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For the first time in his presidency, Americans are getting a glimpse of Barack Obama on the defensive. Over the past few weeks, Obama has been back on his heels over torture and terror, issues on which he surely thought he had the upper hand. And he spent Thursday battling charges from a man he surely thought he had vanquished in November, former Vice President Dick Cheney. It took some worried calls from Capitol Hill Democrats, congressional aides said, to convince him otherwise – that he needed to give a speech defending his plan for closing the terror prison at...

Plus: Obama tells the big lie in Annapolis speech. Promises America will be safe if only we follow his lead!The big news story of last week was the contest of dueling speeches between President Obama and Vice President Cheney. Video and text highlights of Cheney's speech are found here.I've already pointed out how Obama hastily announced his speech at the National Archives standing in front of a copy of the U.S. Constitution at the same time as Cheney's long planned address at the American Enterprise Institute. In the wake of Democrats in Congress refusing to grant Obama a blank check...

Senior Republicans have rallied to support former Vice President Dick Cheney in the wake of his vehement attacks on Barack Obama. His fierce criticism has made him the principal voice opposing the new president and won him praise from figures. Republican leaders have cast aside doubts about Mr Cheney reminding voters of the unpopular Bush administration, and concluded that his critique is valuable. Mitt Romney, viewed by many Republicans as the front-runner for the party's 2012 presidential nomination, weighed in behind the former vice-president after he accused Mr Obama of practicing "recklessness cloaked as righteousness". The former Massachusetts governor described...

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she won't talk any more about her charge that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects. "I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this," she told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference. "I don't have anything more to say about it. I stand by my comment." But Republicans aren't letting this one slide. Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, issued a statement after the news conference calling Pelosi a political liability to the Democratic party.

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There is a reason why the Gorelick Memo will boomerang back into view. There is a reason why 'Torture Gate' is beginning to spin out of control for the Left. The reason is simple: Truth. And the Truth is revolving around two starkly different states: Texas and Massachusetts. Lies simply do not work the way they used to. Quick fixes for power, ever the liberal strategy since its beginning, are too transparent with the New Media studying their every move with an elephant's memory. As the stakes increase in a war, the difference becomes as clear as night and day....

The partisan rants in the media are endless. If you came from another planet, you would think that Bush is the most hated man in America and that masses were storming the gates of the White House to run him out of town on a rail! But, nevertheless, Bush is holding his own, according to the latest parade of endless meaningless polls. And the polls are taken to see if the publics care about the latest rant. Has it been effective or do they have to move to the next one. Which will be followed by another poll taken for...