And the winner is … Live analysis of the foreign policy debate
With the two presidential candidates locked in a statistical tie two weeks before Election Day, their final debate could prove pivotal. As the foreign policy debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton,...
View ArticleObama drops the Dick Cheney-George Bush bomb on Romney
Mitt Romney keeps trying to swerve off the foreign policy debate road and wrench this debate back onto the issue that he thinks will win him the election: The economy. The national debt, Romney said,...
View ArticleDebate report card: Grading Obama, Romney on foreign policy
Before Monday's final presidential debate, we outlined five things that President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Ro...
View ArticleMichael ‘Heckuva Job’ Brown asks why Obama responded ‘so quickly’ to Sandy
The former director of Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, has stepped forward on Monday to criticize President Obama's handling of the current natural disaster.
View ArticlePoll: Public demands deal — but opposes almost every deficit-reduction option
Wonder why we can’t get a deficit-reduction deal? Well, look in the mirror. A new McClatchy-Marist Poll highlights the dilemma of the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Seventy-one percent of Americans, the...
View ArticleDianne Feinstein torture report may conflict with Bin Laden movie
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will hold a a committee vote Thursday on a comprehensive report on U.S. torture (“enhanced interrogation techniques”) since 9/11, but...
View ArticleExcited George W. Bush wants grandkids to call him “sir” or “jefe”
His daughter Jenna Bush Hager announced yesterday while appearing on The Today Show that she and her husband, Henry, are going to have a baby in spring of 2013.
View Article11 ill-starred presidential picks, from Abe Fortas to Susan Rice
Most presidential nominations to key government posts sail through the Senate with little debate and (occasionally these days) little delay. Not so with Susan Rice, President Obama’s first choice to...
View ArticleBarbara Lee questions Obama’s authority in drone attacks
Rep. Barbara Lee, an Oakland Democrat and one of President Obama’s earliest and most ardent supporters, is gathering signatures for a letter asking the administration to clarify under what authority it...
View ArticleWhy Obama’s Syria speech failed
President Obama seems to have lost ground with his national address Tuesday night on Syria. Although the war resolution has been dropped like a hot potato, Sen. Dianne Feinstein predicted Wednesday...
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