VP Joe Biden (at Buzzfeed) and former VP Al Gore (at Price of Oil) have both recently opposed KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Biden’s comment was to a Sierra Club member on a ropeline in South Carolina. His office quickly said his position really hasn’t changed, and he awaits the results of the State Department [...]
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Who Doesn’t Like Joe Biden?
THE MAN who wants to be the next president, Joe Biden, has done a Rolling Stone interview. It begins where you think it would, debating between he and the woman that is very much on the minds of Republicans. But can he get elected president at 74? If he’s up against Chris Christie, I just [...]
Joe Biden Says He Opposes KXL, But is in Administration “Minority” [Video]
According to a Buzzfeed report, VP Joe Biden told an environmental activist in South Carolina that he opposes KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline, but in the Obama administration, he’s in the minority. Biden made the remark at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s annual ‘World Famous Fish Fry’ Friday evening, where he met Elaine Cooper, a Columbia resident [...]
Jim Porter, New NRA President: Obama a “Fake President”
“We’re whipping their ass everywhere we can go, right and left, up and down.” – Jim Porter, new (unpaid) NRA president THE NEW president of the NRA, James “Jim” Porter II, is some piece of work as you’ll see in the video over at Gawker. But his claims of NRA’s wins may turn out to [...]
Hillary’s Strong Rhetoric Resonates After Boston
Though currently she is — at least temporarily — out of political life, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to enjoy a strong favorability rating, now 64%.. – Hillary Clinton Is Still Popular, More So Than Obama, Biden [Gallup] HILLARY Clinton’s comfortable front row seat just got a lot cozier. The conversations that [...]
Fake Veep Lunches with Real Veep Joe Biden
TALK ABOUT great show promo! This is such a classic photo. HBO’s fake veep lunching with real Vice President Joe Biden. It’s the perfect photo op for a man who may want to be president and is still considering running in 2016. Joe Biden had already congratulated Julia Louis Dreyfus on winning the Emmy, back [...]
Captured in Jordan, Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law, “The Mouthpiece of Bin Laden,” Pleads Not Guilty in New York Courtroom
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law pleaded not guilty Friday morning to charges of trying to kill Americans. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who served as an al Qaeda spokesman, was captured and taken to the United States, federal officials announced Thursday. [CNN] THERE WAS an immediate reaction to the decision to try Abu Ghaith in a civilian courtroom. [...]
Commemorating “Bloody Sunday,” Eric Holder Challenges Supreme Court on Voting Rights Act
More than 5,000 people followed Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma’s annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” beating of voting rights marchers — including a young Lewis — by state troopers as they began a march to Montgomery in March [...]
Hillary Exits with 2016 “Field-Clearing” Status
WE JUST can’t leave it alone. Writing about Hillary Clinton and her prospects for 2016 is just too delectable, too enticing, too historically epic in proportions that keeping it all alive until Mrs. Clinton decides is what any political writer worth his or her salt will do. You’re going to have to decide what’s worth [...]
Wrong to Sanctify Pope Benedict and his “Pontifical Secrecy” on Criminal Priest Pedophilia
According to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Pope Benedict will return to being known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger once he has stepped down as pope. He will be addressed as his eminence or Cardinal Ratzinger. – Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation explained WE ALREADY know the history the Catholic Church has of demeaning [...]
As Clinton Testifies on Benghazi, Popularity Reaches New High
Clinton, set to testify before Congress today about the Benghazi attack, appears undamaged by the security failure that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya: Sixty-seven percent of Americans see her favorably overall, numerically a new high in her long career in the public spotlight, and essentially unchanged in recent months. – [...]
A Private Peek Inside St. John’s Church
THE WHITE House pool report is meant for journalists and media. Pool reporters follow the President and First Lady, the Vice President, too. There is a lead pooler as well. Never have I offered an entire pool report, but this is no ordinary day, and I’ve offered snippets in the past, as have many other [...]
Shame on Bill Clinton
“Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them,” Clinton said. “A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things,” Clinton said. “I know because I come from this world.” – Bill Clinton to Democrats: [...]
Soulless NRA Ad Uses Obama’s Kids as Fodder
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ON A dedicated site called “Stand and Fight,” the N.R.A. is using the ad shown in the “Morning Joe” clip above to publicize their battle with President Obama and others on gun safety. The ad is running on the Sportsman Channel. The graphic [...]
Top Story — New York Times: Obama to Announce 19 Separate Actions on Gun Safety **Updated** [Video]
President Obama will unveil his gun violence proposals at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at the White House, according to people who have been briefed on the event. [Politico] THE POWER of the presidency is about to be exercised by Barack Obama. He’ll collide with right wing extremists in the Congress on gun safety, as well as [...]
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