Politics
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Michelle Obama Offers Kale Chips to Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell in Tonight Show Skit
Michelle Obama may always be a fun and down-to-earth guest to have on your show, but the first lady is also one who never forgets her message of healthy eating and daily exercise. In an “Ew!” sketch with Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and entertainer Will Ferrell, the first lady, while talking about the Olympics…
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NYC Mayor’s SUV Videotaped Breaking Traffic Laws
Days after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio presented a sweeping traffic-safety plan that included harsh restrictions on reckless drivers, his official vehicles were recorded breaking several traffic laws on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. The SUV with de Blasio in the front passenger seat was captured on video, speeding, running through stop signs…
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Shocking Number of Americans Still Doubt President’s Birth
Forget Chicago. Don’t even think about Hawaii. Twelve percent of the American populace, according to a recent YouGov-Economist poll, thinks that President Obama’s future library should end up in Kenya, somewhere in Africa or “someplace else.” What started off as a fairly standard national gut check on the location of the Obama collection wound up…
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Racist Emails Create New Headaches for GOP
The Republican National Committee has spent much of February highlighting the party’s efforts to be more inclusive. Earlier this month the organization hosted its second annual Trailblazer Awards Luncheon honoring black Republicans such as former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan. The party also launched its first-ever Black History Month ad campaign, with…
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Disgraced Former US Congressman Arrested in Zimbabwe
Former Rep. Melvin Jay Reynolds (D-Ill.) was arrested Monday in Zimbabwe on suspicion of pornography possession and an immigration charge, the Associated Press reports. Police detectives and immigration officers arrested Reynolds at a hotel, and he is currently being detained and will appear in court soon, immigration official Ario Mabika told the AP. According to…
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Ugandans Defend Criminalizing Gay People and Tell Obama to Back Off
The call from the BBC in London came at 7:30 Monday morning. They wanted to know if I could be a guest on the BBC World Service News radio talk show World Have Your Say to discuss Barack Obama’s public and pointed condemnation of a proposed Ugandan measure that would harden the African nation’s already…
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Civil Rights Groups React to Michael Dunn Mistrial
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund “The shooting of seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis marked yet another tragic and senseless death of an unarmed, innocent, African-American teenager. Rather than seeing Jordan or his friends for what they were—ordinary teenagers—Mr. Dunn saw a threat and recklessly acted with lethal force. “We will never know exactly what Mr.…
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House of Cards: Watching White Guys Have All the Fun
Disclaimer: If House of Cards has an official fan club, make me its president. Saw the season 1 trailer, sold. Saw the viral promo with Kevin Spacey in a Lincoln Memorial pose, sold. I am the cat who unwittingly binged on the groundbreaking Netflix series in one caffeine-hazed weekend night. I kept telling myself I’d…
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Obamacare Enrollment at 3.3 Million
Approximately 3.3 million people have signed up for private health insurance coverage through the Obama marketplace since the beginning of October, according to the Obama administration, the New York Daily News reports. Originally, the Congressional Budget Office had estimated about 7 million people would be signing up for the private coverage by the end of…
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Sen. Rand Paul Files Lawsuit Against Obama for NSA Surveillance
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has officially filed a class action lawsuit against President Obama and other administration officials over National Security Agency surveillance, CBS reports. In conjunction with Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit organization, Paul is accusing the administration of violating the Fourth Amendment through the collection of Americans’ phone metadata. (The…