By Joseph P. Williams |
Today in Obama:
Say Please: A pair of liberal House members wants President Barack Obama to ask Congress for a war declaration to fight the Islamic State group – preferably after they come back from the Christmas break.
If You Can’t Lick ‘Em: The president gave some bipartisan face time to the ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
As nationwide protests continue in the wake of the Eric Garner and Michael Brown brutality cases, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and the administration are grappling with race and justice in African American communities – probably something Obama hadn't envisioned taking on when ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Good TGIF, the 339th day of the year, and the 12th day of national protests over two police-brutality deaths that shut down streets, bridges and intersections in cities from Boston to Los Angeles last night. With another police shooting of an unarmed black man -- this time in Phoenix -- the ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Today In Obama:
"Deep Unfairness”: Speaking at an event designed to highlight administration policies designed to expand access to college, President Barack Obama weighed in again on a grand jury’s decision not to indict a New York City police officer for choking Eric Garner to death. The ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Surprising no one, the Republican-majority House passed a bill designed to rebuke President Barack Obama for taking unilateral action on immigration. HR 5759, authored by Rep. Ted Yoho, R.-Fla., declares Obama's executive action "null and void," but in reality, the bill will die in the Senate. It ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Good Thursday morning, the 338th day of 2014, and the fourth day since President Barack Obama announced a White House task force to examine the "simmering mistrust" between police and minority communities in the wake of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. After a night of national ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Today in Obama:
Not Again: The president said a New York City grand jury’s decision not to indict a Staten Island police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner “speaks to the larger issues we’ve been talking about for the last week, the last month, the last year and, sadly, for the last ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Much has been written in recent weeks about the fate of Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat fighting for her political life in a runoff election against Republican challenger Bill Cassidy. Harry Reid tried to rescue her with a vote on the Keystone XL pipeline, Hillary Clinton has stumped for ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Happy Hump Day, the 337th day of 2014 and the 13th day since President Barack Obama announced he’d take executive action to protect millions of immigrants from deportation – a unilateral move that led Republicans to promise some sort of retaliation. We’re still waiting on exactly what that will be ...
By Joseph P. Williams |
Today in Obama:
SecDef Nominee: President Barack Obama has settled on Ashton Carter, a former top Pentagon undersecretary and military policy wonk, as his replacement for outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Some had anticipated the president might smash the glass ceiling by selecting a woman ...
