On Monday morning, President Obama was served a blow by the Supreme Court when it rejected the administration's request to rehear a case about his immigration executive orders. The policy in question would have granted millions of immigrants relief from deportation and allowed ...read more
Former President Bill Clinton, on Monday, spoke at a rally for Hillary Clinton and appeared to have been deeply critical of the Obama administration's legacy. The explanation for what he meant is pretty straightforward, but there's another more stressful aspect to what he said, ...read more
By Ben Cohen: After over a year of campaigning in one form or another, thousands of speeches, ad campaigns, smear tactics, soundbytes, YouTube mashups, rallies, media appearances, and literally billions of dollars, Americans finally get to go to the polls and make their choice ...read more
This doesn't look good for the Obama administration, particularly as it pledged to close Guantanamo back in 2008: Another prisoner has died at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday, two days after the man was apparently found unconscious in his ...read more
By Bob Cesca: In a speech filled with misleading statements and nostalgic lines about how wonderful life used to be before President Obama was inaugurated, the single-most ridiculous line from Mitt Romney's acceptance speech Thursday night was this: "...Every president since ...read more
John Cusack's article/interview with law professor Jonathan Turley on the Obama administration's abuses of the constitution is a must read. I'm not sure I necessarily agree with Cusack final point, that he's not sure he can vote for a President who taught constitutional law and ...read more
As you've probably observed already, Mitt Romney is a lie machine. Steve Benen at Maddow Blog has been tracking Romney's mendacity and the tally is usually 20-30 items per week. That's a lot, and Benen probably doesn't hear about all of them. Any normal human being has to work ...read more
From the Guardian: The Obama administration has taken the biggest step towards granting legal status to undocumented immigrants in America in 25 years by ordering the end to deportations of law-abiding young people who came to the US as children. Announcing the change in the ...read more
The U.S. intelligence community will be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years under new Obama administration guidelines. Until now, the National Counterterrorism Center had to immediately destroy information about Americans ...read more
Glenn Greenwald asks why the formerly pro negotiating Obama won't negotiate with Iran: We have now a great irony: America's increasingly tense and dangerous conflict with Iran is characterized (one could even say caused) by the unwillingness of the Obama administration to ...read more
Bob Cesca hammers home the point: Everyone with a realistic view of the the Obama administration knows what's what — for better or worse. At this stage in the proceedings, with another pivotal election around the corner, there's nothing wrong (and everything right) with making ...read more
Matt Taibbi believes that had Obama properly dealth with the banking crisis (ie. instituted serious regulation), the Rick Perrys of American politics wouldn't exist: To me this whole issue encapsulates the basic failure of the Obama administration. It has surrendered to Wall ...read more
Obama may have lost control of the debt ceiling negotiations, but his administration is continuing to make positive changes behind the scenes. Expect an uproar from the GOP on this one. From the Huff Post: Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for ...read more
