President Obama sought middle ground on energy and environmental issues Tuesday night, calling for an “all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy” and outlining a handful of initiatives he said would enable the United States to tap fossil fuel reserves as well as wind and solar power. He called for greater disclosure [...]
Liberty and Peace are getting a reprieve this year. Both are 19-week-old, 45-pound turkeys — their names selected from more than 100 submissions — that President Barack Obama will pardon Wednesday in an annual Thanksgiving rite. The birds are from Minnesota, which will surely spur some analysis about the value of sparing turkeys from a [...]
November 23, 2011 | Posted in
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One year out from the 2012 election, President Obama faces the most difficult reelection environment of any White House incumbent in two decades, with economic woes at the center of the public’s concerns, an electorate that is deeply pessimistic and sharply polarized, and growing questions about the president’s capacity to lead. Those factors alone portend [...]
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US President Barack Obama has demanded America’s millionaires pay more tax to help solve the country’s crippling deficit. In a speech at the White House, Mr Obama outlined the so-called Buffett Rule – named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett – which calls on the wealthiest Americans to pay the same tax rates as everyone else. [...]
President Obama slammed Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor Wednesday night, reportedly warning the House Majority Leader against calling his “bluff.” “Eric don’t call my bluff. I’m going to the American people on this,” the president said, according to both Mr. Cantor and House Republicans. “This process is confirming what the American people think is the worst [...]
Irish people will have been trawling through the archives in search of any tenuous link to Barack Obama, but his real Irish ancestors were politicians, Protestants and wig makers. Eight score and 19 years ago, Falmouth Kearney was born to a shoemaker in Moneygall, County Offaly and throughout his existence, he would no doubt have [...]
President Obama, it turns out, is by far the most golf-mad of all the Presidents in history. Yesterday, the President was playing the 66th round of his presidency, and his fifth round in five weeks, as US special forces prepared to move in on bin Laden. There’s nothing wrong in all that golf. The odd [...]
With his trademark New York bravado, Donald Trump today said “I’m very proud of myself” for supposedly prompting President Obama to release a copy of his birth certificate. “I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role,” the New York real estate mogul and television celebrity told reporters just after the White [...]
Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn’t ramp up his birtherism any more, this morning on the Today show he announced he has “people who have been studying it, and they cannot believe what they are finding.” Startled, interviewer Meredith Vieira asked if Trump meant he had researchers on the ground in Hawaii, and he [...]
President Barack Obama says the U.S. and its NATO allies are still considering a military response to violence in Libya. Speaking in the Oval Office, Obama says the U.S. will stand with the Libyan people as they face “unacceptable” violence. He says has authorized millions of dollars in humanitarian aid. The president sent a strong [...]
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