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White House said to give inside access for bin Laden film
2012-05-23 02:10:00 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative legal group that posted internal government documents on its website Tuesday. Judicial Watch posted what it said were 153 pages of Pentagon documents and 113 pages of CIA documents about the film project. ...
White House: Megrahi death closes ?unfortunate chapter?
2012-05-20 20:48:00 The White House said Sunday that the death of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi closed "an unfortunate chapter" that opened when Scotland freed the former Libyan intelligence officer on humanitarian grounds in 2009. "We have received confirmation from the Libyan government that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi died earlier today," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor ...
G8 summit sleeping arrangements? That?s classified, White House says
2012-05-17 23:50:00 World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit at Camp David this weekend will find a "small and intimate" setting for talks on Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and the sputtering global economy ? but at least they won't have to bunk together, said National Security Advisor Tom Donilon on Thursday. Still, not all of the bungalows ...
Afghan women fade from White House focus as exit nears
2012-05-10 20:48:00 Shortly after sending U.S. troops to Afghanistan in October 2001, President George W. Bush focused so intently on freeing Afghan women from the shackles of Taliban rule that empowering them became central to the United States' mission there.
Gov. Gary Johnson Libertarian candidate for president : White House make up
2012-05-09 15:12:00 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Joe Huntermedia@garyjohnson2012.com-801-303-7924 GOV. GARY JOHNSON: WHITE HOUSE GAMES ON GAY MARRIAGE AREN’T FUNNY May 9, 2012, Santa Fe, NM – Libertarian nominee for President and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson today called for the Obama Administration to "make up its mind” when it comes to supporting marriage equality for all Americans, citing Vice-President Biden’s weekend comments appearing to support gay marriage and White House efforts since to clarify those comments. Johnson, who supports gay marriage equality, received the Libertarian Party nomination for President Saturday, and will be on the ballot in all 50 states. "The President is playing cruel, cynical politics with a deeply personal issue for many Americans," said Johnson. "He should quit trying to have it both ways and take a stand." In a statement released Wednesday, Johnson said, “Gay marriage equality is not a trick question, and we shouldn’t be getting trick ...
A pro-life visiting policy at the Obama White House?
2012-05-09 01:29:00 Spoiler: "No." Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Tuesday evening Tweeted a link to a sensational story by the conservative Washington Free Beacon accusing the Obama White House of hypocrisy because?well, here's how the Beacon put it: "The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child?still residing in utero?must be counted as a full human ...
Still wanting to impeach W ? 3 years after he left the White House
2012-05-08 00:36:00 Remember the old joke from the 1990s about knowing it’s time to get a new Volvo when the McGovern sticker starts to peel off. They may have to make up such jokes about anti-Bush bumper strips. Just caught this today and snapped the picture with Canon PowerShot A490, enhancing it via iPhoto: UPDATE: When I ...
By: GayPatriot
White House reponds to al-Qaida hostage's plea
2012-05-07 22:41:00 President Barack Obama is aware of the video?released by al-Qaida on Sunday?that shows an American hostage's desperate plea for help and is "greatly concerned" for his safety, but refuses to negotiate with the terror group. "The president is aware of it," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Monday of the video plea. "I ...
The difficulty in making progress in relations with China
2012-05-04 10:08:00 Another is mutual military suspicion. China fears America is intent on thwarting its emergence as a global military as well as economic power. It points to America’s spy planes and ships off its coast, its beefing up of alliances in …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
White House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats
2012-04-30 22:10:00 The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Obama's counterterrorism adviser insisted in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic.
Kim Kardashian Teases Mayoral Run at White House Correspondent?s Dinner
2012-04-30 06:47:00 Kim Kardashian teased the press again saying she’s considering a mayoral run at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. After an unaired clip from Khloe & Lamar where Kardashian told her sister Khloe Kardashian Odom that she was planning on running for mayor of Glendale, California was released, she created a media frenzy. Beyonce Disapproves of ...
Lindsay Lohan Goes Glam for White House Correspondent?s Dinner
2012-04-30 02:52:00 A newly red-haired Lindsay Lohan emerged at the 2012 White House Correspondent’s Dinner in Washington, D.C. last night looking more glamourous than ever. First of all: Yes, Lindsay Lohan was invited to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Second: No, I don’t know how in the hell that happens. Lindsay Lohan Responds to Rosie O?Donnell Criticism ...
