Obama's "Naughty" and "Nice" Takes On The Internet
No one likes "piracy," but Biden's over-the-top meeting put so much of a focus on the issue, and pandered so much so the assembled multitudes that it lacked any credibility whatsoever.
No one likes "piracy," but Biden's over-the-top meeting put so much of a focus on the issue, and pandered so much so the assembled multitudes that it lacked any credibility whatsoever.
sometimes, despite the fact that we might not want (or didn't know we needed) a guide to help us traverse life, a mentor lands smack in front of us, and we have no choice but to stand up and take notice.
We don't have one now - we have a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This nomenclature has consequences
They key to Afghan withdrawal lies in Pakistan and Obama needs to tread carefully on this path.
In his Afghan war speech at West Point and in other interviews and statements President Obama has bristled at any comparison between his Afghanistan...
Demonstrating the importance of this appointment to the White House, Biden gave the oath to the openly gay lawyer turned diplomat.
Many of us were frustrated by the Patriot Act and the way in which it led to profiling and discrimination against minorities during the Bush administration. President Bush is gone, but his legacy lives on.
Biden deserves significant credit for key parts of the president's plan. According to a senior White House source, the vice president believes that the president's review has produced a sound strategy.
Given the enormity of the impact the AIDS pandemic is having in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, bringing a conference to DC seems among the most superficial announcements I could imagine out of the White House this year.
Ever since the idiocy of “Balloon Boy,” I have been pining for the moment where fame-whores finally cross a line, and face serious reperc...
If I were in the White House, given the overall situation and the extraordinary security lapses of this first state dinner, I would be sending some folks to guard snow plows in Antarctica this weekend.
In a potentially embarrassing situation for the Obama White House, a turkey pardoned by President Obama earlier this week went on a killing spree on Thanksgiving, killing nine.
Instead of trying to play the "let's try to make everybody happy and ultimately make no one happy" game again, Obama could do what many believe he truly wants to, and end the war.
We should give strong consideration to nationalizing the largest banks in order to run them like public utilities. We also should consider placing banking employees into the civil service system to end the ridiculous wage distortions.
Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
While the concerns of many white, middle-class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals, it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts for who they are.
Joe Biden is turning out to be a very useful problem-solving tool for the president on the international stage.
While it may be too early to tell whether Obama will follow through on his 2007 campaign pledge, it does seem like his administration is setting the stage.
I think last year's vote proved people voted against Bush, and not for Obama. Today's votes are about the economy and jobs in the respective areas, not Obama policies.
It's hard to believe it's only been a mere nine-and-a-half months of actual presidency. And truly it is only a slight exaggeration to say that in the interim it's been all Obama, all the time.
By Michael Grabell, Jennifer LaFleur, Amanda Michel and Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica. When the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package pas...