VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict Sunday called on businesses and officials to stem job losses and made an explicit reference to two Italian plants to be shut soon, in a surprise boost to union efforts to keep the factories open.
Good morning.The Sunday shows will undoubtedly be consumed with the week that was. And, it won’t be just the State of the Union. Several GOP House leaders, including John Boehner on NBC and Paul Ryan on FOX, will be trying to spin themselves out of …
For the past few months, progressives have been lamenting the fact that the Barack Obama they saw on the campaign trail was nowhere to be found in the White House. But then, a funny thing happened on the way to the State of the Union address &mdash…
The President intentionally tried to inflame public opinion against the courts in his State of the Union address… Alito wins the oral, and factual, argument.
Thirty-seven words. In this week’s State of the Union address — which was more than 7,000 words long and lasted longer than an hour — all President Obama devoted to the issue of immigration reform was 37 measly words.
Yesterday, ThinkProgress joined a handful of journalists for a wide-ranging discussion with David Axelrod, Senior Adviser to President Obama. In his State of the Union address on Wednesday night, Obama announced a discretionary spending freeze that …
Investigators are probing how hackers managed to infiltrate 49 US House of Representatives web sites just hours after President Obamas State of the Union address.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House squared off on Thursday against conservative critics who questioned whether President Barack Obama had gone too far by condemning a Supreme Court decision in his State of the Union address to Congress.
There was intense security at the Capitol yesterday in anticipation of the State of the Union. But, there was a vulnerability. Online security was breached. A number of House websites were hacked according to Hotline On Call: Hackers struck at least…
In last night’s State of the Union, Obama hit soaring populist high notes–on jobs, on taking on the big banks, on equality. Unfortunately, that strong message on trying to rebuild the economy for the American middle class was severely undercut by h…