John McCain

John McCain wasn’t “all-in” at Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relation Committee meeting on Syria, or at least that’s what one reporter’s photo of him playing iPhone poker suggested to critics who expected him to pay better attention.

President Barack Obama over the weekend outlined his belief that military strikes on Syria were warranted, but said he would seek Congressional authorization before acting. Congress stands divided on the issue of intervention — with Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the issue.

President Barack Obama has selected United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to replace National Security Adviser Tom Donlion, who stepped down Wednesday morning — sooner than most predicted. In Rice’s place, Obama selected Samantha Power, a former journalist and human rights activist who supported intervention in Libya.

Bowing to increasing pressure from Congress, the Obama administration announced that it had appointed two U.S. attorney to investigate who is behind leaks about top secret U.S. intelligence and military programs. This continues a pattern of aggressively prosecuting leakers under the Obama administration.

With the Hispanic population of Arizona really growing, President Barack Obama is making a play to take the state out of the Republican column and put it in his own. At least two people are saying it’s doable, and there’s some precedent for that as well.