Leon T. Hadar: Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 1:55 p.m.

President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the ...

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President Obama, Independents, Iraq and Development

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 8:14 p.m.

Personally, I just have a simple “thank you” to our President Obama upon the policy decision to withdraw, or at least draw down, from Iraq ... Some may see this as an election promise, some may see it as a moral issue.I see it as a developmental issue — for the independent movement.When independents put [ ... ] ...

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GOP: Iraq success came despite Obama

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 3:26 p.m.
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House Republican leader John Boehner will lay out a "prebuttal" ahead of President Barack Obama's prime time speech on Iraq Tuesday night ...

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Bruce Ackerman: What Obama Should Say

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 5:48 p.m.

With Americans formally retiring from their combat role in Iraq, we should be revisiting constitutional fundamentals, including the fact that it is Congress' authority to define the scope of limited wars, not the president's ...

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The President And First Lady Mark The Fifth Anniversary Of Hurricane Katrina

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Published Aug. 29, 2010 at 8:14 p.m.

On August 29, 2010, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and members of the Cabinet traveled to New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ...

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Rand Paul: Ban Federal Contractors From Lobbying

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Published June 9, 2010 at 4:54 p.m.

For all the blaring headlines that Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has attracted for his remarks on the Civil Rights Act and his views on government interference in private enterprise, there is a strand of his libertarianism that -- on occasion -- can be alluring to progressives ... Mainly this is when the discussion turns to foreign policy matters and the Kentucky GOP candidate's skepticism with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his opposition to the Patriot Act ... Occasionally, however, Paul's domestic

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Robert Gibbs Calls Helen Thomas' Remarks 'Offensive And Reprehensible'

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:20 p.m.

The Obama administration, somewhat shockingly, weighed in on the controversy surrounding longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas, calling her remarks about the need for Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" "offensive and reprehensible." ... "I have not spoken with [the president] directly on that," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on Monday. "I think those remarks were offensive and reprehensible. She should and has apologized because obviously those remarks do not reflect

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Slate Writers Help Readers Demystify The Political Press

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:17 p.m.

I'm loving this piece from Chris Beam in Slate entitled "The Only Politics Article You'll Ever Have To Read." It's a rather brilliant and hilarious plumbing of the puddle-deep political tropes that the political media and political academics reflexively dials up, as if they were half-dissected frogs who occasionally get the twitchy benefit of an electric current ... A taste, to whet your appetite: ... Still, Democrats hope that passing health care and financial regulatory reform will give

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Obama's Oil Spill Emotions: The Mediagasm (VIDEO)

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:16 p.m.

If you've spent any time at all watching the heroes of cable news grapple with the ongoing oil spill crisis, it should be pretty clear that what they need to get them through the day is for President Obama to stand in front of their cameras and wage a frenzied campaign of emotional warfare against BP, oily water, tar balls, fancy pants, time, circumstance, modern life, the perils of consequence and the fickle finger of cruel fate ... Nothing less will do! Everyone remembers that iconic moment

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Exxon Valdez Lawyer: Louisianans, 'To Use A Legal Term,' Are 'Just F--ked'

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:15 p.m.

Long after oil stops spilling from the Gulf and the ecological catastrophe caused by the spill begins to be cleaned up, the process of determining the extent to which BP owes the afflicted will be litigated in the courts ... And while the case against the oil company seems fairly clear-cut (BP admits, after all, to being responsible for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history), a lawyer with perhaps the most relevant experience on the matter at hand is painting a depressing picture

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