PRESIDENT OBAMA DRAWS CELEBS TO 2012 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER
2012-04-29 21:52:00 President Obama & Jimmy Kimmel - Getty The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner (known as the "prom" of DC) took place over the weekend and proved to be one of the hottest social events of 2012. The event honors the work of journalists who report on the Administration and raises scholarship money for journalism students. Jimmy Kimmel hosted this year's dinner which had an incredible celeb turnout including everyone from The Kardashians to the cast of True Blood. Watch the video below for a recap of who was there and what they wore to the event: The highlight of the night was the President's speech, which poked fun at Congress, his own Administration and even some of the celebs in the audience. Watch President Obama's full speech when you READ MORE. imagery: Getty
By: Quick's Catch Up
The White House party Twitter loves to hate
2012-04-29 20:29:00 Generally speaking, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who get invited to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner--the annual gathering of celebrities, politicians and media in Washington--and those who do not. Those who get invited to so-called "nerd prom" get drunk, get starstruck, and get on Twitter to post photos of ...
Obama jabs at Romney at White House Correspondents' dinner
2012-04-29 08:08:00 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents in Congress on Saturday night, including a dig at Romney's treatment of a pet dog, at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The black-tie dinner, informally billed as the "nerd prom," is the biggest social event of the year for Washington media and gives presidents a chance to show a lighter side. "I'm not going to attack any of the Republican candidates. ...
Live coverage: White House Correspondents' Dinner
2012-04-28 23:47:00 Live coverage: White House Correspondents' Dinner
Obama does rare interview in White House Situation Room
2012-04-28 00:16:00 No, not Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" -- the real one. President Barack Obama, taking an election-year victory lap of sorts one year after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, did an unprecedented television interview in the White House's strategic nerve center, the Situation Room. NBC's sit-down with Obama will air on May 2, one ...
White House threatens to veto student loan bill in House
2012-04-27 18:14:00 The White House threatened a veto Friday of a Republican bill keeping the interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer, objecting that the measure would finance its $5.9 billion cost ...
Greatest moments at White House Correspondents? Dinner
2012-04-27 15:02:00 Political reporters reflect on White House Correspondents? Dinners of past years.
White House party crasher Tareq Salahi running for governor
2012-04-25 19:39:00 Former "Real Housewives of D.C." star and alleged White House party crasher Tareq Salahi announced he is running for governor of Virginia. "As a Virginia native for the last 42 years, I am troubled to see how our current political figure heads continue to waste tax payer dollars during these difficult economic times!" Salahi said ...
Celebrity Jeopardy: Former White House big shot faces real pressure
2012-04-25 13:12:00 Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stood behind a very different kind of podium recently. And, to hear him tell it, he was genuinely nervous. Gibbs was a contestant in Jeopardy's Power Players week (yes, we like that name!), which airs the week of May 14th.
Secret Service prostitution scandal: White House clears advance staff
2012-04-23 21:00:00 The White House has investigated, and cleared, presidential advance staff of any misconduct in the Colombia prostitution scandal, spokesman Jay Carney said Monday, three days after stating that such an internal probe was unnecessary.
Old White House Dog Gets New Position, Or Chelsea Clinton At NBC
2012-04-17 23:59:00 While this dog* may no longer infest the White House, she still have fleas and the fleas are all lover Thirty Rock. So why does no talent cub reporter have a chief of staff?  From Micheal Hastings, BuszFeed: Even high ranking company officials within NBC, according to sources at 30 Rock, weren’t that impressed with her. One senior staffer told colleagues after multiple meetings that Chelsea was going to be simply “terrible” on television. Upon her arrival, Chelsea was given a welcome bag, filled with NBC swag, 30 Rockers tell me. NBC’s David Gregory responded by jokingly asking: “Where’s my welcome bag?” Gregory’s joke hints at the unprecedented level of special treatment Chelsea receives: she didn’t do live shots on her Rock Center debut; she gets chauffeured everywhere in a town car while others her age strap hang with the suckers in Gotham’s sewers; she has her own personal spokesperson; and she has her own chief-of-staff, Bari Lurie. (Lurie is to Chelsea w...
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The Morning Plum: Can Obama Turn Tables On Gas Prices?
2012-04-17 20:34:00 Posted at 09:04 AM ET, 04/17/2012 The Washington Post By Greg Sargent Despite recent signs that gas prices may be about to fall, the Obama team harbors very real fears that pain at the pump could very well deprive him of credit for the recovery. It could impose additional financial hardships on swing voters who ...
