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A new ‘Watergate’? Team Obama and the hunt for the truth about Benghazi

When the White House, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the fearless private watchdog group Judicial Watch, turned over an email about constructing the appropriate narrative response to the tragedy at Benghazi written by…

Facebook twists reality again and risks ruining your children

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gestures while delivering the keynote address at the f8 Facebook Developer Conference Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in San Francisco. (AP) Facebook’s recent $2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality company Oculus VR means that millions of…

Obama Orders New Sanctions Against Russia

After more than a month of threats, the Obama administration ordered travel bans and asset freezes for seven Russian officials, including two said to be in Putin’s inner circle, and froze assets for 17 companies this morning. Thirteen Russian companies…

Obama is right to grant drug offenders clemency

President Barack Obama. (AP) Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the Obama administration will welcome applications for clemency from non-violent drug offenders – users or, perhaps, distributors – who have served at least 10 years in jail and…

Obama’s drone warfare: A legal way to kill?

When President Obama decided sometime during his first term that he wanted to be able to use unmanned aerial drones in foreign lands to kill people — including Americans — he instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to find a way…

A doctor, not a bureaucrat, should be in charge of Health and Human Services

“The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” Jack Kennedy famously said in his 1961 inaugural address, a phrase once swollen with optimism and American pride. ; It may be tempting for President Obama to use this…

A government admission of wrongdoing

Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading…

With The Annexation Of Crimea, Putin Is Testing Us Again — Will The US Rise To The Challenge?

The United States and the European Union is facing one of their greatest foreign policy challenges in decades. By passing the referendum yesterday and calling for the annexation of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, the voters of Crimea have sent…

Looking Ahead To 2016: Enough About The Candidates, What About The Message?

Douglas E. Schoen and Jessica Tarlov If today’s paper was any guide, you’d think that the 2016 presidential election was just around the corner and not years down the road. Former Obama advisor David Axelrod took to Twitter to remind…