Politics

Today President Barack Obama will meet at the White House with the Congressional Black Caucus — less than two months after his Oval Office sit-down with the CBC’s five-member executive board in March, and one week after the caucus met with White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley. It’s a noticeable change of pace from…

Black Voice News is reporting that a beefed-up battalion of security was ordered around the rural-Kenyan home of President Obama’s grandmother following the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. “We received reports of plans to attack the home of Mama Sarah Obama, and we immediately put in place adequate security measures,” local police chief…

We’re over here wondering what House Speaker John Boehner promised the Tea Party, since they threaten to unseat him every time they don’t like what he says regarding the nation’s debt. Wes Barrett of Fox News is reporting that Tea Party leaders ripped into Boehner (R-Ohio), as well as other House Republicans, saying any vote…

On April 29, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation recognizing May as National Foster Care Month. “For nearly half a million youth in foster care across our country,” the president began in the lengthy statement, “the best path to success we can give them is the chance to experience a loving home where they can…

Conservatives have attempted to credit George W. Bush for President Barack Obama’s success in killing Osama bin Laden in various ways, from exaggerating the role of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” to praising Bush’s unsuccessful seven-year attempt to do so.Today, Ross Douthat offers the latest version of this argument: that killing Bin Laden constitutes “the most…

The Washington Post is reporting that a spokesman for Newt Gingrich says that the former House speaker will announce Wednesday that he is running for president. Rick Tyler said that Gingrich will make the announcement by Facebook and Twitter. He will give an interview to Fox News later that night. Gingrich will offer his first…

CNN is reporting that in an interview with 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama said that sending U.S. troops on a dangerous mission to get Osama bin Laden was worth the risks, even though it was not certain that the al-Qaida leader was in the Pakistani compound. “This was still a 55-45 situation,” Obama told CBS.…

Kanye debuts limited edition scarves: Even though the rapper’s initial artwork for his latest album was banned, he recently announced that he’ll be creating five limited edition scarves inspired by the artwork. Only 100 of each scarf will be made and sold for $364 apiece, so get them while they last! __________ Where’s my change…

On a day when President Barack Obama sucked the oxygen out of the news cycle with his visit to New York’s Ground Zero, when marquee names like Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney were no-shows, and even the Associated Press was boycotting over lack of access for its photographers, the first…

That high-pitched clacking you hear is the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the radical right, whose efforts to paint President Barack Obama as a weak-spirited and feckless protector of America’s national security have been buried as deep as the seaborne corpse of Osama bin Laden. Now that the world’s most wanted terrorist has been…