Follow Along: The Full Text of Obama’s Final State of the Union
For the second straight year, the White House released the complete text of the State of the Union to Medium.com:
For the second straight year, the White House released the complete text of the State of the Union to Medium.com:

A group of seven multiracial Washington and Lee University (W&L) students are demanding the school remove all Confederate flags from campus and “acknowledge” General Robert E. Lee’s “dishonorable side.” According to the Roanoke Times, “seven multiracial students, calling themselves ‘The

In the second of a ten-part series called The Ten Today, Emmilie Buchanan-Whitlock at Deseret News writes about the third of the Ten Commandments and its meaning for modern America: Melissa Thurm started a religious blog in October to share her

A grocery store owner in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was charged Thursday with buying food stamps from 128 customers and using the proceeds to buy $45,000 in bulk merchandise to resell in his shop, including 1,200 cases of Red Bull. Aslam Khawaja,
The US city of Portland, Oregon, is ditching 38 million gallons of drinking water from a reservoir after a teenager was caught on camera urinating into it, officials said Thursday. The water — enough to fill nearly 60 Olympic-size swimming

(Reuters) – At least one member of the Biden family will be seeking higher office in 2016.

Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) says her constituents are “frustrated and embarrassed” by Hawaii’s failed Obamacare exchange, which cost taxpayers $204 million and signed up only 8,000 people. On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced it will launch an investigation

President Obama announced on Thursday that over eight million people had enrolled for Obamacare, which was why it was time to stop talking about whether the law was working or not. Obama told reporters that it was time to spend

California’s Obamacare exchange enrolled the most people in the nation, but San Francisco hospitals and doctors have yet to see an uptick in patients, reports the San Francisco Business Times. “Here’s the mystery: Why aren’t Bay Area doctors’ offices, hospitals,

A big front-page story, and a scary headline, in the April 16 Washington Post: “Patient-records plan faces ethical pitfalls.” “Ethical pitfalls”? Yikes! Alert the privacy police! That is, the enforcers on the right, as well as the left! Could our personal medical

Facing mid-term elections and burdened with persistently high unemployment, President Obama is playing the race, gender, and class cards. Fabricating fear and injustice, such tactics keep the economy in slow gear and make worse the very people the President professes

In the first of a ten-part series called The Ten Today, Mark A. Kellner at Deseret News writes about the third of the Ten Commandments and its meaning for modern America: When she’s in a courtroom, Wendy Patrick, a deputy district

Barack Obama and his feminist friends have been trotting out their tiresome slogan that women are paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. Every reputable scholar who has commented has proved this is a notorious falsehood which

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may have a staffing problem on his hands. Despite his four months in office, he has yet to hire a communications director. The New York Post reports Thursday that a source says a number

WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the year of the baby: Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child later this year. The 34-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) — A report released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says President Barack Obama’s budget request would mean significantly larger budget deficits than the White House claims. CBO says the budget plan proposed last month by Obama

In her speech at the New York Economic Club on Wednesday, Janet Yellen said it is “quite plausible” the economy will reach full employment in a couple years with just the right amount of inflation, which to her mind means

A constituent from Reva, Virginia, wrote an editorial blasting Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) for voting to subjugate the Second Amendment to the dictates of the United Nations via the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). As Breitbart News

The Louisiana state House voted Tuesday 66-27 to keep a ban against certain types of sodomy. As The Times-Picayune reported Wednesday, though Louisiana’s anti-sodomy law was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, the state’s legislature has been unwilling to

The New York Times reports that Republicans are seizing on the popularity of guns and gun giveaways in primary races around the country. The Times points to Colorado state Senator Greg Brophy’s (R) recent gun sweepstakes as a case in point.

During a visit to an elementary school in Columbus, New Mexico, last year, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said it is “frankly inspiring” that 75 percent of the students there live in Mexico but are being educated in

On Wednesday Tracy and Mary Finney of Marietta, Georgia were met by a police officer outside their children’s public school and informed they were trespassing on school property because they opposed the school’s process of testing all children. The Finneys,

If anyone had doubts as to just how much contempt Attorney General Eric Holder has for the institution of Congress (pun intended), those doubts dissipated when Holder became unhinged during a heated exchange with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) in his

Someday soon, you will go to the doctor’s office and the doctor will know exactly what’s wrong with you. Most likely you and your doctor will have been tipped off by an app–maybe an app in your clothing. If you