Some agitprop from the White House, which also happens to be true, and not just because there is basically no one in America who is not disappointed by politics right now.
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President Obama attended a fundraiser in New York Thursday night with one of the most important factions of his big money base: Gay donors. With gay marriage headed toward legalization in New York state, the issue of Obama’s …
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With the Republican Party swinging back towards its isolationist roots, a man in Florida takes the stage, insisting that the U.S. must be “the watchman on the wall of world freedom.” But as Tim Padgett writes over at Global Spin, Rubio’s vision of idealistic intervention may have local roots.
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President Obama spent weeks in 2009 developing an Afghan battle plan that could win consensus from his senior generals. The centerpiece was a pledge to begin drawing down troops in July 2011. But it was never clear that Obama would be able to keep the consensus as that date approached. From the beginning, many in the Pentagon, including …
