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The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama’s pick to head the CIA, counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan. The 63-34 vote ends a contentious nomination process that was delayed amid heated arguments over America’s use of unmanned aircraft, known as drones. 

U.S. Republicans are still licking their wounds, following last November’s presidential election in which President Barack Obama won a second term and Republicans lost seats in both the Senate and House of Representatives.  But, some Republicans are already turning their attention to the next presidential election in 2016 and are excited about the possibility of a third member of the Bush family making a run for the White House in 2016.

Obama said Saturday in his weekly address the cuts are happening because Republicans in Congress have decided that protecting special interest tax breaks for the "well-off and well-connected" is more important than protecting the military and middle-class families from the cuts.

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To hear his progressive critics tell it, Barack Obama has long been given to preemptive compromise. Even when his rhetoric has soared at its highest, the cautious president has always been careful to offer his Republican critics an olive branch—often one torn directly from the trunk of his own agenda.

The question at the core of America’s upcoming election isn’t merely whose story most voting Americans believe to be true.

The crushing of dissent, the official identification of dissenters, the vast expansion of federal power, and the hyper-arming of local authorities. We are, at this moment, in a savagely perilous place.

Mitt Romney's stance on Iran is nothing new, but his embracement of neo-imperialist foreign policy is worrying.

Fidel Castro dubbed this year’s Republican primary as the “greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance the world has ever seen.”

Did you know there is a war on women? Yes, it’s true. 

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