Pete Souza/The White House In the photo that has hung in the West Wing for three years, President Obama looks to be bowing to 5-year-old Jacob Philadelphia, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels like his. WASHINGTON — For decades at the White House, photographs of the president at work and at play have hung throughout the West Wing, and each print soon gives way to a more recent shot. But one picture of President Obama remains after three years. In the photo, Mr. Obama looks to be bowing to a sharply dressed 5-year-old black boy, who stands erect beside the Oval Office desk, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels ... Continue reading →
Sandra I just saw this on Interesting…..Four witnesses in the Trayvon Martin case have changed their stories, some “in ways that may damage” George Zimmerman, the Orlando Sentinel reports.According to records released last week in the second-degree murder case, the witnesses–all of them neighbors–were interviewed multiple times by police and special prosecutors about what they saw on Feb. 26, the night Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in Sanford, Fla.Four days after the shooting, one woman told police she “saw two guys running” and then “a fistfight–just fists, I don’t know who was hitting who.” But on March 20, she told investigators she saw just one person.“I couldn’t tell you if it was a man, a woman, a kid, black or white,” the woman, “Witness 2,” said. ... Continue reading →
Opposition to gay marriage has hit a new low among Americans, weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for it, according to a new poll Wednesday.Less than 4 in 10 Americans, 39 percent, said they are opposed to the legalization of gay marriage, in a new low found in a Washington Post-ABC News survey. Meanwhile, a majority of Americans, 53 percent, said same-sex marriage should be legal — compared to just 36 percent who said the same six years ago. Continue Reading Half of Americans, 51 percent, said they approve of the president’s recent decision to publicly support gay marriage, while 41 percent said they disapprove. According to the survey, 71 percent of Americans said they have a friend, family member of acquaintance who ... Continue reading →
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