President Obama covered a wide array of programs and ideas in his State of the Union address. This one was by far the most emotional one....
It has been about a year since President Barack Obama delivered his last State Of The Union Address, so it's about time to check in on the state of hi...
College shopping is about to get a whole lot easier -- well, for potential students at some schools. On Tuesday, the Obama administration will reve...
Election year choices are increasingly disconnected from most people's lives, controlled by the Democratic-Republican duopoly in thrall to corporate megabucks that buy off government, and covered by corporate media like a horse race.
House Republicans passed a bill taking permit authority over the Keystone Pipeline away from the President and giving it to Congress -- you can just imagine how President Bush would have reacted to a similar move by Congressional Democrats on his watch!
WASHINGTON -- Last year's torturous congressional debate over raising the federal debt ceiling eventually resulted in a deal that President Barack Oba...
A tax break that rewards American small businesses for staying at home is a tax break that matters! Now if we can only get past the rhetoric and back to the economy!
Obama's proposal sends an important message to youths and their families: "You are no longer invisible. We see you, we invest in you and we expect you to contribute in a positive way to yourself and to your future."
Right now, if you're a woman in the workforce, it can be surprisingly difficult to answer basic questions about equal pay: what's the typical salary for someone in your position? Should you be asking for more at the negotiating table? What are your fundamental legal rights?
As a retired veteran, such pro-military rhetoric in the president's state of the union address resonates with me, but as a student of history it makes me more than uncomfortable.
Teachers from the troubled Chester Upland School District in Pennsylvania made the news when they opted to continue teaching for free, after the distr...
"I'm dropping out" are words spoken by roughly a quarter of American high school students. Every nine seconds, an American high school student beco...
Obama's a good enough communicator to know that the words in his speeches and the way he delivers them are enough on their own to get his messages across.
What is possibly the most striking thing about Obama's message is that he's going to run as a strong foreign policy president -- something that I can't for the life of me remember happening in the past 30 or 40 years.
The official Republican response to the president's State of the Union Address was fine -- as far as it went. But Gov. Mitch Daniels missed a golden o...
If the president would protect steel, motor vehicles, computers and machine tools like President Reagan did, it would create millions of jobs. President Obama refuses to enforce our trade laws.
With no end in sight to the foreclosure crisis, a majority of Americans are calling on the government to do something about it. Fifty-eight percent...
The new financial crimes unit announced by President Barack Obama during Tuesday's State of the Union address will have the power to investigate mortg...
Warren Buffett has a lot that his assistant Debbie Bosanek does not, including a figurative arsenal to fight for lower taxes. After ABC interview...
WASHINGTON - Not long before his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama ventured to a place he'd never been in three well-traveled years a...
Millions of young people and their families are buoyed by President Obama's rhetoric, but a slightly reworded message year after year is beginning to ring hollow. Time for more action than words on immigration reform, Mr. President.
It might possibly cost the insurance industry $382 million to comply with the Affordable Care Act for the first two years. But the cost of allowing those companies to continue keeping consumers in the dark would be far, far higher, Mr. President.
Despite recent positive political and economic signs and a good State of the Union speech, the president still has a lot to worry about.
Most of our national education efforts seek to teach low-income youth to become better workers. Why aren't we also teaching them how to own? If entrepreneurship is the engine of the American economy, why aren't we raising more creative entrepreneurs?
Stephen Colbert watched President Obama's "State of the Union" address Tuesday night, but it wasn't really Mr. "Look at me, I'm President" that he was...
