Opinion: Susan Rice’s Meeting With GOP Leaders Made Benghazi Matters Worse
On Tuesday morning, the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who has replaced General David Petraeus who resigned over his extramarital...
View ArticleOpinion: Brain Dead Politics In Virginia
Yesterday, I wrote about the brain dead approach of the current Republican Party: sign a bunch of out-of-the-mainstream pledges on taxes, women’s health care and all sorts of other policies; run to...
View ArticleOpinion: My2K
President Barack Obama is using his high-profile position to once again arm-twist the American public into supporting his position on a very deep and controversial topic. This time, the president is...
View ArticleOpinion: The Fourteenth Amendment Solution
With one month to go before the U.S. goes off what is being called by some the fiscal cliff and others, more accurately, the fiscal slope, the president and Democrats hold all the cards. Absent a...
View ArticleOpinion: GOP A Party Without A Plan
Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner brought the President’s $2 trillion deficit reduction plan to the Senate. It included $1.6 trillion in new revenue and $400 billion in entitlement...
View ArticleOpinion: Susan Rice Thrown Under Democrat’s Bus And Tied Down
As President Barack Obama, the White House, the Democratic Party politicians and the nation’s “leftists” allege that the Republicans – led by the Senators in Congress – are picking on the United...
View ArticleWhat’s With Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Road Trip?
All the effort with President Barack Obama flying around and trying to convince the public to push for his version of avoiding the “fiscal cliff” seems awfully strange. But yet, he’s using this...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama’s #My2K Twitter Conversation Was A #Fail
On Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama was on the social media web site Twitter for about an hour to have a town hall-type conversation with Americans regarding the “fiscal cliff.” The opening...
View ArticleObama: Right-To-Work Is About Politics, Not Economics
REDFORD TWP. (WWJ) - Speaking in metro Detroit on Monday, President Barack Obama took a break from his talk about taxes to address the contentious right-to-work issue now on the table in Lansing. “I...
View ArticleTearful President Obama On Shooting: ‘They Had Their Entire Lives Ahead of Them’
President Obama addressed the nation Friday, both as commander-in-chief and as a parent, in the wake of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
View ArticleMetro Detroiters Plan Trip To DC For Presidential Inauguration
DETROIT (WWJ) - The Presidential inauguration is just a few weeks away, January 21, and many people in the Detroit area are finalizing their plans to be in the nation’s capital for the big event. Event...
View ArticleBest Ways to Experience the Presidential Inauguration in Detroit
(credit: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) President Obama’s second inauguration is happening on January 21st, and there are many ways to experience it without leaving the Detroit area (and also one way...
View ArticleIs Former Gov. Granholm Headed For Job At The White House?
LANSING (WWJ) - There is talk that President Barack Obama could be trying to add a former Michigan Governor to his administration. WWJ’s Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick said there are rumors...
View ArticleObama: ‘Absurd’ GOP Would Threaten to Let US Default
President Barack Obama says it is “absurd” that Republicans would threaten to let the United States default on its loans.
View ArticleMotown’s ‘Funk Brothers’ Record Song For President Obama
DETROIT (WWJ) – Detroit’s own Funk Brothers, known for their background vocals and instruments on many Motown chart-toppers, headed back to the recording studio for the first time in 40 years. The...
View ArticlePresident Obama Calls For Sweeping New Gun Laws
WASHINGTON (WWJ/AP) - Setting the stage for what’s expected to be a fierce battle in Congress, President Barack Obama, on Wednesday outlined a sweeping $500 million program to curb gun violence across...
View ArticleRichard Blanco Becomes First Hispanic or Gay Man to Recite Inaugural Poem
Lanham, Md.(CBSDC/AP) – Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco read his poem “One Today” at the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden Monday morning. In...
View ArticleAUDIO: Safety Of Detroit’s Children Noted In President’s Inaugural Address
WASHINGTON D.C. (WWJ) – President Obama giving a quick shout-out to Detroit during his inaugural address, while making a reference curbing gun violence. “Our journey is not complete until all our...
View ArticleReports: Beyonce Lip Synced At The Inauguration
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Was it live or was it Memorex? Reports say when superstar Beyonce sang the National Anthem for the inauguration of President Barack Obama Monday, it wasn’t live. Her soaring...
View ArticlePresident Obama Delivers State Of The Union Address Tonight
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) - The economy will again be the focus as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. The President will discuss an economic blueprint with many of the...
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