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U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe
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After more than 11 years of war in Afghanistan, a country known as “the graveyard of empires” for its inability to be conquered and held, the White House announced Tuesday that it will sit down with the Taliban and try to work things out with words instead of bombs.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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On CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning, Denis McDonough defended the Obama administration’s sweeping surveillance methods, which were recently revealed in a series of blockbuster reports by The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a lawmaker makes history on the U.S. Senate floor and outgoing Congresswoman Michele Bachmann continues to fundraise on her campaign site.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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White House/Eric Draper
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Although it’s true that people tend to feel better about presidents the further removed they are from office, not every president is George W. Bush.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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In a scathing editorial, the Gray Lady says Barack Obama’s presidency, which once promised unprecedented transparency, is instead “proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it.”
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What is President Obama fighting for? What is the point of his second term?
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning that interviews with workers from the IRS’ Cincinnati office revealed that the order to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status likely came from Washington.
Posted on Jun 2, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama wisely avoided the phrase “mission accomplished” in his major speech last week about the “war on terror,” but columnists aren’t obliged to be so circumspect: It is time to declare victory and get on with our lives.
Posted on May 27, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask whether the Obama administration will be distracted and ineffective from here on out. The head of the IRS apologizes and claims there was no political motivation behind its treatment of conservative groups. Is it a benign symbol of an unwieldy, too-big government, or a terrifying reminder of the Nixon years?
Posted on May 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest sign that Anthony Weiner will enter the New York City mayoral race and televangelist Pat Robertson’s dubious marital advice for women.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Shutterstock illustration of American candle burning.
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By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
Among other effects, cancer clinics in March began turning away thousands of Medicare patients being treated with expensive chemotherapy drugs, which the clinics say they can no longer afford.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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“In any normal society,” writes a skeptical Robert Fisk of the media and government blowup over the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, “the red lights would now be flashing.”
Posted on May 1, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Seeking to clarify his “red line” position on the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons, President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider a “range of options,” but he also urged patience.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s hilarious White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech and top U.S. political figures give their take on NBA player Jason Collins’ decision to come out.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Authorities believe a letter sent to President Obama containing a suspicious substance that tested positive for ricin came from the same person who mailed an envelope that was also filled with the deadly toxin to a Republican senator.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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KOMUNews (CC BY 2.0)
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Schools patrolled by cops see a surge in criminal charges against students for behavior that used to be handled in the principal’s office, and police presence does not make students safer, some youth advocates and legal professionals say.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Edie and Thea met in the early 1960s, in New York’s Greenwich Village. They hit it off.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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The Internet giant is seeking to replace your memorized passwords with jewelry; the tobacco and soda industries share more in common than you think; and is there such a thing as an ethical smartphone? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including details of a bipartisan agreement on immigration and the reason Donald Trump is willing to help the White House financially.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There are, believe it or not, grounds for hoping that the sequester, stupid as it is, might open the way to ending our nation’s budget stalemate.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major development in the confirmation hearing of John Brennan and Jeb Bush flip-flops on immigration reform once more.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Braced for automatic budget cuts that he described as “dumb” and painful, the president said Friday, “I’m not a dictator” and “if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say ‘I need to go to catch a plane,’ I can’t have Secret Service block the doorway, right?”
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By David Sirota — Despite its success in recent elections, and despite the image of unity it projects, the Democratic Party is in the throes of an epic identity crisis pitting its corporate money against its stated principles.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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On Friday, journalist and historian Jon Meacham said on HBO’s “Real Time” that President Obama should, like FDR and Ronald Reagan, ignore Congress and campaign directly to the American people. It appears that is what Obama intends to do.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — On immigration, the parties are now competing to share credit for doing something big. It’s wonderful to behold.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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White House/Chuck Kennedy
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By Eugene Robinson — Reflect for a moment: A black man stood on the Capitol steps and took the oath of office as president of the United States. For the second time. Meaning that voters not only elected him once—which could be a fluke, a blip, an aberration, a cosmic accident—but turned around and did it again.
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Jan 19, 2013
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The White House/Pete Souza
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President Obama launched the country’s biggest push on gun control in decades Wednesday, rolling out wide-ranging plans that include 23 executive actions.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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The National Rifle Association is facing criticism for a new ad that drags President Obama’s two daughters into the gun control debate. The controversial video says the president is an “elite hypocrite” because he doesn’t support the powerful gun lobby’s proposal to put armed guards in schools across the country.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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Office of the Speaker of the House/Bryant Avondoglio
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama’s words, can “stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis.”
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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Anthony Alvernaz (CC BY 2.0)
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The White House’s responses to several petitions by various states to secede from the rest of the country and another one that sought to build a Death Star by 2016 carried the same answer, but in radically different tones.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Robert Scheer — I suppose that he can’t be much worse than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including AIG’s decision on whether to join a lawsuit against the government over the financial crisis bailout and the White House’s response to a petition to deport Piers Morgan.
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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The vice president pledged Wednesday that the White House will take action on gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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Americans demoralized by President Obama’s lack of initiative on the climate problem are being told he is “seriously considering” hosting a summit at the White House, intended not to outline his plan to tackle the crisis, but to “apprise” members of the public “about how they can act.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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John Brennan has spent the last four years as President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser and the “architect” of the administration’s expansive drone assassination program. Some time before that, he was a deputy executive director of the CIA when that agency pioneered the use of extradition and torture under President George W. Bush.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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By Joe Conason — The House of Representatives has increasingly been dominated over the past two decades by a coterie of tantrum-prone extremists who lack the probity and steadiness required for democratic self-government.
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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