Politics

John Yoo: Obama, Drones and Thomas Aquinas

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
Obama has avoided vexing detention issues simply by depriving terrorists of all of their rights—by killing them.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves corrects New York Times columnist Paul Krugman about Estonia's economic performance.


Maen Rashid Areikat: The Time for a Palestinian State Is Now

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
It is in Israel's vital interest to resolve the conflict and end the 45-year occupation.


Lobbyist tied to Sen. Harry Reid pleads not guilty

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A former developer and lobbyist with long ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada's political elite says he's not guilty of violating federal campaign contribution laws....

Feinstein: Leaks probe not 'finger-pointing'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
Members of the House Intelligence Committee say the recent "cascade of leaks" is extremely upsetting.
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Administration targets leaks using 1917 law

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to prosecute alleged leakers six times -- more than all the other administrations combined.
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Teens often texting while driving

ATLANTA | More than half of high school seniors admit they text or email while driving - the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit is among teens.

An anonymous national survey conducted last year found that 58 percent of high school seniors said they had texted or ...

Hyper-partisanship dragging down nation

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
John Avlon says a Pew study shows what we've all felt--Americans are more divided on politics than on race, sex, age and class. Can the country dig out of this?
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69 Democrats urge release of Waters' report

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
A group of 69 congressional Democrats called on the House Ethics Committee on Thursday to immediately release a special counsel's report dismissing claims that Rep. Maxine Waters' rights were violated during the panel's continuing inquiry into alleged misconduct on the part of the 11-term California congresswoman.
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Holder rejects House GOP on Fast and Furious

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday withstood a four-hour grilling dominated by Republican House members seeking to lay blame on Holder for a botched gun-smuggling sting operation.
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Bear enjoying Cape Cod vacation

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The biggest sensation on Cape Cod right now isn't the lobster, the historic lighthouses or its rolling sand dunes. It's not even a Kennedy.

It's a bear.

A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland during Memorial Day ...

Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama....

Romney and GOP raise more than Obama and Democrats

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney outraised President Barack Obama in May, the first time the Republican presidential challenger has jumped ahead of Obama and his prodigious fundraising apparatus. The numbers illustrate how Romney and the Republican Party have jelled as a force after a protracted GOP primary....

Unruly Revolutionaries

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
How workers, bohemians, intellectuals and a psychedelic rock band united—and didn't—against the repressive Czechoslovak regime. Michael Weiss reviews "Worlds of Dissent."


Best of the Web Today: Noah's Arc

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
How to invoke old racist theories in defense of left-wing policies.


Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:43
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama....
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