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Obama Makes Waves by Renaming Mount McKinley

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shrinking glaciers, Arctic temperatures and a mix of messy energy politics await President Barack Obama on his historic trip to Alaska. Even before he departed, Obama was making waves with a decision to rename Alaska’s famed Mount McKinley despite a backlash from Ohio politicians.

President Barack Obama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base on August 27, 2015 in Maryland. Obama traveled to New Orleans to survey progress 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read

Obama Cites Climate Change, Predicts Doom

During his visit to New Orleans to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Obama warned that more extreme weather events would continue to happen if Americans failed to act. “[W]e’re going to see more extreme weather events as the result of climate change — deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms,” he said during his speech. He is determined to make climate change one of the highlights of his second term, especially after announcing his expansive carbon emissions rules that would dramatically raise the cost of electricity.

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Donald Trump Sparks GOP Soul-Searching

A well-intentioned article by Noah Rothman in Commentary Magazine offers that Donald Trump’s supporters are the right wing’s version of Obama’s vacuous “Hope and Change” acolytes. Says Rothman: “Trump is the right’s Obama, insofar as his policy preferences are ill-defined, pliable, and reflective of whatever the audience immediately before him wants them to be.” Such comparisons short-change Trump’s supporters.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address at the National Clean Energy Summit 8.0 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on August 24, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Political and economic leaders are attending the summit to discuss a domestic policy agenda to advance alternative energy for the country's future. (Photo by

Obama: We Need To Keep Guns Away From People Who Shouldn’t Have Them

“Sadly, gun violence is in the environment in this country every single day,” he said in an interview with local New Orleans station WWL-TV. “And some of this violence can’t be prevented but a whole lot of it can if we are doing a better job of making sure that people who have problems, people who shouldn’t have guns, don’t have them.” Obama added that he continued to hope for a grassroots movement in favor of more gun control to move more restrictive policies forward.