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Muslim Brotherhood: Bin Laden's death means Obama should pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq

By: Charlie Spiering 05/02/11 3:33 AM
Essam al-Erian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s governing body, told AlJazzera that US soldiers should be withdrawn from Afghanistan and Iraq after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Read More

Birthers have helped Obama, at least for now

By: Philip Klein 04/28/11 10:26 PM
It’s a boom time for anti-Obama conspiracy theorists. The birth certificate issue is back in the headlines. A new book questions whether Bill Ayers authored Obama’s memoir. Read More

Top Tweets: Twitter users react as the White House releases President Obama's birth certificate

By: Charlie Spiering 04/27/11 9:10 AM
whitehouse: Obama's long form birth certificate released so that America can move on to real issues that matter to our future tourex: Woulda been kinda fun if Obama had revealed his birth cert on Oprah. Maybe put one beneath everyone's chair. Read More

Libya rebels need weapons

By: Elliott Abrams 04/26/11 11:11 PM
In April, the president decided to give nonlethal aid to rebels seeking to overthrow a regime. No, not Libya. Not Obama. Not April 2011. It was April 1988, the president was Ronald Reagan, and the rebels were Nicaraguan Contras. On April 1 of that year, Congress passed a bill approving $48 million in nonlethal aid and President Reagan immediately signed it into law. The Reagan administration wanted to give lethal aid. Read More

Obama to students: 'I need your help'

By: Hayley Peterson 04/19/11 8:13 AM
President Obama warned students that Congress will reduce the deficit at their expense unless they "get in the game" and rally for Obama's fiscal policies. "They're going to want to reduce the deficit on your backs and if you are not heard that's exactly what's going to happen," Obama told hundreds of students gathered in a gymnasium at the Annandale campus of North Virginia Community College. Read More

Rolling Stone: Defense Inspector General report on McChrystal finds holes in the story

By: Sara A. Carter 04/18/11 11:43 AM
The Pentagon's inspector general report on the circumstances surrounding comments made by former Afghanistan top Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s staff in the June 2010 Rolling Stone article "Runaway General" found there was insufficient evidence that members of his staff violated Defense Department standards and that “not all of the events at issue occurred as reported in the article.” Read More

White House fights credit rating downgrade

By: Hayley Peterson 04/18/11 10:29 AM
The White House is fighting a rating agency's assessment that the United States will not be able to reach a bipartisan agreement on raising the debt ceiling and reducing long-term deficit. "The debt ceiling will be raised," White House Spokesman Jay Carney said Monday. "We will do that. That will happen." Read More

Obama's Pentagon savings: "Saving the family budget by not paying mortgage," analyst says

By: Sara A. Carter 04/18/11 9:26 AM
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will present President Barack Obama with a number of options for a new defense budget that will slash more programs leaving the U.S. more vulnerable to enemies, analysts say. According to “This week in Defense News” Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and Gates will seek additional ways to cut costs beyond the $400 billion in reductions made over the past two years. Read More

White House: Obama not playing politics with deficit

By: Brian Hughes 04/14/11 12:15 PM
A speech in which President Obama repeatedly took swipes at a Republican budget plan had nothing to do with politics, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney asserted Thursday. “This is not a campaign speech; this is a policy speech," Carney said, even though Democratic operatives were using the speech to make campaign calls as early as Wednesday evening. Read More

Video: Did Biden fall asleep during Obama's speech?

By: Charlie Spiering 04/13/11 2:50 PM
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