The First Lady might just be the source of Change and Hope that the Obama campaign promised in 2008. Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Initiative to fight childhood obesity has impressed political critics because she is actively combatting an issue and…
As you hopefully already know, Wednesday night President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of congress. Many of my peers, however, chose not to watch the event, saying it was boring, phony, and didn’t…
If President Obama’s turbulent first year in office were a feel good movie, this could be the trailer:
In a race that earned national attention, Republican Scott Brown has secured the Massachusetts Senate seat once occupied by Edward Kennedy:
Brown defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate.
Brown’s victory made real the once unthinkable prospect of…
It was a fortuitous start to the Copenhagen climate summit for advocates of massive global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As delegates at the summit were watching this 4 minute horror movie
(now why would anybody say these folks…
Just so literally everybody understands the President’s new strategy for Afghanistan (end the war by escalating the war), the White House has released transcripts of the entirety of the President’s speech in 26 languages and counting.
Here’s the video, and…
The President has deployed the full force of his considerable national security staff to think long and hard about a new strategy for Afghanistan. That staff–and the President–have taken their sweet time in coming up with a portfolio of possible…
One year after the election of President Barack Obama, his campaign manager, David Plouffe, is still spinning out positive press. There’s No Difference Between President Obama and Candidate Obama, he declares in response to Arianna Huffington’s recent criticism that President…
Gallup polls are showing an increase in the number of Americans who consider themselves “conservative. So far in 2009, 40 percent of Americans call themselves conservative–thats up 3 percent from the previous two years, when Dubya kind of gave conservatism a bad name.
Michael Kenneth Williams, whose name shall be forever bound to The Wire character he embodied in Omar Little, makes an off-the-cuff stump speech, ostensibly in support of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s re-election.
I say ostensibly, because if you watch…
