Amazing. Just … amazing. Here we are, six years later, six years of mom jeans and golf dates and taking the girls for ice cream. And yet, some of us are still hung up on the perceived “otherness,” the “not like us”-ness, of Barack Obama. The latest is Rudy Giuliani, speaking last week in New […]
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Obama submits $4 trillion budget to Congress
Read online: Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2016 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Congress a record $4 trillion budget Monday that would boost taxes on higher-income Americans and corporations, pushing past tight federal spending caps to fund an ambitious public works program and provide middle-class tax relief. Obama’s budget, which will set […]
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Obama to sign bill authorizing new sanctions on Russia
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will sign congressional legislation slapping new sanctions on Russia and providing aid to Ukraine. Spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama continues to have concerns about the bill but believes the legislation still gives him the flexibility he needs. The president is expected to sign the bill this […]
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L. Greaney: Rules for illegal immigrants
I agree with The Washington Post article by Marc Thiessen, printed in the Sun Journal Dec. 3. In the article, Thiessen objected to allowing benefits to those illegal immigrants who are subject to the Obama immigration policy — no welfare, food stamps, tax credits, Social Security or Medicare until they become U.S. Citizens. I would […]
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Cal Thomas: Obama turns his back on his own race
Addressing the nation last Thursday, President Obama sought to justify his misreading of the Constitution by unilaterally granting legal protection to 5 million illegal immigrants. In this, he reminded me of what Richard Nixon told David Frost in a 1977 interview. The exchange is worth recalling: “FROST: So what in a sense you’re saying is […]
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N. Bourgoin: Not the hope, change expected
Things have been fuzzy from the very introduction of Barack Obama. It doesn’t make much sense to me that people would elect a man with such a history of blunders. In his upbringing, he was tutored in the realms of communism and socialism. Books that he wrote, “Dreams of My Father” and “The Audacity of […]
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LePage calls Obama’s immigration plan ‘shameful’
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage said President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants illegally in the United States from deportation is “shameful.” The Republican governor told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that it took him 11 years and $80,000 under current immigration procedures to get a green card for a Jamaican […]
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Maine Democrats to name new party leader after bruising election cycle
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Democrats reeling from devastating election losses are preparing to choose a new leader this weekend to guide the party as it tries to recapture the faith of the state’s voters. Ben Grant, chairman of the party for the last four years, announced his decision to step down days after Democrats lost […]
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Leonard Pitts: Message to GOP: Make good your talk
Dear Republican Party: Impeach President Obama. Go ahead, you know you want to do it. The very thought makes you warm and gooey inside. Yes, your leadership has disavowed any intention of initiating impeachment, but that sure hasn’t stopped your rank and file from speculating on the possibility with undisguised glee. The prospect has long […]
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Obama energizes Maine Democrats for Michaud
PORTLAND (AP) — On a campaign swing through Maine, President Barack Obama called on Democrats on Thursday to get everyone they know to the polls to defeat Republican Gov. Paul LePage next week, warning that the race is “too important to stay home.” Before roughly 3,000 supporters of gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud in Portland just […]