There is a bit of irony that just 10 days after announcing the deployment of 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan, President Obama will accept the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday in Oslo, Norway.

An unnamed confidante of Obama's spoke to CNN, explaining that the former president had told advisers that Tuesday's speech was far more important to the country than his 2004 address.

Obama's next budget proposal is likely to suggest consolidating a series of elementary and secondary school programs, but overall, would increase Education Department spending more by than 6 percent.

Obama’s Speech and our “Interests” in Libya 3 minute read By TIME Staff March 28, 2011 4:38 PM EDT ...

And, yet, Obama continues to believe that, under the dictatorship that is the Islamic Republic, somehow the attitude of the Iranian people matters to their rulers. Hence, he frames his speech as a ...