After being arrested for protesting President Barack Obama’s speech at Notre Dame, Alan Keyes called into Fox News and went on an unhinged rant where he called Obama the focus of evil, and said that the Notre Dame leadership had committed a sin by inviting the president. Check out the video.
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) became a national joke when he advocated that Texas secede from the United States during the tea party protests, but today Perry flip flopped and wrote that he never advocated secession, but instead was only trying to protect states Tenth Amendment rights.
President Barack Obama was warmly welcomed at Notre Dame’s commencement today. Obama used his speech to not only called for a reduction in abortions performed, and for two sides of a debate that will probably never agree on the issue, but they can have an open hearted and minded debate.
Former Deputy Sec. of State Liz Cheney was on ABC’s This Week today, and she defended her father Dick Cheney against a report this week that he wanted a detainee waterboarded to prove an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection. Cheney said that her dad would never substitute his own judgment for that of the CIA. Need she be reminded that her father once tried to declare his office a separate branch of the government?
The new issue of Newsweek features an interview with President Barack Obama where he, in part, discusses former vice president Dick Cheney’s recent criticism of him. Obama pointed out that Dick Cheney is still fighting the same battle on national security that he lost during the last few years of the Bush administration.
