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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!President Obama garnered praise from across the political spectrum for his moving speech last week at the memorial service for the Tucson shooting victims, including from his usual critics on the right. But don't count the Rev. Franklin Graham as a fan of the event. In a speech on Tuesday at John Brown University, a private Christian college in Siloam Springs, Ark., the son of the revered evangelist Billy Graham voiced "dismay" at the way the Tucson memorial service was conducted, arguing that it was not as explicitly religious -- mainly "Christian" -- as those following the Oklahoma City ...
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader and global spiritual celebrity, kicked off a four-day teaching engagement at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday with his usual good humor and an upbeat -- if quixotic -- message for Americans who are angry about the present and pessimistic about the future. Things are getting better, not worse, the 74-year-old monk insisted to reporters at a crowded press conference, the only one he will hold on the last stop of his current American tour. "I am optimistic," he said, citing America's post-war reconciliation with Japan and Germany ...
During an interview with CNBC, President Barack Obama laid waste to a pesky fly. Employing his trademark cool-under-pressure temperament, Obama took aim and delivered the death blow. Watch: ...
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