Bob Shumaker, a Vietnam veteran and former POW, talks about perseverance and resilience in almost three years of solitary confinement in a North Vietnamese prison.
ABC News | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
During World War II, as the number of British airmen held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the country's secret service enlisted an unlikely part...
Rob Tacy | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Let's show our brave men and women, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters who fought in Iraq that the sacrifices they have made for our continued safety have been appreciated.
Norman Bussel | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
Survivor guilt is a problem for many combat veterans returning from Iraq. It is rare for someone deployed there to complete a combat tour without losing a friend.
Eugene Jarecki | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
When it serves him politically to condemn Halliburton's abuses, he takes that view. When he's running for president and seeking to establish his bonafides with the Republican base, a different John McCain emerges.
Daily Telegraph | Tom Leonard | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
The Republicans have used shots and excerpts from the 1967 interview in their advertising but the widow of the journalist who made the film says it wa...
Gary Cohan | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
He has now earned the ignominious fate of a public "court martial" in polling places all across America on November 4th.
NY Times | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, heads into the first debate on Friday with a track record as a scrappy combatant and the ins...
Brandon Friedman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
If the extent of his war injuries prevents McCain from learning "how to get online," that's fine -- though he should have the decency to divulge to America what his actual limitations are.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
***UPDATED BELOW*** For some Democratic observers, it's been one of the most intensely debated questions of the general election campaign. Can you ca...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.10.2009 | Comedy
Let's just say Senator POW's "cross" story just got funnier... ...
ZP Heller | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
For all the talk of candidates needing "experience" in this election, the only real experience the GOP is concerned with is McCain's POW past.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
Phillip Butler, a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam, is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
McCain has been tweaking his P.O.W. story, with some variation, for many years. For Democrats, critiquing its overuse is too little, too late.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
Some people say this is unfair... cross posted at Stranahan.com...
Michael Moore | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
Friends, This morning my new book officially goes on sale. It has a fancy title: "Mike's Election Guide." It's cheap ($11.19 on Amazon). It's got a c...
August J. Pollak | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Amazingly, John McCain's explanation for his wealth has some flaws in logic. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website,"...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
People are beginning to see through the false modesty and see how he uses the Hanoi Hilton as an excuse whenever he gets into trouble. If you don't have an answer for something, just pull it out.
Brandon Friedman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
McCain justified not knowing how many houses he has by saying he was a POW in Vietnam, four decades ago. I have some things to say about this.
Chuck Lasker | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
Responding to the idea that the GOP candidate unfairly listened in to the Faith Forum questions in advance, a McCain spokesperson said that "the insinuation that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous."
Bill Katovsky | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Bringing aboard cutthroat veterans from the Bush '04 team injected new life into McCain's campaign, but it also produced disgust among many observers -- and the potential for backlash among independent voters.
Emily Pease | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home
Well, I've been thinking about it, and I've decided that if being a POW qualifies one to be President, then I wish my Uncle Bubba was still alive, because he definitely would've qualified.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media
McCain was a POW, and he showed extraordinary courage and perseverance, and was a hero at that time. The way he has run his campaign at this time is not heroic -- it is downright despicable.
Posted 01.04.2010 | Living