If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!To love what he sees in the mirror again, Woods has to understand that it was during those days that his current problems began to grow. Earl instilled in Tiger the belief that he was special and destined for greatness, [...]
President Barack Obama took aim Monday at the nation’s school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and education districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter their worst performing schools. Obama’s move comes as many schools continue to struggle to get children to graduation, a profound problem in a rich, powerful nation. Only [...]
President Obama’s support among born-again Christians has decreased after a year in office, a new survey shows. Among all born-again Christians, 35 percent are satisfied with the job the president is doing, according to a survey conducted by The Barna Group. Back in the 2008 election, 42 percent of all born-again adults voted for then [...]
Tibetans living close to the Dalai Lama’s birthplace in northwest China have heralded his meeting with Barack Obama with a midnight display of fireworks.The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader remains widely revered in his homeland and residents said they were delighted that he will meet the US president in Washington today. Beijing has warned the event [...]
China today disputed Barack Obama’s suggestion that it was artificially depressing its currency to gain a trade advantage.The US president promised to take a tough line with Beijing over its currency and implied it was breaking trade rules in the latest in a series of rows straining US-Chinese relations.
His remarks were dismissed by the Chinese [...]
President Barack Obama welcomed the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers to the White House on Monday, praising the team for their accomplishments on the basketball court and their service in the community. An avid basketball fan himself, Obama said he gets enormous pleasure from watching excellence on the court — and nobody exemplified excellence more [...]
Al-Qaeda supremo Osama bin Laden on Sunday claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day U.S. airline bombing attempt and warned America of new “raids” unless it backed off from supporting Israel. In a short recording broadcast by the Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel, Osama, the world’s most wanted terrorist, addressed U.S. President Barack Obama saying the [...]
President Karzai’s security chiefs have demanded that America should hand over the gunmen behind a night raid in eastern Afghanistan that government investigators and the United Nations say killed at least eight schoolchildren. It was the Afghan Government’s most aggressive response yet to an alleged attack on civilians. But the US insisted that its men [...]
Political furor over the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 has thrust national security back to the center of American politics, with Republicans and the White House scrambling to blame each other for intelligence lapses and present themselves to voters as tougher on terrorism.
Strategists in both parties believe that terrorism and, more broadly, foreign policy [...]
President Barack Obama on Tuesday blamed “human and systemic failures” for allowing a botched Christmas Day attack aboard a Detroit-bound airliner and a U.S. official said the incident was linked to al Qaeda. Interrupting a vacation in Hawaii for the second straight day to address the U.S. public, Obama listed several mistakes that allowed a [...]
