Barack Obama

March 11, 2016

President Obama’s SXSW Keynote Called For Action In The Tech World

The President of the United States of America became the biggest headliner SXSW has ever seen.

By Dan Solomon

The Daily Post |

October 2, 2015

New Poll Reveals How Texans Feel About Obama, Blue Bell, and Toll Roads

We like the president less than the rest of the country, but the real showdown is over Blue Bell.

By Dan Solomon

April 29, 2015

The Politics of Jade Helm

A partial defense of the conspiracy theorists

November 26, 2014

Obama’s Immigration Action

Some questions about Barack Obama's explanation for his executive action on immigration, announced last week.

News & Politics |

November 24, 2014

The Arguments Against Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration

On Thursday, the president said that Congress had left him no choice but to act alone. Conservatives can argue otherwise.

April 11, 2014

Obama’s Approach to Civil Rights

At his keynote speech at the Civil Rights Summit, the President honored LBJ's legacy on civil rights--but implied that he would try to advance it by other means.

January 29, 2014

I thought President Obama’s State of the Union address was pretty predictable. In past years he has used the speech to lay out what amounts to a laundry list of his programs for Democrats to use in the upcoming congressional elections. And that’s exactly what he did. What was not

By Paul Burka and Brian D. Sweany

November 14, 2013

Obama’s Collapse

He is on the verge of becoming a complete failure as president.

By Paul Burka and Brian D. Sweany

May 9, 2013

Obamarama, Part 1

Central Texas was the first stop on President Obama's "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity" tour.

The Culture |

January 21, 2013

How the White House Might Respond to Texas Secession Petition

When citizens petitioned the White House to release their beer recipe, the WH responded in less than a month. Texas secession will take longer.

January 21, 2013

The Arguments for (and Against) Texas Secession

A petition calling for the Obama administration to let Texas secede from the United States had more than 95,000 signatures as of Wednesday morning.

January 21, 2013

Five Ways to Register Discontent with Obama’s Reelection

Here are some of the different ways Texans are expressing their discontent with the reelection of President Barack Obama.

January 21, 2013

Hey Romney, Tami Taylor Called and She Wants Coach’s Slogan Back

Connie Britton took to the pages of USA Today to criticize the Romney campaign for using the Friday Night Lights slogan "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose."

January 21, 2013

If Texas Newspapers Decided the Presidential Election…

...guess who would win.

January 21, 2013

Leakey Church Posts Controversial Sign About President Obama

"Vote for the Mormon, Not the Muslim! The capitalist, not the communist!" reads the sign at Leakey's Church in the Valley.

January 21, 2013

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Stop Writing About “FNL” and Romney

UPDATE: Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger and FNL TV producer Peter Berg have both joined the fray over Mitt Romney and "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts...Can't Lose."

January 21, 2013

Who Defaced This Highway Sign in Romney, TX?

Someone scrawled "Obama" in uppercase letters over the green highway sign that marks the location of the unincorporated community located southwest of Fort Worth.

January 21, 2013

Who Gets the “Friday Night Lights” Vote?

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both attempted to claim coach Eric Taylor's "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts..." rallying cry as their own—and FNL author Buzz Bissinger has picked a side.

January 21, 2013

No Post-Convention Bounce for Obama in Texas

A recent poll shows Romney has support from 55 percent of likely voters in Texas to Obama's 40 percent.

January 21, 2013

How Did Julián Castro Do?

What people are saying about the San Antonio mayor's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.

January 21, 2013

Obama Breaks One-Day Texas Fundraising Record

President Barack Obama made four fundraising stops in the Lone Star State on Tuesday, bringing in an expected haul of $4 million.

Border & Immigration |

January 21, 2013

Rick Perry Calls Obama Administration “Nixonian”

The governor discussed "Fast and Furious," the Texas DREAM Act, and his "vulture capitalist" critique of the Republican presidential nominee with CBS News's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation.

The Culture |

January 21, 2013

The Nuge’s Stranglehold

Ted Nugent, the unrepentant hunter and right-wing activist, grabs the media's attention with his political rhetoric, landing appearances on the Texas Tribune and CBS This Morning.

January 21, 2013

The Secret Service Will Be Visiting Ted Nugent

The rocker sticks to his not-so-metaphorical guns, saying the reaction to his comments about President Obama make him like "a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally."

January 21, 2013

Today in Rick Perry: The Romney Ringtone, Trailing Roemer, and a Smiling Foe

Yep. He's still running for president. Here's the latest news from the campaign trail.

January 21, 2013

Early Endorsement: “Express-News” Says Romney is “Clear GOP Choice”

The San Antonio paper weighs in now due to uncertainty over Texas primary date and spurns Congressman Ron Paul and Governor Rick Perry.

January 21, 2013

UT College Republicans President’s Twitter Scandal Continues

Cassie Wright stays under the radar, but the media continues chattering about the offensive tweet.

