5 Quagmires President Obama (Probably) Won't Address in His Last SOTU
Messes for a legacy.
Barack Obama
This Is Not a Laundry List: The Last State of the Union Drinking Game Under President Obama
Here's when to take a drink and click a link during tonight's big presidential address.
Prediction: Obama's Last SOTU Address Won't Really Be That Different from the Others
They're always full of broad elementary civics class blather.
As Sanders Polls Closer to Clinton, Obama Declines to Stick His Neck Out
It's typical for the president not to endorse early, but it's a reminder there's no true 'successor.'
6 Reasons Obama Is Untrustworthy on Guns
The president's townhall and New York Times op-ed piece illustrate his slipperiness.
Obama's Legacy is Executive Abuse
The temptation to use the Obama model of legislating through the executive branch will become increasingly attractive to politicians and their supporters.
What's Obama Trying to Accomplish with Tonight's "Town Hall" on Guns?
Likely little more than letting a narrow base know he cares, though the implications of more feckless "gun policy" choices might be alarming.
Obama Falls 600,000 Electric Cars Short, Science Advances by Funerals, and Record Wildfires?
A scitech research and policy round up for January 7, 2016
Obama Oversteps His Authority With Gun Orders
The president is without authority to negate the congressional will, and any attempt to do so will be invalidated by the courts.
Anthony Fisher Talks Oregon, Guns, and Obama's Tears on HuffPost Live
First Cocktail Chatter of 2016!
Worst Argument Ever Against Ted Cruz Is Donald Trump's Birther Claim
The latest burst of birtherism is a reminder of how sad the whole meme always was.
Obama's Gun Control Policies Serve the Same Function As His Tears
The president boldly proclaims that good intentions matter more than results.
In Gun Sales, Whose Hands Are 'Wrong'?
Obama wants to make it easier for the government to take away people's Second Amendment rights.
U.S. Special Ops Soldier First 2016 Casualty of War in Afghanistan That Ended in 2014
Killed in a firefight in Marja, the site of the first operations of the 2010 U.S. "surge"
Watch Matt Welch Talk Guns, Trump, Clinton, Cruz and 'Hate Speech' on Tonight's Kennedy
8 p.m. ET, and again at midnight, on Fox Business Network
"Tomorrow We Should Do More" and Other Reasons Gun Rights Folk Mistrust President Obama
Obama's announcement today uses public mass gun murder to buttress irrelevant policies, with vague promises of "more."
Obama's Rainbow of Everlasting Joy: The Year in Presidential Photography
Despite an ongoing media boycott of White House staff photography, the president's image crafters still call the shots.
Obama Wants to 'Remove the Stigma' of Mental Illness While Expanding the List of Former Patients Barred From Owning Guns
The president seeks to encourage psychiatric treatment while increasing the likelihood that it will result in the loss of Second Amendment rights.
We Are Way More Scared of Government Than Guns
President Obama's urgency on gun control is at odds with what people are really worried about.
2015: The Year in Gun Politics
Public murders committed with guns are used to try to drive gun policy, even though gun policy is powerless to prevent them.
The Season of Peace Requires Action, Not Songs
Singing about peace and goodwill while cheering America's warrior state is a repulsive spectacle.
The Year in Blame Shifting
How to dodge responsibility, whether you're a cop or the president
Taliban Controls More Territory in Afghanistan Than At Any Time Since 2001
What is Hillary Clinton thinking now? And what about the other presidential candidates?
Clint Eastwood on GOP Field: "Any One of Them Would Be Better Than What We Got"
Names "Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Unforgiven" as favorites among his own Westerns.
Obama Frees Sharanda Jones and 94 Other Prisoners Serving Draconian Sentences
Obama's commutation record looks good in absolute numbers but paltry as a percentage of petitions.
Autonomous Terrorism Calls for Autonomous Defense
Unlike Obama's gun control proposals, armed citizens can stop mass shooters who are invisible until they strike.
#DoSomething vs. #DueProcess
Barack Obama's latest hashtag campaign is especially sad coming from a constitutional law prof.
Here's Why the ACLU Is Suing the Government over the No-Fly List—and Winning
You'd think our constitutional expert of a president would have a better grasp of 'due process.'
Donate to Reason, Because Unlike Obama, Clinton, and Modern Democrats, We Don't React to Murder by Scapegoating Free Speech
While Loretta Lynch goes after 'anti-Muslim rhetoric,' Reason goes after pols who would crack down on free expression
Obama is Right to Call for New AUMF to Fight ISIS, But Maddeningly Vague on Its Contents
The president didn't lay out a new plan as much as remind us of what he's been doing for months already.
UPDATED W TRANSCRIPT: Watch President Obama's Speech on ISIS & San Bernardino Shooting Here at 8 P.M.
Streaming live from the White House YouTube channel...
Congress, Obama Each Reach for New Gun Laws in Wake of San Bernardino
As usual, none of the piggybacked proposals would have affected the tragedy, even if you believe laws are unbreakable.
Obama Insists 'We Have to Do Something' About Mass Shootings but Can't Say What or Why It Would Work
"Enough is enough" is not a policy.
Paris Climate Confab Preview: Culmination or Crack-Up?
The endgame in the quest for a universal climate treaty
Why We Need a New Declaration of War Regarding ISIS
Enough already with fighting the "long war" against terrorism in the "passive voice."
Obama's Right, Anti-Syrian Refugee Sentiment a Powerful ISIS Propaganda Tool—So Are Obama's Wars
Accepting refugees would go a long way to win hearts and minds. So would ending stupid interventions.
Updated! If Syrian Passport of Paris Bomber is a Fake, Will Guvs Let in Refugees?
And will Ted Cruz consider that the Mideast is not suffering from too little US attention but too much?
American Military Boots Are on the Ground in Syria, But Does President Obama Have a Plan?
"ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" co-author Michael Weiss on how Obama allowed a bad situation to get worse in Syria.
Obama, Unsurprisingly, Endorses Expanding Federal Protections for LGBT Folks
White House announces support for Equality Act.
Why Obama's Immigration Plan Backfired
Can the president write his own laws or procedures? In a word: No.
How Partisanship Killed the Anti-War Movement
Opposition to war depends largely on which party is waging it.
