The White House’s April Fools video with YouTube senation Kid President strikes just the right balance between funny and officially awkward
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Obama Interrupted in Israel
President Obama faced a yelling heckler during a speech on peace in Jerusalem Thursday morning. “This is part of the lively debate that we talked about,” Obama said in response, “This is good.”
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Cyprus’s Big Bluff
Europe’s small nations should think about leaving the euro behind, or at least threatening to do so.
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McCain Slams Paul
John McCain criticized Rand Paul yesterday for his Wednesday “political stunt” of a filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to the CIA. McCain accused Paul of simply firing up impressionable libertarian college students.
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A Blank Check for Israel? Bad Idea.
On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, some in Congress are itching for another ill-advised conflict.
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Euro Crisis Redux
Think sequestration is bad? Things could be turning disastrous in Europe.
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Lockheed, Stock, and Barrel
Do we truly need brand new aircraft carriers? Nope, but try telling the Pentagon and their many contractor friends.
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Threat versus “Threat”
The second entry in our series on how to fix the Pentagon budget
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Protecting the Homeland? So Last Century
What exactly does our military do these days?
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South Korea’s Northern Stories
No one understands North Korea’s current nuclear moves better than those who live in the country next door, and who lived through the darkest moments of the 20th century.
