Archive for December, 2011

President Obama tells the American people that, by joining together, we can move past the tough debates and help to create jobs and grow the economy in the new year.

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Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having calculated that he no longer needs Congress to promote his agenda and may even benefit in his re-election campaign if lawmakers…

Hollywood loves the Next Big Thing, and four years ago, that was Barack Obama, the equivalent of a breakout movie star.

“He is `The One,”‘ said Oprah Winfrey, his biggest and most influential celebrity champion.

“The best candidate I’ve ever seen,”…

Let the merriment begin!

The Republican presidential campaign, which began just moments after it was clear in 2008 that Barack Obama had won the presidency, now shifts to the decision part of the ground game.

This will last until November, and there may…

The news stories invariably raise eyebrows: Barack Obama is related to Brad Pitt. Madonna and Ellen DeGeneres are cousins. John Edwards and Britney Spears are cousins, too.

How can it be?

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak explains it in a new book, which…

That clipping has to be somewhere on this desk. Maybe it’s under the Do It Right Now pile. No, there it is, its little headline protruding sassily from the Really Urgent So Don’t Even Think About Stalling pile: “White House tallies hours spent filling out…

Hollywood loves the Next Big Thing, and four years ago, that was Barack Obama, the equivalent of a breakout movie star.

“He is `The One,”‘ said Oprah Winfrey, his biggest and most influential celebrity champion.

“The best candidate I’ve ever seen,”…

At this point four years ago, national polls taken in the run-up to presidential primaries said to get ready for a faceoff between Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton. And in 2004, Howard Dean was coasting to the Democratic nomination to face…