Tag: Barack Obama

Environmentalists are claiming victory for the schedule change as a result of their campaign to pressure President Obama to keep fossil fuels in the ground. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Obama punts on oil lease sales until after Paris

John Siciliano · December 7, 2015 9:34 pm

"Now I've got two big issues remaining; expiring tax provisions in the tax code, obviously funding the government, and that's what we're working on this week," Paul Ryan told a local radio station Monday. (AP Photo)

Ryan: Congress may need an extension on funding bill

Pete Kasperowicz · December 7, 2015 9:07 pm

Critics of President Obama's plan to agree to the climate change deal say it would raise energy prices for Americans with little in the way of emissions reductions. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Energy and Environment

Most want Congress to have final say on Obama’s climate deal

John Siciliano · December 7, 2015 7:50 pm

Barnes: Obama’s Speech Didn’t Hurt Our Enemies or Help Obama’s Friends

TWS Podcast · December 7, 2015 6:45 pm

Former President Jimmy Carter received his seventh Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album Monday. (Photo by Sanford Myers/Invision/AP)

Jimmy Carter picks up seventh Grammy nomination

Joshua Axelrod · December 7, 2015 6:35 pm

Fox host warns analyst for using dirty word to describe Obama

Becket Adams · December 7, 2015 6:04 pm

Obama's conceit, apparent since the 2008 campaign, that if he talks emolliently about Islam, then Islamist terrorists will stop hating our way of life and trying to destroy is, has been proven about as conclusively wrong as any assumption in the real world can be. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Scathing assessment of Obama Oval Office speech

Michael Barone · December 7, 2015 4:40 pm

Washington Secrets

White House kills gun control line in terror speech email to supporters

Paul Bedard · December 7, 2015 3:38 pm

NBC pans Obama’s Islamic State address

Eddie Scarry · December 7, 2015 3:10 pm

No Good for Americans Seeking Assurance

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 7, 2015 1:05 pm

President Obama announced no significant shift in U.S. strategy and offered no new policy prescriptions for defeating the Islamic State. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Why did Obama give that terrorism speech?

Byron York · December 7, 2015 12:05 pm

Republican Senator Delivers Rebuttal to Obama from San Bernardino

Daniel Halper · December 7, 2015 12:01 pm