Barack Obama
State of the Union: Is Obama Failing Millennials?
Twitter was aflutter with thoughts and quippy one-liners in response to the president’s State of the Union Address last night. Most reactions seemed to be […]
President Obama’s NSA Policy Is Based on Shadows and Fairy Tales
Ahead of President Obama‘s NSA speech today, detailing how he’ll try to balance American security with American civil liberties in the wake of Edward Snowden’s […]
Was Obama Wrong to Nominate Mumia Lawyer Debo Adegbile to DOJ?
President Barack Obama has nominated former Mumia Abu-Jamal lawyer Debo Adegbile to head the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, and a lot […]
West Philly Is Going to Get Extra-Special Attention from President Obama
NBC 10 reports on Thursday that President Obama will designate West Philly a “Promise Zone,” singled out for government economic intervention.
PA Gets Big Race to the Top Grant
The third installment of Barack Obama’s much-lauded/much-reviled education reform initiative, Race to the Top, focuses on early education. States that show progress in reform, as […]
National Unemployment Rate Lowest in 5 Years
Today the Dep. of Labor announced the results of its monthly jobs report. Normally this is an occasion of mind-numbing tedium, celebrated by a couple […]
Corbett Asks Obama Admin to Approve Non-Obamacare Plan
Tom Corbett, in a final effort to push his alternative to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, will now ask the Obama administration to formally […]
Obamacare’s Awful Choice Between Contraception and Religious Freedom
Are you for religious freedom or for women’s access to birth control? Me, I’m for both, but it sure doesn’t look like we’ll be able […]
No, Obama Isn’t Shutting Down the Embassy to the Vatican
Pope Francis issued a pretty stern statement Tuesday about capitalism’s less-redeeming features, but you might not’ve known that from the behavior of conservative American Catholics. […]
Pennsylvania Provides White House Tree for Third Christmas
CBS Philly reports: “The White House takes delivery, today, of its official Christmas tree– an 18-and-a-half-foot Douglass fir from right here in Eastern Pennsylvania. This […]
White House Asks America to Choose Which Pardoned Turkey Is Awesomer
This seems weird: Instead of just, you know, pardoning a turkey at Thanksgiving, the White House is giving America two candidates for survival, birds that […]
Guess the Chris Christie-Barack Obama Honeymoon Is Over
New Jersey 101.5 reports that Gov. Chris Christie is calling Obamacare a “train wreck.”
The Clintons Were Right: Where Obamacare (Maybe) Went Wrong
Watching all the fuss and muss surrounding the launch of Obamacare these last few weeks, I’ve been struck by an unwelcome thought: Maybe the Clintons […]
What Obama Said at David Cohen’s Last Night
Obama, as we notified you yesterday, spent an hour at David L. Cohen’s house in Mt. Airy headlining a fundraiser for senate candidates. The goal–to […]
Did Healthcare.gov Just Tell Me to Screw Myself?
Curious as to how much I could save with the Affordable Care Act, I tried to sign on to www.healthcare.gov to start the application process. […]