Outside of select pockets in Arkansas and C-SPAN, Tom Cotton probably wasn’t really a “household” name until a few weeks ago. Cotton, a Republican U.S. senator from Arkansas, sent a letter to the Iranian government condemning President Barack Obama’s negotiation with Iran.
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It’s important for satirical news to be good, if only for my sanity. And for “The Daily Show” to stay at the top of a growing pack, they’ll need a stellar replacement.
Here are my top 10 nominees to replace the one and only Jon Stewart, whose shoes will never, ever be filled.
Promising to help America’s middle class, President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a record $4 trillion budget that would hammer corporate profits overseas and raise taxes on the wealthy while boosting tax credits for families and the working poor.
With a self-imposed deadline looming, President Barack Obama said Thursday he still intends to act on his own to change immigration policies but stopped short of reiterating his past vows to act by end of summer.
Two campaign representatives for U.S. Senate hopeful Kesha Rogers stood behind a picture of President Barack Obama, defaced with a mustache to look like Adolf Hitler at the corner of 5th and Bagby Streets, today.
By Danny Huizinga Guest Columnist It’s the time of the year where the president lays out a grand new vision…
I turn on the news to see what people are saying about Obamacare, and it’s almost always the same thing every time. Old men are arguing, not respectively debating or discussing, over Obamacare on television. Who can really blame them at this point?
It’s a complex issue. There’s no doubt that finding the best way to provide citizens health care is difficult to a find a consensus on. But what I do know as a fact is that President Barack Obama did not fulfill his pledge of, “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Except for when they’re not. Siding with one of two forces hostile to American interests will not strengthen our foreign policy.
What do most Americans know about Syria?
It’s a country on the other side of the world, someone may tell you, and that’s often the extent of their knowledge.
Others will accurately recognize that our relationship with the Syrian regime led by President Bashar Assad is not friendly.
George W. Bush shed a sentimental tear. Barack Obama mused about the burdens of the office. Bill Clinton dished out wisecracks. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush chimed in, too, on a rare day of harmony at the dedication of the younger Bush’s presidential library that glossed over the hard edges and partisan divides of five presidencies spanning more than three tumultuous decades.
On Monday, the word got out fast that President Obama was speaking at Baylor University’s West memorial service.
As I attended class on Tuesday I heard more talk about his arrival.
I’m not a very political person. To be honest, I tend to skim over political news and go straight to the health and science section whenever I’m reading the news, but I was ecstatic when I heard about President Barack Obama’s Brain Activity Map (BAM) project.
PolitiFact, a nonpartisan group designed to look at political claims and verify accuracy, called Mitt Romney’s statement “mostly false” when he said women were hit hard by job losses under President Barack Obama.
There are problems in Washington, but America’s positive aspects can overcome them, Former Congressman Chet Edwards said at the W. R. Poage Legislative Library’s Spring Lecture Tuesday. The lecture was titled, “What’s Wrong with Washington and Right about America?”
Rick Santorum cleared the way for Mitt Romney to claim victory in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, giving up his “against all odds” campaign as Romney’s tenacious conservative rival.
Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, sweeping primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C., with time left over to swap charges with President Barack Obama.
As Mitt Romney looked for a sweep in Tuesday’s three Republican primaries to tighten his grip on the party’s nomination, President Barack Obama criticized the GOP front-runner by name in a campaign ad for the first time, signaling that he too thinks the nomination race is all but over.
While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend.
Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor Wednesday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber.
I am writing in response to the guest column “President Obama has earned re-election” by Trenton Garza on March 22. Mr. Garza’s arguments seem to be very focused on what Obama has done for college students, rather than asking what impact will his policies have on the future of our country.
While Gov. Mitt Romney, vying for the Republican nomination, campaigned in Illinois, he spoke to a crowd at the University of Chicago. Answering a question concerning the extreme expenses of student loans and the availability of employment opportunities, Romney said, “I don’t see how a young American can vote for a Democrat.”
A confident Mitt Romney is shifting toward the general election as his grasp on the Republican presidential nomination tightens with a win in Illinois, saying Tuesday that he would work with Democrats to solve the nation’s problems — or “die trying.”
“Big Easy Express,” documentary director Emmett Malloy’s rail-riding music documentary, made its first stop in Austin on the final day of SXSW.
Quick fact: Six out of 10 college students will lose their religion after becoming indoctrinated by liberal professors.
After quarreling for months, President Barack Obama and the top two Republicans in Congress expressed optimism Wednesday about finding a common jobs and energy agenda, prodded by politics to show results in an election year.
With a formal dinner for the few, President Barack Obama on Wednesday paid solemn tribute to the many.
A decision by some NATO troops in Afghanistan has escalated to riots and the deaths of at least 29 people.
On “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” Monday night, Jon Stewart jokingly suggested that Neil deGrasse Tyson, a prominent astrophysicist, should run for president of the United States. While Stewart was largely joking and Tyson is unlikely to actually run, let me ask this question: why not?
Seven states asked a federal judge Thursday to block an Obama administration mandate that requires birth control coverage for employees of religious-affiliated hospitals, schools and outreach programs.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s administration has “fought against religion” and sought to substitute a “secular” agenda for one grounded in faith.
The debate over the line between religious freedom and federal health care mandates has made its way into Massachusetts’ closely watched U.S. Senate race, with Republican Sen. Scott Brown accusing his chief Democratic rival of wanting to “dictate to religious people about what they should believe.”