Middle East

Most of the Rightwing are confused over Libya. They don't know how to respond to the way the President has responded. Let's be honest: Gaddafi's not exactly your Hosni Mubarak. I mean, he doesn't walk around in a tailored...

A young man, haunted by his life in Iraq and Afghanistan. He looks SO young but he does not smile. Empty eyes, and even in the midst of a crowd very much alone.

Obama, Kerry, Hagele, Dempsey offer a targeted, limited, consequential plan for U.S. action coupled with intense negotiation creating the conditions in which a tentative offer is quickly embraced by Russia and Syria.

Despite GOP protests to the contrary, when it comes to Spiking the Ball, W is the All Star!

President Obama will deliver his 2013 State of the Union Address tonight at 6:00 pm PST (9:00 pm EST) and you're invited to join us for our live chat here beginning at 5:30 PM PST. Hope to see you then!

November 27, 2009 Dear Journal, I can't believe Brett Favre came back for another season. They're not even going to make the playoffs. Wish someone payed me $20 million to waste their fucking time for 4 months out of the year....

It appears that Pres. Obama may once again have arrived at a desired outcome of a dangerous and complicated crisis...and once again, will be given no credit for it by the tyrant-lovers on the Right.

What we know confidently now is that torture did take place under the Bush Administration by the CIA, that it didn't work or help keep Americans safe, that it permanently undermined our nation's moral authority in the world and that there is absolutely no regret or apology from those who oversaw and committed it.

The complete text of the U.S. government's assessment of the chemical weapons attack in Syria.