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Should Yogi Berra Be Awarded Medal of Freedom?
ST. LOUIS (KMOX)- Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra’s family is mounting a campaign to get the 90-year-old St. Louis native awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Born...
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White Sox Fan Obama Rooting For Cubs
President says in e-mail, "They're due. They've got great young players, and I'm a Maddon fan."
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Obama Takes Credit For Auto Industry Comeback During Visit To Detroit
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) – President Barack Obama says General Motors and Chrysler would be history if he hadn’t bailed out the then-struggling automakers seven years ago. After a quick tour of the North...
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The Maya Angelou Museum?
The late actor, writer, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou was born at 3130 Hickory Street (pictured) on April 4, 1928. She would go on to write I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and become a...
View Article‘I Stand Behind The Decision’: Sara Gilbert Reacts to ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation
LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM) — Actress Sara Gilbert, who co-hosts the popular CBS talk show “The Talk,” reacted Monday to the cancellation of the ABC sitcom “Roseanne” after the star – and namesake – of...
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Opinion: Just Biding Our Time
Since the election, I have seen several staunch President Barack Obama supporters who have had nearly-identical smirks across their smiling lips as they approached. The last time I’d seen each of...
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Opinion: Churches Shouldn’t Be The Next Super PACs
It is time to end the tax exempt status of religious organizations that advocated for a partisan candidate. Churches are free to exercise their First Amendment guaranteed right to free speech. But...
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Opinion: Scandals Outweigh Obama’s Reelection In Chicago
One would think that the top political story of the past week in Chicago would naturally be the reelection of Chicago’s political native son, President Barack Obama. As anyone from Chicago can...
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Opinion: Pelosi Stays On As Leader, Continuing To Defy The GOP War On Women
Depending on how leadership elections go in the minority party in the House and in the Senate, it looks as if all the party leaders will be the same as they were in the last Congress. Unless House...
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Opinion: Obama’s Press Conference Extremely Disturbing
President Barack Obama gave his first press conference since being reelected for a second term – as well as being as his first press conference in many months. First and foremost, though sounding...
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Opinion: Mitt Romney’s Parting Gift
Mitt Romney gave America a parting gift yesterday. It wasn’t his tax returns or the secret roadmap to make his tax cuts reduce the deficit. In fact the Romney campaign’s economic advisor came out for...
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Opinion: Now That Paula Broadwell And Jill Kelley’s 15 Minutes Are About Up
The nation has given Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley more than their share of time in the spotlight. The unfortunate part is that it’s irritating to see anyone who wants 15 minutes so badly to...
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Opinion: Jobless Numbers And The Newest Right Wing Conspiracy Theory
There is a new breed of truthers on the right. Joining the paranoid ranks of the advocates of a government role in 9-11 and the birthers fascination with President Obama’s birth certificate are...
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Opinion: Chris Christie Is In The Wrong Business
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is obviously in the wrong business. He is becoming more of a television celebrity by the minute and getting much better reviews as a television performer than a...
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Opinion: Republicans Focus On Conspiracy Theories Instead Of Solutions For...
Republicans are spinning all sorts of conspiracy theories about General Petraeus’ unfortunate personal decisions. Revelations surrounding the affair have prompted the tin foil hat crowd on the right...
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Opinion: Why Benghazi Matters
As the politicians on the “left” and other persons on the political “left” insist that the election is over and that is why the rest of Americans should move on and drop the Benghazi, Libya...
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Opinion: Why Do The Liberals Keep Complaining?
Liberals and their ilk obviously won the executive branch of the United States government for another four years with the reelection of President Barack Obama, but they still pick fights as much as...
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Opinion: Happy Thanksgiving
The Buck Starts Here wishes a happy Thanksgiving to our readers. For progressives there is much to be thankful for this year. The election could not have turned out much better for those who support...
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Opinion: Seceding From The Union Is Not A Good Idea
Even though the United States are still governmentally united, the States of America are not United. And though I find interest in the circus surrounding people in the fifty states of the Union...
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Opinion: If Obama Is Impeached Over Benghazi Scandal
As the Benghazi, Libya scandal increases by the day, Americans need to consider what would happen if President Barack Obama is impeached over the events that led to – but allegedly were not honestly...
