Fox Nation has come up with a lot of ludicrous attacks on President Obama, targeting Obama's religion and citizenship. But they may be hard-pressed to top this one. Fox Nation is hyping a story addressing alleged scars on Obama's head linking him to some kind of brain surgery.

Donald Trump says he will "probably" run for president as an independent if he doesn't win the Republican nomination. More Seeds :: JCAtom

As one can see. The Tea-Party is NOT about reducing the budget but about shoving their ideology down our throats.

It's been rough, I get it. I don't blame you for staying home during the midterms, but I warned you that it might result in all those Tea Party folks snagging some seats in Congress and the House going to the Republicans.

Jack Cashill, the right-wing journalist currently winning the national game of "'prove' the most outlandish thing you possibly can about Barack Obama" with both his theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote "Dreams From My Father" and his claim that the president's father was actually J …

Trump – who, however improbably, claims to be considering a presidential bid – said Monday that since his first public statement on the issue last week, "a lot of facts are emerging" that are making him question more seriously where Obama was born."I am really conce …

The deadline was Friday midnight—or a government shutdown, right?

On the other side was a strong-willed Obama, who mostly succeeded in forcing Republicans to cave in on dozens of controversial conservative policy prescriptions — including rolling back environmental protections and cutting off Planned Parenthood from taxpayer assistance while  …

the final element holding up a deal, outside of the relatively pedestrian task of agreeing on a number for cuts when the parties were only a few billion dollars a part, was in fact the House GOP's rider to defund Planned Parenthood:

The aide said negotiators from the House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the White House met for a final time Friday evening, finally agreeing to a figure of roughly $38 billion.

Negotiators from the House, Senate, and White House have hammered out a tentative deal to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year. That deal gives Republicans most of what they wanted and saves Democrats only from a few policy riders that they'd feared.

Democrats and Republicans agreed on a budget deal and a short-term funding extension a little more than an hour before a partial government shutdown would have occurred. The short-term deal will fund the government through the middle of next week.

After a long day of trading offers, the White House and House Republicans reached agreement Friday night on a budget framework that would cap 2011 appropriations near or below $1.050 trillion while cutting domestic and foreign aid by more than $40 billion from the rate of spendin …

Perilously close to a midnight deadline, the White House and congressional leaders have reached agreement to cut billions of dollars in spending to avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years.

Barack Obama was born in Kenya, but his selfish criminal grandparents wanted to make him a citizen illegally, so they stuck a notice of his birth in the newspaper when he got back from his baby journey of baby self-reflection in Africa.

A GREAT MAN

Politics is a dirty business. Its history contains some of the most unsavory and slanderous conduct imaginable.

State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald (R), the Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader, must have forgotten his talking points while appearing on Megyn Kelly's Fox News show.

President Barack Obama ordered his administration on Wednesday to stop defending the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of gay marriage, a policy reversal that could have major implications for the rights and benefits of gay couples and reignite an emotional debate for the 2012 presidential campaign.

"Isn't that what they do in socialist countries?" Steve Doocy's question sounded like a spontaneous reaction to what he apparently saw as the threat Barack Obama would pose to freedom of the press. It wasn't.

After an all-night session, House Republicans early Saturday morning passed legislation that would slash $60 billion in government spending between now and the end of September, setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama, who has vowed to veto the measure.

A defiant Glenn Beck, recently found a new mantra, which really amounts to the same old conspiratorial mantra--with an Egyptian twist. Regarding the increased upheaval in Egypt after President Mubarak gave a patronizing speech to the Egyptian people, when he talked of transferri …

President Barack Obama finally has kicked the habit, Michelle Obama said Tuesday.

Personally, I find Bill O'Reilly to be annoying and arrogant so when I watch his interviews I find myself screaming expletives at my television – but that's just me. Heh.

Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer are leading the charge against House Republicans on Social Security, while at the same time holding the line on the "bipartisan solutions" President Obama would agree to.

For the next hour, we begin with the president of the United States addressing the nation and calling for a massive investment in this country's infrastructure, rebuffing the idea of giant tax breaks for the richest Americans, and warning anyone who would dare touch Social Securi …

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release January 19, 2011 Bloggers unite to press politicos, media for ‘civility’ Out of heated debate, a push for civil discourse comes from all directions

Michelle Obama chose a red Alexander McQueen gown with black details for the state dinner she and President Barack Obama were hosting Wednesday night in honor of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Vieira read off some of his most infamous statements, including his calling President Obama a racist, and asked him if he regretted any of them. He said that he didn't regret any "jokes" he had made about people.

