Afghanistan

President Obama is going to announce his plans for Afghanistan after Thanksgiving. It may be ironic that by then we will be done giving thanks. Word...

President Obama speaks tonight at 5:00 pm PDT on Afghanistan policy and troop withdrawals, you can watch it live right here.

The military, for a number of years, had a draft.  It was done away with in the 1970s and there has been an all...

With a wiser and less duplicitous administration, the U.S. could have left Afghanistan in 2002.

The American people still support the president's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan even if they do not support the war.  My take...

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Ed Koch when he was Mayor Koch use to ask that very question to New Yorkers walking down the streets of New York quite...

Many veterans are injured either physically or emotionally or by some illness brought on by (in my case) Agent Orange. We all carry memories that we wish we never had to.

President Obama will deliver his 2013 State of the Union Address tonight at 6:00 pm PST (9:00 pm EST) and you're invited to join us for our live chat here beginning at 5:30 PM PST. Hope to see you then!