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McLaughlin: Did Obama’s Roosevelt speech sound like Hugo Chavez?
Long time Sunday talk show host John McLaughlin provided his show a rare notable moment this past weekend, asking his panel guests a peculiar question. Beginning a discussion over President Barack Obama’s speech in Kansas invoking Teddy Roosevelt this past week, McLaughlin was curious as to whether it resembled a…
Perry wants constitutional amendment for prayer in schools
As president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says he would fight for a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in schools. In an ad released last week, Perry declared that President Barack Obama was waging a “war on religion” because gays are allowed to serve openly in the military and children…
Obama in annual festive showdown with Republicans
WASHINGTON — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — with tree lights twinkling, sleigh bells ringing and President Barack Obama locked in his annual Yuletide power struggle with Republicans in Congress. This year’s fight — over Obama’s demands for an extension of a workers’ tax cut and unemployment…
Gingrich stands by ‘invented’ Palestinians jab
Leading Republican White House contender Newt Gingrich has stood by remarks that Palestinians are an “invented” people, which have sparked outrage as he seemed to call into question long-held US policy on statehood. “Is what I said factually correct? Yes. Is it historically true? Yes,” Gingrich said during a thorny…
Uygur calls rival Sharpton an Obama cheerleader
Responding to a reader poll on Thursday night, Current TV’s “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur suggested that Al Sharpton, whose MSNBC program “PoliticsNation” airs at the same time as Uygur’s, is a cheerleader for President Barack Obama. The Current reader poll Uygur was responding to showed that 84 percent…
Republicans tie Keystone pipeline to tax cut bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives will include approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline in a payroll tax cut bill, House Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday, raising the political stakes on the issue. The move by House Republicans marked a challenge to President Barack Obama, who has warned he…
Sen. Bernie Sanders: GOP obstructionism a ‘sad state of affairs’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday night suggested Republicans were only interested in defeating President Barack Obama in 2012, even if it meant ruining the country. “The day after Obama got elected the Republicans made a decision: They would do everything they could to stop his agenda,” he explained on…
House Republicans rally around payroll tax plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives began to fall into line on Thursday behind a bill to extend an expiring payroll tax break after their leaders sweetened the measure with a provision that President Barack Obama has threatened to veto. The move to link the popular tax…
Obama rejects Republican ‘appeasement’ claims
WASHINGTON — With the icy riposte “ask Osama bin Laden,” President Barack Obama on Thursday rebutted Republican claims he is blind to the threat from radical “thugs” and guilty of appeasing US enemies. Obama’s use of lethal force as US commander-in-chief against Al-Qaeda and other groups has partly insulated him…
Obama backs restrictions on morning-after pill
President Barack Obama on Thursday said he supported Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to keep the restrictions that prevent teens from being able to buy emergency contraception without a prescription. U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg had told reporters that she backed lifting the age…
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