Category Archives: Barack Obama

UGANDA? ZAMBIA? KENYA?

Where To Escape the Individual Mandate (Hint: Not Canada) By Amy Bingham/ ABC News/ June 30, 2012 Good Luck Finding A Developed Country That Has No Individual Mandate The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Obama’s health care law on Thursday made … Continue reading

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Poll : What Is Most Important to You in Choosing a President?

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Human Rights: It’s So Last Decade

In a NY Times Op-Ed, Jimmy Carter calls out the U.S. government (while carefully omitting President Obama’s name) for it’s worsening human rights record. The former American president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, clearly unafraid to speak his mind (Carter … Continue reading

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Obama Molests Children?

BPR Quote of the Day “Emperor Obama obviously could not care less about helping the Latino population. When Democrats had control of both houses of Congress he did absolutely nothing for them.   Now he’s doing to Latinos what Penn State … Continue reading

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The Romney Cure For What Ails Us

BPR Quote of the Day “[Obama] wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut … Continue reading

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AND THE GOOD NEWS IS……WHAT?

Broken Shards Of The Heart By David Michael Green/ OpEdNews/ June 8, 2012 I could tell you that my heart was broken by what happened in Wisconsin this week, but in truth that’s not quite accurate. I grew into political … Continue reading

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Wisconsin: The Final Nail in the Coffin of American Democracy

by Arlen Grossman/ The Big Picture Report American Democracy had struggled on life support for many years. It took its final breath on January 21, 2010, when a conservative Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in the landmark Citizens United case that … Continue reading

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NO JUSTICE FOR SIEGELMAN

Supreme Court Denies Siegelman, Scrushy Appeals By Andrew Kreig/ Justice Integrity Project/ June 4, 2012 True to recent form, the U.S. Supreme Court denied relief June 4 to former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges. This sets the stage … Continue reading

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OBAMA: “GEORGE W. BUSH ON STEROIDS”

Drone wars and state secrecy – how Barack Obama became a hardliner He was once a liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war. Now, according to revelations last week, the US president personally oversees a ‘kill list’ for … Continue reading

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OPAQUE TRANSPARENCY

Is the Government Holding Back Crucial Documents? By Russ Baker/ WhoWhatWhy/ May 30, 2012 Next year will be a half-century since the death of JFK. And the Obama Administration thinks we need to keep secret the records on the matter….a … Continue reading

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