Tag: Obama
U.S. GDP rises again, good news for incumbent Democrats
The government Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Friday that U.S. GDP grew at a 3.2 percent per-year pace in the first quarter. It's the...
McInnis blasts Hickenlooper as provincial and inexperienced
CASTLE ROCK-- Speaking to a small group of shopping center executives today, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said he was more prepared and more qualified to be governor than Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. “He’s never been involved in the process of governing the state. He’s never been involved in one state budget meeting. He has no experience with highway budgets or education budgets. Some people say they want a new face, well this is no time for a new face."
A Gitmo Camp Delta photo notebook
President Obama is more than four months past the deadline he set to shutter the internationally infamous Camp Delta War on Terror prison and interrogation facility here. Approximately 180 detainees remain behind the wire and within the walls of the seven camps of the prison. They have been here for years and most have never been charged with a crime or wartime offense. Attorneys representing Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen imprisoned here as a teenager in 2002 and one of the few charged with a crime--murder and material support for terrorism-- will argue at a pre-trial hearing tomorrow that coerced testimony should be banned from his military commission trial.
Lunchtime links: Bennet dominates, McInnis worries, McCain waffles
Sen. Michael Bennet is a giant among dwarves. See the pie charts that prove it.
Lawyer-lobbyist gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said he didn't reveal...
Obama-era Guantanamo Bay: ‘Bush with a smile’
Adam Serwer, fresh from a trip to Guantanamo Bay to see a proceeding in an Obama-era military commission, draws some conclusions about the administration’s...
‘Birther’ movement finds evidence in Kenya road sign
The so-called birther movement has gained steam again in past weeks as the story of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin unfolds in capital. Greeley native...
Forbes: Tea partiers confused, taxes ‘lower by every measure’ under Obama
Bruce Bartlett, a fiscal conservative and columnist for Forbes who worked in the George W Bush and Reagan administrations is shocked by what he...
Markey, Salazar join effort to cool U.S.-Afghanistan relations
Colorado members of Congress Betsy Markey and John Salazar visited Afghanistan last week to take a read on President Hamid Karzai, who has been under fire as a waffling ally at best and a traitor at worst. As analysts increasingly train their focus on the country's engagement with Afghanistan, the American relationship with Karzai has grown volatile. Pres. Obama has been pressuring Karzai to retain foreign election fraud commissioners and to endorse the Kandahar offensive the U.S. is planning for later in the spring, but Karzai has been erratic, feeling undermined by Obama and America and seeming increasingly like an unraveling power-hungry dictator. Karzai said at the beginning of the month that if "foreign interference" in his government continues, he might join the Taliban as a legitimate force of resistance.
The Tea Party’s country on a T-shirt
One of the slogans that has dominated the year in politics comes from the Tea Parties and has crossed over to the GOP. "Take...
Embattled anti-abortion Stupak done with Congress
Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) will not seek re-election. The 58-year-old former state trooper served in Congress for 18 years, winning 9 terms, but he...