By: Suzie-Q
White House: 'Positive first step' in talks with Iran
2012-04-15 01:24:00 CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Talks in Istanbul on Saturday among negotiators from Iran and six world powers including the United States represented "a positive first step" in addressing international concern over the Iranian nuclear program, the White House said. The parties in Turkey discussed Iran's nuclear program for the first time in more than a year and agreed to reconvene in Baghdad on May 23. ...
White House: Obama paid lower tax rate than his secretary
2012-04-13 21:27:00 President Barack Obama's secretary paid taxes at a higher rate than he did in 2011 despite having a "substantially lower income," the White House said Friday, casting the disparity as an argument for Congress to adopt the so-called "Buffett Rule." [Related: Your Top Tax Questions Answered] "The president's secretary pays a slightly higher rate this ...
In real time, Twitter charges feisty White House campaign
2012-04-13 16:07:00 Twitter has become the sparring ground of the 2012 campaign, where verbal fisticuffs fly and campaigns test the strength of their opponents, all within the 140-character limit per message.
Colombian wants Obama to visit his 'White House'
2012-04-13 02:27:00 A diehard Colombian fan of Barack Obama has turned his home into his version of the White House and hopes to welcome the president with a unique gift when Obama visits Colombia this weekend.
White House to Syria: 'Stop killing your people'
2012-04-12 20:45:00 The White House on Thursday bluntly told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to "stop killing your people" as the Obama administration closely watched whether Syrian forces kept the terms of a fragile cease-fire brokered by United Nations envoy Kofi Annan. In an unusually direct statement to the regime in Damascus, Obama press secretary Jay Carney said ...
Obama done talking about Trayvon Martin case: White House
2012-04-11 22:29:00 President Barack Obama will not be commenting further on the Trayvon Martin case, the White House said Wednesday as the Associated Press reported that charges were being filed against the teenager's killer, George Zimmerman. "I certainly don't expect you'll hear from him about an ongoing investigation both at the state and federal level. The comments ...
North Korea?s rocket condemned by White House as ?propaganda?
2012-04-10 17:44:00 The White House on Tuesday denounced secretive North Korea's overtures to international news outlets ahead of a long-range rocket launch as "propaganda." It also mocked the impoverished Stalinist regime's claim that it merely aims to put a weather satellite in orbit, saying it should just "go to weather.com." Taking aim at North Korea's unprecedented media blitz ...
White House Easter Egg Roll: Hopping with history
2012-04-09 12:17:00 Today is the White House Easter Egg Roll, an event with a history going back to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878.
Obama White House Reinvents Republican War on Women
2012-04-06 09:57:00 Although one recent poll showed that Mitt Romney was not doing as well with women as he was with men, Obama’s internal polls must show that his support among women is quite soft. And his team is doing everything it can to play to women’s fears about the horrible, no good and very bad things ...
By: GayPatriot
America is losing the cybersecurity war; China hacked every major US compan
2012-03-29 12:23:00 Gloom and doom is the predicted forecast, but that is in regard to U.S. cybersecurity instead of the weather. Four top government cybersecurity officials have basically come out to say America is getting her hiney kicked in cyberattacks by nation …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
U.S. and Turkey to Step Up Nonlethal Aid to Syrian Rebels ? NYTimes.com
2012-03-26 09:20:00 Turkey and the United States plan to provide “nonlethal” assistance, like communications equipment and medical supplies, directly to opposition groups inside Syria, and will urge other allies to do so as well, the White House deputy national security adviser said …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
Iran: ?Nothing But Burning the White House? Can Relieve Pain Caused by Burn
2012-02-25 21:43:00 Guess that apology didn’t much help, huh? From Human Events by Jim Hoft. The top Iranian military Commander today said, “Nothing but burning the White House can relieve the wound of us, the Muslims, caused by the Burning of Quran in the US.” Fars News reported: A top Iranian military commander said the US helplessness ...
Stephanopolous still coordinating messaging with White House?
2012-02-14 08:02:00 Last night on Sean Hannity’s show, Dick Morris contended that the administration had “deliberately calculated“* the whole contraception kerfuffle in order to great the impression that the GOP wishes to ban contraception. Obama, he opined, wants to run against the GOP on social issues. He reminded viewers of the question former Clinton administration official, now ...
