Six weeks into the job, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting to roll out the Obama administration's approach to the most prickly foreign policy challenges from Arab-Israeli peace to Russia....

Republican Senator John McCain, who battled Barack Obama hard on the campaign trail on the Iraq war, said on Friday he supports President Obama's plans to remove U.S. combat forces from Iraq over 19 months....

In last fall’s election campaign the GOP used an ad in Ohio that ripped off the Jackson Browne golden oldie, “Running on Empty.” The point they were trying to get across was that the Obama campaign energy policy would leave us without gas, or something like that. Jackson Browne was...

The Kadima Party of moderate Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni kept its slight lead over Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish Likud in final election results announced Thursday, but the hard-line bloc in Israel's new ......

Pete Sessions is a a Representative from Texas. Waco. Maybe that explains it. He’s also Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The other day he likened the House resistance to the stimulus plan to Taliban insurgency. I’m thinking there are no lessons one wants to learn...

This first week of the Obama Presidency has brought out an amazing selection of outlandishness among the right wing whack jobs. It isn’t just politicians saying “Bush” and “Greatness” in the same headline, either. While I’m sure I am not cataloguing all of the ext...

Many U.S. troops in Iraq were overjoyed to see President Barack Obama take his oath, but some were unhappy about one thing the Democrat has promised to do: permit gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly....

TheTZI.com: WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday and promised to “begin again the work of remaking America� on a day of celebration that climaxed a once-inconceivable journey for the man and his country. Mr. Obama, the son of a bl...

Steve Sauls, vice president for governmental relations at FIU, is attending his eighth inauguration (he was a congressional aide at his first inauguration: Nixon's second) and he said he's never seen anything like this one. "This is unprecedented," Sauls said. "You walk around the cit...

Over the last several years under the disasters of the Bush Administration, it has become commonplace for many of us in the reality-based community to complain about Bush’s leadership and actions. I know of nobody who hoped Bush would pull the doofus move of invading Iraq or appointing a horse...