In the Obama Kwanzaa Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and performance, especially his second year in office, to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

In the Obama Kwanzaa Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and performance, especially his second year as President, to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. The question today is, does he embody the principle of Creativity? (Video)

How does Barack Obama's life and his time as President compare to the 7 principles of Kwanzaa. Does the comparison provide any evidence regarding Obama's Cultural Health? What does this analysis teach us about the third principle of Kwanzaa (Video)

How does this culturally historic 2010 Obama year stack up against the second principle of Kwanzaa? Is there evidence that he lives the principle or not.

In the Obama Kwanzaa Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and second year Presidential performance to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. The question today is, has Obama been good or bad for Black Economics. (Video)

Watching President Barack Obama at the White House health care summit last week, it was hard not to have an obvious thought: Could George W.

It is no secret that the ranks of scientists and engineers in the United States include dismal numbers of Hispanics and African-Americans, but few have remarked about another significantly underrepresented group: Republicans. No, this is not the punch line of a joke.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a $1.15 billion measure to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago.

American Indians and black farmers will be paid $4.6 billion to address claims of government mistreatment over many decades under landmark legislation President Barack Obama signed Wednesday.

The tea baggers worship and fetishize the past.

Barack Obama holds a press conference and shows examples of illegal comments posted on the White House facebook page, and others.

John Boehner is Dwight Eisenhower. Eric Cantor is Omar Bradley. And Joe Barton is George Patton.

The military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy which forces gay, lesbian and trans-gender members to hide their personal lives or face expulsion from the service "is working," according to Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.

...the right's revisionist history around Thanksgiving that cropped up this year, but the story isn't complete without discussing Rush Limbaugh's sneering attack on President Obama's Thanksgiving proclamation:

Most people recognize The Onion as the Peabody Award-winning satire machine that it is. Some people, however, don't. Which is why we get a story like this every few months.

These right wingers are systematically trying to destroy President Obama and we all need to do our part to make sure that this doesn't happen.

The overlap between white supremacists and white religious fundamentalists in the US has historically been large, particularly during the Civil Rights era.

President Obama received 12 stitches after suffering an injury during a basketball game, according to a White House statement:

After a tough six months which culminated in Republicans taking control of the US House and picking up Senate seats in the 2010 election, many started to ask if President Barack Obama was destined to be a one termer, but something interesting has happened.

Do the Beltway media have an opinion on the fact that Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, is attacking a sitting President of the United States? When has any other leader of a supposed "news" network ever attacked a sitting president in such a partisan way?

In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin -- the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States -- has taken another cheap shot at First Lady Michelle Obama.

The Bush tax cuts have always overwhelmingly benefited the rich, not the middle class, and that is no less true today than when they were enacted. They were bad policy then and they are bad policy today.

Forty-eight percent of Americans approve of how President Barack Obama is handling his job as president, while 45 percent disapprove of his job performance, according to a CNN Poll of Polls compiled and released on Friday.

An Illinois woman who volunteered to moderate a congressional debate received numerous threats of violence and death threats after being targeted personally by Fox News personality Glenn Beck, according to a report a colleague filed last week with the FBI.

Above all, it will become increasingly transparent in the coming year that the politics of the GOP is absolutely incoherent. Much of the Republican tent is simply flapping in the breeze behind a cascade of public lies.

President Barack Obama apparently thinks politics is no laughing matter, even when he's staring down a comedian. Obama barely cracked any jokes during an appearance Wednesday on "The Daily Show" despite host Jon Stewart's attempts to draw out the president's humorous side with a few of his own snarky wisecracks.

As we approach Election Day 2010, a new Pew Research Center/National Journal poll finds that Republican gains in 2010 will have little bearing on the fate of Barack Obama's reelection campaign in 2012.

Those ads by a right-wing front group called "Latinos for Reform" -- urging Latinos no to vote for Democrats in the coming election because they haven't delivered on comprehensive immigration reform -- may not be turning out to be such a hot idea:

President Barack Obama said he was "shocked and saddened" by the recent suicides of several young people who were bullied and taunted for being gay.

Focused on turning out base voters, President Barack Obama is being cheered at raucous rallies and spreading this message: Don't turn your back on the change happening in Washington.

While speaking to a group of Latino students on the virtues of America as a melting pot, Republican Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle said that some of the students looked Asian to her.

If American families want to continue to see health care costs rise, jobs continue to be shipped and sold overseas, massive increases in dept to pay for tax cuts for the rich, the minimum wage cut, exorbitant pork spending, out of control prescription drugs increased, more war an …

President Barack Obama is renewing his call for Congress to close tax breaks that reward some U.S. companies with overseas subsidiaries, a proposal that has raised concerns among some lawmakers in the president's own party.

One Republican senator is blocking a Nobel Prize winner from MIT from an appointment to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia. The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President yesterday.

