It looks like the boss of the Seattle FBI's bank robbery squad has flipped his lid.

Special Agent David Carr is working with Washington state legislators to develop laws that would mandate removal of headwear (and, we assume large sunglasses, Groucho Marx stick on moustaches and similar accoutrements) before approaching...

We are not a nation at war. We are a nation at the mall, generally upscale malls, spending money to salve our presumed sadness.

The second and third pages of the New York Times are festooned with ads of "tribute:"

"In Remembrance," say Chanel and Saks. Bloomingdales is "In Memoriam."...

This is a story about a little boy who has autism who rode a dream to find a little bit of heaven on a New York beach.

Alex is eight years old and lives with his parents in Chicago. Each summer his mother comes to visit a college friend,...

Anti-Terror-Tsar Michael Chertoff has announced that America needs to be worried about al-Qaeda. His assessment is based on a combination of weather forecast and abdominal discomfort.

What worries me most is that Chertoff remains in office.

"I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," Chertoff told...

The two terrorist bomb incidents in the United Kingdom this past weekend show a further splintering of the al-Qaida command structure.

The targets -- the Glasgow Airport and a London dance club -- had low strategic value. And, as is shown in the airport security video tape, the...

Is Laura Bush a political prisoner?

If not, then why did she file an Opinion piece in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal headlined "A Burmese Birthday."

The dirge is a lament for Aung San Suu Kii, the deposed leader of Burma who has been held under house arrest in her...

The news that CIA officers ran secret European jails as part of a plan to avoid legal niceties proves that President Bush is more like his dad than I thought.

A report by a Swiss Senator hired by the Council of Europe said recently that a secret US prison in...

Eighteen years ago (June 5, 1989), I walked along the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square, past the soldiers in baggy uniforms burning trash and scrubbing bloodstains off the stones. I was stationed in Asia as a reporter for Newsday in New York.

I was met at the far side,...

Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian who recently produced a vice-presidential grandson. I reckon that Mary Cheney has gone as far off script as the Cheney vision for Iraq. But he has forsaken neither.

Robert Wright is the former head of NBC and current vice chairman of General Electric....

If you believe The New York Times, the solution to the intelligence problems in Iraq could be solved by sending a bunch of polite lawyers to Baghdad.

Personally, I don't recall any situation that was improved by battalions of lawyers.

My solution is to dispatch copies of the Manhattan Yellow...

It turns out that the Democrats can be as dumb as the average Republican when it comes to fighting terrorism. I mean, how else could they put Congressman Bennie Thompson in charge of the Committee on Homeland Security?

Thompson became chairman of the committee that controls much of the U.S....