President Obama accused the Bush administration yesterday of creating a "hazard to public health" by failing to curb food contamination problems, and he announced new leadership and other changes aimed at modernizing food-safety laws.
President Barack Obama says the nation's decades-old food safety system is a "hazard to public health" that's "from the time of Theodore Roosevelt" and is in need of a major overhaul. Obama is installing a new head of the US Food and Drug Administration.
As evidence that abstinence-only education can be effective, the NAEA took 500 students to Congress, asking them to testify in support of the programs and their effectiveness.
During President Obama's weekly radio address he promised to take actions to provide better food safety in the United States.
President Obama's family is still searching for the right church to worship with.
The global economic crisis began with the credit collapse in the U.S. and people around the world are holding America accountable. Is its new president part of the problem or the solution?
President Obama's electoral landslide gave him a mandate to advance his progressive agenda.
Pragmatic-Greek for 'thing done'- 1. Practical 2. testing the validity of all concepts by their practical results.
For more than two decades, the Congress, the president and the sprawling federal bureaucracy have worked to find a safe place to store the waste of nuclear reactors. Yucca Mountain, a remote formation in the deserts of Nevada, was the chosen site.
President Obama told China's foreign minister on Thursday that their two countries need to raise "the level and frequency" of military dialogue "in order to avoid future incidents" like the high seas confrontation between naval vessels this week, the White House said.
The Obama administration expects to announce new objectives for the flagging war in Afghanistan as soon as next week that place an onus on next-door Pakistan to contain extremism, defense and administration officials said Thursday.
President Obama and his trainwreck of a Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, are leading the charge to give a whopping 2% of our GDP to other nations. Nevermind the millions hurting here in the States with no end in sight.
As you might expect, I have a few thoughts on Charles Freeman's decision to withdraw from consideration as chair of the National Intelligence Committee.
By KARL ROVE Presidents throughout history have kept lists of political foes. But the Obama White House is the first I am aware of to pick targets based on polls. Even Richard Nixon didn't focus-group his enemies list.
"We're going to examine whether and if National Guard deployments would make sense and under what circumstances they would make sense," Obama said during an interview with journalists for regional papers, including a McClatchy reporter.
President Barack Obama Wednesday paid poignant tributes to the grandmother who raised him and his mother who died of cancer, at the launch of a high-level forum to advise him on women's issues.
"Opposition is always easy. Saying no to something is easy.
" The segment on MSNBC's Hardball seemed to extend well beyond its allotted time, and there was no shortage of notable fireworks.
President Obama will make "an announcement about earmark reform" later this morning, according to the White House, less than 24 hours after the Senate cleared for his signature a $410 billion omnibus bill packed full of earmarks.
But something happened in the late '60's that changed everything. The country elected as Prime Minister a charismatic and intellectual 48-year-old: a man who had emerged from the country's minority group, but who in fact had a mother who was not a minority; a man who had only …
In his writing of Politics, Aristotle said "Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual." Contrast this thought with that of Plato
Last weekend President Obama made it know that he was entertaining the idea of talks with the "moderate" wing of the Taliban in Afghanistan. This is simply evidence that not only is Obama winging it on the economy, he plans to wing it so far as foreign policy as well.
Reading between the lines in a recent MSNBC financial news article. I rubbed my eyes, attempting to find some hidden message in the article that unfolded on my monitor. Good news ? There was none. Bad news? plenty. But that was not unusual.
But David Frum is, and his inside cover story, "Why Rush Is Wrong," savages Limbaugh and praises President Obama in a way that makes one wonder if tingles are running up his leg like they did for MSNBC's Chris Matthews.
At a White House fiscal summit last month President Obama quipped that he was "going to keep talking to Eric Cantor. Some day, sooner or later, he's going to say, 'Boy, Obama had a good idea.' " Maybe that day has come.