Tag: Barack Obama

German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with U.S. president Barack Obama at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Monday June 8, 2015 during the G-7 summit. (Michaek Kappeler/Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Did Angela Merkel ‘ma’amsplain’ to a ‘manspreading’ Obama?

Ashe Schow · June 9, 2015 2:27 pm

Obama will speak about the law's major tenets and make his case that it has improved coverage for millions. (AP)

Obama plans major Obamacare speech

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 9, 2015 10:00 am

It's not lack of experience that hampers Obama; it's his refusal to learn a thing from it. (AP Photo)Â

Temperament counts

Noemie Emery · June 9, 2015 9:00 am

National Security

Ten months later, still no strategy on ISIS

Washington Examiner · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

Marine Corps Sgt. Danielle V. Beck fires an M41A4 Saber missile launcher during a live-fire exercise on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 14, 2015.Â (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Alicia R. Leaders)

National Security

Senate set to rumble on defense ‘slush fund’

Pete Kasperowicz · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said last week that he was putting the kibosh on most of Obama's federal court nominees. (Washington Examiner)

No more showdowns over Obama’s judicial nominations?

Susan Crabtree · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

Americans need to "multiply their efforts" in his country to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, implying that U.S. ground troops are needed in the fight, saidÂ Saleem al-Jubouri, speaker of Iraqi parliament. (AP Photo)

National Security

U.S. must fight ‘side-by-side’ with Iraqis to beat Islamic State: Senior Iraqi politician

Charles Hoskinson · June 9, 2015 12:36 am

Iraqi PM sidelined at G-7

Nicole Duran · June 8, 2015 7:39 pm

"What will it take for President Obama to open his eyes?" Mike Huckabee asked in a statement. "The way you deal with a bully on the playground is to punch them in the face and put them on the ground because the only thing they respect is power." (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Huckabee says it’s time to ‘hack China back’

Ariel Cohen · June 8, 2015 7:16 pm

Obama ‘Frustrated’ With Court Ruling on Executive Amnesty

Daniel Halper · June 8, 2015 6:22 pm

President Obama argued Monday that the Supreme Court case on the legality of Obamacare subsidies is a no-brainer, and said it's a case the high court probably shouldn't have been bothered with. (AP Photo)

Obama slams Obamacare case as ‘twisted interpretation of four words’

Nicole Duran · June 8, 2015 5:57 pm

Environmental activists in a boat perform wearing puppet heads representing leaders, from left, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott, President Barack Obama, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the Climate Change Conference COP20 in Lima Peru, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting in Lima to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Energy and Environment

Poll: U.S. leads in opposing climate deal in Paris

John Siciliano · June 8, 2015 4:30 pm