Month: November 2012

David Petraeus resigns as CIA director-Washington Post. David Petraeus has resigned as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. According to his letter of resignation, Petraeus asked President Barack...

Here are the remarks the president made this afternoon in the East Room of the White House. It was a strong argument before he won reelection and it is an even stronger argument today. However, John Boehner can’t legislate...

In his post A Foreign Policy President, Booman wrote: American-born Cuban Americans voted overwhelmingly for the president on Tuesday. There is no longer any political reason for the Democrats to worry about normalizing...

Harold Meyerson’s piece in The American Prospect should terrify Republicans. He details the recent disintegration of the GOP in California, and it is astonishing to read. Republican registration is now below 30% in the...

Very few Americans care, but the president will be visiting Myanmar (Burma) on the first foreign trip of his second term. He will also visit Thailand and Cambodia. The Myanmar piece is the most important, however, since it...