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Top House Democrat Urges Obama To Appoint Special Envoy On Gitmo Closure

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee in a letter to President Obama on Tuesday praised the president’s renewed commitment to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but urged Obama to appoint a senior official charged with working to close the facility.

Maine May Be Next State To Offer Universal Preschool

While President Obama"s proposal to make preschool universally accessible is being pushed on the federal level, six states in the country Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, Illinois, New York, and West Virginia are already working on such plans.

9 myths about drones and Guantanamo

On Thursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech in Washington about his administration's counterterrorism policies, focusing on the rationale and legal framework for the controversial CIA drone program and his plans to wind down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

IRS Hiring Freeze: Impose It Now

The Administration should immediately halt any more hiring of agents at the IRS. If the White House won't do it, Congress should and override the President's veto. Under ObamaCare our tax-collecting "service" is set to bring on more agents and has already signed on a couple of thousand.

POLL: Americans In The Deep South Strongly Support Medicaid Expansion, Despite Governors" Opposition

Over 60 percent of the Americans living in the Deep South support Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, according to the results from a new poll that surveyed a broad sample of people in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

National Security Brief: Drone Strikes Decline

The New York Times reports today that amid the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s targeted killing couterterror program, and in particular that program’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles, the number drone strikes U.S.

US identifies terrorists who attacked its Benghazi consulate in 2012

Administration weighing its options as intercepts reveal identity and whereabouts of suspects in attack that left four dead

Officials in the US say they have identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 and there is enough

Ridiculous Timing: Obama Administration Responds To Spying On AP By Pushing Journalist Shield Law That Wouldn't Matter

There was one odd side note in all of the attention last week to the DOJ spying on the AP under questionable circumstances.

Bin Laden Photos Ruling: Death Photos To Stay Sealed, Court Says

A three-judge panel has denied requests to release the photos and videos taken on the night Osama Bin Laden was killed. The District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S.

Some U.S. utilities say they're under constant cyber attack

WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Several power utilities say they face a barrage of cyber attacks on their critical systems, a report by two Democratic lawmakers found echoing warnings from the Obama administration that foreign hackers were trying to bring down the U.S. power grid.