Federal workers under future government contracts will get a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour via executive order, the White House announced hours before President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president, like a vast majority of Americans, is fed up with waiting […]
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Fifty years after coming to the United States, the half brother of President Obama’s father was finally granted a permanent resident status. Onyango Obama appeared before Judge Leonard Shapiro for a hearing on whether he could qualify in a federal immigration law that allows immigrants currently living in the United States since before 1972 to […]
Obama sang Al Green’s song “Let’s Get Together” at a fundraiser. The cost of seeing Obama sing Al Green you ask? Oh, only $2000 a ticket at the apollo theater, where 1400 attended. The event was one of several Big Apple fundraisers the president attended Thursday while his would-be Republican foes were sparring at a […]
Earlier this morning I wrote about how President Barack Obama will start personally tweeting from his Twitter profile @BarackObama. Well it didn’t take very long for us to see the President’s very first tweet, and it didn’t have anything to do whatsoever with his Presidential re-election – it was actually to wish all the dads […]
This upcoming election season is going to heavily engaged with social media – Twitter and Facebook leading the charge. But in a recent news release from President Barack Obama’s reelection staff, the President will actually be writing his own updates on Facebook and Twitter. And you’ll be able to identify the tweets coming from President […]
This is probably one of the most intense images I’ve ever seen. Here you have the powers that be in the United States watching either the mission where Osama Bin Laden was killed, or being briefed on the mission apparently in real time. You can tell by the looks on their faces that what they […]
For President Barack Obama, his Presidency was all about “Change”! Change that needed to come to Washington, “Change” that was going turn around the unemployment rate, and “Change” that was, once and for all, end the politics that plagues our capital. But with the new budget crisis, and the fact that our Federal government was […]