Politics

This week’s primetime presidential address from the Oval Office was designed to present an image of confidence. The language of the president’s speech was strong. The symbolism captured the might of the White House. Even the pre-Oval Office speech in Pensacola hangar took a presidential tone intended to convince a nation to unite behind him,…

On Wednesday the White House released a statement explaining that BP had agreed to set aside $20 billion for an escrow account through which legitimate claims of damages resulting from the Gulf oil spill would be paid. Kenneth Feinberg, who formerly headed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will be the independent claims administrator, and…

Although President Obama’s popularity is still decent in the United States, his popularity among Muslims throughout the world has fallen. One year after President Obama’s pioneering speech in Cairo, he is viewed with more skepticism by the Muslim world. His decline in popularity is tied to his perceived lack of follow-through on bridging Western and…

Fresh from the cuckoo file, the GOP has apologized to BP on behalf of the American people for President Obama’s “shakedown.” The “shakedown” that they speak of is the $20 billion escrow account that BP set up for the immeasurable amount of damage that the oil spill has caused the Gulf region. Rep. Joe Barton…

Those who do not know boxing are always doubtful of a counter-puncher’s skill—until they see him serve a resounding, high-classed, painful whipping. Negative comments about the counter-puncher are often generated if he does not huff and puff like someone’s cartoon of a bad guy in professional wrestling. But after all of the criticism of President…

If ever anyone is in need of a grim yet unvarnished example of both America’s choked bureaucracy and her unwillingness to approach, grapple with and truly understand her horrifically racist past, they need only be directed to what took place in the Mansfield Room in the U.S. Capitol building on June 16, 2010, at 3:00…

In President Obama’s address to the nation Tuesday, he pledged to create a “Gulf Coast restoration plan” for families and workers whose lives have been negatively affected by the BP oil spill. “The plan,” said the president, “will be designed by states, local communities, tribes, fishermen, businesses, conservationists and other Gulf residents.” For that to…

Public housing in this country is rapidly becoming endangered, and with it, the lives of low-income people. Public housing provides a safety net for the working poor and those on a fixed income, which is critical in today’s housing market considering that as of 2008, there was no county in the United States where an…

BP finally puts its money where its mouth is. The besieged oil company has agreed to put $20 billion in an escrow fund to pay for claims in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. BP made the offer during its meeting with President Obama to address how to resolve the oil spill and compensate those…

President Barack Obama, using all the prestige of his office and the office itself, sought to assure Americans last night that he was on top of the oil spill disaster currently devastating parts of the Gulf Coast, destroying lives and livelihoods at an alarming rate. He meant to show not only that he understood the…