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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama mops a nasty stain off the American image with his sweeping moves to close the Guantanamo prison, ban torture and upend Bush administration polices on terror suspects. The new president's rupture with his predecessor's way of doing business, including orders to close secret CIA overseas prisons, gained Obama high praise at home and abroad on Thursday. The benefits can hardly be overstated. But honeymoons always end, and Obama is stuck with one of the knottier foreign policy and legal problems he's likely to face: What's to be done with captives who are certifiably too...

Face it, blogs exist so we don't have to read the news for comprehension The Associated Press took a grandiose Facebook-style faceplant last week when it attempted to impose strict guidelines on the blogosphere. Now, just like Facebook’s initial unapologetic enthusiasm for its privacy-violating Beacon program followed by Facebook’s effusive apology for its privacy-violating Beacon program, the AP is bowing to the will of the angry Internet masses and backing off. Sort of. As part of the big mea culpa, the AP's Jim Kennedy pledged to meet this week with Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association (which is,...