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A transcript of the president’s remarks: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON OSAMA BIN LADEN, MAY 1, 2011 Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. [...]
So I’m working for the White House again. It’s a big time season for Obama: He’s just announced his candidacy for 2012, he’s launched his new energy security policy and now that tax time is upon us he’s looking to point out the silver lining to that dull, gray cloud which hangs over the U.S. This is something of an optimistic attempt; the news cycles are brimming with reports of how the giant corporations operating in the U.S. have paid virtually zero percent in taxes on profits made in this country.
President Obama outlined his points for achieving energy security in Georgetown today after touring a UPS hub in Landover, Maryland, home of the Capital Centre, the site of what is arguably the finest show the Grateful Dead has ever played (and I was even always a Keith guy). Even before Obama delivered his speech on [...]
Is the U.S. a banana republic? No. No, it’s not.
by Josh Clark | November 9, 2010
Business Insider has an unsettling announcement. America has slipped into one of the defining characteristics of a banana republic: The wealthiest 1 percent make 20 percent or more of the wealth in the country. It’s 24 percent, actually.
Geez, I was almost taken in. It turns out there’s no such criteria for a banana republic; the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff drew a comparison between the U.S. and banana republics he’s visited based on the wealth gap.
A Brief, Violent and Painful Look at Kneecapping
by Josh Clark | August 31, 2010
A group of four kids coming home from the bars near my neighborhood last weekend were held up by some other kids, one of whom had a gun. While three (including two girls) were pistol whipped, one was shot in the knee or kneecapped in other parlance. I was running a search for news of the shooting, which soon turned into an investigation of the custom and effects of kneecapping.
Hello there, people. If you’re like me, then you enjoy watching the good old State of the Union Address. They’ve been a dependable source of entertainment for me since I was a kid, even before I got into politics. There was always something about the gravity of it all, the President broadcasting live on every [...]
YOU LIE: Congressman Gets Medieval on President Obama
by Charles W. Bryant | September 10, 2009
Boy oh boy, things have gotten pretty ugly in Washington. As most of you have probably heard, many of you live as it happened, a Republican House member last night shouted “YOU LIE” at President Obama during his speech on health care reform.
Man Legally Carries Assault Rifle to Obama Protest
by Charles W. Bryant | August 18, 2009
This one is sure to provoke some strong opinions. An Arizona man brought his assault rifle to a protest against President Obama’s health care plan yesterday in Phoenix. The President was there giving a speech to a veterans group.
The rifle toting man also had a handgun holstered at his hip and a full clip sticking out of his back pocket. And he wasn’t alone. Apparently there were about a dozen armed protesters. While they were protesting the health care plan, they decided to kill two birds with one Uzi and make a statement about the right to bear arms.
Since there’s no longer a law against assault rifles and no law against carrying a non-concealed weapon without a permit in Arizona, no charges or arrests were made. I think this can best be described as a slippery slope. The right to bear arms is one of the fundamental rights Americans have. And boy do we love our guns.
I’m sure most of you have heard about the recent incident involving a Harvard professor and the Cambridge Police Dept. If not, in a nutshell: A woman reported to police that two men seemed to be breaking into a house. The home belonged to renowned Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Yesterday, fellow-science blogger Sarah Dowdey issued a challenge: If she tried to blog about trees all week and I tried to blog about bugs, which of us would get sick of it first? This scientific game of chicken continues today as she blogs about an African bagpipe forest and I discuss the U.S. government’s plans for the nation’s insects.
Yes, we all saw the video of President Obama killing a fly on national television, but might he have also just squished a high-level government agent? According to Katie Drummond over at Wired’s Danger Room blog, the Pentagon is giving serious consideration to fitting insect larvae with chemical weapon-sniffing gadgetry.
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