Supreme Court Decision On HealthCare
Barack Obama sings and dances.
Barack Obama
What To Expect When You’re Electing: Part 1 – What’s At Stake
vote-smart-button.jpg Environmental and energy issues became one of the central issues of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. While the economy itself took center stage, energy issues were right behind it,…
Tweet of the day, etc.
If you’re coming to Canada to escape Obamacare, I feel bad for you son. We’ve got 99 problems but a lack of socialized medicine ain’t one. — Jason Sweeney (@sween)…
Yes We Can…à la Québécoise
On the day that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, I felt exhilarated to look back at will.i.am's 2008…
Yes We Can…à la Québécoise
On the day that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, I felt exhilarated to look back at will.i.am’s 2008…
Yes We Can…à la Québécoise
On the day that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, I felt exhilarated to look back at will.i.am’s 2008…
Yes We Can…à la Québécoise
On the day that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, I felt exhilarated to look back at will.i.am's 2008…
TransCanada’s Latest Extreme Energy Export Pipelines in the U.S. and Canada
shutterstock_48011347.jpg TransCanada was once in the limelight and targeted for its Keystone XL pipeline project. Now, with few eyes watching, it is pushing along two key pipeline projects that would…
Obama’s Mortal Sin – Normalizing Extremism
Guantanamo remains open. Drones strike far afield. American citizens are being liquidated by their own government without trial or even charge. Is this the legacy of Barack Obama, the normalization…
The Obama Question [book review]
Gary Dorrien’s book, The Obama Question, makes, as its central thesis, the following point: From a progressive perspective, much of Obama’s presidency has been a failure for which he has…
Obama Backs Marriage Equality
Barack Obama announced his personal support of marriage equality yesterday, making him the first U.S. president to do so. Political analysts are already speculating on how this will affect November’s…
President Obama and Marriage Equality
First thing’s first. Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage yesterday should be celebrated. On the heels of similar pronouncements by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan,…
Right-wing talk radio on the US is going to be frothier then usual from now until November.
You might have heard that President Obama came out publicly and announced his support for same-sex marriage: “It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think…
Obama endorses same-sex marriage
There you go, Mr. Obama, how hard was that? “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and…
Obama comes out in support of same sex marriage
Years back, when Barack Obama first told us that his views on gay marriage were “evolving”, I predicted that he would support gay marriage before the next election. That day…
B.C. Protest This Saturday to Stop Warren Buffett’s BNSF Coal Trains
shutterstock_14976709.jpg Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man on the planet (net worth: $44 billion), often referred to as the "Oracle of Omaha," is the target of a May 5 action…
ALEC Wasn’t First Industry Trojan Horse Behind Fracking Disclosure Bill – Enter Council of State Governments
shutterstock_95581429.jpg 19th Century German statesman Otto von Bismarck once said, "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made." The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
Nerd Prom 2012 Speeches
Keynote speeches from this year’s White House Correspondents’ dinner by Jimmy Kimmel and President Obama:
Correspondents Dinner 2012: Obama sparkles again
He did even better than 2011.
Deja Vu All Over Again (And Again, And Again, And…)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, Canuckistan: Stephen Harper is leaving the door open once again to extending Canada’s military participation in the costly Afghanistan war. When the…