Click here to see the video. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, President Obama met with the Taoiseach of Ireland Brian Cowen this morning. The President thanked the Taoiseach for Ireland’s assistance on important international issues and said that the U.S. and Ireland will be working together to address world hunger. The President later attended […]
There’s no issue that touches people more directly than health care, so there’s good reason for people to want as much reassurance as they can get before the country goes ahead with reform. That’s why those who work in our health care system day in and day out have a unique role in weighing in on […]
I know where I’ll be and it will not be watching March madness like most of the country. I’ll be in front of my computer logged onto the Paralympic website, watching the United States Paralympic hockey team play for the gold medal. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been a hockey fan. […]
Download: Rectangular (630px by 303px) | Square (389px by 354px) 32,000,000 — that’s the number of Americans who will get health insurance under the President’s plan. [Source: Congressional Budget Office] That’s also a little more than the populations of Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona — COMBINED. [Source: U.S. Census Bureau] Over the course of our ‘Health […]
Click here to see the video. Following her cover story for Newsweek, the First Lady talked with Newsweek’s Editor Jon Meacham about her Let’s Move campaign at the Newseum in Washington D.C. today. She discussed the magnitude of the problem of childhood obesity, especially during current times as a busier culture. We’re also a culture […]
As our year long debate on health care comes to a close there’s a lot of misinformation flying around. Case in point: a recent headline suggesting that health premiums would increase under the President’s health care plan. The suggestion of this article was that maybe Americans would be better off and end up paying less […]
The 2010 NCAA’s are upon us and President Obama has released his picks. ESPN interviewed the President about his choices and has also published his picks for both the men’s and women’s tournaments. Fonte: White House
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the National Broadband Plan, called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to identify ways to expand access to broadband and promote economic growth and job creation. In his statement on the plan’s release, President Obama committed to “build upon our efforts over the past year to […]
It seems at first a simple graph; a few skinny bars reaching various heights along a non-descript x-axis. By most accounts it is a simple depiction I suppose—a graph in this instance showing the number of pallets of relief aid that flowed across beaches the Navy created in response to the earthquake in Haiti. I, […]
Click here to see the video. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, President Obama met with the Taoiseach of Ireland Brian Cowen this morning. The President thanked the Taoiseach for Ireland’s assistance on important international issues and said that the U.S. and Ireland will be working together to address world hunger. The President later attended […]