By: GayPatriot
White House Calling For NASA Funding Cuts
2012-02-13 19:51:00 From msnbc.com: Space: President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $17.7 billion for NASA for 2013, an amount that would leave the agency funded at its lowest level in four years, according to sources familiar with the forthcoming budget proposal. Read the whole article
White House on lockdown after smoke bomb thrown by protestor
2012-01-18 16:26:00 This is what Occupy thinks of the White House, the House of the American people! White House on lockdown after smoke bomb thrown by protestor The White House was temporarily put on lock-down Tuesday evening after a smoke bomb was … Continue reading →
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Free, Black and Twenty-One
2012-01-13 02:11:00 For once I agree with Michelle Obama … she doesn’t deserve to be stereotyped as “an angry black woman.” Just because she wrote, “blacks must join in solidarity to combat the white oppressor” in her Princeton thesis doesn’t make her angry. Statements like, “America is a downright mean country” or, “for the first time I am ...
By: RSF America
Cardinals to be honored at White House (AP)
2012-01-10 06:48:00 The World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals will be honored by President Barack Obama at the White House on Jan. 17. Prior to the event, the team is scheduled to visit wounded soldiers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The Cardinals clinched the NL wild card spot on the final day of the season ...
By: MLB News Blog
Cardinals to be honored at White House (AP)
2012-01-10 06:48:00 The World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals will be honored by President Barack Obama at the White House on Jan. 17. Prior to the event, the team is scheduled to visit wounded soldiers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The Cardinals clinched the NL wild card spot on the final day of the season ...
By: MLB News Blog
Why cover up party at White House?
2012-01-09 04:36:00 This on the normally pro-Obama AOL. They even link through to the FoxNews report. My brothers assumed that only Drudge would pick this up: Now why would a presidential candidate who promised transparency when he was running for the White House want to keep a social at said residence under wraps? Why the cover up? The ...
By: GayPatriot
Is the White House Gearing Up for Action on Syria? ? Max Fisher ? Internati
2011-12-27 16:41:00 A worsening death toll, new Arab League action, and Russia’s sudden change in position might provide an opening for an international response … The statement, like past U.S. comments on the country’s conflict, leans heavily on international collaboration and agreement on Syria. It puts the U.S. strongly against Assad, but does so by putting America’s ...
By: 1913 Intel
White House mulls idea of mandatory ID cards for Web users
2011-11-27 02:50:00 This piece was originally published in October of 2011 and somehow, apparently, I missed it. So, I am presenting this for your perusal. The responses should be interesting. White House mulls idea of mandatory ID cards for Web users The White House … Continue reading →
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Attack On White House By Mexican Cartel Stuns Obama Regime
2011-11-23 17:16:00 This story is *probably* about as accurate as the one about the North Korean mini-sub that sunk the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. But what if it really IS accurate? I just post it, you decide. Attack On … Continue reading →
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White House Shooting: Ortega-Hernandez Crazy Obama-Hater
2011-11-17 15:21:00 The one fact covered up in mainstream media headlines on the White House Shooting is that Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who tried to shoot at President Obama and his family at The White House and from a distance last Friday, only to be caught five days later, was a massive nutcase Obama-hater. We hear about these (Read More...)
White House Shooting Suspect Arrested: Oscar Ortega-Hernandez
2011-11-16 22:44:00 A man accused of being the White House Shooting Suspect was arrested in White Township, Indiana County Pennsylvania. The man is 21-year-old Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, from Idaho Falls, Pennsylvania. Ortega-Hernandez was found by Pennsylvania State Troopers on a tip from an employee at the Hampton Inn , who in turn told authorities, who then called the (Read More...)
White House Chief of Staff Demoted; Media Focus on Herman Cain
2011-11-08 10:54:00 There are many things I would rather blog about than the Herman Cain proposal. Newt Gingrich delivered a stellar performance in his debate with Herman Cain. Mitt Romney released a bold plan to tackle federal spending, confront the debt and reform entitlements. And yet the media have turned the coverage of the candidate into a ...
By: GayPatriot
White House counsel refuses House panel?s sweeping Solyndra subpoena
2011-11-04 23:26:00 Are you ready for that late Friday afternoon NEWS DUMP? It appears that once again the Obama regime thinks Conservative bloggers aren’t watching. Maybe they think we’re all consumed by the Herman Cain story, maybe that’s what we want them … Continue reading →
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