President Obama has asked that the Republicans and Democrats work to find a common solution for the budget dilemma, with the top priority being to find a way to create new jobs. During the weekly Presidential address, Obama asked the Democrats and Republicans to join in finding a way to come up with a budget that gets rid of extravagant spending and yet doesn’t get rid of things like investments... 

2010 was a year marked by a heated debate on new health care reform and a slow-paced economic recovery. For the year, on average, only 47% of Americans approve of the way President Obama is fulfilling his duties. This data was released by the Gallup Organization, and shows a decline of 11% from the previous year. The country’s most approving residents hail from Hawaii, where President Obama was born,... 

Billionaire Donald Trump jumped into the world of Republican politics today, letting an excited group of people know that if he makes a Presidential bid, and he is the victor, that he’ll make sure America is a respected country once again. Trump, a real estate developer and reality TV star, said he will make up his mind by June if he is going to add his name to the now crowded field of hopefuls attempting... 

Governor Jerry Brown has given up his plans to put 11 governmental state offices up for sale to assist in funding California’s budget deficit. The buildings had been put on the sales block by the Schwarzenegger Administration in 2010 to try to come up with nearly a billion dollars. Brown’s office has instead suggested a different way to come up with the cash. One of the offices that had been offered... 

A recent poll in Colorado run by the Public Policy Polling (PPP) has results that put President Barack Obama in a very good spot as we head into the 2012 election cycle. The poll results put President Obama ahead with a 51 percent approval rating, and a 45 percent disapproval rating in the states that don’t approve of his performance. This is a much better showing than in a previous poll by PPP which... 

While both pro and anti-Mubarak protesters fight in Egyptian streets, the Christian minority is facing continuing persecution, which isn’t widely known to the general public. Tom Doyle, director for E3 Partners, a Christian missionary organization working throughout Egypt and the surrounding area, and author of “Breakthrough: The Return of Hope to the Middle East,” told news media that his  coworkers... 

When President Obama returns from his recent vacation in Hawaii, he is expected to announce his choice for the new top economic advisor, a choice that may help to decide the direction in which the administration will go on its quest to get the economy moving and to cut unemployment levels. The new advisor, will replace Lawrence Summer, the outdoing head of the National Economic Council. The new director... 

A new report by a UK education charity has warned that lack of access to computers and to the internet in the home is holding back the education of poorer children. According to the e-Learning Foundation, a charity set up to promote digital education, over a million   school-age children  in the UK do not have the use of a computer at home, while nearly two million do not have access to the internet. According... 

The latest big verbal “fight” this week was a fight over choices. Choices on whether or not parents are doing enough to prevent childhood obesity and whose right it was to let them know the answer to that question. Squaring off on the answer was former GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, who has been speaking out against the First Lady, Michelle Obama’s opinions on the... 

Results from a brand new Internet poll show that President Obama’s approval rating is at 45 percent and remaining steady despite election setbacks. Most Democrats are still in approval of the President’s job performance, and the general public also has a good opinion of him, even though the poll also shows they think the economy is not improving fast enough. Top of Form The President’s approval...