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Most Americans will support President Obama’s call for patience in Afghanistan and his policy of continuing the long…

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Iraq Through the Looking Glass

President Obama has made several commendable decisions as commander in chief: He has extended his campaign’s timeline for withdrawal from Iraq, and decided at several points last year to send additional troops to Afghanistan to fight a war that many in …

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Iraq and Afghanistan: The Way Forward

1. The speech seemed little more than a rehash of old news. Did he really tell us anything new? In some ways it seemed like a public announcement of the checking-off of a campaign promise. 2. Where was the vision for Iraq? For America’s role in the region? 3. He…

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Some Thoughts on the Speech

From Sen. Jim DeMint …

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DeMint: ‘A Wake-Up Call’

From Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee: “After a hard-fought primary contest, I offer my sincere congratulations to Joe Miller and offer him my strong support.

Joe Miller is Alaska’s GOP Senate nominee : Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska conceded late Tuesday in her Republican primary race to Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks backed by Tea Party activists, Sarah Palin and other conservatives. Mr. Miller shocked the …

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Murkowski Concedes

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Robert Costa

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McCain on Obama’s Speech

She's losing the absentee-ballot count

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Concession

. . . from Mr. Lester Joe Santos, a hermit who dwells in a cave in the desert of the American Southwest. On rare occasion he sends epigrammatic critiques of my labors. One cannot be sure he actually exists, and certainly I give no promise. “Mr. Steorts,” says he,

Does he realize that Barack Obama is “almost pluperfect”? Chris Matthews, earlier, said: “”He did everything, he went through the Democratic process. He didn't go out and make a lot

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Please Excuse Jonah for Offense

Tonight's speech from the Oval Office reached neither the rhetorical heights nor the strategic breadth we've come to expect from the president who is so verbally gifted (and whom some adoring journalists have dubbed an American Cicero). Mr. Obama, who has hated the Iraq War …

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Forgettable

Yes, there were some fine parts. How could there not be? But I really disliked it. Maybe I'm letting other factors poison my take, and I should probably sleep on it before rendering final judgment.

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Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), a senior member of the Armed Services committee and a member of the Foreign Relations committee, says President Obama’s address to the nation tonight on Iraq was “awkward,” due to the president’s avoidance of a “victory lap.” “I just wish that we had a president at this time who would be a forceful defender of America,” Inhofe says in an interview with National Review …

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Inhofe: Obama’s ‘Awkward’ Iraq Address

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The President Tonight

The Park51 mosque and community center near Ground Zero is not Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's first venture into real estate development. As The Record reports , beginning in the late 1970s, Rauf acquired five apartment buildings …

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The Slums of Rauf

The White House has released excerpts from the president's remarks marking the end of “combat operations” in Iraq, including these : &ldquo…

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What Is, and Isn’t, in Obama’s Iraq Speech

The administration’s report to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights is disgraceful for reasons

The New York Times is reporting , “American law enforcement and aviation security officials said Tuesday they thought it highly unlikely that two United States residents of Yemeni descent detained in Amsterdam on Monday had any connection to terrorism…”

In his desire to fast-track the peace-process negotiations between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday and Thursday in Washington, President Obama has failed to …

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The Two Dirty Little Secrets of the Mideast Peace Process