President Joe Biden has dropped out of the race for the 2024 election. He announced this morning he's ending his run for reelection. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for nomination as the Democratic party candidate ( Read more... )

President Joe Biden delivered the annual State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. I'm not sure I've ever watched a SOTU live before. Usually I figure I'll just read the highlights the next morning. This time I decided to stream it on my laptop computer while I was cooking and eating dinner ( Read more... )

President Joe Biden announced yesterday (30 Jan 2023) that he intends to end the Covid-19 national and public health emergencies on May 11. Biden's move comes only a few weeks after he last extended the emergency on Jan. 11. What's changed in 19 days? His move appears to have been prompted by bills introduced in the Republican-controlled Congress ( Read more... )

President Biden on Thursday pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. It's widely seen as a first step toward decriminalization of marijuana. Example news coverage: CNN.com article, 6 Oct 2022.

"Wow, this must affect a lot of people," I thought at first. I've been hearing from marijuana legalization advocates for decades ( Read more... )

It's in the news today that President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19.

"It's About Time," read one news headline.

WAIT, WHAT?!The article explained that even for President Biden, who is fully vaccinated and twice boosted (and, I would add, receives a level of medical care that surpasses practically anyone else in the US), it was still ( Read more... )

President Biden today is catching a lot of heat for, basically, speaking plainly about the situation with Russia massing troops on Ukraine's border.

He made apparently two missteps in public comments. One, that he thinks it likely Russia will invade Ukraine. Two, that the US and EU will respond strongly to a "major" incursion- implying, by omission ( Read more... )

In speech today at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, just a week since the emergent Omicron strain of the Coronavirus started causing fits of panic worldwide, President Joe Biden outlined an approach to fighting Covid-19 this winter. “It doesn’t include shutdowns or lockdowns," he began by saying, "But widespread vaccinations and ( Read more... )

The Senate on Tuesday passed a $1.1 trillion plan for investing in America's infrastructure. It contains spending for everything from the relatively obvious traditional infrastructure such as crumbling roads and bridges, aging rail and transit systems, and crowded ports and airports; to less traditionally thought-of infrastructure such as getting ( Read more... )

President Biden is not bidin' his time. Immediately after yesterday's inauguration ceremony he went to work in the White House, signing a slew of executive orders.


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Today was Inauguration Day in the US. President Joseph Biden was sworn in as this country's 46th president. In a return to normalcy from the crazy past 4 years, the (new) president said nothing ridiculous, bigoted, false, or hopelessly self-absorbed. Several former presidents joined to honor him in the ceremony. Notable, though not surprising, in ( Read more... )