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How's this for nerve? At a press conference on May 6, Republican Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner of Ohio accused the Obama administration of relying on "luck" to keep America safe. But Boehner's own recipe for national security is based on even...

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It was the Pakistani Taliban!

Yes, yes, of course. They sat in their evil lair and activated one of their top sleeper agents to infiltrate American territory with a devilish plan to thwack hundreds of unsuspecting victims. And they...

Tuesday's attacks in Moscow and now Wednesday's in Dagestan may do more to define the path of Russia's future as a democracy than any single event since 1991. In a worst-case scenario, Vladimir Putin could return to the presidency. A sunnier forecast sees popular sentiment rising against Putin...

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Najibullah Zazi plead guilty yesterday in what should be a major coup for the administration. Right now, they're not exploiting it for all it's worth.

First, some background: Zazi traveled from Colorado to New York with explosives in his car and...

The Pentagon says it will spend $136 billion on the men and women serving in America's military. In the excerpt below from a paper over at the Progressive Fix, I calculate that the Pentagon will actually spend $301 billion on America's soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines:

When President Obama...

By Will Marshall and Jim Arkedis

Public support for free trade these days is not exactly robust, with the recession and the unrelenting erosion of U.S. manufacturing jobs. To a significant extent, Americans’ attitudes about trade and globalization depend on their confidence that the rules of world commerce are both...

It's no exaggeration to say that President Obama is unquestionably the most popular politician - if not person - in Europe. Last July, he hardly lifted a finger and some 100,000 people turned up to hear him speak in a Berlin park. January's historic inauguration underlined his European stardom -...

Pop quiz - who would you vote for prime minister in Israel's February 10th election? Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak, or Benyamin Netanyahu?

While you think of your answer, here's a very quick resume of each:

Tzipi Livni is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and leader of the moderate...

The better question is "should they?"

This past Sunday on Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw asked President-elect Obama whether India had the right of "hot pursuit" to go after terrorists in Pakistan.

Many Americans are likely to respond with a "hell yeah". And you'd think that Obama would be...