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News, views, abuse, and links you can use to get you though Barack Obama's annual address.
News, views, abuse, and links you can use to get you though Barack Obama's annual address.
President's fair shot/fair share message tonight lifts from his 2012 State of the Union address
President Carter was the last national chief executive to spare us the speech from the throne.
Citing horrific acts of violence to push policies that have nothing to do with them
While most of us will be tuning out tonight's SOTU, here's a reason to watch: It frames the president's thinking about the next year.
Let's go back to the Jeffersonian system.
Barack Obama's ratings for his annual State of the Union Addresses have gone down like the Titanic. What's behind the slide? Anger and disappointment mostly.
There's a reason you've probably never heard of the Congressional Review Act.
From Iran to Nigeria, there's a lot the president can talk about, and a lot he won't say
Comparing the rhetoric of two presidents who inherited economic messes reminds us of the wide gap between their respective recoveries.
Analysis, snark, helpful links, and more-all in realtime as the president chatters
The president's new tax plan will wreak economic havoc.
What happens when you take one sentence from each SOTU since 1961? You realize how empty American speechmaking has become.
Obama's new tax proposals hit more than the rich.
You may want to skip the State of the Union address and prepare for something humbler, like the Super Bowl.
The Texas senator might be just crazy enough to win the GOP presidential nomination.
Congressional Republicans are divided and could break out into a major civil war on immigration
The president didn't get much of his wish list last year and he'll get even less this time. That's a good thing.
The president addresses a country that currently hates his political party by offering more big government.
Sessions' anti-immigration narrative has little basis in the economic literature
Legalization takes effect automatically unless Congress enacts a resolution of disapproval.
Would add just 1/100th of a degree to man-made warming by 2100
It's time for lawmakers to stop abusing the emergency-spending loophole.
Our Interstates are wearing out. Here's what we need to do to fix them.
The Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act would help take the profit motive out of law enforcement