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What Rand Really Believes
Rand Paul, tea party flavor of the month, is said to be avoiding "overexposure." Senior Republican Party operatives, worried by the Kentucky Senate nominee's all-too-revealing remarks after his primary …
Obama to Suspend Arctic Drilling
Washington - The Obama administration Thursday will suspend planned exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska until at least 2011, a casualty of the Gulf of Mexico …
BP: Obama’s Do-Nothing “Root Causes” Commission
Obama had this frozen, robotic expression on his face when he announced that he'd put his signature on the executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater …
News in Brief: BP Stabilizes Gushing Flow of Oil and More
BP has stabilized the gushing flow of oil and gas from a ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico, according to US officials, hoping to mitigate the catastrophic environmental …
Dilip Hiro | The American Century Is So Over
Irrespective of their politics, flawed leaders share a common trait. They generally remain remarkably oblivious to the harm they do to the nation they lead. George W. Bush is …
Chief Drill Regulator Birnbaum Fired
Washington - The director of the Minerals Management Service, Elizabeth Birnbaum, has been fired in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, a government official told McClatchy Newspapers today. …
Karzai’s Washington Visit: The War Awaiting Kandahar
Clad in his usual attire of a colorful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in Washington. Accompanying him …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Muddle Oozing From the Gulf
Washington - So who is in charge of stopping the oil spill, BP or the federal government? The fact that the answer to this question seems as murky as …
BP Worker Takes Fifth, Making Prosecution a Possibility
Washington - A top BP worker who was aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the hours leading up to the explosion declined to testify in front of a federal panel …
Activists in Chicago Push Against Rahm Emanuel
Activists in Chicago are some of the nation's fiercest agitators for immigration reform, as more than two dozen were arrested at a civil disobedience at the entrance to a …