Quietly, without trumpets, fan fare, ticker tape parades or walks outside of the limo that give the secret service heart attacks, President Barack Obama has been changing the way the executive branch of the government does business online.  Not only that he's influencing the other branches, in part...

At the fifty day mark of this Administration, I think this photo from yesterday's TIME White House Photo Blog carries a bit of weight. The caption reads: President Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House to sign an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific i...

The Hill reports on the good news: Charles Freeman, the Obama administration’s choice to head the National Intelligence Council, has withdrawn from consideration after facing strong opposition from Senate Republicans. Actually Senate Democrats like Chuck Schumer and “Independent Democrat...

Golly gee - after seeing how an image of President Obama on the WH’s website was named, in part, “hero” for his “heroic” efforts on lifting the Bush-era limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, after reading his tribute to the late actor Christopher R...

The president has a hard message to sell: Without aid for banks and Wall Street, we'll all sink, Gloria Borger says. WASHINGTON (CNN) — In case you hadn't noticed, Americans are having a rough time with the New World Order as it applies to saving the economy. That is, the ordinary moral i...

President Obama lifted the Bush ESCR restrictions--unleashing gushing hyperbole in the media and among "the scientists" about the technology that I frankly don't have time to deconstruct. But Drudge is touting his promise of no cloning. From the story: President Barack Obama says human cloning is "d...

On Wednesday, Columbia University’s Center on African American Politics and Society will sponsor a public lecture, “Studying Race in the Age of Obama.� I had planned to attend the lecture; instead, I’ll be in DC. President Barack Obama, a Columbia grad, had this to say about race in, well, t...

Robert Samuelson today labels President Obama as "The Great Pretender" as he makes believe that he is dealing with the hard choices and ushering in a new era of responsibility. Forget Obama's claims about exercising fiscal discipline. The gap between Obama rhetoric and Obama reality transcends the b...

"Backwood hicks girl" Tonya Harding was on a recent episode of HBO's Real Sports to make it real clear that she's no fan of HNIC Obama....

PART TWO OF TWO PARTS In the previous post I discussed the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and how the intent of that novel is most relevant right now. So, then how does something like this apply to the current situation we are in now? Is it just following something from a fiction novel...