The PBS Newshour report of Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo yesterday includes a video of the whole speech. (It's also on YouTube.) It's quite a bit more interesting than the snippets and summaries we saw in the nightly news. (Whitehouse.gov has [...]
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday by talking about war and the limits of non-violence. But he also praised the peacemakers of the past, and said the world can and should still strive for peace. "Let us reach for the world that ought to be," he [...]
The Obama administration has settled a long-standing lawsuit over the federal government’s abysmal record of serving as trustee for its American Indians.
The settlement of the Cobell v. Salazar case that used to be the Cobell v. Kempthrone case and the Cobell v. Babbitt case promises to pay $1.4 billion to [...]
Obama’s National Institute of Health announced on Wednesday that it was offering up 13 new cell lines for research, after harvesting the cells from preborn children killed for that purpose – presumably by the federal government itself. The embryonic stem cells are the first fruits of the [...]
Obama's new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%. Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama's closely watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin's little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might [...]
After the president's address on Afghanistan Tuesday night at the West Point Academy, Chris Matthews opined that the cadets had no reaction to Obama's speech and that, in truth, Obama had found himself in the "enemy camp." Matthews has since apologized for his comment. As he should. Besides [...]
Niyal Patel, not pictured, carries a cutout of President Barack Obama, in Schnecksville, Pa., this morning, where the president is scheduled to make remarks at Lehigh Carbon Community College. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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1. To make a dramatic entrance into the town hall meeting, President Obama demands to be fired from [...]Niyal Patel, not pictured, carries a cutout of President Barack Obama, in Schnecksville, Pa., this morning, where the president is scheduled to make remarks at Lehigh Carbon Community College. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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