Barack Obama personally addressed the United Nations Security Council recently, becoming the first President of the United States to preside over a Security Council meeting. That gesture in and of itself is a pretty big one, and it underscores a difference between liberals and conservatives. Many liberals still see the United Nations as an important […]
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I did not expect to be writing about Congressman Joe Wilson and his disruption of President Barack Obama’s address to Congress with the infamous “You Lie!” line again this week. I mean, why should I? Wilson apologized for his lack of decorum in front of the media then he called the White House and apologized
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A couple of incidents came up this week that didn’t cast politics or our politicians in a favorable light. President Barack Obama was addressing Congress recently and stated that his health care plan did not include coverage for illegal aliens. In response, Republican Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina yelled out, “You lie!” Earlier–over Labor
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to address students at a Virginia high school. The speech will be broadcast on cable, and is supposed to focus on the setting of goals and working hard. But of course where politicians and bureaucrats are concerned, it had to get more complicated than that. Republicans complained that Democrats might
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Perhaps you’ve heard of the so-called “birthers.” You’ve definitely heard of the healthcare debate. What’s interesting to me is the effort to link the two. The birthers are those Americans who continue to complain that President Obama should be removed from office because (they say) he has never produced adequate proof of being born in
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