“This is a clear reminder of the consequences of Republican obstruction of Obama’s current SCOTUS nominee.”
Barack Obama
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A New Trajectory in Health Care Expenditures
The hard-fought accomplishment of Obamacare is starting to pay off
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Obama Rejects the “Carly Simon Syndrome”
Donald Trump thinks President Barack Obama is sympathetic to ISIS. In reality, Obama knows much of the Middle East is outside U.S. control.
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Quick Takes: Obama Has a Plan for Defeating ISIS…and It’s Working
* I suggest that you take a few minutes to read or watch President Obama’s remarks today on the status of our counterterrorism efforts against ISIS. He laid out all of the ways that our efforts to defeat them are proceeding – including the fact that they have lost 50% of the territory they once […]
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Sen. David Perdue Hopes President’s Days Will Be Few
Freshman U.S. Senator David Perdue of Georgia raised some eyebrows on Friday at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C. He says he was making a joke when he referred to Psalm 109 and encouraged the participants to pray that President Obama’s “days would be few.” Some, however, looked up the Psalm and […]
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Eye on the Sparrow
Earlier this year, I noted that the rise of Donald Trump “must shatter the hearts of progressives of faith in particular. After all, the success of the Trump campaign is a sign that America is in a state of spiritual crisis. The legions backing Trump have obviously abandoned the values of tolerance, civility, kindness, decency, […]
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What’s the Matter with the Left?
Thomas Frank’s factually un-rigorous assault on the Clinton and Obama administrations.
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A New Trajectory on Income Inequality
A couple of weeks ago, I gathered together what writers like Paul Krugman, Matt Yglesias and Zachary Goldfarb were saying about the progress President Obama is making on reducing income inequality. This week the Congressional Budget Office released a report that affirmed their arguments. As Derek Thompson points out, it contains good news and bad news. […]
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President Obama: “I’m With Her”
The endorsement everyone was expecting finally comes.
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Obamacare’s Success in Protecting our Finances
It wasn’t the primary goal, but it’s a big help nonetheless.
