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President of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Sayyid Ali Khamenei are brilliant scholars and teachers. Each is an exceptional orator and leader. Both are family men with wives and children.  

Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the United States House of Representatives in the 112th Congress, will speak on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, this program will take place in ...  

Boston.comRomney backed earmarks as governor SPIN METER:Boston.comFebruary 12, 2012|Andrew Miga, AP Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.SPIN METER: Romney's newfound anti-earmark stance at odds with his Mass ...Washington Postall 96 news articles »  

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said Congress had to pass President Barack Obama's health reform plan so people could find out what was in it. To help ram it through the legislative process before the public fully understood the consequences of ...  

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama chose to embrace so-called “super PACs” (political action committees) for his re-election campaign so that billionaire philanthropists Charles H. Koch and David G. Koch would not “decide who the next President would be.” “The president made a decision, which I think was a wise one, that he was not going to unilaterally disarm and leave the...  

- Vice President Joe Biden ramped up his criticism of GOP presidential candidates on Monday, telling a crowd at a fundraiser in Florida that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were woefully out of touch with economic reality. "Mitt Romney says the best way to deal with foreclosures is to let everything hit the bottom," Biden said at a fundraiser in Tallahassee. "No, no, no, no - by the way, from purely a dollars and cents standpoint, he could get...  

Nowhere is the haughtiness of American politics better displayed than with our dueling former Speakers. The latest love spat between Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi illuminates America’s sorry political state. She keeps coyly insinuating she knows something and will time its release for maximum damage. It appears Mr. Gingrich is finished anyway, and I’m no fan. His infidelities trouble me. His overarching concern seems to be Newt Gingrich, a...  

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters that it was “wise” and “courageous” for President Barack Obama to change his position and embrace a Democratic super PAC so conservative brothers David ... and Keith Ellison of Minnesota ...  

Rachel Maddow claimed that Newt Gingrich's attack on Barack Obama as "entertainer-in-chief" was "caricaturing him in a way that calls out to minstrelsy." It's racial code, we're told, when Newt Gingrich accuses Barack Obama of being America's "food stamp President." It's an assault on low-income Americans, some pundits insist, when Mitt Romney says ... (more)  

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended President Barack Obama’s move to embrace his super PAC today, even as she trumpeted new legislation aimed at increasing disclosure of corporate spending in campaigns. “I’m glad that the president took the ...  

During his testimony about Operation Fast and Furious before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he still hasn’t discussed the deadly scandal with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano or President Barack Obama. Holder’s admission that he hasn’t taken the initiative to discuss how the government should handle this scandal came during...  

On the same day, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner argued it's too early to tell if Dodd-Frank financial reform, a punching bag for Republican presidential candidates and financial industry advocates alike, has hurt the economy. "There is no ...  

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is t bring them the real facts." --Abraham Lincoln By Barry Rubin President Barack Obama is campaigning on the claim that he is Israel's great friend despite the fact that this is obviously untrue. Most recently he hasn't responded to the new coalition government between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and...  

President Obama’s proposal is rightly focused on reviving the economy. If Congress cared more about economic stabilization than scoring political points, it would sign on.  

Readers respond to a news article, a column by Nicholas D. Kristof and an editorial about President Obama’s compromise plan.