WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the...
President Obama is planning to deliver a nationally-televised speech on education to students across the country next Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Obama will give...
OTTAWA, Kan. — A freshman Kansas congresswoman said Thursday that her remark about fellow Republicans seeking a "great white hope" was not a reference to...
Obama's speech today matters because there's a psychic cost to not knowing a larger world beyond your day-to-day life; American kids need to know their president, whether they support his policy agenda or not.
Whether you are for or against the President's fully transparent, pre-released address and accompanying, optional food-for-thought exercise, you should do something truly worthy of your time and energy: talk to your kids.
Last week, a panel of the D.C. federal court heard arguments in a case where the RNC is seeking to turn back the clock to a time before Obama's "small-donor revolution."
Obama's problem isn't that he's tied himself to "liberal leadership" in the Congress (surely an oxymoron in the Senate). It is that he appears to be straying from the promise that swept him into office.
If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.
Obama is the President already. Even if you disagree with what he says, it matters. Instead of refusing to allow your children to be up to date on current affairs, it's possible to tell them why you disagree with the President.
How many of us would give up much of anything in an attempt to save our souls? I mean this seriously -- really -- how much would we be willing to sacrifice?
Glenn Beck's controversial track record pales in comparison to Massey Energy's mining operations in Appalachia, which have literally displaced American citizens from their native homes.
Instead of looking for the real story on health care, reporters across America are looking for ways to turn it into a better, more sensational tale. A small, loud minority is getting all of the attention.
Lynn Jenkins is really making a name for herself this week. No, I'm not talking about her "great white hope" comments, but her incredibly cold response to a 27-year-old single mother without health insurance.
How we fare in turning the children of the world into productive and engaged citizens of an ever-smaller, more integrated planet will teach the world a lesson on the vitality of the American promise.
Somehow, right wingers have turned an innocuous speech by the President into an evil effort to brainwash and indoctrinate our children that *GASP* they should stay in school and work hard!
What will be catastrophic is if we continue as we are, with only those who are healthy, wealthy, employed with a really great insurance plan or with Medicare coverage reaping the benefits.
At a student dialogue Tuesday, recent grad Amanda Duzak told Steele that her mother was unable to afford medication, and died recently of cancer. Steele turned his back on her, and the crowd applauded.
The New York Times recently reported that the Obama administration is heeding a list of six lessons from previous efforts to reform health care. Unfortunately, the three most crucial lessons were left off the list.
It is always easier to make a story out of the sensational, as we've seen time and again over the past. But steady, solid yet passionate democracy in action - this, too, is a story worth telling.
The former investment adviser in me says that rather than fight the concept, embrace higher taxes as a likelihood and adjust your life as much as possible.
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Calmer voices have called the assault on Obama's speech "silly." That is terribly wrong: the attacks are not silly, they are dangerous. The attacks further split the party of opposition from a position of reason.
Throughout Congress there are men and women who are making decisions right now that will mean putting some people to death. Sen. Grassley is the ranking member of the Early Grave Commission.
To produce education reform that is reform in more than name only, we need to look past our own political backyards at what might lie on the other side of the mountain. What I see on that other side is a single-payer education system. It's simple, sensible and, above all, just. READ MORE
Has Obama's Handling of the Bank Bailout Undermined Health Care Reform?  One of the consequences of the one-sided bailout of Wall Street is the way it has undermined public trust in government. Much of the health care anger is a proxy for bailout anger. If we don't learn from the botched bailout, we are in danger of getting the same reform-in-name-only outcome on health care. READ MORE
Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.
Ten years after Denmark began allowing for gay civil unions, heterosexual marriage rate had increased by 10.7 percent. Ten years after Norway did, the rate increased by 12.7 percent. For Sweden, 28.7 percent.
Support for the public option and the President's health care plan was strong and vocal. More than five hundred supporters carried candles, waved signs and chanted "Health Care Now."
As expected and feared by those on the right, Obama's speech to schoolchildren, I'm embarrassed to say, is truly shamefully partisan and full of dangerous radical views. Here it is.
In 1918, the first black heavyweight boxing champion defeated a racist "great white hope." But when the Obama Administration takes a right hook to the face, it just smiles through bloodied teeth.
Call me naïve. Okay. An idealist. I'd rather be an idealist than an ideologue. But I'm constitutionally and temperamentally averse to succumbing to inaction and despair.
I'm not saying demonizing Obama's outreach to school children directly parallels this old McCain campaign ad, but I do think it's interesting revisiting.
Thanks to the town hall turmoil from bigots, birthers and assorted miscreants, Republicans can savor a sugar-high on health care -- a decadent and ultimately short-lived victory.
That's really what it's all about -- Barack Obama's political enemies don't actually accept him as president. They consider his presidency some kind of sham, regardless of the overwhelming majority he won.
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"Get Down With GOP!" Perfect - gop - great Hal - and your hair scares me...but so does Eric Cantor, so Mission Accomplished!
Hal Sparks is way to intelligent to be a Republican. Loved the skit.
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TALK SOUP actually imploded after you left it.
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