The Israel lobby and Republican neocons have scored their first triumph of the Obama administration by derailing the appointment of Chas. Freeman as director of the National Intelligence Council. The next time anyone qvells about how moderate a Republican Olympia Snowe is just remember that it was p...

Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said he doesn’t expect the Iraqi government to ask U.S. troops to remain beyond the 2011 deadline. “I think that the Iraq leadership is focused on that this ends in 2011,” Odierno told the Associated Press. He also said he would sen...

Hillary Clinton’s media savvy was on full display Saturday during an appearance on the Turkish equivalent of “The View.” Dishing on family and fashion, Clinton was by all accounts a hit in a country where only 9 percent view the U.S. favorably. MSNBC: Christian Science Monitor: Cli...

I'm having the weirdest combo of side effects on this. I'm tired all the time, but I can't get to sleep easily no matter how hard I try. Then when I do sleep, it's craptastic and it feels like I......

Obama's campaign promise to get us out of Iraq in sixteen months gave him the electoral heft to oust "frontrunner" Hillary and catapulted him into the White House. But that promise is being quietly – but definitely – broken....

Well, perhaps this was Thud Gregg's big master plan to shut down the Commerce Department. Gregg Withdraws His Commerce Nomination However, it has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are ir...

Upon reading the news that Judd Gregg had pulled out of being considered for Commerce Secretary, the first thing that popped into my head was, "this mofo is cursed." I mean, have we ever witnessed such topsy-turvy maneuvering in a new president's transition? Something is not right my friends. There ...

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. CURRENT & FORMER ARMY GENERALS MOUNT ANTI-OBAMA CAMPAIGN IRAQ WAR ARCHITECT LEADS CHARGE FOR MORE WAR YOUTUBE: THE YOUNG TURKS "Military Generals Rebel Against President Obama" "SIR, NO SIR!" Media Blitz Against Peace Starts On PBS: "To Hell With The People!" Army Gen. Jack Keane is a busy man...

I hope he’s right: My guess is that official Washington underestimated the public’s pique at what appeared to be the old ways of Washington. Hill staffers tell me that many offices have been inundated with telephone calls, emails, letters and faxes expressing concern (to put it mildly) a...