VIA: New York Times WASHINGTON — The civil rights movement will come alive in song at the White House on Wednesday night, when President Obama plans to celebrate Black History Month with a star-studded concert. And it came alive in quiet conversation on Martin Luther King’s Birthday, when Mr. Obama installed a rare signed copy […]
VIA: CNN.com In the summer of 1943, when Adolf Hitler’s armies marched unchecked across Europe, a pastor in a remote New England village decided to write a prayer. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” he began, “the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know […]
VIA: Reuters With Washington blanketed by snow, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were spending Sunday at the White House hosting a Super Bowl party. Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, Republican Congressman Joseph Cao and Democratic Senator Baron Hill were among the lawmakers invited to watch the telecast of the National Football League championship game […]
VIA: CNN.com A federal immigration judge will decide Thursday whether President Obama’s aunt, who has been in the United States illegally for years, will be allowed to stay. Zeituni Onyango, 57, applied for political asylum in 2002, citing violence in her native Kenya. She is the half-sister of the president’s late father. She was a […]
President Barack Obama attended a college basketball game over the weekend between No. 7 Georgetown and No. 8 Duke. Among his companions were Vice President Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and personal assistant Reggie Love, a former Duke player. The president also offered commentary during part of the CBS broadcast of the game. He […]
VIA: CNN.com Citing a “deficit of trust” in government by the American people, President Obama’s first State of the Union address urged Congress to erode the influence of special interests and work together to confront the nation’s most pressing problems. In the nationally televised speech Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, Obama sought […]
VIA: New York Times WASHINGTON — For all the questions circulating in Democratic quarters as President Obama tries to weather the worst storm of his administration, perhaps none is as succinct as this: Are the missteps at the White House rooted in message or substance? The Republican victory in Massachusetts last week touched off a […]
