The annual State Department report on global human rights found 2014 to be a particularly dire year for individual rights, largely due to terrorist organizations like the Islamic State and Boko Haram. Atop the list of offenders, however, were also rogue states that President Obama has made the cornerstone of his diplomatic efforts: Iran and Cuba.
“Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else,” he wrote on his Twitter account. He signed his message with the hashtag “#LoveWins.”
On six different occasions, Obama insisted that his signature healthcare reform law was working.
This time, however, Biden decided not to drop the f’word.
“The Affordable Care Act is here to stay,” he announced from the podium, noting that Republicans had been working for years to bring it down. “As the dust has settled, there can be no doubt that this law is working,” he added.
President Obama has yet to react to the news that the Supreme Court upheld the legality of Obamacare subsidies, but many of his former staffers cheered as the the latest legal attempt against Obama’s signature healthcare law failed.
“Hey, listen, you are in my house,” Obama said. “You know know what? It’s not respectful when you get invited to somebody…” he trailed off before lecturing the protester. “Shame on you, you shouldn’t be doing this,” he said.
Eight Democratic members of Congress flew into south Texas on Monday to see the detention camps holding thousands of illegal aliens. Lead by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, they visited one camp in Karnes City and another near Dilley, and came away with stark impressions.
I welcome Senator Cruz to the battle against giving more power to President Obama. My consistent opposition to the Trade Promotion Authority, or TPA, stems from my belief that Congress has already given too much power to the Presidency.
“No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved one,” Obama said. “The last thing we should ever do is to add to the family’s pain with threats like that.” During conversations with families of the hostages, Obama said, they expressed frustration with the government bureaucracy to bring their loved ones home.
Later this afternoon, Obama is expected to meet with some of the families of the slain hostages and announce his new policy that would allow families to privately pay ransoms to terrorists to recover their loved ones. According to Foreign Policy, only 24 of the 82 families that the administration contacted chose to participate in the hostage review.
Fmr. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren argued the Obama administration “abandoned” two of the “core principles” of the US-Israel relationship on Tuesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Oren said that the book does include mistakes that were made by Israel and
“It was a really important point for people to hear. I think he’s glad that he said it,” Jarrett told Politico. “And he is encouraged that people were able to hear his broader message.”
Press Secretary Josh Earnest also insisted that Obama didn’t walk into the interview intending to use the word, but that it was part of the honest conversation on multiple issues.
Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended Obama’s comments about gun control, pointing out that he had many conversations with both urban and rural voters about the importance of gun ownerships and the need to restrict it for safety reasons.
On June 20, The Fresno Bee editorial board ran an editorial showing that gun control is not working, yet calling for more gun control to prevent an attack like the heinous one in Charleston, South Carolina, from ever happening again.
Before the dead bodies of nine completely innocent people could even cool, New Yorker editor David Remnick ghoulishly exploited an unspeakable racist crime to attack President Obama’s political opponents. Here’s what David Remnick didn’t disclose… There is one major difference
Last week’s collapse of a potentially critical trade package deal in the House raised questions as to how two-time congressional candidate Ro Khanna’s view on the deal might differ from that of his rival, incumbent Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose).
What’s the difference between Bill Ayers and Dylann Roof? Dylann Roof isn’t a friend and colleague of an American president who enjoyed a cushy life in academia before retiring to life as the kind of author who’s invited on-the-air by the mainstream media to hawk his books.
Obama used the word during a conversation about racism in America, in which he challenged the notion that just because it wasn’t polite to use the word in public, the nation no longer had to struggle with it.
“We’re not in a common conversation,” he said. “If you watch Fox News you inhabit a completely different world with different facts than if you read (the) New York Times,” he said.
“Each time that these events occur, ironically, gun manufacturers make out like bandits, partly because of this fear that’s churned up that the federal government and the black helicopters are all coming to get your guns,” he said.
The world’s media is going gaga for the story that the wife of an Israeli politician called U.S. President Barack Obama “black and weak”. Apparently, noting Mr Obama’s skin colour – which both he and his supporters drew as much attention to
On June 19, President Barack Obama gave an interview to WTF with Marc Maron in which he described guns as part of “a legitimate set of traditions” that need to be subject to “common sense” controls.
On June 20 former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from their state Capitol grounds in Columbia.
