NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday touted his efforts to advance gay rights and promised further progress, but stopped short of declaring his support for legalizing same-sex marriage.

Obama received an enthusiastic reception from gay, lesbian and bisexual supporters at a New York fundraiser, but a few dozen gay rights protesters [...]

… the nation’s longest war ever. The first two — on March 27, 2009, and Dec. 1, 2009 — involved Obama ordering the sorts of American troop surges into combat that the Democrat used to say would make things worse when his predecessor ordered one into Iraq. (Scroll down for links to the full texts [...]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will map a course for drawing down the nearly 10-year war in Afghanistan Wednesday, when he is expected to set a target of bringing home about 30,000 troops by the end of 2012.

The president is likely to pull out 10,000 troops home by the end of this year, administration [...]

Grant Lawrence–Bodhi Thunder

As I reported previously, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant had a fire as flood waters from the Missouri River threaten to overwhelm it.

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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered Federal aid to supplement Commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes on June 1, 2011.

The President’s action makes Federal funding available [...]

Leaders of a national Hispanic organization are criticizing President Barack Obama for skipping their annual conference for the third consecutive year after he promised as a candidate in 2008 that he would return as president.

Some members of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials also are questioning Obama’s commitment to [...]

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President Barack Obama and his feckless supporters appear ludicrous as they whine about the stubbornly high U.S. unemployment rate and lack of job growth during the “recovery,” for they brazenly evade their own culpability in it.

Yes, the George W. Bush administration was itself disastrous, as was the [...]

“We’ve seen battalions of financial industry lobbyists…firms spend[ing] millions to influence the outcome of this debate….I believe we can and must put this kind of cynical politics aside.” -President Obama’s speech to Wall Street, Cooper Union, April 22, 2010.

Put cynical politics aside? Clearly, that is so 2010. The New York Times [...]

Nearly half the Democratic caucus has signed a letter to President Obama pressing him to shift his strategy in Afghanistan and begin a major drawdown of troops.

Obama has said he would begin withdrawing troops this summer but he has left the size and scope of the withdrawal dependent on the advice of his [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House insisted on Wednesday that President Barack Obama has the legal authority to press on with U.S. military involvement in Libya and urged skeptical lawmakers not to send “mixed messages” about their commitment to the NATO-led air war.

Senior administration officials, offering a detailed legal analysis to Congress to [...]

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U.S. Rep. David Rivera and President Barack Obama

Republicans turned to Florida freshman Congressman David Rivera on Tuesday to respond to a jobs speech that President Barack Obama made the day [...]