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...
And lest we get completely distracted by Iraq War III, here’s some breaking news from the frontlines of America’s longest-running... Read more...
Call me a starry-eyed idealist, but it seems to me that if you’re going to send Americans to war, you... 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...
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...
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...
DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into... Read more...
â– 3,300 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead â– Rumsfeld said the Iraq attack would cost... 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...
If hypocrisy were a drug, Washington would be the crack capital of the world. Congressional and White House leaders these... Read more...