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20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” When the public sees a party that lacks the courage to defend its own values, people understandably conclude that those values must not be worth defending.And again, even when Democrats have limited themselves to anodyne or uncontroversial (or even conservative) proposals—which most definitely describes Barack Obama’s actual policies, especially his economic policies—Republicans simply call them commies (and Nazis, and Kenyans, and Stalinists)… [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Joshua Cutler (Houston), The Parallel Head Taxes of Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama: Economics As Morality and Its Populist Rejection: The legacies of Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama are alike intertwined with failed per capita taxes: Thatcher’s infamous local government poll tax and the individual mandate tax at the heart... [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 12:14 pm by davidferriero
President Barack Obama Works at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, 10/11/2013. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 4:49 am by Michael Barber
Corsi is an American political commentator who is known for popularizing the rumor that Barack Obama was not born in the US. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 7:00 am by Evanna Hu
Without rigorous M&E, it has been hard to defend the CVE budget in front of Congress, and five years after the first CVE summit hosted by the White House under President Barack Obama, we still do not know with confidence which CVE programs work better than others in different contexts. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 8:49 am by Elena Chachko
Iran also challenged other U.S. measures, including President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13599, which blocked all government of Iran assets within U.S. jurisdiction. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 5:42 am
That's from Politico, "Why Kamala Harris is glad people are asking if she's black enough/The candidate is looking to head off a problem that dogged Barack Obama" by Christopher Cadelago.First, I don't believe that Politico knows that Harris is "glad. [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 2:49 pm
He has neither waited until now, nor has he been silent, unlike some of his fellow Nobel laureates such as former US president Barack Obama whose secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, is the one who lobbied for Aung San Suu Kyi to enter the government under a constitution that gave the military full power. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
A position on a journal’s executive board attracts particular notice: well before he was the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama was already well known (at least in legal circles) as the 104th President of the Harvard Law Review.Law reviews have traditionally selected their members based on academic performance, typically a combination of law school grades and scores on a writing competition the law review administers. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 3:16 pm by Ilya Somin
It's hard to point to any one lie told by Trump that was as successful as Barack Obama's "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it," a deserving winner of Politifact's 2013 "Lie of the Year" award. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 7:38 am
A blog post from my son John looks at this strange sentence in the NYT:As recently as 2006, national Democrats including former President Barack Obama expressed wariness about immigrants’ ability to assimilate into American culture and did not openly embrace gay marriage — two talking points that would probably be deeply damaging for any 2020 candidate. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 2:27 pm
"Thus, throughout the Obama years, centrists called for political leaders who would address their debt concerns with an approach that combined spending cuts with revenue increases, offer a market-based health care plan and invest in infrastructure, somehow never managing to acknowledge that there was one major figure proposing exactly that — President Barack Obama. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 7:13 am
" Here's how Brooks wrote about Obama:[Barack Obama] notes that it’s time to move beyond the political style of the baby boom generation. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 2:59 pm by Allan Blutstein
These are the written opinions by lawyers at multiple U.S. intelligence agencies, drafted in 2011 at the request of President Barack Obama’s administration, on whether the U.S. had the legal right to capture or kill bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan. [read post]
27 Jan 2019, 7:57 pm
President Barack Obama took the necessary step of re-establishing diplomatic relations and easing the embargo, but President Donald Trump reversed course and tightened things up again out of knee-jerk hostility to anything Cuban and anything Obaman. [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 6:08 am by Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
, Justice Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama and assumed the role on August 8, 2009. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 4:58 pm by Bruce Zagaris
    The media has reported that the Skadden partner on the project who made false and misleading statements to the DOJ FARA unit is Gregory Craig, a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 4:58 pm by Bruce Zagaris
    The media has reported that the Skadden partner on the project who made false and misleading statements to the DOJ FARA unit is Gregory Craig, a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 2:30 am by Tinker Ready
Ryan Gabrielson ProPublica Originally published at ProPublica January 17 , 2019 At the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, a team of about a half-dozen technicians analyzes pictures down to their pixels, trying to determine if the faces, hands, clothes or cars of suspects match images collected by investigators from cameras at crime scenes. [read post]