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Pres. Obama To Nominate First Woman To Head U. S. Combatant Command
First Family’s Visit To Cuba
President Obama and daughter, Malia share a special mo- ment with a chef at a restaurant in Old Havana, Cuba.
President Barack Obama will be nominating the first woman to head the United States combatant command, if her nom- ination is confirmed, according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The department only this year opened up all combat jobs to women, clearing the way for Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson to be nominated to the position of head of the U. S. Northern Command, which was created following the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Currently, Robinson is head of the Pacific Air Force.
If the Senate confirms her nomination, Robinson would replace current head Adm. William Gortney, who will be retiring
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA And United States Air Force’s
GENERAL LORI ROBINSON
Obamacare Turns 6 And The White House Declares Victory
In this March 23, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama is applauded after signing the Affordable Care Act into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
President Barack Obama
and his family’s historic visit to Cuba, had so many good mo- ments, it was hard to keep up. However, one that speaks vol- umes was when the President received some help from his old- est daughter, Malia Monday (March 21) who doubled as a translator.
White House Photographer
Pete Souza captured the laugh shared between the President and his daughter, along with a chef at a restaurant in Old Ha- vana and posted to Instagram. Although President Obama has been greeted with open arms by the people of Cuba, his Spanish is a bit rusty, which is where his 17-year-old daughter came in handy.
Obamacare has its sixth an- niversary Wednesday and the White House is declaring vic- tory over critics who said it would fail and multiple lawsuits seeking to have it declared un- constitutional.
President Barack Obama signed the law, known formally as the Affordable Care Act, on March 23, 2010 after a big fight with Congress. Democ- rats held a slim majority at the time and passed the law without a single Republican vote.
Despite dozens of votes, a Congress now controlled by Re- publicans has been unable to muster enough to repeal the law with enough of a margin to override a veto by Pres.
Obama.
Pres. Obama says the law
it’s done what it was designed to
do.
“Thanks to this law, 20 mil-
lion more Americans now know the security of having health in- surance, and our uninsured rate is below ten percent for the first time on record,” he said in a statement.
“Critics said this law would destroy jobs and cripple the economy, but in fact just the op- posite has happened. Our busi- nesses have added jobs every single month since I signed it into law,” Pres. Obama added.
“The unemployment rate has dropped from almost 10 percent to 4.9 percent. Thanks
in part to this law; health care prices have risen at the lowest rate in 50 years.”
“Now almost 140 million Americans are guaranteed free preventive care, like certain cancer screenings and vac- cines.”
President Barack Obama
Outside experts can confirm most of Pres. Obama’s claims. More than 14 percent of Americans were uninsured in 2013 before the health care law’s big coverage expansion. That share dropped to 9 percent
last year.
Obamacare takes several
roads to getting more Ameri- cans covered by health insur- ance. It offers private health insurance via online market- places called exchanges, often with a very substantial federal subsidy to pay the premiums.
It encourages states to ex- pand their Medicaid programs and about half of the states have done so. And it imposes strict rules on health insurers that forbid them to drop sick, expen- sive clients and requiring them to accept even people with pre- existing conditions.
“As many as 129 million people with pre-existing condi- tions can no longer be denied coverage or charged more as a result,” Pres. Obama said.
“Those with private insur- ance got an upgrade as well: now almost 140 million Ameri- cans are guaranteed free pre- ventive care, like certain cancer screenings and vaccines,” he added
The law also allows young adults to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until they are 26.
Aide Says Richard Nixon’s ‘War On Drugs’ Was Targeted At Black People
Former U. S. President Richard Nixon’s was impeached due to the Watergate Scandal. However, his policy has wreaked havoc on the Black community for decades. It also makes you wonder if he was behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, who was shifting his focus to the Vietnam War.
A 22-year-old interview with a former Richard Nixon aide was released Tuesday (March 22) blowing the top on the ad- ministration’s War on Drugs, which according to him, was really an all out attack on any- one who opposed the Vietnam war and Black people.
In a shockingly honest story published this week by Harper Magazine’s Dan Baum, Baum revisits a 1994 interview with John Ehrlichman, who boldly came clean about Nixon’s true goals.
“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlich- man, who died in 1999 said. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left, and Black people. You understand what I’m say- ing,” he continued.
It’s reported Ehrlichman served 18 months in a Federal prison over his involvement in the Watergate Scandal, and was said to still have harbored re- sentment toward Nixon over
what he believed was betrayal, which makes some think the candid statements about target- ing Blacks is out of revenge. Yet the notion Nixon used his ad- ministration to do so isn’t com- pletely unfathomable.
In June 1971, Nixon an- nounced The War on Drugs, and cited the high death tolls of drug use. Although African- Americans aren’t more likely than whites to use drugs, Blacks are more targeted, and likely to receive twice as long prison sen- tences because of it, according to reports.
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
White House News
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