THE 8,000-MEMBER GREATER GRACE TEMPLE in Detroit is the home church of many autoworkers, and its Sunday service on December 7... Read more...
The Bushites’ trillion-dollar giveaway started out as a bailout for banks with big holdings of investment schemes based on home mortgages.... Read more...
At a time when We The People have been vociferously and unequivocally demanding that our political aspirants offer Big Ideas... Read more...
“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies, not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but at... Read more...
Here they come–America’s Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons... Read more...
Join us in taking the second part of our Lowdown Presidential Survey–a free-wheeling, thoroughly unscientific poll, asking you Lowdowners to... Read more...
The nasty fellow whose attack-dog, smear-tactic, lie-and-distort brand of politics lifted George W into the White House twice has quietly slipped back... Read more...
The political media establishment is enrapturedby John McCain. Mainline media sparklies, as well as the blatherers on the Fox channel, routinely buff... 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...
Wow, has it really been five years since “Mission Accomplished?” It seems like only yesterday that our Glorious Leader was strutting... Read more...
Harry Truman said, “No man should be allowed to be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That’s never been more true... Read more...
WASHINGTON WAS EXCITED. The media establishment applauded. Wall Street smiled. Somewhere, a bluebird of happiness chirped. In a celebrated display... Read more...
IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTING — 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...
■ 3,300 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead ■ Rumsfeld said the Iraq attack would cost... 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...
George W keeps buzzing around like a maniacal mosquito on a hot summer night, pestering us with speeches and photo... Read more...
In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the real threat to American freedom was not from an outside assault, but... Read more...
By the fifth day — with New Orleans under 20 feet of toxic water, with federal help still nowhere to... Read more...
The Capitol City is swarming this month with party-hopping Republicans celebrating the inauguration of their boy Bush—but the most joyous... Read more...
Hey, come on, progressives— buck up! There’s been too much doom and gloom—especially among inside-the-beltway progressives—about John Kerry’s chances... Read more...
Observing from afar, it seems to me that “Being Bush” must be such a great joy. Reality never seems to... Read more...
If hypocrisy were a drug, Washington would be the crack capital of the world. Congressional and White House leaders these... Read more...