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*President Barack Obama has a lot of money. The Prez and his first lady, Michelle Obama, hold assets totaling between $2.6 million and almost $8.3 million, according to a recently released financial report. In 2010, the couple’s assets were valued between $1.8 million and $12 million. Since the presidential debates have heated up, Mitt Romney’s [...]
*MTV announced that it will move the start time of its “Video Music Awards” on Sept. 6 in Los Angeles so it won’t conflict with President Obama’s acceptance speech the same night at the Democratic National Convention. “We will be airing the “VMAs” on Thursday, September 6th from 8-10 p.m. as opposed to our traditional [...]
* The NAACP is launching a push to make sure African Americans and other minorities get to the polls this November and register voters. Head man Ben Jealous announced the campaign recently at Clark-Atlanta University at the national launch of the NAACP’s “This Is My Vote!” campaign, with the goal being to register scores of [...]
*A Warner Bros. shareholder has accused the studio of allowing Morgan Freeman to co-opt a press tour for the studio’s “Dolphin Tale” in order to push his political agenda rather than the movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The subject came up Tuesday during Time Warner’s annual shareholder’s meeting at the Steven J. Ross Theater [...]
*How dare Morgan Freeman express his constitutional right to speak his mind! After all, he could put the interests of Time Warner in jeopardy. The actor made some anti-conservative, anti-tea party political remarks recently, and they could have a negative effect on the company’s movie profits. Last year, he appeared on “Piers Morgan Tonight” to [...]
*The word from GOP insiders close to presumptive GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is that he will pick “a boring white guy” as his Vice Presidential running mate. That’s true for one obvious reason and another even more fundamental reason about the Vice Presidency. The obvious is Sarah Palin. There’s little debate that she did [...]
*Count Jay-Z among the celebrities backing President Obama for his support of gay marriage. “I’ve always thought it as something that was still holding the country back,” the rapper told CNN, referring to bans on same-sex marriage. “What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to love whoever you [...]
*Following his speech to the graduating class of Barnard College extolling the role of women in public life, President Obama made a return visit to “The View” on Monday -his fourth to the show, and second as president. During his appearance, which airs today (May 15), the president chatted with Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth [...]
*(Via Yahoo/ABC News) – Gay marriage is in the news — because Vice President Joe Bidenput it there. He let the genie out of the bottle and got ahead of his boss on an issue the president has been trying to straddle for the last year and a half. President Obama’s coalition — minority voters [...]
*(Via Press Release) – Woonsocket, RI / Washington, D.C. - At today’s Time Warner, Inc. shareholder meeting in Burbank, California, the National Center for Public Policy Research plans to ask company executives about anti-conservative, anti-tea party political comments made by actor Morgan Freeman and their possible negative effects on Warner Brothers Studios movie profits. In his prepared [...]
*When President Obama announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, he cited his Christian faith as the reason for his “evolving” views, reports Urban Faith. Yet for many other Christians, their commitment to Jesus Christ and an orthodox view of the Bible is the reason why they reject homosexuality as a valid lifestyle. In a report on NPR’s Morning [...]
*He may not be everyone’s favorite politician right now, but President Barack Obama is regaining favor among the stars. Betty White recently made an unusual endorsement, sharing with the public that she strongly favors the Democrat. The 90-year-old actress typically keeps her political views private in order to maintain her fan base, but for some [...]
*Just days after Time magazine’s controversial breastfeeding cover, Newsweek’s May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country’s “first gay president” – complete with a rainbow halo over his head. The accompanying cover story was written by openly gay political blogger Andrew Sullivan. His cover story is not yet online, but in a blog post published [...]
*While stakes are high as the presidential campaigns heat up and dirt is flung either way, debates among critics and political pundits are also heating up. Things went totally south in a segment on MSNBC that was supposed to be about Mitt Romney and his campaign’s poor handling of the Washington Post story about the [...]
*On the front page of CNN today, there was an interesting article about the divide between the Obama Administration and the African American church. The author of the piece seems to be implying that black church opposition to gay marriage is hypocritical, in large part because the bible being quoted by Christians is the same [...]
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