A capital getaway to D.C.

March 12   4 Comments  

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Bullet hits White House window

Nov. 16, 2011   Leave a Comment  

A bullet hit a White House window early Tuesday morning, but was stopped by the building’s ballistic glass, according to the U.S. Secret Service. The Secret Service said a second bullet was found on the White House grounds. No one was injured. Authorities did not specify the type of bullet. The discovery came after reports [...]

Obama’s half-uncle arrested in Framingham

Aug. 29, 2011   Leave a Comment  

While President Obama was kicking back in Martha’s Vineyard, his half-uncle was locked up on a drunk driving charge.  Unfortunately, Obama could not answer his relative’s phone call from the big house. Onyango Obama, 67, of Framingham was arrested on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. according to Middlesex District Attorney Spokeswoman Cara O’Brien. After he failed [...]

Jimmy Carter in Boston: “If I knew then what I know now, I would have sent one more helicopter”

May 18, 2011   Leave a Comment  

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President Jimmy Carter was at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Tuesday afternoon to promote his new book, “White House Diary,” a daily account of his 1977-1980 time in the Oval Office. He described the journals that went into the book as “personal diaries” that he never meant to publish, although he did [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Unexpected television announcement coming from President Barack Obama TONIGHT at 10:30 p.m.

May 1, 2011   Leave a Comment  

An unexpected television announcement is being made by President Barack Obama any minute on live national television. All major networks are breaking out of their regular programming to cover it. It is extremely unusual for the president to make a statement at 10:30 p.m. on a Sunday. Some news outlets believe Obama will make an [...]

The logistics of Obama’s Asia trip

Nov. 8, 2010   4 Comments  

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has been ridiculed for alleging that President Obama’s trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan is costing $200 million a day or roughly the same cost of waging war in Afghanistan. It has long been the White House’s official policy not to talk about what it costs for a president [...]

Raised in the White House

April 2, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Bravo network taped state dinner party crashers

Nov. 26, 2009   1 Comment  

Tareq and Michaele Salahi with Vice President Joe Biden

It’s been confirmed: TV cameras from the cable network Bravo were following and documenting Tareq and Michaele Salahi as they crashed the Obama Administration’s inaugural White House state dinner Tuesday, the NY Times reports.

Seeing Washington

Feb. 9, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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D.C. is the center of the new American Renaissance, and deservedly so.

Proposed revisions stall bailout plan

Sept. 25, 2008   Leave a Comment  

A series of proposed revisions to the Bush administration’s $700 billion financial bailout has stalled its implementation.