Obama leads summit effort to secure nuclear materials
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 11th, 2010 4:37 am by HL
Obama leads summit effort to secure nuclear materials
As the junior senator from Illinois in August 2005, Barack Obama traveled to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan with his more senior colleague, Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, for a tour of some of the Cold War’s most fearsome weapons sites.
Hispanics skeptical that Obama, Democrats will deliver immigration overhaul
AURORA, COLO. — Maria Garcia can rattle off a dozen things that are more important to her than politics. Her sky-high mortgage payments, for instance. The convenience store she owns, which isn’t making money. And, at this moment, the chili peppers toasting in the store’s kitchen.
Replacing Justice Stevens on high court is not just a matter of ideology
In nearly 35 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens went from idiosyncratic maverick to the leader of the court’s liberal wing. He always described it as the court’s evolution more than his own — almost all of his colleagues, he said, had been replaced by a justice with more conservative views.