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Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin’s repeated and drug out heckling of President Obama during his drone policy speech is simply the latest in a disgusting and damaging repeat act that has become almost ritual. The White House announces a major policy speech by Obama. Then the predictable happens. Either at the start or midway through [...]
*President Obama‘s prom photo from 1979 hit the web today, thanks to Time Magazine. Obtained from his schoolmate Kelli Allman, the pic shows the president at age 17 alongside his friend and their dates in Hawaii. Obama was sporting a white suit jacket, while his date Megan Hughes is on the right in the light [...]
According to Conservative group, Project 21, President Obama’s speech to an all-black male college this weekend was “overly fractious and inappropriate for the venue.” Here’s more of what they had to say in this report emailed to EURweb: *As the commencement speaker at the all-male and historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend, [...]
*The graduation season is here and it’s off to a brand new life and career for students all over the country. Some will be nostalgic remembering their first day of their college journey and being away from their parents for the first time…well, some were left by their parents. Dorian Joyner Jr., didn’t have that [...]
*During a press conference in the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama was asked about reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for added scrutiny over the course of the last two years. The president condemned the actions of members of the IRS who enforced federal tax laws in a partisan fashion. [...]
*Dennis Rodman and Barack Obama are not on the same page when it comes to North Korea and its little leader, Kim Jong-un. Rodman was spotted out and about in LA yesterday by TMZ. As we reported, he’s headed back to the communist country on August 1 to reopen the political dialogue with Jong-un … [...]
*On Monday, President Obama announced Anthony Foxx as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation. Foxx is currently the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, which he helped turn around since taking office in 2009. Both the city and country were going through a “bruising economic crisis,” President Obama said. “The economy is growing. There are more jobs, [...]
*Despite coming at a somber time, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings as well as the devastating West Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14, President Obama was front and center at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. Mr. Obama, along with his political allies as well political enemies, took time out [...]
*The president has his way of making light of parenting with some tones of seriousness. He told “Today’s” Savannah Gutherie that his girls are under close watch, not only by the secret service, but also by he and Michelle. And in keeping them in line, he said if ever Malia, 14, or Sasha, 11, ever [...]
*President Obama said he has “better things to do” than send his friends Jay-Z and Beyonce – or anybody else – on a trip to Cuba. The couple caused a political stir earlier this month when they visited the country for their fifth anniversary, despite restrictions on travel for U.S. citizens. Jay-Z released a rap to fire [...]
*As each day passes since the Boston Bombing, it becomes apparent that somebody is sending a message. It’s not exactly clear what specifically that message is, but it’s definitely not good. The latest example are letters containing poisonous ricin sent to Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker and President Obama. The question is who’s doing this and [...]
*Jay-Z may be homies with the man who runs the so-called free world, but he didn’t actually get Cuba clearance from Obama himself. At least that’s what we’ve been told. The rapper just released “Open Letter,” and in it he rhymes that he got the president’s permission to visit Cuba with his wife for their [...]
*President Barack Obama will put 5% of his paycheck back into the federal government’s coffers in a show of unity with furloughed federal workers, a senior administration official announced today. Obama, whose $400,000 annual salary is set in law and can’t officially be changed, will write a check made out to the U.S. treasury every [...]
*Retired boxing champ Mike Tyson is spearheading a new campaign urging President Obama to posthumously pardon African-American ring legend Jack Johnson, who was convicted for taking his white girlfriend across state lines 100 years ago. Johnson was found guilty of violating the Mann Act in 1913 after taking his future wife Lucille Cameron across a [...]
*(Via Huffington Post Black Voices) – President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and “get squishy” on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers’ background checks. “Shame on [...]
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