President Obama has directed the federal government to buy a nearly empty state prison in rural Illinois to house up to 100 detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said late Monday.

Reporting from Oslo, Norway - President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize here today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own accomplishments "slight" in comparison to past winners.

We haven't heard much from George W. Bush since he packed up his comics and moved to Dallas. But his policies remain like dog piss stains to stink up the Obama White House. Rendition and assassinations continue, as does warrantless spying on the citizenry

Like all patsies, Major Hasan combines the flamboyant and bombastic proclamation of his personal creed with a seeming immunity from bureaucratic countermeasures which would normally be automatic in shutting him down.

It took 14 weeks for Obama to announce and detail his Afghanistan troop deployment strategy, with many revisions and transitions in the fine-print. However when carefully analyzed, this current exit strategy has been blurred into meaning: "NO EXIT"!

More troops won't bring more peace to Afghanistan. I oppose President Obama's plan to continue the U.S. military build-up. I intend to work with others in my community and across our country to stop the war and to start the peace building.

"The American people overwhelmingly voted last year for a change in our national priorities to put the interests of ordinary people ahead of the greed of Wall Street and the wealthy few," Sanders said.

The President just announced that he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Whatever they think of his decision, MoveOn members agree that we need a binding military exit strategy and firm benchmarks so we can bring our troops home safely and quickl

SIGN THE PETITION TO CONGRESS President Obama has decided to send more than 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, at a cost of more than $100 billion/year. But America cannot afford a war that does not make us safer, and Congress has the power to stop the

On December 1st, President Obama announced plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, escalating the military conflict, instead of working to end it. Details of an exit strategy were restricted to a date for troop removal to begin, and a diplo