Barack Obama

Back in 2014, Iowa politics were at an inflection point, though it wasn’t yet apparent at the time. Back then, Iowa was still one of the quintessential purple states. Barack Obama had won two years prior, but longtime Democratic Senator Tom Harkin was retiring, and Tea Party firebrand Joni Ernst…

On Saturday morning, Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted a racist comment along with a share of former President Barack Obama's statement regarding Friday's Supreme Court ruling to reverse Roe v. Wade. Obama, making his statement on Twitter on Friday morning shortly after the ruling was handed down, said "Today, the Supreme Court not only…

MEGHAN MARKLE'S half-sister has failed in a bizarre attempt to get a federal judge removed from her defamation lawsuit on the grounds that the judge was appointed by former US President Barack Obama. Thomas Markle ‘shouldn’t have been disowned’ says Samantha Sign up for FREE royal alerts Invalid email We…

Overturning Roe 'a sad day for the court and for the country' – BidenPresident Joe Biden has decried the supreme court’s decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion, warning that it risks the health of women nationwide. “The court has done what it has never done done before: expressly take…

A post shared on Facebook claims former President Barack Obama replaced Black Music Month with Pride Month during his term. Verdict: False Pride month was first recognized in 1999 by former President Bill Clinton. African American Music Appreciation Month is still being celebrated today and has not been removed. Fact…

Pastor Kevin Smith called out some Southern Baptists for being "political whores" to former President Donald Trump while speaking at the recent meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). At the Anaheim, California, event, which was held earlier this month, Smith spoke about how he has seen the Southern Baptist…

Wednesday marked 10 years since President Barack Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, to protect undocumented people brought to the United States as children from deportation.  “Let’s be clear,” Obama said when announcing DACA in 2012. “This is not amnesty, this is not immunity. This…

Eric Holder, the former frontline prosecutor and local judge who served as Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was never a fan of Donald Trump, but he responded cautiously in 2019 when asked whether Trump should face prosecution even after he left office. “I think there is a potential cost to…

In each of the last two weeks, an 18-year-old American male has horrifically gripped the nation’s attention, one for allegedly gunning down 10 Black people at a grocery store in upstate New York, the other for slaughtering 19 Latino fourth-graders and two teachers at a Texas school. Those teens represent…

The 44th president of the United States, who gave us the 46th president of the United States, has weighed in on Uvalde and it might be the worst take on planet earth. As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have…