5.26.00
How Safe Are You?

5.25.00
Separated at Birth

5.24.00
Mergerphobia

5.23.00
Dealing with Daschle

5.22.00
Unequal Comment

5.19.00
Learning English

5.18.00
Helen Thomas, Liberal

5.16.00
Dakota Man

5.15.00
Quite Contrary

5.12.00
Social Security: The Attack on Bush

5.11.00
No Pain, Cap Gains

5.10.00
Tommy Thompson's Blunder

5.09.00
Federalist Society

5.08.00
Florida Not Preferred

5.05.00 4 p.m.
Tony Coelho, Soft On Crime

5.05.00 8 a.m.
Gallant Effort

5.02.00
Are You Experienced?

5.01.00
Not Quite Wright

Missiles Won't Miss Al
Al Gore's presidential campaign headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., is vulnerable to attack by at least 15 different types of missiles from locations in China, Russia, and at sea.

This is according to the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, a pro-missile-defense advocacy organization with a web site that allows visitors to enter a zip code and learn about the missile threats they personally face in the absence of an operational missile-defense system. You know, the sort of thing the Clinton-Gore administration has hobbled for the last seven years.

As a service to our readers, we decided to investigate the various threats faced at important locations around the country--starting with NR's bureau on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. We're relatively safe here, as we confront only 12 different types of missile threats. And no, we won't be seeking a transfer to NR's main office in midtown Manhattan, where employees live in fear of 18 different missile threats. China and Russia have weapons that can hit most parts of the United States; New York City may be vulnerable to an attack from Iran as well.

George W. Bush's campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas lives under the cloud of 14 missile threats. The site of the Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., is exposed to 13 missile threats. That's a stretch better than Hillary's new home in Chappaqua, N.Y., which confronts 18 missile threats.

Will missile defense play in Peoria, Ill.? It ought to: That city faces 14 separate missile threats. The mean population center of the United States, as determined by the 1990 Census, is just outside the hamlet of Steelville, Mo. Its risk? 13 missile threats. And Beverly Hills 90210 is endangered by 17 unique missile threats, including one from North Korea.

To discover the types of missile threats you face, visit here.

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