This Chief of Staff to the POTUS is a fascinating role. It's not in the Constitution and didn't even exist until World War II, moderator David Gergen pointed out, yet it wields tremendous power.
The review of California's Proposition 8 and the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) by the United States Supreme Court has prompted a myriad of people to ...
Everyone tells you to listen to your heart. Follow your dreams. Don't ever give up on pursuing what you really want, your deepest desires. Express your innermost self! Become your authentic you, and live your unique life.
President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union address to the people of the United States of America, while the entire world watched. As a Gamaliel-trained organizer, the President knows how to unite people around American values of caring for our neighbors.
Calm yourselves, kiddies, it's not really a cliff. More of a slim slope or bit of a ditch. A minor incline. It's an artificial crisis. Something our country's politicians specialize in.
President Obama spoke at Sunday evening's Sandy Hook vigil, calling for an end to the epidemic of gun violence in America. As part of his 18-minute tr...
The re-election of Obama was far more than just another battle between Democrats and Republicans for the Oval Office. It was a war over how American history will be written and the legacy that would define the Obama presidency.
When Beaver Creek Resort opened in 1980, developers gave first pick of the ski-in/ski-out home lots to Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States.
For those who believe in celestial interventions in affairs on the earth, there were indications of the reelection of President Barack Obama and even a third term in office.
As recent transplants to Toronto from Washington, DC, where we lived just a few miles from the White House, I felt it was my civic duty to host an election night party for my expat friends.
A year of campaigning, grandstanding, hand-shaking, politicking, debating, mud-slinging and flag-pin wearing. A year filled with super-PACs, soapboxes, and the good ol' red, white and blue.
President Obama has been talking a lot about the future along the campaign trail this year, but the one thing his wife, Michelle Obama, really wants t...
You know that social media has power when the most powerful leader on the planet is using one of the most-popular-yet-less-well-known social media platforms to communicate -- totally unannounced and completely by surprise.
America won't be the only one blowing out birthday candles today. Malia Obama, the country's fashionable birthday twin, is celebrating her 14th born d...
Barack and Michelle Obama are quite possibly the cutest couple around. Sure they might also be the most powerful duo in the world, but the POTUS and F...
Our Congress has progressively lost the moral hazard of doing what is right for the country rather than doing what is right for the party and politician.
Isn't the whole point of winning the office of president that you can talk to the nation without others belittling what you say? I began to think of some great presidential moments and what their rebuttals might have sounded like, had they been allowed at the time.
The autopen, the device that President Obama used just before midnight Thursday night to sign the order extending the Patriot Act by four years, has s...