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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says Hillary Clinton is to blame for inadequate security in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died on Sept.

On Tuesday, January 29, Governor Perry gave his State of the State address to the full Texas Legislature.

U.S. drone strikes have killed four American citizens in counterterrorism operations overseas since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said today, the Obama administration's first public acknowledgment of those killings.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivered his first State of the Union address, calling for a "war on poverty." The U.S. surgeon general declared, for the first time, that smoking was hazardous to your health.

On the May 19 broadcast of CNN's State of the Union , host Candy Crowley said that Obama was late in identifying the attacks in Benghazi as terrorism quite contrary to what she said during the Presidential debates late last year.

President Obama has formally appointed the ten members of a special commission designed to look for improvements in U.S. election systems.

President Obama delivers a counter-terrorism speech Thursday that may also be a defense of two much criticized programs: Drone strikes and the terrorism prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

By virtually any measure, with three scandals exploding on the White House, last week had to be the worst of Barack Obama's presidency.

On Sunday's "State of the Union" on CNN, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took aim at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the State Department's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

In the wake of controversies plaguing the Obama administration, a White House senior adviser admitted Sunday there is a "healthy skepticism" about government.

A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news." Speaking Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Dan Pfeiffer says the White House counsel's office learned of the IRS inspector general's investigation in late April, but Obama wasn't ... (more)

Reading major media is like peaking into an alternative reality where truth becomes a collective agreement that is independent of the real world.

After running an errand at the Courthouse, I decided to pop into the Barrister Bar and Bistro for a quick bite.

Compare that with four years ago, when he told Arizona State's graduating class that it was leaving college in times of "extraordinary difficulty." When he spoke to Naval Academy graduates in 2009, he highlighted their choice to serve in a time of war.

I arrive back in America after a brief sojourn in Blighty to find Obama suddenly floundering.

Editor's Note: This is a cross post from the Administration for Children & Families blog of the Department of Health & Human Services .

The Arizona Democrat resigned from Congress in 2012, a year after a gunman shot her at close range while she was greeting constituents in her Tucson district.

Former Education Sec. Bill Bennett said the most important thing about a school was its ethos.

A culturally diverse group of middle school and high school students spent their spring break participating in job shadowing, a State of the Union challenge, a career and college fair, panel discussions with senior company leaders, a mock product marketing challenge and a community service project as part of the 2013 Multicultural Teen Corporate ... (more)

Back in February, President Barack Obama indicated in his State of the Union address that 3-D printing may be the next big thing in manufacturing.