The trajectory from hope to more pragmatic rhetoric in the Obama presidency has been well documented. Someday, someone may track this change through the President’s humor. Appearing at last week’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner, the …

Jay-Z fired back at critics of his recent vacation to Cuba with his scathing new song “Open Letter,” where he claims President Barack Obama himself approved the trip. The White House unequivocally denied the lyric.
In the song, …

President Barack Obama appeared forceful and emotional yesterday as he spoke about gun control amid falling support for the measures. The president directly connected the push for new laws with the shooting last December in …

EDIT 3/2/13, 7:52pm: I guess those who live in glass houses…
Speaking about the failure to reach a deal with Congressional Republican leaders to avert the sequester, President Barack Obama insisted he would not force his …

Several outlets are reporting that one-time conservative darling Chris Christie has not been invited to speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The news reinforces that the New Jersey governor is growing estranged …

President Obama‘s State Of The Union touched on many issues, but the economy still weighs heaviest on the minds of most Americans, and it showed in the speech. As he did last year, Obama held …

This past weekend, Saturday Night Live imagined the meeting of two men who had very important days on January 21: President Barack Obama (Jay Pharoah), and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (Keenan Thompson). However, …

With President Barack Obama‘s announcement this week regarding gun control initiatives, the right unleashed a predictable tirade against this “assault on the Second Amendment.” But even more manufactured are the renewed claims of Obama’s “dictatorship” …

(6:24pm Update: I fell for the NRA’s misinformation. The school that the Obama daughters attend, Sidwell Friends, does not have a single armed guard. The Washington Post‘s Fact Checker gave the NRA’s ad their worst …

The White House finally responded to a petition that crossed the threshold on the We The People website: a demand that the US build a Death Star, based on the military base from Star Wars.
In …

Rev. Louie Giglio, a Georgia-based pastor scheduled to deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama‘s second inauguration, has withdrawn following the discovery of controversial remarks he once made about homosexuality.
ThinkProgress first found the mid-90′s sermon, …

 
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has a solution for the looming stalemate over raising the debt ceiling. And it sounds like something out of the latest Ocean’s Eleven movie: mint a $1 trillion coin made …

A petition to declare the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church a federally-designated hate group has become the most popular initiative yet on the White House’s We The People platform. Garnering over 280,000 digital signatures (as of …

So Danny Haflet of Kentucky thought it would be cute to put a life-size image of President Obama eating a watermelon in front of his house. While you may immediately shout “That’s Racist!”, Haflet would …

In his remarks to the Newtown community, President Barack Obama said, “this is the fourth time [during his presidency] we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by a mass shooting.” His …

A petition to deport CNN host Piers Morgan has now garnered far more signatures than needed to earn a response from the White House. The petition, posted on the White House’s “We The People” site, …

Sen. John McCain has been a vocal critic of Barack Obama and his administration’s handling of the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi. But on Wenesday, Sen. McCain skipped a high level classified briefing …

A new video from the campaign of Barack Obama shows the recently re-elected president growing emotional while speaking at his campaign headquarters in Chicago.
Speaking to a group of volunteers mostly in their 20s and 30s, …

Barack Obama wins re-election despite one of the most contentious, expensive elections in modern history? Check.
He overcomes lies and mislaid blame about the economy to become the first president re-elected with such high unemployment since …

Chris Rock recorded a special election-week message for Jimmy Kimmel Live, which is filming in Brooklyn this week (both comedians are Brooklyn natives). In the spot, Rock assuages the fears of undecided Caucasian voters, telling …