President Barack Obama sat down with VICE founder Shane Smith to discuss a host of issues important to Americans from foreign policy and marijuana legalization to global warming and political gridlock. The interview, conducted last Tuesday, was posted to VICE News on Monday, March 16. In a segment covering negotiations with Iran, Obama expressed his embarrassment […]
Hold on to your sanity, you’re going to need it. In an effort to deflect media criticism of AR Republican Senator Tom Cotton’s open letter to Iran – signed by 46 other GOP senators – the National Review’s spin is that since the letter was never dropped in a mailbox, it doesn’t really count. Deroy […]
Fed up with John Boehner, pro-life Republicans are staging a sit-in at his office later this month. At issue is the “The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” (H.R. 36) which would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy but would provide for exceptions in the case of rape or incest. The act was stalled in […]
Controversy continues to rage over an open-letter by Republicans to Iran that threatens to undermine nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States, Russia and China. The letter was signed by the entire party leadership in the chamber and by potential presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and threatens that Republicans can […]
It’s only the first part of March, yet Republicans have launched two unprecedented attacks against President Obama so far this year – placing politics ahead of foreign policy and national security. Republicans won both houses of Congress during the 2014 mid term elections and as Think Progress reported at the time Republicans were careful not […]