Politics

In Thursday’s press conference on the federal government response to the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama was asked what he thought of criticism that his administration has reacted slowly to the crisis. His response was, “I’ll leave it to you guys to make those comparisons.” Why? Leave it to anyone…

The national struggle for the soul of the Republican Party has now moved to Florida’s Senate race. And the battleground reveals with great clarity the mounting conflict between party loyalty, ideology and ambition. This April, Florida’s Republican governor, Charlie Crist, found himself unexpectedly trailing former Republican House Speaker Marco Rubio for his party’s nomination as…

According to The Australian, the number of secret sorties being flown in the Middle East and Africa is on the rise. The move is to “penetrate, disrupt, defeat or destroy” al-Qa’ida and other groups in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Somalia, according to a secret directive signed in September by the top US commander in the…

See, a bunch of guys needed something to do in 1865 and 1866, right after the Civil War. It wasn’t like they could go back to their plantations; Northerners had seen to that. So these good ole boys amused themselves by dressing up in sheets and riding through the countryside pulling pranks. Just good, clean…

Audacious, Duplicitous and Partisan: Obama gets smashed by GOP Senators http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_republicans Earth to President Obama: please stop playing yourself by trying to work with people that do not want to work with you. We were a little perplexed when we learned that President Obama was hosting a luncheon for GOP senators to try and bridge…

In an effort to bolster border protection, President Obama has sent 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico line. Under pressure to take action, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, pre-empting Republican efforts to force a congressional vote to send the troops. Obama will also request…

A hotly debated aspect of the landmark health care reform backed by President Barack Obama related to handling unwanted pregnancies, though the focus then was on whether federal funds would be used to terminate them. Meanwhile, a key provision of the bill went largely unnoticed: More than $375 million in grants toward comprehensive sexual education…

Lee Daniels, on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s blog, dissects the Tea Party favorite’s language. You remember George Allen? He was the Republican Senator from Virginia, widely considered as late as mid-2006 the odds-on favorite to succeed George W. Bush as President –until he self-destructed in a “macaca” minute during the re-election contest that he…

What a difference a generation makes. We’ve gone from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference founders’ sexcapades—infamously taped by the original TMZ gang, J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI voyeurs—to the continuing buffoonery of their heirs and disciples. The evolving scenario involves charges and counter-charges over who’s running the joint; characterizations of opponents as “thugs,” “renegades”…

Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with Big Oil From the pot calling the kettle black file, pundit/pundit Sarah Palin is accusing President Obama of not responding to the BP Oil debacle sooner because of donations made to the Democratic Party. The former governor of Alaska, who has championed more off-shore drilling, which by…