Obama executive order a sensible first step
Earlier this week, when President Barack Obama announced his executive order requiring more background checks on gun purchases, the response...
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Politics can ruin even a soldier’s return home
One of the primary functions of our constitutional republic is that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. We don’t always like th...
On fake blizzards, disappearing airplanes and ruining the Internet
When I was young, I walked to school. Uphill. We only had 20 channels and none of them were MTV. Wikipedia was called “the library.” And we ...
Perception is everything in politics, life
I’ve said before that if President Barack Obama cured cancer there are some people who would find fault with it. It’s not just Obama, mind y...
Some things just don’t add up
Math isn’t my thing. I’m more of a words guy. But I’m pretty good at simple arithmetic. I can add 2 and 2 just as well as the next guy. But ...
Budget deal nothing to get excited about
As much as I want to herald the dawn of a new spirit of cooperation in the budget/debt limit deal that Congress approved Wednesday night, I ...
Looney GOP keeps playing same Tunes
Shouldn’t there have been a point at which Wyle E. Coyote — super genius — realized that maybe he wasn’t actually that bright and was never ...
I should have avoided Facebook
The only thing worse than the sunny-day patriotism on my Facebook and Twitter feeds is the open use of a national tragedy to score politic...
Obama’s politics opened up can of worms
President Barack Obama pulled a bit of political genius out of his magic hat when he sought Congressional approval to use military action in...
Blowing the dust off the forum ...
Back in the day ... when I was but a wee lad ... this website had a pretty active forum ... complete with posts, replies, arguments and dr...
Another encampment in the trenches
Thursday I went to the University at Buffalo to cover President Barack Obama’s speech about the rising cost of college education and his pla...
Is President Obama reviving the Cold War?
Like anyone over the age of 30, I grew up under an imminent threat of a nuclear holocaust brought upon by the big bad Russians. I learned th...
We need to work on our narrow minds
Another week has come and gone and once again the crazies on the right have decided it was national “Use Barack Obama as a Pinata Week.” Thi...
White House displays sense of humor ...
This is legit. Check the original post here . I think this displays a certain amount of hubris. But ... it's still kind of funny...
Rooting against America is un-American
Politicians annoy me. Democrats. Republicans. Even my fellow Libertarians. People’s motives never seem to be for the betterment of humanity ...
Only Dennis Rodman could go to N. Korea?
It seems like people are a bit upset with Dennis Rodman. The retired NBA player/reality TV show in the making became the first American to p...
Republican circus has big (crazy) tent
I’ve long mocked the birther movement — you know, that group of people who claim that President Barack Obama is a Muslim communist born in K...
Brewing 020413
Birthers have company in the crazy wing of the GOP. Not everyone wants women in combat. And random facts.
Here we go again - again
We are now officially into the second term of the 44th president of the United States. Despite all odds, Barack Obama was reelected in Novem...
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