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Former President Obama on Friday lamented the state of politics today, calling out his successor, Donald Trump, by name as he started his push to ramp up Democratic energy for midterms. Mr. Obama made his return to the political arena by giving a speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after receiving the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government. He praised America’s accomplishments but said there is a darker side to progress when politicians peddle resentment and mistrust to preserve the status quo. “It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause,”...

As Judicial Watch reports, A radical foreign policy adviser fired by President Obama years ago for meeting with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is back as the administration's new czar in charge of countering the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). The White House downplayed the new appointment by burying it deep in a press briefing delivered at a Paris hotel during the recent climate summit. "The President recently elevated Rob Malley, the NSC [National Security Council] Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, to serve now as the Senior Advisor to the President for the Counter-ISIL...

interesting how so many people have been calling for Hussein Obama's impeachment for years, but sadly our representatives have largely ignored those calls, and those who at least provided some lips service to impeachment failed to produce one article of impeachment. It isn't as if there aren't a myriad of reasons to impeach Obama. I even outlined the case for treason here. However, it is a completely different story when someone outside the US mentions the impeachment of Obama and even rarer is it when that person is a diplomat, who questions Obama's mental stability. A recent tweet from the...

More Americans than not think the U.S. government gives better health care to militants captured in the war on terrorism than to U.S. troops who may have fought them on the battlefield. A Fox News poll released Wednesday finds that by a 50-31 percent margin, voters think enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay get better health care than veterans. Nearly one in five is unsure (18 percent).

SNIP Obama said last month the new plan, delayed by months of internal deliberations, would "reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in our National Security Strategy, even as we maintain a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent." He now faces the challenge of lending credibility to his arms control push while not alarming allies under the U.S. defense umbrella or limiting room to maneuver in dealing with emerging nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea. SNIP