by Mark Silva
On his way to Oslo tonight to collect the Nobel Prize for Peace, President Barack Obama certainly has considered these words as he prepares to deliver his own:
"We must ever bear in mind that the great end in view is righteousness, justice as between man" [...]
by Mark Silva
It's the holiday season at the White House, decked out for the winter holidays with an array of recycled ornaments from years past as a nod to the need for conservation.
But that doesn't mean that anyone at the punch bowl is holding back any punch' [...]
by Mark Silva
Al Gore, star of the Oscar Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth and Nobel Peace Prize-winner for his advocacy of averting climate change, says he cannot control the "noise machine'' of global-warming "deniers,'' but dismisses the emails that have cranked up the noise.
The former vice president discussed the controversy [...]
by Mark Silva
They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine.
And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the prize winners in chemistry.
And the ones [...]
by Mark Silva and updated
In the practice of preaching to the choir, Sarah Palin appears to have all but patented the art of saying what a few want to hear -- and it's an all-new tune now.
Palin, who was the Republican Party's nominee for vice president, is suggesting that [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama's overall job-approval rating has registered somewhat higher than in other recent polls - 54 percent approval -- in a new Bloomberg News-sponsored poll released today.
The president receives particularly higher ratings for his handling of foreign policy in the poll - 59 percent approval.
And, [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, bowing to other leaders of the world, fails to understand the concept of "American exceptionalism,'' former Vice President Dick Cheney contends.
"There's never been a nation like the United States of America in world history, and yet when you have a president who goes around [...]
by Mark Silva
Another national poll measuring a loss of majority support for the job that President Barack Obama is performing suggests that the president is "coming up short'' in his promise of unifying the nation.
The president's public job-approval stands at 46 percent in the Marist College Poll released" [...]
by Mark Silva
In Washington, President Barack Obama said today, critics are "waxing political'' about curtailing the federal deficit after a decade of compounding it.
"One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility,'' the president in a speech detailing his ideas for redirecting some of [...]
by Mark Silva
It was inevitable.
Art immitates life.
Memorable memoirs are made of this.
The spoof of Sarah Palin's popular memoir, Going Rogue, is entitled Going Rouge.
But friends of Sarah may be seeing [...]
by Mark Silva
The biggest borrowing in the history of Chicago's Water Reclamation District was supposed to be "fair and reasonable.''
Yet it cost taxpayers $8 million in unnecessary interest and spawned a "bonanza'' for bankers and investors, Bloomberg News reports.
Michael Quint and John McCormick, weighing in with a look at [...]
by Mark Silva
Credit Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for reading the White House schedule, the one that features President Barack Obama today proposing a new jobs-boosting program in the midst of pervasive high unemployment.
Obama, Steele says in a letter to the White House today, should be looking [...]
by Mark Silva
As President Barack Obama heads for Oslo this week to accept the Nobel Prize for Peace -- only the third sitting president to accept the award -- he is ramping up the U.S. military deployment in Afghanistan, an eight-year-old war, to nearly 100,000 troops.
The irony [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama's job approval in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking survey today -- 47 percent -- marks a new low for the president's job ratings.
Obama's approval has fallen below [...]
by Mark Silva
In the aftermath of the ACORN workers offering tax advice to self-appointed undercover video-cops posing as a prostitute and pimp, ACORN has investigated itself and found that its employees broke no laws.
That may come as little surprise to ACORN's critics.
The organization's director calls the results of [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue national book-signing tour may be good for more than book sales:
Public opinion of the Republican former governor of Alaska has risen in recent months, according to the findings of a new [...]
by Mark Silva
In Washington, there are talking heads, and then there are Talking Heads. And sometimes, both of them are talking about transportation.
The Brookings Institution is playing host to several speakers this week, including a couple with something oddly in common:
David Byrne, [...]
by Mark Silva
This is "a date which will live in infamy,'' as President Franklin Roosevelt told the Congress the day after Japan unleashed a devastating surprise attack on American naval and air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.
"The United States was at peace with that nation,'' [...]
by Mark Silva
The Obama administration is holding a workshop today on open goverment.
It's closed to the public and press.
The workshop is being held by the Justice Department's Office of Information Policy for the public liasons at federal agencies who field requests for records filed under the [...]
by Mark Silva
First Lady Michelle Obama sat next to "the Boss'' last night.
Seated on her other side at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington was the president of the United States, there to oversee the honors for singer Bruce Springsteen - a Rock and" [...]
by Mark Silva
Count Sen. Dick Durbin among those doubtful about the new deployment of troops in Afghanistan that President Barack Obama has ordered.
"I'm skeptical as to whether 30,000 more troops will make a difference,'' Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois, No. 2 Democratic leader in the Senate and mentor'" [...]
By Mark Silva
Count Sen. Dick Durbin among those doubtful about the new deployment of troops in Afghanistan that President Barack Obama has ordered.
"I'm skeptical as to whether 30,000 more troops will make a difference,'' Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois, No. 2 Democratic leader in the Senate and mentor'" [...]
by Mark Silva
It's a rite of passage for politicians in Washington:
Making fun of oneself.
And sometimes politicians do it on purpose - particularly when it's a matter of performing for the Gridiron Club.
That's what Sarah Palin, the Republican [...]
by Mark Silva
"Climategate,'' they call it.
What a joke.
As if the hacking of some email in England exposing some overzealous scientists with a political agenda undermines the world's collection of scientific data on climate change.
Suddenly, it's time for Al Gore to surrender his Nobel Prize.
"Poor [...]
by Mark Silva
On the heels of the best employment report of the year -- albeit one with continuing job losses -- President Barack Obama says additional steps will be needed to help a reviving economy produce more new jobs in the year ahead and insists that overhauling the [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin says she is no birther.
The author of Going Rogue insists that she has never suggested that President Barack Obama, a native of Hawaii, was not born in the United States.
Yet, in a radio interview this week, the Republican candidate for vice president [...]
by Mark Silva
Gov. Charlie Crist, the popular Florida governor running for Senate, got his numbers crossed, inadvertently directing parents to a sex phone line.
Callers to the governor's office heard an on-hold recording of Crist promoting the toll-free Florida KidCare line, a program of subsidized health care for [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama not long ago fielded a question from a high-schooler in Virginia about how one goes about getting the job that the president has.
"Let me give you some very practical tips,'' the president replied. "First of all, I want everybody here to be [...]
by Mark Silva
Americans only narrowly support the "new way forward'' that President Barack Obama has announced for the U.S. military in Afghanistan - with 51 percent supporting the strategy unveiled this week at West Point.
And the public is divided in its confidence that the plan - adding" [...]
by Mark Silva and updated
Americans only narrowly support the "new way forward'' that President Barack Obama has announced for the U.S. military in Afghanistan - with 51 percent supporting the strategy unveiled this week at West Point.
And the public is divided in its confidence that the plan" [...]
