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Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, foreign and defense policies have been far from his highest priorities. Instead, as he said explicitly in 2008, Obama is seeking to “fundamentally transform” America. This domestic focus has driven national security to the margins, except when circumstances made it essentially impossible to avoid. Obama’s approach …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Trouble Brewing Opponents of the Tea Party movement say they want to bring down the group from the inside out by making members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic. The Web site crashtheteaparty.org describes the mission as: “whenever possible, we will …

An arid, solitary tract of sweeping mesas, eerie rock formations, and those strangely beautiful trees for which this land is named, Joshua Tree National Park comprises some 800,000 acres bridging two of North America’s largest deserts – the Colorado and the Mojave. The park feels utterly remote but is surprisingly …