I wonder if the sour, off-key comments by House Speaker-to-be John Boehner and still Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after the election might have given the voters who placed renewed confidence in the Republican Party buyer’s remorse. Boehner gave no indication whatsoever that he was willing to work with Democrats, and McConnell repeated his claim [...]

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, and neither side has a monopoly. That said, former vice president Dick Cheney is taking it to a whole new level with his constant attacks on the Obama administration’s conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the handling of terror cases. Wasn’t it just a few years [...]

President Obama is expected to announce tomorrow night that he will be sending additional tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan. If he buys into this conflict, like it or not, it will cease to be George W. Bush’s failure; it will become Obama’s war. Granted, the current occupant of the oval office was left [...]

The President, after months of deliberating, will soon announce his decision about how this country will wage war against the Taliban and al Quaeda in Afghanistan. By all accounts, he was deeply moved by the memorial ceremony at Fort Hood, and by the sacrifices our soldiers make in protecting this nation. I hope that he [...]

The spectacle of the GOP doing everything it possibly can to derail any inquiry into the interrogation practices of the Bush administration is truly stomach-churning. They bounce from denying that the things the Bush administration authorized were torture, to claiming that anything the president authorized was by definition legal, to claiming that torture worked to [...]