BY JOE CONASON No doubt President Obama was deeply stung over the weekend to hear Dick Cheney criticize his new national security team. At a Wyoming Republican Party dinner, the former vice president briskly dismissed Obama’s choices as “dismal,” saying that America needs “good people” rather than the “second-rate” figures selected by the president, particularly […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER For nearly four years, President Obama refused to admit a foreign-policy “secret” that was widely known here and throughout the world – namely, that the White House, Pentagon and CIA are engaged in ethically questionable and rapidly escalating drone warfare that’s killing innocent civilians as well as enemy soldiers in Afghanistan, Yemen […]

BY SHARON MARTIN Politicians who call themselves pro-business but speak out against universal healthcare are speaking out of both sides of their mouths. That includes...

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER It’s hard to describe the warm glow that emerges when a freshman Congressman slits his own political throat before his first...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel and made a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into a working organic garden. That was a great move, earning kudos from just about everyone this side of Monsanto and the pesticide […]