Some good examples of the kind of thing today’s Republicans love to attack the President about are President Obama’s 2009 meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez & his use of a teleprompter for speeches. But to put these absurd attacks into some kind of reasonable context we must consider that Ronald Reagan used a teleprompter [...]

The January jobs report is out and it is better than expected; 243K new jobs were added during the month and the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.3% (at the worst point of the Bush Recession it was all the way up to 10%.) This means there have now been 23 consecutive months of private [...]

According to this CBS News poll 91% of Americans approve of the proposals in President Obama’s State of the Union address. You can watch the entire State of the Union address here. The big problem is it is very unlikely that there will be any significant movement on those proposals because the Republican controlled House [...]

1. President Obama’s State of the Union address last night. 2. President Obama proved right on stem cell research. The Republican candidates for President would have criminalized breakthrough. 3. Obama calls for minimum 30% tax on millionaires. This would be bad news for Mitt Romney. 4. Only 17% of Americans agree that corporations should be [...]

Stopping SOPA & PIPA should be the primary goal of anyone who cares about the future of freedom on the internet. This is not a right wing thing or a left wing thing. Right wing blogs like RedState.com & left wing blogs like DailyKos.com, which disagree on just about everything else, are in total agreement [...]

Occupy Wall Street protesters are being allowed back in Zuccotti Park. Meanwhile; “Occupy Congress” is set for next Tuesday (the 17th.) More Top Stories 1. Five Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism About Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today. 2. Man Removed From Mitt Romney Event (& Arrested) Without Explanation. 3. Ron Paul Calls On GOP To [...]

Some good economic news: Over 200,000 jobs were added last month according to the Labor Department. This lowers the unemployment rate to 8.5% which is the lowest it has been in almost two years. There have now been 21 consecutive months of private sector job growth. President Obama may be able to be reelected even [...]

PolitiFact has completely destroyed any credibility it may have had with its absurd “lie of the year” winner: The Republicans voted to end Medicare as we know it. The problem with claiming this to be a lie is, of course, that it is not a lie by any stretch of the imagination. The Republicans did [...]

Transcript This week marked an historic moment in the life of our country and our military. For nearly nine years, our nation has been at war in Iraq. More than 1.5 million Americans have served there with honor, skill, and bravery. Tens of thousands have been wounded. Military families have sacrificed greatly – none more [...]

US Unemployment has dropped to 8.6%, its lowest point in over two and a half years, with 120,000 new jobs added in October. An improving economy is a very good sign for President Obama’s reelection hopes. Despite the Republican Party’s best efforts to sabotage economic growth to hurt President Obama politically, the Obama recovery appears [...]