This morning's topic is a fun one: Nuclear weapons.

You would think that with the whole terrorist threat that the government would want to do everything it could to secure nuclear facilities. No-brainer, right? So Congress directed the Energy Department to start fining contractors who are in violation of federal safety standards. And what do the Bushies do? They want to eliminate the current safety standards that might be disagreeable to the contractors, and instead let the contractors write new standards for which they could be fined for violating.
In other news, fox declares that security at henhouse is "sufficient."

And while we're on the topic, I remember in elementary school having a fear of nuclear war. While somewhat more abstract than the fear of my older brother pummeling me, it was fear nonetheless. One of the ideas that gets bandied about these days is that Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War as a consequence of a U.S. military build-up and forceful rhetoric. Therefore, we should put Reagan's picture on the dime despite his support of Saddam Hussein while Iraq was using WMD, despite his support of the mujahadeen (think al queda and taliban) in Afghanistan b/c it was strategically useful at the time, despite his involvement in supporting brutal dictatorships in Latin and South America, despite the huge debts he left behind, despite the rise in poverty/homelessness/crime/global-AIDS-crisis under his watch.
The point is, Reagan didn't break the Soviets. He was no Rocky Balboa. Read this article and see for yourself.