President Obam is working today, speaking at the Air Force Academy graduation, but tonight, one half of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band will play at a high-dollar fundraiser with the president. Approximately 60 people will pay $35,800 -- roughly $2.14 million total -- to have dinner with Obama in Silicon Valley tonight. The fundraiser "will also include a performance by David Crosby and Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash," according to the White House pool report. "From the beginning they’ve been politically astute folk troubadours whose songs often address real events," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which received the band in 1997, says of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (CSNY). "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming," the band sang in ... Continue reading →
As I wrote earlier today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney schooled the press today on how to cover the president's record on spending. Carney insisted that Obama has "demonstrated significant fiscal restraint and acted with great fiscal responsibility," and added some editorial commentary for the reporters. "I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration." he warned, during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One, "I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness." Continue reading →
Tanya Dixon-Nealy, a social-studies teacher at North Rowan High School in North Carolina, has been suspended with pay. She was caught on tape berating a student, raising the possibility of arrest for the student’s suggestion that President Obama may have been a bully. The dispute began during a classroom discussion about an article the Washington Post had published regarding a reported bullying incident that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was involved in as a teenager. While discussing the Romney bullying allegations, a student raised the notion that Obama had also been a bully in high school. The teacher was quick to dismiss the student’s comments, saying that “there is no comparison” between the incumbent President Obama and his challenger, Romney. The teacher also states ... Continue reading →
According to Madeleine Morgenstern of the Blaze, Hustler Magazine has photoshopped an image of conservative comentator S.E. Cupp for their magazine. The explicit image is featured in the magazine as a “Celebrity Fantasy." The image has sparked outrage on Twitter, including female pundits such as Kirsten Powers a Daily Beast columnist and Fox News political analyst. "It should go without saying that Hustler is a disgusting mag run by disgusting people and their photoshopping of SE Cupp is, yes, disgusting," she wrote earlier on Twitter. Continue reading →
Tanya Dixon-Nealy, a social-studies teacher at North Rowan High School in North Carolina, has been suspended with pay. She was caught on tape berating a student, raising the possibility of arrest for the student’s suggestion that President Obama may have been a bully. The dispute began during a classroom discussion about an article the Washington Post had published regarding a reported bullying incident that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was involved in as a teenager. While discussing the Romney bullying allegations, a student raised the notion that Obama had also been a bully in high school. The teacher was quick to dismiss the student’s comments, saying that “there is no comparison” between the incumbent President Obama and his challenger, Romney. The teacher also states ... Continue reading →
