Today President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, legislation that will extend new federal protections to people who are victims of violent crime because of their sex or sexual orientation. It is an update to the federal hate crimes statute that Congress first passed in 1968. [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
The Obama administration launched a clean-energy blitz Tuesday, with President Barack Obama sweeping into this Central Florida hamlet to unveil .4 billion in stimulus grants for advanced electricity-grid projects and Vice President Joe Biden traveling to his home state of Delaware to open an electric-automobile plant.
The administration Tuesday released a list [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama has made advocating on behalf of US military families a top priority since she entered the East Wing. To honor that commitment today she spoke 200 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. According to the New York Daily News the veterans, about a dozen in wheelchairs, crowded into a conference room at [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama graces the December cover of Glamour magazine for their annual Women of the Year Issue. 2009 was definitely the year of Michelle Obama. From becoming the Nation’s first African American First Lady to inviting the DC community to become members of the exclusive White House visitors club, Michelle Obama has undoubtedly been a [...]
New Media Director Natalie Foster just sent out the following email, announcing the top 20 finalists — as well as the opening of public voting — for the Health Reform Video Challenge:
We just finished going through the submissions to OFA’s Health Reform Video Challenge, and they’re great. There are personal stories that grab your heart, [...]
Kristen Jarvis has to have one of the coolest jobs on the East Wing. The 28-year-old Spelman College graduate is the Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide for First Lady Michelle Obama. Kristen, who calls the First Lady her big sister, became a part of Team Obama in 2004 as the Special Assistant to [...]
OK, he’s been at this job for 10 months, and this website is still active… at least for now.
So, how’s President Obama doing so far?
Juan Cole grades Obama’s foreign policy, which for various reasons, doesn’t include Afghanistan.
St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and [...]
OK, he’s been at this job for 10 months, and this website is still active… at least for now.
So, how’s President Obama doing so far?
Juan Cole grades Obama’s foreign policy, which for various reasons, doesn’t include Afghanistan.
St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and [...]
Earlier today, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid announced his intention to include a government-run insurance plan with an “opt out” provision in the Senate version of health care legislation. The New York Times reported:
“I’ve concluded, with the support of the White House, Senators Dodd and Baucus, that the best way to move forward is to [...]
The United States is engaged in two wars that have no clear end in sight. Servicemen and women are faced with multiple deployments that keep families separated for months. We live in a country plagued with an epidemic of childhood obesity. A broken health care system leaves millions of Americans, uninsured or under insured, hanging [...]
