Nevada: Barack Obama

Barack Obama’s campaign philosophy suggested that we, as a nation, ought to focus on the ideas that unite us, rather than those few divisive issues that politicians and pundits often dwell upon. Before we understood the full weight of our looming financial implosion, he suggested that partisan bickering and posturing for cameras and constituents had kept us from tackling critical issues. So, if we are to abandon the collapse for a moment, what do we, exactly, agree upon?

You probably don’t know this, but there was a big dukaroo in London tonight between President Barack Obama and Killers singer Brandon Flowers. What title were they fighting over? Hero of the Year! The prize? A Shockwaves NME Awards trophy (see bronze “bird” above).
I know, it’s weird that two Americans would be in the running [...]

A little-publicized Capitol Hill hearing tomorrow will go a long way toward proving whether President Barack Obama represents change that restores civil liberties and Americans’ expectation of privacy or whether he and Janet Napolitano, his new secretary of Homeland Security, are just kindler, gentler faces of a corporate system that eventually hopes to track your [...]

Last week, Mayor Oscar Goodman wrote to President Barack Obama, demanding Obama clarify his remark that banks which were the receipient of funds from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program should not take junkets to Las Vegas “…on the taxpayer’s dime.” Goodman, and others, said the remark was wildly misinterpreted to discourage all Las [...]