Obama on Colbert

Obama's Immigration Reform Speech

"Guided by the science"

The End of Net Neutrality?

Bill Moyers Essay: What Happened to Obama's Promised Net Neutrality? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.

Tom Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy

The 2011-12 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, recorded on February 29, 2012, was presented by Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan.

To skip the introductions start the video to 6:55.

Professor Anderson begins speaking of Thomas Paine in detail around 16:30.
 

Fair & Balanced? Good Grief!

The bias in this headline is far too blatant to let Fox get away with using their "fair and balanced" tag-line ever again.  Check out the editors trying to tone down the "war on" catchphrase since their rhetoric is coming back to bite them. Obama and his press people are proving to be skilled in the art of rhetorical Judo - claiming "Obamacare" as a positive phrase and using the fox "war on" as a battle cry.  Nice work.

O'BAMA and his Mama - It's All in the Genes

Meet Obama's family starting with his mom - Anne Dunham (her first name was actually Stanley after her father - he obviously wanted a boy) I can see the resemblance in Anne's chin ears and lips.
Some other twinkling lights on this family tree include Barack's great great great grandfather Falmouth Kearny, an Irish Farmer that settled in Indiana after escaping Ireland's Potato blight, and the Frenchman Mareen Duvall. The later genetically links Barack to President Harry Truman and Vice President Dick Cheney. Barack and Dick are 9th cousins three times removed if you can believe it. The other interesting thing about Barack's family tree is the extent and depth of its American roots. There are records of his ancestry back to 1694 within the United States, and several of his male ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. How dare Sarah Palin tell voters that this dyed in the wool American "pals around with terrorists." Go back to Alaska (the 47th most populous state in the Union by the way).