Breaking news: “Trump says Pentagon Budget Too Big.” Follow-up report: “Pentagon Agrees.” This unexpected budgetary breakthrough comes because Donald The... Read more...
“Far-flung” doesn’t describe America’s war reach. Our military personnel, technology, and taxpayers’ money are in so many places that the... Read more...
Our fearless "leader," who cravenly got his rich daddy to help him dodge actual war during the Vietnam era, is now up on his high horse--in comic Napoleonic pose-- demanding that the Pentagon, Congress, and we taxpayers set up another military bureaucracy for sending future youngsters to war: Space Force. Read more...
It’s over. Dealmaker Donald says he’s ended America’s long nightmare in Afghanistan, finally halting 18-plus years of grinding war–the longest... Read more...
Find out here. Are your local or state police using drones? Which ones? How many? At what cost? For what purpose?... Read more...
If you drive west from Marfa, Texas toward El Paso, you’ll cross some 200 miles of uniquely beautiful desert valleys... Read more...
What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain... Read more...
On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”... 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...
Sorry to interrupt the Obama celebration even before the man gets settled into the Oval Office, but–what the hell is he... Read more...
Wow, has it really been five years since “Mission Accomplished?” It seems like only yesterday that our Glorious Leader was strutting... 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...
DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into... Read more...
■ 3,300 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead ■ Rumsfeld said the Iraq attack would cost... Read more...
In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the real threat to American freedom was not from an outside assault, but... Read more...
George W was hardly the first draft-age man of means who used family connections to duck going to war (even... Read more...
As early-20th-century humorist Kin Hubbard noted, “The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.” Beware, then,... Read more...