January 21, 2013

Today in Perry: Campaign Phone Calls, College Football Fans, and Internal Optimism

Yep, he’s still running for President. Here’s the latest news from the campaign trail.

October 31, 2012

Election Plight

In which Joshua Treviño and Harold Cook swap emails (and opinions) about the 2012 election, political trends, and what happens next in Texas.

By Harold Cook

September 25, 2012

North Austin Homeowner Takes Down Hanging Empty Chair

The Internet reacts to last week's "chair lynching" in North Austin.

July 31, 2012

Julián Castro to Deliver DNC Keynote Address

The San Antonio mayor will be the first Hispanic to give this speech.

By Texas Monthly

The Culture |

May 9, 2012

Annise Parker Cheers Obama’s Support of Marriage Equality

Houston's openly gay mayor had previously said Obama's views on gay marriage needed to "evolve" more quickly.

April 17, 2012

Ted Nugent Puts Obama in His Sights

Stumping for Mitt Romney at the NRA convention, the rock star proclaims that he "will either be dead or in jail by this time next year" if President Barack Obama is reelected.

February 8, 2012

Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: Texas-Born

Homegrown film director David Gordon Green and three writers who studied at the Michener Center made up the creative team behind "It's Halftime in America" commercial.

January 25, 2012

How Drunk Would You Have Been If You Played Karl Rove’s SOTU Drinking Game?

Rove said that if State of the Union watchers drink every time President Obama said the phrase "middle class," then "we're going to have a lot of drunk people in America." Was he right?

Sports |

January 1, 2012

Behind the Scenes at the Mavericks White House Visit

Between the overwhelming German press corps and the underwhelming holding pen for journalists covering the visit, the scene wasn't exactly what you would expect.

By Peter Voskamp

December 28, 2011

DMN Nails It By Naming Admiral Bill McRaven the Texan of the Year

The decision to bestow the honor to the SEAL Team Six commander took “just minutes and was a shutout,” according to Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Keven Ann Willey.

December 15, 2011

Are You a Whole Foods Voter or a Cracker Barrel Voter?

The Washington Post tries to put a fresh spin on the old red vs. blue divide by studying the voting habits of people who live close to one of the two retail chains.

December 14, 2011

Holder Holds the Voting Line at LBJ Library

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talks tough about redistricting, Voter ID, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act at the LBJ Library & Museum in Austin

November 17, 2011

New UT College Republicans President Continues Offensive Tweeting Tradition

Cassandra Wright is the second University of Texas College Republicans President in just over a month to get into hot water for a tweet about President Obama.

November 16, 2011

UT Student’s Tweet: It’s “Tempting” To Shoot President Obama

Lauren E. Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at the University of Texas, tweeted about the White House shooting suspect Oscar Ramiro Ortego-Hernandez and lands on the national political media's radar.

August 13, 2011

The Great Campaigner

We interrupt your regular blogger to bring you a special message from the editor: So it’s official. As of today, at 1:30 pm EST, Governor Perry is finally a formal candidate for president (though we’ve been convinced he had eyes on the job as far back as February

By Jake Silverstein

August 8, 2010

Obama’s upside-down visit

Republicans are salivating with anticipation; Democrats are running for cover. This is nothing new. The biggest enemy of the Texas Democratic party has always been the national Democratic party, dating back to 1952, when Governor Allan Shivers broke the Solid South by endorsing Eisenhower, who carried Texas. The worst thing

April 25, 2010

Target practice

Remember that comment Perry made a week or so ago, when Obama talked about adding jobs at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida but remained mum about the Johnson Space Center in Houston? Perry said that Obama had “put a target on Texas’s back.” One hardly expects Obama to love

September 5, 2009

The Obama speech to school children

This is one of those flaps that is hard to believe. Conservatives are going nuts over Obama’s plan to speak to school kids urging them to stay in school. For sheer hysteria, it is hard to top Debbie Riddle’s letter to constituents: By now, most of you are aware that

February 4, 2009

Obama ups the ante in Medicaid debate

President Obama just lent a hand to the advocates in Austin who have been arguing for 12-month eligibility for families signing up for Medicaid, as opposed to having to re-up every six months. Obama today signed the SCHIP Reauthorization Act, which rewards states that reach more children with Medicaid. Currently,

By Patricia Kilday Hart

February 1, 2009

Dreams from My Father

How my dad learned to stop worrying and love a Democrat.

By Eileen Smith

January 1, 2009

Working on a Presidential Campaign

Kenny Thompson on planning Obama’s campaign events.

By John Spong

October 8, 2008

Obama scores huge win (he did?)

I didn’t see it that way, but that is certainly what the networks are saying. CNN’s poll of debate viewers called it 54-30 for Obama. I thought the debate was pretty even and generally devoid of fireworks. The only way I can account for such a margin is it reflects