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"The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff. . . I'm like, 'C'mon guys, I'm the president of the United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up?' It doesn't happen." -- President Obama The list of people I feel sorry for is long. It includes not just all of the people I know personally who are suffering from one misfortune or another, but the billions around the world who're having a rougher time than they ought: Japanese earthquake victims, targets of ethnic cleansing, etc. Then there's...

Stanley Ann Dunham, better known as President Barack Obama's mother, passed away in 1995 before seeing her son become the most powerful man in the world. In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, Dunham gets a long profile adapted from Janny Scott's forthcoming book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother. The article paints a portrait of a complex woman who traveled to Indonesia with her second husband, battled the customs while raising her son and new daughter, and eventually returned to Hawaii. As Scott writes, "To describe Dunham as a white woman from Kansas turns out...

Miners from Chile might never get to the bottom of the 'Birther' issue. Charges fly back and forth pushing all the hot topic buttons. But no candidate or 'journolist' will do just a modicum of research. A blogger from the "Fellowship of the Minds" blogsite has compared the wording of the Hawaii Democratic Party Certification of Nomination for Presidential Candidates in 2000, 2004, and 2008. In 2000 (Gore and Lieberman) and 2004 (Kerry and Edwards), this was the wording in the official certification: "This is to certify that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States...

Obama Easter Breakfast Has Religious Leaders Who Enabled Abortion Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama hosted a collection of "religious leaders" at the White House this morning for an Easter prayer breakfast. The event would have been a respected Christian one had it not been for the abortion enablers in attendance. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/04/19/obama-easter-breakfast-has-religious-leaders-who-enabled-abortion/

President Obama and the first family earned about two-thirds less in 2010 than the year before, and donated about 14% of their income to charity. The Obama family, in tax returns released Monday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096, down from about $5.5 million in 2009. The Obamas reported paying $453,770 in federal taxes. They donated $245,075, or 14% of their income, to 36 different charities. Fisher House Foundation, a charity that works with veterans, took home the biggest single donation. The president earns a salary of $400,000 for his day job. His paycheck was...