A top White House economist says spending from the $787 billion economic stimulus has already had its biggest impact on economic growth and will likely not contribute to significant expansion next year.

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As White House aides said President Obama will not demand a government-run option be part of his sweeping health care overhaul bill, top Democrats refused to back down from their steadfast support of the so-called "public option" on Sunday.

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In spite of President Barack Obama's reluctance, Attorney General Eric Holder may yet appoint a special prosecutor to plumb the depths of the Bush administration's torture program, according to a published report.

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Cap and Trade Bad for Building and Housing Market

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Republicans have been criticizing President Obama for not having been more outspoken in support of the masses in the streets of Iran.

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Wars are riddled with all kinds of twisted ironies. During the Civil War, the Union army initially spurned blacks who it was crusading to emancipate—while the Confederate army recruited them in the final desperate hours of its fight to enslave them.

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President Barack Obama's announcement that he wants federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter comes as something less than a shock. For months, Sotomayor's name has topped most lists of potential candidates.

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U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco warned the Obama administration on Friday of severe sanctions if it does not comply with the court's order to turn over a secret document an Islamic group says proves they were illegally spied upon.

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Here's the Obama administration's plan for emptying out Guantanamo, as I understand it: Take each prisoner out of his cell. Give him a personal apology, a big kiss, and an AK-47. Then hand him a free airline ticket good for any destination in the continental United States.

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"The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S.

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It's not just right-wing "radical" groups on the Department of Homeland Security's black list anymore.

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Perennial Neoconservative gadfly John Bolton, who has often been accused of making exaggerated claims about Middle Eastern threats, is now suggesting that a military coup in Pakistan may be the only viable response to the growing power of the Taliban.

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