Remember back during Barack Obama's second term when republicans chanted, "Hillary Clinton Lied and Four Americans Died" after the Benghazi, Libya embassy attack?
That little rhyme was the product of two years of congressional hearings that...
President Joe Biden addressed the nation Monday about the events unfolding in Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1427365579145482246
No sooner did Taliban forces begin overrunning the beleaguered Middle Eastern country when critics both left and right of the political spectrum started...
For all the impressive ways Joe Biden has begun his first two and a half months in office, we must remember the ship of state is not a speedboat.
It's more like an ocean liner.
Reversing decades...
Another Memorial Day has arrived.
Because of the number of COVID-19 deaths over the past two months, we have more to mourn this year than just fallen American soldiers.
Just in time for this sacrosanct holiday, we...
There is no level to which the Trump administration will not stoop to achieve its dystopic view of America.
There is no bottom.
Case in point: the administration is now suing an orphanage on the U.S.-Mexico border...
If you're a veteran or current member of the U.S. military, would you mind being rented to another country?
How would it feel to be a soldier for hire, fighting not for the country you signed...
After the worst terror attack on American soil occurred on September 11, 2001, the typical neo-conservative war hawks, like then-Vice President Dick Cheney, began claiming former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein participated in the plot that...
In 2011, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2011
Nearly a year later, he followed with:
Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin –...
Last month, Donald Trump was dealt a significant blow when New York Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla ordered he pay two million dollars to settle a claim he used his theoretically eleemosynary Donald J. Trump Foundation as a...
In 2011, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Nearly a year later, he followed with:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Two weeks later, Trump tweeted:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/260421157201784832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This indicates a lot about how Donald Trump thinks the way presidents win re-election.
Although Trump's prognostication about Barack Obama...
Twenty-two.
That's how many veterans on average commit suicide in the United States every day.
It's also the number of miles Navy veteran Thomas Zurhellen plans to walk each day on a trek across the country from...
The United States Constitution is of course not perfect.
It's full of anachronisms, elitism, and, yes, even racism.
Just look at the "three-fifths" clause contained in Article I, section two, for example.
Look at Article II, section one explaining the...
If only Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Ursula LeGuin, and Ray Bradbury were around to see this.
Could the Star Wars movies and Star Trek be classified as documentaries now?
On Monday, amid the human rights violations we are perpetrating...
Many teachers are veterans.
Many serve as reservists in their states' national guards.
But serving students as a classroom teacher is not tantamount to military service.
Is it?
Based on data from Defense Department (DOD) news releases, a new Washington...
Last month, the world watched as North Korean President Kim Jong Un crossed the demilitarized zone (DMZ) into South Korea and shook hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the first time since 1953 a...
Even though Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked upward, it's still in pretty brutal territory. At last report, FiveThirtyEight pegged Trump's average approval rating at 41.4 percent--the lowest for a newly-elected president at this stage...
Donald Trump wants war.
In fact, he wants it so badly, he actually requested the Pentagon provide military options for sinking Iranian ships.
Fortunately, "cooler heads prevailed," as the saying goes.
According to the Washington Post on Wednesday, defense officials had...
Most of the reality-based world isn't too enamored with Donald Trump's plan for a massive military parade through the streets of Washington. Some think it's a massive waste of taxpayer money, while others are concerned...
Earlier this week, we learned that Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for what may be the first-ever peacetime military parade through the streets of Washington.
Lawmakers from both parties have slammed...
One of the many things President Donald Trump has been accused of is having an affinity for dictators.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un notwithstanding, Trump has on numerous occasions praised autocratic heads of state for their "tough"...
