LaPierre stuck it straight to Obama, calling the President a master of "deception" on more than one occasion — and accusing Obama, falsely, of doing "nothing... with protecting one child in any school in this country."
In a speech to promote his State of the Union education plan, President Obama framed it in a way to appeal to Republicans: It saves money. But the question is not whether it's a good idea so much as whether it can pass the Republican-controlled House.
President Obama spoke of many issues and challenges facing the nation in his State of the Union, but, having grown up among the bridge-and-tunnel crowd in Central Jersey, there was one crisis that stood out for Daily Show host Jon Stewart's: the crumbling infrastructure of those bridges and tunnels.
Rubio defended the Republicans against charges "they only care about rich people" in his State of the Union response Tuesday night by pointing to his residency: "Mr. President, I still live in the same working class neighborhood I grew up in." What he did not mention is that he'd like to move out of that neighborhood as soon as possible.
Insisting that raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour would cost jobs, House Speaker John Boehner has already rejected President Obama's State of the Union call to bring it up from $7.25. Here's research that says otherwise.
In his State of the Union address and his road show to tell a manufacturing plan as a job creator, the president has called 3D printing "the future." But a look at the rapidly growing industry's challenges reveals that it may not be growing as fast as the president would like.
The president's gun request in the State of the Union was memorable, but it was also just that — a very, very modest request for Congress to vote, amidst a wish list that otherwise called for an ambitious agenda. Why just a vote? Because the deeper conversation has changed.
The Washington Post published a "fact-check" of President Obama's State of the Union address that questions refutes no facts. So what is the point of this exercise anymore?
As the instant reactions and morning-after columns settle in, it's becoming surprisingly clear that the President's speech — as uplifting and aggressive as it was wide-ranging and occasionally specific — may have actually satisfied our before-and-after sample of commentators across the issues.
He has now given five State of the Union addresses (four officially), and if you watch them all in order you can witness the subtle development in his approach to the speech — one that also mirrors the development of his presidency, and his exercise of power.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
David Ignatius on Obama's optimistic State of the Union, Maureen Dowd on Rubio's response, James Hohmann on issues that should concern Democrats, Fred Kaplan on the President's vague foreign policy, and Simon Jenkins on the senselessness of sanctions.
Although we already knew a lot of Obama was going to say in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, critics didn't waste a second to pounce on the president when he said it.
This was a very consequential sip of water, given that Rubio's lines about "big government" were quite familiar, as was his biography. Let's break down the one moment America may remember about Tuesday night more than Obama's gun refrain.
It was a three-and-a-half-minute moment of a much longer State of the Union address, but it was about guns. And as he said, "This time is different."
"I pray we can come together to solve our problems, because the choices before us could not be more important," Rubio said following the President's State of the Union address. Our word cloud indicates that "government" and "more" were frequent.
Here's the speech, focusing on the economy — particularly job creation, by way of manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and housing — and a broader theme of citizenship. We've got a word cloud, too. (Hint: There's a lot about jobs.)
Today the Internet collective known as Anonymous threatened to interrupt a bunch of State of the Union livestreams to demonstrate their hacking prowess. Check out our list of embedded videos to see if they succeed (or not).
The most powerful moment of the State of the Union on Tuesday night came when President Obama said the victims of gun violence — people like Gabby Giffords and the family of Hadiya Pendleton — deserve a vote on gun control measures. But there were many more moments and issues than that. Re-live them all here.
The do-gooder hacking collective plans to target cord cutters and anyone using the Internet to watch the State of the Union address online, blacking out President Obama's speech for the causes of Aaron Swartz and more.
You can bet on two things from President Obama's State of the Union: post-speech hype about how he's making an aggressive case for liberal policies, followed by liberal disappointment at Obama's policies.
