Published: Daily Dot (April 23, 2015)
On Sunday night, President Obama backed Medical Pot Reform—and the Internet noticed.
Obama signals support for medical marijuana bill backed by Rand Paul http://t.co/1z6q1XT14r
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 19, 2015
... Read Original ArticleObama on medical marijuana: "we should follow the science as opposed to ideology on this issue" http://t.co/6iQcjrQfou
Published: Daily Dot (April 2, 2015)
As Arkansas contemplates a “religious freedom bill” akin to the controversial measure recently passed in Indiana, one may very well wonder: What, if anything, can President Obama do about this? More specifically, can he use his power to issue executive orders—one that has already been utilized to historic effect throughout his presidency—to halt a movement of targeted discrimination against LGBT Americans?... Read Original Article
Published: Daily Dot (February 5, 2015)
“The science is, you know, pretty indisputable.”
Those were President Obama’s words in an interview with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie earlier this week during which he urged parents to get their children vaccinated. While it’s tempting to praise the president for standing on the side of science, he has been inexcusably reluctant to fulfill his constitutional responsibility to protect the general welfare—in this case, preventing a potential epidemic by making school vaccinations mandatory.... Read Original Article
Published: Daily Dot (January 21, 2015)
The gist of President Obama’s State of the Union speech can be found in one sentence: “The shadow of crisis has passed and the State of the Union is strong.”
This was not the address of a president whose party suffered a historic shellacking in the most recent set of midterm elections, but one whose approval rating has reached 50 percent and is emerging as a tough, creative statesman during his lame duck years.... Read Original Article
Published: MSNBC (January 11, 2015)
Listening to Rep. Louis Gohmert’s (R-TX) revanchist logic for his failed bid to oust John Boehner as speaker of the House earlier this month, you’d think the tea party wing of the Republican Party had been working with President Obama. “[We’ll] fight amnesty tooth and nail.