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Opinion: Jamie Foxx’s Obama Is Our Lord And Savior Remark Is Ridiculous And...
After a rather slow four days of politics and political news due to the four-day Thanksgiving holiday, the top story for Monday morning – Cyber Monday for those who are still in shopping mode – was up...
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Opinion: Republicans Finally Admitting To Voter Suppression Efforts
Throughout the election season, The Buck Starts Here followed the New Suppressionist’s efforts to disenfranchise voters in an effort to benefit Republican candidates. A state legislative leader in...
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Opinion: Susan Rice’s Meeting With GOP Leaders Made Benghazi Matters Worse
On Tuesday morning, the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who has replaced General David Petraeus who resigned over his extramarital...
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Opinion: Brain Dead Politics In Virginia
Yesterday, I wrote about the brain dead approach of the current Republican Party: sign a bunch of out-of-the-mainstream pledges on taxes, women’s health care and all sorts of other policies; run to...
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Opinion: My2K
President Barack Obama is using his high-profile position to once again arm-twist the American public into supporting his position on a very deep and controversial topic. This time, the president is...
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Opinion: The Fourteenth Amendment Solution
With one month to go before the U.S. goes off what is being called by some the fiscal cliff and others, more accurately, the fiscal slope, the president and Democrats hold all the cards. Absent a...
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Opinion: GOP A Party Without A Plan
Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner brought the President’s $2 trillion deficit reduction plan to the Senate. It included $1.6 trillion in new revenue and $400 billion in entitlement...
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Opinion: Susan Rice Thrown Under Democrat’s Bus And Tied Down
As President Barack Obama, the White House, the Democratic Party politicians and the nation’s “leftists” allege that the Republicans – led by the Senators in Congress – are picking on the United...
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What’s With Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Road Trip?
All the effort with President Barack Obama flying around and trying to convince the public to push for his version of avoiding the “fiscal cliff” seems awfully strange. But yet, he’s using this...
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Opinion: Obama’s #My2K Twitter Conversation Was A #Fail
On Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama was on the social media web site Twitter for about an hour to have a town hall-type conversation with Americans regarding the “fiscal cliff.” The opening...
View ArticlePresident Obama Continues Tourney Tradition, Reveals His NCAA Bracket
BRISTOL, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) — President Barack Obama is picking Indiana to go all the way in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. ESPN revealed Wednesday that Obama picked the Hoosiers to win it...
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Pick-A-Side: Who Is Your Favorite Lefty?
From Oprah to Angelina Jolie, who is everyone's favorite lefty? You decide!
View ArticleSocial Security In 1935: How Today’s Health Law Should Evolve
“If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” – President Barack Obama speaking before the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009 The president’s...
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Night Vision with Jon Grayson – December 10th, 2013
Just one sentence today. It is my sincere wish that one day I will have so much time on my hands and so little else to think about that I’ll be able to devote all my energy to caring about who shook...
View ArticleOvernight America Podcast: December 11th, 2013 – Pam Williams, Niall Stanage
Pam Williams Executive Producer of the annual telethon for Stand Up 2 Cancer called in to talk with Jon about the “Ugly Sweater” campaign to raise money for fighting cancer. Overnight America Political...
View ArticleFeds: More Than 7K Illinoisans Select Health Plans
CHICAGO (AP) – More than 7,000 Illinois residents signed up for private insurance coverage in the first two months of the troubled HealthCare.gov website, less than 30 percent of the federal...
View Article4,124 Missourians Picked Insurance Exchange Plans
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Several thousand Missourians have selected a health insurance plan through the federally run online marketplace, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported...
View ArticleKeidel: Ides (And Idols) Of March
By Jason Keidel» More Columns Warren Buffet’s billion dollars aside, March Madness has something for every fan, even if it trivializes the regular season into granular irrelevance. Between the...
View ArticlePublic May Attend Obama Event In Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)- President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Kansas City, where he’s expected to speak about the economy. The White House announced Saturday that President Obama will arrive in...
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‘If Joe Biden Wants Me To Play Some Kind Of Role, I’d Be Open To That’: Susan...
(CBS Local)– Susan Rice has been a National Security Advisor, United States Ambassador to the United Nations and a Rhodes Scholar. Thanks to her Simon & Schuster book “Tough Love: My Story of the...
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