In a somewhat less partisan State of the Union speech than in previous years, President Barack Obama opened and closed his annual address to Congress with admiration and recognition for American’s true heroes: the men and women of the armed forces. “We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States [...]
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday delivered a feisty presidential campaign kickoff speech to South Carolina Republicans announcing his bid for the White House in 2012 — while about 1,200 miles away Republicans battled it out during voting in the Iowa Straw Poll. The Iowa Straw Poll, first held in 1979 and seen as [...]
In a prime time address to the nation on Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said American forces in Afghanistan will be reduced by 30,000 by next summer, and remaining forces will continue to be reduced as they transition from a combat to support role until 2014. “Starting next month, we will be able to remove [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday wrote the obituary on the debate over where he was born when the White House took the unusual step of releasing Obama’s long form birth certificate.
VIEW THE LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE
The larger story, however, may not be what was or was not contained in Obama’s official birth record, but rather, the actions of the businessman who compelled the President to take the extraordinary action…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed House Bill 2177, legislation that would have empowered designated election officials in that state to determine if federal, state and local candidates were qualified to run for office.
The so-called “birther” bill would have required presidential candidates to prove they were a natural born citizen pursuant to Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution…
Speaking to a full chamber of Congress — with politicians seated among each other instead of in their traditional party sections — President Obama on Tuesday said the worst of the economic recession was over and urged Republicans, Democrats and Tea Party members alike to work together to solve the nation’s problems.
“That’s what the people who sent us here expect of us,” Obama said in the nationally-televised State of the Union speech.
A United States district court judge on Monday said that a key provision of President Obama and Congressional Democrats’ health care law is unconstitutional.
Judge Henry E. Hudson issued the 42-page opinion after the Attorney General of Virginia sued Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over Section 1501, which requires every U.S. citizen to maintain a minimum level of health insurance coverage as of 2014.
“The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision (individual mandate) would invite unbridled exercises of federal police powers…
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Health IT “incentives” reward doctors & hospitals that adopt electronic patient care records
The doctor was hunched over his laptop, a slight wrinkle forming on his forehead. He stared at the screen for a few seconds and then raised an eyebrow with a perplexed look on his face. “What’s wrong, Doc,” I asked nervously. Sitting in the examination room at the local physician’s office for my annual checkup, [...]