John N. Cooper (UC Berkeley) resides in Lewisburg, PA. Axis readers have appreciated his concise, straight-forward analyses of U.S. domestic and foreign policy. He has been Professor of Chemistry at Bucknell University, since 1967 (retired 6/30/03). He has published 35 papers in chemical education, inorganic kinetics and structure. He received Bucknell's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and consulted for the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, Environmental Crimes Section (2000-01). He has been writing as a columnist for Axis of Logic since January, 2004. In October, 2005, he received the Thomas Paine Award from the Central Susquehanna Chapter of the ACLU for Citizen Journalism. He can be reached via e-mail at: jcooper@bucknell.edu