Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock form the Flatlanders, a powerhouse trio of Texas singer/ songwriters now based in... Read more...
Surging in Afghanistan The surge is on in Afghanistan! Unfortunately, what appears to be most effective is not the 30,000... Read more...
At long last, it’s over. In the pre-dawn hours of August 18–seven years, two months, and 18 days after George W... Read more...
By gollies, when the economic going gets toughfor America’s workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders... Read more...
The Dow Jones Average is above 11,000!Corporate profits are up! Wall Street has paid back its bailout money! Executive pay... Read more...
Change. That’s what Americans want. We the People–a.k.a. the body politic, the majority, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi, “us”–have made... Read more...
The name Felix Walker is not one you would recognize, but this 19th-century congressman inadvertently contributed a word to America’s political... Read more...
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is America’s “Man in the Stans”–Afghanistan and Pakistan, that is. Handpicked by President Obama to be special representative... Read more...
Out in West Texas, an oxymoronic weather phenomenon known as a “dry rainstorm” often occurs. It’s particularly tough on farmers.... Read more...
When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970s, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked... Read more...
A DECADE AGO, CITIGROUPÂ led a full-court lobbying press on Washington, ultimately winning what big bankers, insurance giants, and high-rolling investment... Read more...
THE 8,000-MEMBER GREATER GRACE TEMPLEÂ in Detroit is the home church of many autoworkers, and its Sunday service on December 7... Read more...
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, “I feel good about voting for him.” Ms. Jones,... Read more...
At a time when We The People have been vociferously and unequivocally demanding that our political aspirants offer Big Ideas... Read more...
In our July issue we asked Lowdowners to come up with names for an Obama administration. Here’s what you told us:... Read more...
Mixed emotions are what you experience when you see your 16-year-old daughter come home from the prom with a Gideon Bible... Read more...
Name that VEEP! WHY SHOULD STAID OLD PUNDITSÂ have all the fun in political guessing games? Let’s bring you into play.... Read more...
Old Congress critters never die, they just go to K Street. Take Dennis Hastert. Actually, he’s already taken. The longtime Republican lawmaker... Read more...
There’ll be a crush of cameras at the front door of the White House on January 20 as scores of... Read more...
Dallas Oilman H.L. Hunt was a billionaire in a time when such massive wealth was unusual, back in the 1950s and... Read more...
IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTINGÂ — filled with family, friends, fun, spiritualism, good food, song, and high... Read more...
LOOK OUT–HERE THEY COME AGAIN! Bush & Buckshot are riding their little stick horses, waving the bloody flag of 9/11, demonizing... Read more...
WHERE IS CONGRESS? It’s way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being... Read more...
FROM THE “LAND OF THE CLUELESS AND CONNIVING,” meet a couple of gentlemen who insist that America’s political funding system is... Read more...
AS YOU READ THIS ISSUE OF THE LOWDOWN, I’m out on the political trail, rambling back and forth across America in... Read more...
