UPDATE: Bipartisanship works in Washington. Congress has completed a deal to extend the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits for an additional ten months. Lawmakers still have to pass the measure and send it to President Barack Obama. The extension mantains the current cut in the payroll tax rate from 6.2% to 4.2%. […]
The must-have fashion label right now is Beyonce for Obama. Singer/Actress Beyonce and her mother, Tina Knowles, created a political-themed House of Dereon T-shirt, to support President Obama’s stylish “Runway to Win” reelection campaign. The initiative, which was started by Vogue’s Anna Wintour, is described as a “collaboration by some of the country’s top fashion […]
President Barack Obama’s new policy on birth control causes an uproar in many Catholic institutions. Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse the new policy that states that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with birth control for women free of charge. According to Republicans the new policy is an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our […]
In an interview that aired this morning on the Today’s show with Matt Lauer. President Obama stated that, “I deserve a second term, but we’re not done. When you and I sat down, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. … Now we’re creating 250,000. We’ve created 3.7 million jobs in the last 23 […]
President Barack Obama landed on the tarmac in Arizona Wednesday and didn’t receive a cordial greeting by Governor Jan Brewer. Brewer had a few words with the president, pointed her finger in his face and the president walked away. Well, a shoe was thrown at President Bush. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met President Obama on […]
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, President Barack Obama presented his State of the Union Address to the American people and Congress. During his address the President discussed, energy policies, education, corporate taxes, ways to improve the economy, and reduce unemployment. He also made a suggestion to Congress to pass a law that would allow […]
President Barack Obama impressed many supporters with his soulful version of Al Green‘s “Let’s Stay Together,” and it is now available for download on his campaign website. President Obama crooned a few bars of the soulful classic during a fundraiser at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, Thursday. “Those guys thought I wouldn’t do it,” Obama said to […]
Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich angrily criticized the media for focusing on his personal life at the outset of Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, disputing allegations made by his ex-wife in an interview that he had pressed her for an “open marriage.” Marianne Gingrich’s interview with ABC News was the subject of the […]
A new miniseries about South Africa’s most famous hero, Nelson Mandela, is in the works. The proposed 6-part miniseries has been approved by Mandela’s family, and is even being produced by his grandson Kweku Mandela. According to the BBC, two of Mandela’s books will be used to create the miniseries and working title of the […]
President Barack Obama visited his hometown of Chicago to rally supporters for his re-election. He visited two of three fundraisers held Wednesday night. There were two big ticket events held at private homes. Obama attended an intimate fundraiser with attendance of 60 people. Couples paid $35,000 to mix and mingle with the president. He later, visited […]
Director Spike Lee is looking to raise some big bucks for President Obama’s run for re-election. On January 19, the iconic filmmaker will host a $38,000-per-ticket fundraiser for Obama in his Upper East Side brownstone in New York City. Couples will be charged $71,600. On the president getting re-elected, Lee told the Hollywood Reporter last […]
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich won’t be spending the holidays with his family for a long, long time. Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Wednesday on 18 counts of felony corruption. Blagojevich was first arrested in December 2008 for attempting to sell the Senate seat President Barack Obama left vacant when he […]
