Archive for March, 2010

With a historic victory on health reform, Organizing for America volunteers showed that they’re capable of bringing about real change on one of the most challenging issues of our time. To commemorate this victory, OFA is asking supporters to help choose the official commemorative health reform t-shirt.From ‘Health reform is a BFD’ to ‘This is what change looks like,’ click here to check out the five t-shirt designs and vote for your favorite.

President Obama, after delaying and deliberating for a year, unveiled a controversial offshore drilling plan Wednesday that was driven largely by the politics of his agenda on energy and climate change — not by hopes of changing the nation’s energy…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to travel to Rhode Island on Friday to assess damage caused by the worst flooding there in 200 years, a department official told The Associated Press.

The…

A Williamsburg man is flying the hammer and sickle rather than the stars and stripes. He says it’s his way of protesting the government.

If you’re driving down Monticello Avenue in Williamsburg you may notice a Soviet Union flag – it belongs to Leonard,…

Barack Obama’s failure to back Britain in its recent dispute with Argentina
over sovereignty was “disappointing”, David Cameron has said.

President Barack Obama, surrounded by the family of Cesar Chavez and leaders of the United Farm Workers that Chavez co-founded, signs a proclamation in the Oval Office designating March 31, 2010, which would have been his 83rd birthday, as Cesar Chavez Day. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Today, I joined President Obama in welcoming the family of Cesar Chavez to the White House.  On what would have been his 83rd birthday, the President honored his family and his life’s work by proclaiming March 31, 2010 “Cesar Chavez Day.”
Chavez was raised in a family of migrant farm workers.  In his youth and later in life, he led the charge for fair wages and safer working …

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking Wednesday at an anti-violence event in central Illinois, called for “educating the whole society” to dispel cultural attitudes that lead to sexual assaults.

Biden was joined by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and…

Few would likely be surprised to learn first lady Michelle Obama is a multitasker.

On Wednesday she spoke publicly about one such instance now etched in her memory. It was when she showed up for a job interview at the University of Chicago Medical Center…