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Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza said he's thankful America has survived having "grown-up Trayvon [Martin] in the White House."D'Souza posted the following tweet on Tuesday:
I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!
-- Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 26, 2013
D'Souza, a former policy analyst under President Ronald Reagan, has been a vocal critic of President Barack Obama, co-directing a 2012
President Barack Obama celebrated a quiet Thanksgiving at the White House Thursday and called several members of the armed forces to thank them for their service to the country.
Many presidents have preferred to spend the holiday at Camp David, the secluded Maryland mountaintop retreat, but the Obamas have more often chosen to have dinner at the Executive Mansion.
Hewing to past practice during his administration, Obama placed calls to several uniformed personnel. The White House said he talke
Not only did President Obama snub the ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address today, he ignored and omitted the words "under God" in his rendition of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, filmed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
"After five years of tearing down religious liberty, it is neither surprising nor unexpected that President Obama disregarded 'under God' when reciting the Gettysburg Address," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. "He has c
First Lady Michelle Obama was a part of another hard-hitting interview on BET Tuesday night where she talked up her husband and took questions from the audience and world-renowned journalist Bow Wow.Mrs. Obama told the audience that she believes her husband "has got swag." She also said that the President "sings all the time."
The full exchange is available below:
MRS. OBAMA: Question number two: On a scale of 1 to 10, how awesome was it when the President started singing "Let's Stay Togethe
 BBC: Oprah Winfrey has been a prominent supporter of Barack Obama. She thinks that both he and the Office of President have been treated with contempt because of the colour of his skin."There's a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he's African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it."
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 Jim Messina and John Podesta, top former aides to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton respectively, are currently in talks to co-chair a board backing Hillary Clinton -- a plan that, should it come to fruition, would be a dramatic early symbol of party unity behind the former secretary of state. |
Bill Clinton says President Obama should figure out a way to honor his promise that people who like their insurance can keep it. (OZY via Facebook)
If you haven't heard about it yet, President Clinton sounds off on all things Obamacare during a provocative video interview with OZY, an online magazine.
Right off the bat, Clinton affirms his support for the law, despite its problems. "The big lesson is that we're better off with this law than without it," he says.
Still, the rollout of the on
An evangelical minister says church leaders who supported President Barack Obama in his last successful bid for the White House should resign.
Decrying the present-day "political monkey house," Douglas Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, said any evangelical church officials who'd supported the pro-choice Obama exhibited "a fundamental condition of cluelessness."
"Any evangelical leader -- by which I mean someone like a minister or an elder -- who voted for Obama the second time
Each morning for the past five years, before most of his aides have arrived at the White House, President Barack Obama has read a devotional sent to his BlackBerry, weaving together biblical scripture with reflections from literary and cultural figures.
Joshua DuBois, an informal spiritual adviser to Obama who ran the White House faith-based office until earlier this year, writes the devotionals for Obama and has compiled many of them in a forthcoming book, "The President's Devotional," to
U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden , are seen during an event to introduce Jeh Johnson as the president's nominee to be the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Rose Garden of the White House, October 18, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America)
President Barack Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church, and he almost never elaborates in public about his own relationship to his
The First Lady reacts as she watches Laura Jarrett and Tony Balkissoon take their vows during their wedding at Valerie Jarrett's home in Chicago, June 18, 2012. (Pete Souza/The White House)
Joshua DuBois was President Obama's director of faith-based initiative, and single. Learning that, the president went to work. By Joshua DuBois.
President Obama has taught me a lot over the years, and I share a few lessons in my new book, The President's Devotional. But one of the most important lesson
About 200 people, counting among their ranks Republican Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz and former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, converged on D.C.'s World War II memorial Sunday morning. Slightly overselling themselves as the "Million Vet March on the Memorials," they cut through barriers to protest the site's closing during the shutdown.Pictured: People rally at the World War II Memorial in Washington Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. The rally was organized to protest the closure of the Memorial an
Singer Donnie McClurkin performs onstage during the BET Celebration of Gospel 2013 at Orpheum Theatre on March 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images North America)
Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has said God delivered him from "the curse" of homosexuality, did not appear in a Saturday evening concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, after several gay rights activists objected to his participation in the event.
McClurkin was schedul
An Obama-mask clown at the Missouri State Fair was banned for life, after photos and video asking a crowd if they wanted to see Obama 'run down by a bull' went viral. The crowd cheered. Fair officials dubbed the stunt 'unconscionable.'
Missouri State Fair officials have banned for life the rodeo clown who wore a President Obama mask while facing bulls at the event over the weekend.
The clown in question engaged in an "unconscionable stunt" and will never perform at the Show Me state venue aga
Farrakhan rips Obama:
"Clearly, we are in a dire condition," Farrakhan said in a recent address, "and the government of America cannot solve our problems." "Let me show you a little bit more," he later continued, "Even though we in 2013 are celebrating a two-term black president...the brother simply has not been able to repair the damage caused by centuries of racism [and] greed, which has now run this nation over a fiscal cliff."
For a response to President Obama's comments on the acquittal of George Zimmerman and racism in the United States, we're joined by Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of numerous books.
On Obama's remarks comparing himself to Trayvon Martin, West says: "Will that identification hide and conceal the fact there's a criminal justice system in place that has nearly destroyed two generations of precious, poor black and brown brothers? [Obama] hasn't said
Statement by the President
The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son. And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we're doing all we can
In the latest controversial comments from CBN founder Pat Robertson, the televangelist urged Americans to revolt against Obama in the same way Egyptians protested its ousted former president, Mohammed Morsi.
"You know they revolted in Egypt against the oppressive actions of the Muslim Brotherhood, and this example of state socialism is something that Americans should rise up against," Robertson said on Wednesday's 700 Club, in reference to the HHS Affordable Care Act.
"They snuck that thing b
President Obama clashed with his Senegalese host over gay rights on Thursday as the fall-out of the Supreme Court's historic gay marriage ruling followed him on his trip to Africa.
Obama diplomatically called for "respect" for local traditions and customs during his first stop on a continent where 38 countries - including Senegal - criminalize homosexuality. But he could not avoid making his own position perfectly clear on a topic followed closely by his Democratic base back home.
"What I be
