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Weekly Address: President Obama – The State of American Politics

February 13, 2016 JanF 11

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President spoke […]

President Obama: “There’s this yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics.”

February 10, 2016 JanF 12

From Springfield Illinois, live at 1:00pm 2/10/2016: President Obama: The point I’m trying to make is I care about fixing our politics not only because I’m the President today, or because some of my initiatives […]

Weekly Address: President Obama – Doubling Our Clean Energy Funding to Address the Challenge of Climate Change

February 6, 2016 JanF 21

President Obama: “We are one American family”

February 4, 2016 JanF 9

On Wednesday, President Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque. (President Obama makes his first visit to a mosque in America and delivers remarks to the Muslim American community in Baltimore, Maryland. February 3, […]

President Obama: “We will win because we focus on the things that matter in the lives of the American people”

January 30, 2016 JanF 2

President Obama spoke at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Baltimore Maryland on Thursday. Tonight, I have an announcement to make about the presidential race: Democrats will win in November and we will have a […]

Weekly Address: President Obama – Giving Every Student an Opportunity to Learn Through Computer Science For All

January 30, 2016 JanF 10

Weekly Address: President Obama – Affordable Care Act is Making a Difference for Millions of Americans

January 23, 2016 JanF 7

Weekly Address: President Obama – Improving Economic Security by Strengthening and Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System

January 16, 2016 JanF 4

President Obama – “The State of our Union is strong”

January 13, 2016 JanF 2

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired […]

Weekly Address: President Obama – America Can Do Anything

January 9, 2016 JanF 2

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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March 20, 2026 3

Today, March 20th, at 7:46am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

Spring is in the air!

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February 1, 2026 2

At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]

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Welcome, Returning Light!

December 21, 2025 5

The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

September 22, 2025 3

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]

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“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

August 1, 2025 3

Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]