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President Obama Archive
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We’re No Angels: Americans, Church Doctrine, and the Pill
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhat’s all the fuss about Americans not following religious doctrine? Seriously, we all know that none of us dance and drink as passionately as Baptists. Few are as happy with... -
“If She Opened Her Eyes, Maybe We Can, Too.”
Posted on January 12, 2011 | 8 CommentsIf she opened her eyes, maybe we can, too. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, director of the Interfaith Alliance said that on Rachel Maddow. He was speaking about the remarkable moment... -
A Troubling Pattern in America’s Obama Story
Posted on June 7, 2010 | 5 CommentsGeorge W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 and was appointed president by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court. A sanctimonious pundit class tells us it is crabby, unpatriotic and... -
Fatal Fantasies of Our Technological Omnipotence
Posted on June 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsBehind the public’s impatience with President Obama and the Gulf Oil spill lie dangerous fantasies of technological American angels that can fly in an fix everything and anything. The same... -
A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Governor’s Race
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 5 CommentsI’m wondering what it’s going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term “socialism” over-and-over to describe the... -
Justice Roberts Troubled by Open Criticism of Supreme Court
Posted on March 10, 2010 | 2 CommentsLet me get this straight. The U.S. Supreme Court can choose a president it wants (Bush in 2000) or hand powerful corporations the legal tool they need to silence the... -
End the Corruption: Reform Effort Gains Steam
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsWhat citizens rightly view as the failures of government are usually considered major successes by the wealthy special interests that paid politicians to do their bidding. This is particularly true... -
A Better Mouse Trap for the Age of Rats
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsAmerican democracy is a better mousetrap. Unfortunately, it was born in the Age of the Rat. It isn’t just any old rat, either. It is a magical rat that somehow... -
The Invisible Moral Consciences of Those in the Armed Forces
Posted on February 8, 2010 | 4 CommentsOne of the most surprising statistics I’ve heard in a long time is that, according to a U.S. Army study done after World War II, only 25% of soldiers ever... -
Medieval Minds and the Plutocratic Plague
Posted on February 1, 2010 | No CommentsAt the Republican caucus retreat, President Obama showed us the potential of a real-world, unscripted partisan showdown before an unblinking camera. Proving the democratic potential, FoxNews blinked and cut away...