NEW YORK (AFP) – International scientists nudged back the minute hand of the symbolic Doomsday clock Thursday, as they praised President Barack Obama for helping to pull the world back from nuclear or environmental catastrophe. “It is six minutes to midnight,” the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS), which created the Doomsday clock in 1947 as [...]
Michelle Obama takes London! The dresses, the jewels, AND what she wore to meet the Queen. (Anyone noticed how dwarf-like the Queen looked in between these two skyscrappers? Cute!) Barack Obama and his wife departed for the UK earlier this week, and, while the president is tending to serious business– the G20 economic summit in [...]
Brain dead D-list actress Angie Harmon is flexing her political muscles in a recent interview. Since Angie’s stellar career is filled with bombs like Baywatch Nights, Renegade, and gems like Agent Cody Banks, we are going to assume she’s just as wrong about Obama and she is about her slim career choices. There is nothing [...]
President John F. Kennedy once quipped that he was merely “the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.” This week, Barack Obama might find out how he felt. The first couple’s trip to Europe Tuesday takes Michelle Obama to a land that likes her husband but seems positively fascinated by her. The British press in [...]
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will talk about regulatory reform, risks to the financial system and executive bonuses when he meets top bankers on Friday, the White House said on Thursday. “Wall Street and Main Street, all of us, are in the same boat together,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. [...]
WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats advanced budget outlines Wednesday that largely mirror President Barack Obama’s tax and spending plans while imposing marginal changes to tame ballooning deficits. “This budget will protect President Obama’s priorities — education, energy, health care, middle class tax relief and cut the deficit in half,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said after [...]
With Monday’s massive volcano eruption in Alaska likely to leave Anchorage and Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown covered in ash, a Democratic strategist sends over the reminder that just a month and a half ago, another up-and-coming Republican star, Gov. Bobby Jindal, mocked the very notion of volcano monitoring. Speaking in the non-State of the Union [...]
In recent days, in spite of public furor over huge bonuses paid at American International Group Inc., the administration has concluded that it needs the private sector to play a central role in fixing the economy. So over the weekend, the White House worked to tone down its Wall Street bashing and to win support [...]
