WOUNDED BIRD

Following his meeting last week with President-elect Donald Trump, President Obama decided he needed to spend more time than a presiden...

Many of you already know that reading David Brooks' columns in the New York Times turns my brain to mush.  His latest on Friday the 1...

The petition reads: "President Obama:  With civilians being butchered and refugees suffering immensely, it is horrifying to watch ...

President Barack Obama’s decision to authorize lethal aid to Syrian rebels marks a deepening of U.S. involvement in the two-year civil war....

In his weekly address, President Obama tells the American people that a series of harmful budget cuts—called the sequester—have taken effe...

It sure looks as if we’re going over the fiscal cliff, but that may be the least of our problems. The debt ceiling is a much bigger and mor...

The Maddow Blog "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardles...

Senator Huckleberry - er - Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to President Obama: “You just got reelected. How about doing something big that is not ...

From NOLA.com : Controversy erupted at a Slidell junior high school late last week when at least one parent observed drawings and altered p...

From Nicholas D. Kristof at the New York Times : When he was alive, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was effectively gagged, unable to comment ...

From TPM : About that budget deal... One of the hardest hit institutions is the Environmental Protection Agency, whose power Republicans hav...

From the White House : I am deeply saddened to learn of the murder of David Kato. In Uganda, David showed tremendous courage in speaking ou...