Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
Obama's plan, comprised of House and Senate healthcare plans, is the focus of today's Healthcare Summit. Obama is convinced that the plan he created and posted Monday on the White House website is a perfect compromise between the gap in House and Senate plans. Obama's the fence sitting middleman...
Roy Ashburn, was arrested early Wednesday morning in Bakersfield, California for suspicion of drunk driving. The Republican Senator was picked up by police after leaving a gay nightclub with a male passenger in a state registered vehicle. He was driving a black Tahoe which was impounded following...
Obama spoke about how the changes in the health system will impact insurance companies. "They've got to start playing by a new set of rules that treats everybody honestly and treats everybody fairly," he said. "The days of the insurance industry running roughshod over the American people are over."...
The Sonia Sotomayor vote will go forward today, and she is no doubt a shoe in to be confirmed. However that doesn't mean that Republicans. aren't making this a huge political show. Some are determined to vote against her based on principal and partisan lines and not based on her record. "The...
New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg predicts the United States is bound for a "financial meltdown." According to Senator Gregg's calculations, this "meltdown" will occur within the next five to seven years. Financial Time's released a video interview with Senator Gregg that focused on the rising...
Off shore drilling was the focus of Obama's energy plan to meet the United States' growing energy crisis. President Obama announced Wednesday: "for the sake of our planet and our energy independence, we need to begin the transition to cleaner fuels now," in the form of "clean coal technologies...
The much debated issue of health care is in the glaring spotlight of politicians and citizens in the United States. The issue of health care has been the keynote of many of President Barack Obama's campaign and political agendas. The President has posted his own proposal on the White House's web...
Abortion is a key issue in opposition to Obama's health care bill. Many anti-abortion supporters from both the Republican and Democratic sides, lobbyists, and religious leaders are speaking out against the landmark health care bill freshly passed by Congress late Sunday night. President Obama...
The US Senate made a wise decision today in ending production of the F-22 Fighter after President Obama questioned the economics of any decision to procede forward with new production of the F-22. The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation fighter aircraft that uses stealth...
