Posts tagged Barack Obama

No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation’s health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress. The president’s newly conflicting signals could frustrate Democratic lawmakers who are hungry for... [+]

I’M NOT sure why I continue to read Bill Kristol’s work. He seems to get most things wrong, but I have a perverse fascination with his logic, largely because it is so unsound. So today I found myself picking through Mr Kristol’s latest Weekly Standard... [+]

After publicly sparring in the fall, the White House and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are trying to make up. In an extraordinary exchange of letters written after last week’s State of the Union address, Chamber President Tom Donohue and President Barack Obama agreed to... [+]

The military’s top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to “lie about who they are in order... [+]

Ted Sorensen and other former White House speechwriters advise the president on how his State of the Union address can turn his presidency around. It’s time for President Barack Obama to give the speech of his life—again. For every season, there is the Obama speech... [+]

President Barack Obama stepped up his campaign against Wall Street on Thursday with a far-reaching proposal for tougher regulation of the biggest banks. “We have to get this done,” Obama said at the White House. “If these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m... [+]

Paul Volcker, legendary central banker turned radical reformer of our financial system, has won an important round. The WSJ is now reporting: President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to propose new limits on the size and risk taken by the country’s biggest banks, marking... [+]

President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy on Monday, one of several ways the nation’s first black president paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday that honors the slain civil rights leader. Obama also scheduled a... [+]