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VIA: WRAL.COM Students have vowed to protest or block North Carolina State University’s Free Expression Tunnel until the university’s chancellor gives guarantees that no hate speech will be allowed there. About 40 students painted the tunnel black overnight to protest racist and homophobic graffiti involving President Barack Obama painted there earlier this week. Slurs and […]
VIA: ESSENCE.COM The list of President Obama’s detractors grows daily. But who would have thought that two of his loudest critics could actually be family?! It turns out that both Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are the POTUS’ tenth cousins through their ancestors; one John Smith and Richmond Terrell, reports TIME. The genealogy site Ancestry.com […]
VIA: NEWSONE.COM Professor Cornel West confesses that he’s having second thoughts about President Obama. In an interview with Playboy, he said he wished the president were more “Martin Luther King-like.” West is also concerned about the lack of love and respect he sees between people, particularly where race is concerned. MORE
Money alone isn’t the cure for America’s ailing school system, President Obama says.
President Obama, after being warned repeatedly by his advisers about the threat of another terror attack on U.S. soil, said in an interview two months ago that the United States could “absorb” another strike.
President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of jump-starting economic growth ahead of the November elections.
VIA: WRAL.COM The Ohio man arrested with a loaded handgun outside the Asheville airport as President Barack Obama was flying away has been convicted of violating a gun ordinance. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Wednesday that 23-year-old Joseph Sean McVey, of Coshocton, 23, Ohio, has been found guilty of violating an ordinance prohibiting firearms on city […]
VIA: CNN.COM A substantial and growing chunk of the country believes that President Obama, a self-described Christian, is Muslim, while only about a third of Americans are able to correctly identify his religion, according to a survey released Thursday. Nearly one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from around one in 10 […]
Kendrick Meek faces numerous questions in his quest for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. Can he survive a primary challenge by billionaire Jeff Greene? Can a little known Congressman from Miami beat a Republican star (Marco Rubio) and a popular sitting governor (Charlie Crist)?
Obama spent part of his birthday weekend with some of NBA hottest stars on the basketball court. The group included LeBron James, Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, Joakim Noah, Derrick Rose, Magic Johnson and Bill Russell, according to reports. Kobe Bryant was also there, but didn’t play. For More Info
President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies plan a major new push for a broad global warming bill, fueled in part by public outrage over the BP disaster, according to top aides. Joel Benenson, a pollster for the Democratic National Committee and Obama’s presidential campaign, argues in a new briefing for top Capitol Hill officials […]
