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Steve Coll of The New Yorker, an expert on bin Laden, pointed out that Pakistan's military almost certainly had to know bin Laden was living like a king among them. Bin Laden's compound was in a military city, just north of the capital, “where much of ...

Peter Bergen, a national security analyst, predicted on CNN that bin Laden's face will be shown because of visual evidence that must be displayed. He also noted that Islamic law calls for bodies to be buried within 24 hours of death. ...

This is an idea so terrible and without merit that one has to wonder if some of its backers are simply trying to make money by taking short positions on municipal bonds.

It's positively a bargain compared to what Americans spend on our monarchy.

What am I talking about? Have you taken a good look at the imperial presidency lately?

Bad move. Scientists who've studied delusional people will tell you that you don't get anywhere by presenting facts and evidence. Better to pull a Reagan and use jokes and feigned agreement to pull the steam out of the birthers.

Possible presidential response to questions about his birth:

"I don't really remember my own birth, so I can't say where it was either way. But I'm told that angels sang."

"I'd like to think I sprang from the head of Zeus."

“When it comes to defense, the Democratic bench is incredibly thin, so I think they really had no choice but to pick Leon,” said Steve Clemons, a defense and foreign policy analyst with the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. ...

Neither Congress nor the Obama administration can do anything to lower gas prices. Still, that’s no excuse for the kind of nothing that politicians are engaging in now -- barking about drilling for more oil in U.S. lands, or claiming that the oil markets are run by speculators.

I forget which culture has a saying that it takes two arrows to kill an elephant -- one to kill the elephant and the other that puts the elephant in the arrow’s path. In the case of the BP spill, the Obama administration and the oil industry have done a decent job of dealing with the first arrow (the precise operational and regulatory conditions that contributed to the accident) but almost nothing about the second -- the overall conditions that put the Gulf of Mexico in the path of a spill.

... “If you are looking for waste in the budget, the Defense Department is probably the single richest place to begin looking,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

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“There's just no quick way to define it,” said Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, who is generally supportive of the president's foreign policy. “He's genuinely committed to human rights but in actualizing those principles he's fundamentally ...