Health Care At It’s Best

“Hisssss,” go the Republicans. “In your face!” shout the Democrats. President Obama just signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. the Health Care Reform Bill). The bill, according to the White House Web site, will help more than 31 million uninsured Americans afford health insurance while providing subsidies to tens of [...]

The Internet Winning The Nobel Peace Prize?

If the Internet wins the Nobel Peace Prize, do we all get a trophy? Several nominees for the prestigious 2010 prize, which was awarded last year to President Obama, surfaced on Wednesday in news reports. Among them: “The Internet” and, separately, several of the Web’s creators, including Larry Roberts, Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee, who [...]

Obama Still Smokes

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday acknowledged that President Barack Obama still “ocassionally falls of the wagon” when it comes to smoking cigarettes. Gibbs was asked about Obama’s smoking at the daily press briefing after the president’s medical report released Sunday said that he is using nicotine replacement therapy. “He is occassionally falls [...]

Is Vanity Fair Racist?

Magazines have a tough time getting race right, but usually they manage to do a better job than Vanity Fair did in its March issue. The magazine, which is owned by glossy publishing house Conde Nast, recently delivered its annual Hollywood issue — to howls of protest from around the blogosphere and the analog world. [...]

Barack Obama… A Youtube Hit?

On Monday, President Obama is scheduled to sit down in the library of the White House residence for his first interview since his State of the Union address. The interviewer? The United States of YouTube. In a first-of-its-kind group interview, Mr. Obama will read and watch questions submitted by YouTube users and answer them in [...]

Who Is Scott Brown?

Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown has a long history of public service. The 50-year-old native of Wakefield, Mass., began his political career in 1992 and has served in the National Guard for 30 years. His political views aren’t easily pigeonholed. Brown calls himself “fiscally conservative and socially conscious.” He says he would be an independent [...]

Obama Thanks MLK On His Day

U.S. President Barack Obama has marked the holiday for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with an unannounced visit to a relief organization providing support to earthquake victims in Haiti. The president and his wife, Michelle Obama, stopped Monday at an American Red Cross center in Washington, where the president thanked workers for [...]

Georgetown… Racist?

Many individuals at Georgetown University are upset about a satirical article in the school’s humor magazine. In the magazine the writers depicted members of the student newspaper as Ku Klux Klan members at a cross burning. The article also referred to many things such as “dark, human shaped piñatas” One of the interviewed people said that Georgetown [...]

Obama Has His Plan

Barack Obama last night set out a new strategy for Afghanistan that coupled a short-term escalation of the war with a promise that he will begin US troop withdrawals in July 2011, the first time that America has offered a timetable for a military pullout. Crucially, he offered no date for its completion, though White [...]

The Thanksgiving Act of 2009

With all of the brouhaha surrounding the health care debate, another bill was passed by Congress and signed by President Obama with little notice. Called the Thanksgiving Act of 2009, it makes major changes in the way Americans of all colors and creeds celebrate Thanksgiving in accordance with hope and change. So as Americans get [...]

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