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Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.Vice President Joe Biden presents a diploma to valedictorian Alexander George Pagoulatos during a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., on Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)   Do You Like this Article...Read Full Story

Barack Obama There's a new book out detailing U.S. President Barack Obama's use of the illegal drug marijuana. Yes, that's right. The book calls Obama a pothead. A stoner. A puffer of the so-called magic dragon. Previously, photos surfaced of President Obama's university years, where he was shown smoking weed with his eyes looking as high as a kite. Hopefully, those days are behind him, because I'm sure the intensity and stress of politics has been very difficult and has caused...Read Full Story

President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news. Visit link: Warning signs for Obama on path to electoral votesRead Full Story

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There are many perks to being the President’s daughter, and this is most certainly one of them! President Barack Obama‘s 13-year-old daughter Malia was seen attending One Direction‘s first show of their summer tour on Thursday May 24 at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia. Blending in with the hoards of fans, you would hardly be...Read more»Read Full Story

Wow, it looks like we’ve got a race. The latest Quinnipiac poll has Mitt Romney up by six in the Sunshine State and the lead jumps up to eight points with a Senator Marco Rubio VP nod. This means so many things that we’re going to use an entire post to break it down. So, why is Romney ahead in Florida? Because we’ve accepted him and boring might be better It wasn’t as hard here in Florida where Republicans let Romney cruise to a double digit primary win over Newt Gingrich but, all Floridians...Read Full Story

I'm amazed--I shouldn't be, but I am--that this birther nonsense is still managing to worm itself into the news cycle, but there you go. We've now got a couple of stories from there, and both from Arizona! Figures, right? Conspiracy theories are irresistible to people who are desperate to disbelieve something. People who couldn't believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman that killed John F. Kennedy, concocted conspiracy theories to explain that it wasn't true. People who couldn't...Read Full Story

Barack Obama officially endorsed same sex marriage today.  Earlier this week, Vice President Joe Biden supported the idea of same-sex unions.  Biden was asked about gay marriage during a live talk show interview.  Given the VPs controversial response, political pundits expected the President to clarify his own position... and that he did.Barack Obama sent his supporters the following email outlining his thoughts on gay marriage. President Obama wrote: Today, I was asked a direct question and...Read Full Story

How to Grow Terrorists in Yemen A drone circles the skies (Courtesy Reuters/Andy Clark). "As an iron fist has unclenched in Burma, we have extended our hand, and are entering a new phase in our engagement on behalf of a more democratic and prosperous future for the Burmese people,"5 hours ago NDTV Barack Obama GOP 'Super PAC' Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama ‎New York Times (blog) - 57 minutes ago A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire, Joe...Read Full Story

*I’ve spent a week thinking about the Newsweek cover in which President Obama is proclaimed to be “The First Gay President.” As a proponent of gay marriage, I was admittedly taken aback by seeing a successful black man “turned out” in front of the American public.  In fact, I was actually insulted, not because there’s something wrong with being gay, but because Newsweek had the audacity to think that everyone would be happy to be called gay.   So, I thought I would send a memo to anyone who...Read Full Story