Here, from the big economic push to other pressing issues and Obama's general attitude from the podium, is what the talking heads and editorial boards are betting on. It actually serves as a nice outline for the kind of speech the White House has promised — even if you never can trust a pundit.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will give the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union speech tonight, and while it will give Rubio a chance to be seen by millions of Americans, recent history says it will be no help to his 2016 presidential candidacy.
Peter Wensierski on the polarizing pope, Greg Sargent on Ted Nugent's friends in D.C., Sam Lagrone on looming Navy cuts, Jeffrey Toobin on vanishing Republicans, and Andrew Ross Sorkin on an elite LinkedIn.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
We already know how President Obama will describe the state of our union in his State of the Union address Tuesday: strong. Here's how the traditional line became a cliché.
Should we be concerned that Ted Nugent — the paleo-rocker who said he'd be "dead or in jail" by this time if President Obama were reelected — is attending tomorrow's State of the Union address?
When President Obama delivers his address, he'll speak to a chamber attended by more than 20 Americans affected by gun violence. But one Sandy Hook widower won't be there.
Lawmakers wait for hours to get one of these coveted seats, but at what cost?
President Obama will unveil a set of concrete proposals in his State of the Union speech Tuesday, and as in his inaugural address last month, he's expected to sound pretty liberal.
Eleanor Clift on State of the Union stakes, Andrew Brown on the pope's resignation, Marc Thiessen on Jack Lew's offshore investments, Connie Rice on the LAPD's culture, and Fouad Ajami on drones.
According to a Friday letter from Speaker John Boehner to the White House, President Obama's annual State of the Union address is scheduled for Tuesday, February 12, which also happens to be one the most otherwise boring TV nights of the year.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson takes apart the president's new motto.
Unfortunately for President Obama (and the TV networks that carried his State of the Union address), all his oratory skill could stop more than as quarter of viewers from tuning out right away, opting mainly for (sigh) sitcom reruns and college basketball.
House Speaker John Boehner has dismissed President Obama's campaign against a do-nothing Congress by saying "most Americans think we’ve got too many laws already," but Boehner's underlings don't think so.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked a lot about bringing back American jobs as well as American ingenuity as represented by Steve Jobs. But talking about them together somehow seems oxymoronic.
From approximately 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. last night, President Obama delivered the State of the Union address to Congress and a national television audience. Even for a SOTU, it seemed a bit long -- but how long was it historically?
Right around the time President Obama arrived at the Capitol to deliver the State of the Union address, a U.S. military unit swooped into Somalia, killing nine pirates and rescuing aid workers who they had taken hostage.
It's really hard to get a real sense of the way the president delivered the State of the Union address without watching it, but the speeches are so long they're almost impossible to sit through.
President Obama has the chance to talk to the biggest audience he'll get before the election in November. We're liveblogging the speech -- plus the reactions from Republicans, the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and everyone else, starting at about 8p.m.
The Republican Party won't be the only group trying to contrast its message with President Obama's State of the Union address tonight: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street want their say, too.
With Tuesday's news that Debbie Bosanek, Warren Buffett's famed secretary, would attend the State of the Union as a guest of Michelle Obama, the media got a little hint about the subject of the president's speech (hint: taxes). Now we can put a face to a much-discussed name.
Romney's unfavorability rating has jumped sharply in January -- and among independents, it's now 51 percent. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
President Obama's State of the Union address will focus on manufacturing and job creation Tuesday night but because he's governing over a divided Congress in an election year, it will largely set the stage for a year of gridlock and bickering.
Also: The Heidi Klum-Seal divorce is on, Anna Wintour and Scarlett Johannson are hosting a fashionable Obama fundraiser next month, and a cavalcade of familiar faces roast and toast Politico
He finds the rah-rah atmosphere "troubling"
Analysis of budgets, the spending freeze, and more
Major media outlets part ways over the nitty gritty of what's fact and fiction in Obama's speech
Liberals praise the State of the Union response for dodging disaster. Conservatives see the making of a GOP star.
For starters, where was all the anti-banker populism?
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