Tea party vocal on domestic issues, lacks foreign policy platform

While FreedomWorks’ website repeatedly mentions ways to “Take America Back,” the organization most often credited with organizing the Tea Party movement studiously avoids mention of the country’s two wars, its ballooning defense budget, arms control or the tangle of legal controversy that has outlived the previous administration’s “war on terror.” In short, the site doesn’t mention foreign policy because the Tea Party movement doesn’t appear to have a platform dedicated to it.

Ellison gets top spot on Middle East scorecard

A New Policy PAC, whose motto is “Peace in the Middle East is in America’s National Interest,” put out a scorecard rating Congress members’ commitment to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison is ranked number one.

Ackerman: Democrats’ national security policy then (’04) and now

Spencer Ackerman of our sister site the Washington Independent argues that Barack Obama’s national security advisers and the policies they advocate are a far cry from the failed Kerry strategy of 2004:

“When the Democrats talk tonight about national security,

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Media Monitor: ‘No Deal’ for Bush, radiophonic refuge, and the world’s thinkiest

“No deal” on Bush ratings: With 69 percent of Americans disapproving of him, George W. Bush is the least popular president since the Gallup Poll was founded 70 years ago, but here’s an…

Make Some Noise: Activists, Lawmakers Urge Change in Darfur

For his master’s thesis in genocide studies, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., grappled with how education about genocide had failed. History classes had, rightly, incorporated thorough study of the Holocaust, he said, but “we did…