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Members of the House of Representatives are kicking off the 2011 session by ramping up the pressure on the White House to end the war in Afghanistan. In addition to the vote last week to cut all [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqZOJdjdYE&feature=uploademail] Last week, the House engaged in a budget free-for-all, debating hundreds of amendments on the continuing resolution [...]

The Republican House leadership took a meat cleaver to the continuing resolution that would fund the government through the rest of the 2011 fiscal year (ending October 1st). The Republicans on [...]

Today, General David Petraeus published a letter to the troops in Afghanistan about what’s ahead in the coming year. He praised their efforts and let them know to expect “much hard work” in 2011 [...]

The economic crisis has been dominating the debate lately, from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ epic floor speech to the president’s deficit commission to the raging debate about tax cuts. What is often [...]

One year ago today, President Obama announced his plan to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. In the last twelve months, we have seen 105 billion of our tax dollars and thousands of [...]

In Lisbon for the NATO summit, President Obama is proposing a plan that would keep foreign military troops in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014. Even this end date is vague, discussed as [...]

This week, Greg Mortenson, who has been successfully building hundreds of schools for girls and boys in Afghanistan, offered a brilliant alternative to war in Afghanistan via Nicolas [...]

The deficit hawks roaming the halls of Congress seem to have no problem reaching into our pockets to fund a war that is now the longest in U.S. history and shows no prospect of success.  [...]

Don’t ask retired Four Star General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. On Meet the Press on Sunday, he said he “doesn’t know whether the United States is winning in Afghanistan.” Powell [...]