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How Loose Lips from Obama Hurt America and the World

March 17, 2022 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, 2020 Election, Campaigns, Humor, International, Nuclear weapons, Obama, Politics, Putin, Russia, Trump, Ukraine Leave a comment

Barack Obama was clearly one of the most cerebral and well-spoken presidents that the United States has ever had. But as odd as it may seem, two slips of his tongue may have led to the rise of the two worst dictators so far in the 21st Century.

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Going Back: The Untold Story of Dreamers Returning to Mexico

February 15, 2019 Renee Shur Immigration, Obama Leave a comment

It’s been a long and contentious eighteen years since the first Dream Act was introduced in Congress in 2001. The issue of providing a

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Hard to tell where the pendulum of normalcy will swing next

June 25, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Community/Common good, Democracy, Trump, Uncategorized Leave a comment

After Barack Obama was elected, it seemed that America had a new normalcy, one that some described as “post-racial.” For any who took that

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Bernie, Hillary, and body language

July 15, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

Yesterday, Bernie endorsed Hillary. Body language experts across the Web came to the same conclusion: They don’t like each other. They saw Hillary as

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Is the country headed in the right direction?

January 27, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Economy, Obama, Voting/Elections One comment

Do you think that the country is headed in the right direction? When asked that question in public-opinion polls, Invariably, a majority of  respondents

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It’s 2016: What happened to all those dire, Obama-geddon predictions?

January 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, 2016 Election, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Now that it’s 2016, it’s time to fact-check some of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it predictions that President Obama’s critics made before his 2012 re-election. In an

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Iran Nuclear Deal too complicated for TV commercials

July 29, 2015 Arthur Lieber Climate Change, Foreign Policy, Labor and unions, Media, Obama, Politics, Public safety, Science, United Nations, War Leave a comment

A new CNN / ORC poll just revealed that the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran that the

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After TPP, Obama may have a tough time convincing some on Iran deal

July 17, 2015 Arthur Lieber Consumer issues, International, Obama Leave a comment

Like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the nuclear deal between Iran and five other countries including the United States is complicated, and the devil is

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What if the President spoke to us as if he was on “The Wire?”

January 27, 2015 Arthur Lieber Congress, Media, Obama Leave a comment

I’ve spoken with several people who just could not watch President Obama’s State of the Union speech. These are Obama supporters, but for various

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From Kennedy to Obama – what might have been

November 22, 2013 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Democrats, Good government, Humor, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

I was in eleventh grade when the shots were fired, the announcement was made, and the LBJ years began. Up until JFK, my father

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