Here we go again.
You’d have to be an idiot–or a television news anchorman–not to see this one coming: The Obama administration sending out more signals than the Mars lander that it intends to increase the number of American troops fighting in Afghanistan—this when the administration can’t even clearly explain exactly what the exit strategy will [...]

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Practically kicking and screaming all the way, the Obama administration has apparently decided to bite the political bullet and investigate the way some terrorism suspect detainees were handled by the CIA and some of its operatives during the Bush years, better known as the years of the frozen Constitution.
The criminal probe is being ordered by Attorney [...]

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First, the biggest problem with the Obama healthcare reform plan is there doesn’t appear to actually be one.  As has been pointed out by others, what we really have are a bunch of Congressional proposals in the House and Senate, rather than an actual plan the President has come up with.
This was by design…his….he [...]

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President Obama, and the people around him, are probably the best players of the media game ever to occupy the White House: Numerous news conferences, email blasts, YouTube videos, etc.
So, it is somewhat amusing when the ultimate media president finds himself taking aim at —–the media for, in his view, their emphasis on those protesting [...]

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Here’s some shocking news (if you’re from another freaking planet).  When Henry Paulson was U.S. Treasury Secretary last fall, he spoke repeatedly with the top gun at Goldman Sachs, which ended up benefiting directly and indirectly from the government bailout program. And, oh yes, Paulson used to be the CEO of Sachs, a company he [...]

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Good to see former presidents doing something useful…sometimes more than when they were in the White House.
Reports are that former President Bill Clinton is headed to North Korea to try and win release of two American journalists recently convicted there and sentenced to long prison terms for spying.
The two young women were arrested at the [...]

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