History in the News

Many are cynical that the current media coverage of the Obama Regime scandals is going to lead to much of anything.

President Barack Obama is a nightmare for political comedians. He's too cool, too smart, too ... good at this whole leadership thing.

Almost 200,000 African Americans served in the Union army during the Civil War. Now, two of them have received special honors because of their connection to first lady Michelle Obama.

I think Hillary Clinton really does want to shake lose all of her potential scandals now just in case she does decide to make a full blown dash for the White House in a few years.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, resigned from Congress in 2011 after being embroiled for weeks in a sex scandal linked to his lewd online exchanges with women.

Belle Sorokin has been volunteering with Lee Memorial for 20 years. She was born during World War I and was married during the Great Depression.

If you want a sign of the genuine grassroots conservative zeitgeist at the moment, don't listen to blind-quote assurances in the MSM that Republicans have Scandalmania '13 "under control" and won't let the this turn into a rerun of the counterproductive effort to drive Bill Clinton from office.

Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic president they loathe, do not respect, and certainly do not fear.

The race has attracted the attention of organized labor, Bill Clinton, and a longtime ally to President Obama.

US President Barack Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in June, the White House has said.

With less than two weeks to go before their springtime adjournment, Illinois lawmakers are being pressured over whether they will make their state the 13th to approve gay marriage.

Nineteenth-century artist Lewis Miller captures the facade of Washington Hall, built in 1849.

Many a modern president has lost momentum and suffered what are termed "scandals" in his second term.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder gave Washington a preview of how the last few months of the Obama administration are going to look, and they're going to be ugly.

President Barack Obama is facing a political situation not altogether unlike what the last Democrat in the White House, Bill Clinton, experienced during his second term.

President Obama's charm offensive has been a dismal failure , but of course, he didn't really try all that hard.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are making clear they are staying out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, just as the race is about to be roiled by the candidacy of their close aide Huma Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner.

In the idealistic constitutional fantasies of those who harbor high hopes and short memories, the accumulating effect of the scandals piling up at the White House will result in the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States.

He's compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard ... (more)

Former U.S. President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos and visiting Bogota, where Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi.