Tag Archives: President Obama

The President Cried

The President of the United States, while talking to people about gun violence and what he will try to do on his own to help slow the rate at which Americans slaughter each other, was moved to tears. As he spoke about little tiny people getting ripped apart by bullets while in their elementary school, […]

ISIS vs The Climate

Carly Fiorina stated recently that the President was wrong, as was Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders, to suggest that Climate Change was a bigger threat to the future of the United States than ISIS. It’s very popular for GOP politicians to be hawkish on all things war, but let’s just look at this objectively for […]

Marriage and the Right to be Miserable

When I hear someone say, “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman,” my first thought is usually, “so?” It seems remarkable to me that people can state their opinion in this way, about something they have no say in, something no one even asked them about, and expect it to carry some […]

The End of the War in Iraq

President Barack Obama has made it official; “Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.” This is a direct quote from the President’s speech to the Marines at Camp Lejeune on February 27, 2009. He went on to say that pursuant to the […]

The 3.9 Trillion pound Gorilla in the Room

Only a few short days after signing into law the largest government spending package on record, the President of the Unites States has submitted his budget outline to Congress. I repeat; budget outline. This mere 140-page document is not the actual budget nor will it resemble the final product very much. What it does is set […]