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17 Jan 2023, 3:45 am
” Namazi, a US citizen, had been arrested in October 2015 but excluded from a prisoner swap between the US and Iran on January 16, 2016 under former President Barack Obama. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 1:40 am
In 2011, President Barack Obama declared that May 1, since the late 1950s celebrated as “Law Day,” would be dedicated to “The Legacy of John Adams: From Boston to Guantanamo. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 5:00 am
That was the case last year when Barack Obama bizarrely called himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” before calling for sweeping censorship and media controls over expression. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:46 am
The threats from Republicans recall brinkmanship in 2011, when congressional Republicans sought to pressure President Barack Obama to accept similar spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 10:14 am
In the final Presidential debate, Barack Obama correctly said that Mitt Romney's "five-point plan" is actually a one-point plan: the economic elite get to play by a different set of rules, no matter how much it harms everyone else.And speaking of that "five-point plan," it is worth thinking again about the change in tactics that we have seen over the years, especially in this election. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 7:38 pm
Compare that to the assessment of Jeh Johnson, former President Barack Obama's head of homeland security, who once said 1,000 encounters a day constituted a crisis. [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 11:58 am
One way to see this is by recalling the horrified response from the super wealthy when Barack Obama hurt their feelings by saying that their financial activities might need to be regulated more effectively -- which Paul Krugman dubbed "the pathos of the plutocrats. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, this country voted no.When this year’s resolution was discussed in a U.N. committee, the United States again voted against it.A representative of the United States explained that vote as follows: “International human rights law establishes clearly that Member States may, within certain established parameters, use this form of punishment as confirmed by Article 6 of the ICCPR (International Covenant of Civil and Political… [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 11:35 am
The National Archives wants to release hundreds of pages of emails about Hunter Biden and Burisma — and the White House won't say whether it will let it happen.By Mattathias Schwartz, Business Insider, Dec. 14, 2022 The emails are from 2014, when President Joe Biden served as vice president under former President Barack Obama.The White House now has 60 days to decide whether to stop the release of the emails by invoking executive privilege. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 4:57 am
So why do it — especially where it necessarily entails sideswipe at Barack Obama's masculinity? [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 3:00 am
In speaking to media figures in April, former President Barack Obama called upon “our better angels” to shape voters’ opinions. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 8:46 pm
When Youngkin attacks NIMBYism, he sounds a lot like Barack Obama, who recently decried "NIMBY attitudes" and "regulations" that "make it very difficult to integrate communities and allow people to live close to where they work. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 8:11 am
Bush, Bob Dole, Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and John McCain. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 1:48 pm
Bush and Barack Obama also committed their share of constitutional sins. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 9:40 am
Can you speak a little about your almost two years as the Special Assistant to President Biden for Climate Policy and your time with the Department of the Interior under Presidents Obama and Clinton? [read post]
4 Dec 2022, 5:20 am
Can an agency properly invoke the deliberative process privilege to shield internal deliberations over a sham memo requesting that another agency take action, knowing that the recipient agency will use the request to hide the real reason for its contemplated action? [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 4:00 pm
Why did so many people fixate on whether Barack Obama was born in the United States? [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 3:22 pm
This is why President Barack Obama in 2015 rolled back the Department of Defense’s 1033 program which had handed out military equipment to local police departments. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 12:43 pm
Mayorkas’ memo resembles immigration-enforcement policies enacted under President Barack Obama and other prior administrations, though not Donald Trump, who sought to limit the role of discretion in immigration enforcement. [read post]
24 Nov 2022, 3:19 am
Along the way, she helped redefine the outer limits of what a politician could say as she made dark insinuations about Barack Obama’s background and false claims about government 'death panels' that could deny health care to seniors and people with disabilities. [read post]
