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As a senior interrogator in Iraq (and a former criminal investigator), there was a lesson I learned that served me well: there’s more to be learned from what someone doesn’t say than from what they do say. Let me dissect former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech on National Security using this model and my interrogation [...]
This is just plain American. Very cool Mr. President and VP.
WASHINGTON — Maybe they just don’t make a decent burger at the White House.
Less than two weeks after first lady Michelle Obama told a group of schoolchildren that she once snuck out to the burger chain Five Guys with some staff members, her husband [...]
This is nuts.
The US’s highest ranking military officer has said it is not the US military’s position to promote any specific religion, after Al Jazeera revealed footage of troops apparently preparing to convert Afghans to their Christian faith.
“From the United States’ military’s perspective, it is not our position to ever push any specific kind of religion, period,” [...]
Reporting from Cairo — Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.
Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was appointed this month to Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Arabs are closely watching for [...]
Over the past few weeks, the White House has been casting right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the head of the Republican Party, and based on a new CBS News poll, it appears they may be onto something: According to the poll, Limbaugh’s favorable rating stands at just 19 percent, a full 43 points [...]
President Barack Obama joined the chorus of condemnation on Monday, telling Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to “pursue every single legal avenue” to block the payouts.
The Washington Post reported a “tidal wave of public outrage” swamping the firm, to the extent that armed guards were posted outside the Connecticut offices of AIG’s Financial Products division.
“Inside, death [...]
Charles Freeman, a veteran diplomat slated to become the top U.S. intelligence analyst, withdrew from consideration Tuesday. He released a statement denouncing the “Israel Lobby” for “character assassination.” Here is the text of the statement
To all who supported me or gave me words of encouragement during the controversy of the past two weeks, you have [...]
Obama’s plan gets launched.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Wednesday launched a $75 billion foreclosure relief plan, as new data showed one in five U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more than their house is worth.
The mortgage plan, part of a $275 billion housing stimulus program announced last month, enables struggling homeowners to modify [...]
Looks like the Dems plan may have some legitimacy after all…
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”
“My intent was not to go after Rush [...]
So much for the Desi star of the GOP…
Looks like the game is up.
Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?
Turns out it wasn’t actually, you know, [...]