There are actually two Tea Party movements in America today: one you've read about that is not that important and one you've not read about that could become really important if the right politician understood how to tap into it.

A priest expressed concern to President Barack Obama about an unemployed parishioner. A businessman criticized Obama's tax policy. A woman said her son and his friends, once inspired by Obama, "are losing their hope."

Obama returned to the proven format of a large college campus to launch a pre-election push for fellow Democrats.

There's a statistic that I keep harping on.

"And it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead -- being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating others as they would treat me," Obama said, adding that his public service is "part of that effort to express my …

President Obama says Fox News is part of a journalistic tradition of news outlets promoting their political views without apology, but called Fox's political agenda "destructive" even though it has made a lot of money for owner Rupert Murdock.

President Barack Obama made an urgent plea Monday for college students to get more involved in the upcoming November midterm elections, warning that a disengaged youth vote could lead to major policy reversals over the next two years.

The Senate approved it on a 61-38 vote last week, with two Republicans breaking a GOP filibuster to join the 59 Democrats in supporting the measure. The House then voted 237-187 on mostly partisan lines to send the bill to Obama's desk.

I don't believe that the Republicans deserve to win. They have not merited it. They have operated by trying to drag down President Obama and his programs by obstruction through lack of any positive ideas of his time.

Ben Stein does not feel that it would be fair for him, and others who have worked for every dollar to pay more taxes.

Republicans are promising to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care overhaul if they win control of Congress. But with what?

It will force a lot of people to pay higher premiums. It will lavish subsidies on the private insurance industry. It will put life-and-death decisions in the hands of bureaucrats. And it will add hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal debt.

In a poke in the eye to the financial community, President Barack Obama on Friday named Elizabeth Warren, an aggressive consumer advocate and Wall Street adversary, to oversee creation of a new agency to regulate banks, lenders and credit card companies.

One of the first provisions of the PPACA to come into effect was the establishment of a set of high-risk insurance pools across the country.

The Koran-burning has been equated, in some circles, with the fabled ground zero mosque. This is under the theory that both are constitutionally protected bad ideas. In fact, they're very different. Muslims building a community center in their neighborhood on one hand.

"They talk about me like a dog," Barack Obama said to a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee on Monday. "That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true."

A healthy economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class even more than a healthy stock market, President Barack Obama said as he reaffirmed his commitment to work hard for America's hardworking men and women.

"Well it may not make me hap-- popular with some people, but I think probably the president was right about this," Olson responded.

These conspiracy theories in turn build off chain e-mails that have been circulating since at least 2008, portraying Obama as a Muslim Marxist Manchurian Candidate determined to undermine the Republic from within -- a fright wing fantasy that has proliferated via the internet.

Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.

From December 2007 to July 2009 – the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy – private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs.

The truth is that the current President of the United States is one of the most threatened men in the history of our country. For many various reasons there are people in this country that would simply like to see him dead.

President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million measure that will put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border.

True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health care. In three polls conducted last month, large percentages of Americans answered "true" to each statement. All three are false.

Determined to show a commitment to stopping the flow of illegal immigrants, the Senate convened a special session Thursday and passed a $600 million bill to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border.

President Barack Obama is going after Senate Republicans who have stymied his proposal to create a $30 billion fund to help unfreeze lending for credit-starved small businesses.

Palin was picked to be the pit bull, the attack dog, to be even worse than McCain in the way she attacked Obama. She and others used words like "uppity", which is only used before the N-word. She was always introduced by somebody who would say, "Barack HUSSEIN Obama".

President Obama criticizes Republicans for "partisan politics."

Given his history, it should be no surprise Ailes' minions at Fox News have obsessed over the discredited 18 month-old story of alleged voter intimidation by New Black Panther Party members on the day of the 2008 election.

Julia Perez is a sultry, hip-swiveling celebrity in a country where her cleavage draws ire from Islamic hardliners and a conservative broadcast commission recently censured a public television station for airing a program of her in a skimpy skirt.

Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul said Thursday that harsh criticism of BP by President Barack Obama's administration could contribute to the oil giant's demise and harm its ability to pay for cleanup of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

President Obama's administration has been blamed for reckless spending that has put America into its debt hole. But in reality, much of that spending emanates from policies of President Bush, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

That's one of the reasons why we're accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy and doubling our use of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power – steps that have the potential to create whole new industries and hundreds of thousands of new jobs in Ameri …

Hoping to breathe new life into the stalled immigration effort, President Barack Obama on Thursday blamed the delay on recalcitrant Republicans whom he said had given in to the "pressures of partisanship and election-year politics."

Who should receive more scrutiny--(a) A referee at a World Cup soccer match; or (b) A judge in a U.S. courtroom.