PRESIDENT OBAMA: Re-Elected for Another Term (Includes Speeches)
History! President Barack Obama has been re-elected for another term in the 2012 presidential election. President Obama defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term on Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Obama beat Romney after nabbing almost every one of the 12 crucial battleground states. In a sweeping victory speech early Wednesday morning, Obama thanked every American who voted, and vowed to work with leaders from both parties to tackle the country’s challenges. “Our economy is recovering, a decade of war is ending, a long campaign is now over,” he told a crowd of cheering supporters in Chicago. “And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you and you have made me a better president.” Obama added he has “never been more hopeful about America. … We’re not as divided as our politics suggest. We remain more than a collection of blue states and red states.” Mitt Romney delivered his concession speech just after midnight early on Wednesday after President Barack Obama was projected the winner of the race for the White House. The Republican candidate …
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Question 7: THE FACTS
Over the past few months there have been a slew of supportive and unsupportive ads and campaigns in reference to Maryland’s question 7. Question 7 is the legislature awaiting to be passed or vetoed in regards to building an MGM ‘Vegas style’ CASINO in THE NATIONAL HARBOR in Maryland. Supporters of Question 7 advocate that having gaming tables and casinos in Maryland will bring forth money to Maryland schools. But the truth is that money in educational funds are fungible and lawmakers have the ability to move these around however they please. Supporters project 12,000 temporary jobs being made for the construction of the Casino and 4,000 permanent jobs for the maintenance and daily operation. Taxes in Maryland just rose but adding a Casino would allow for 5% tax breaks for Casinos and allow them to own the slot machines in place at their locations, no longer renting them from the state. This is a chart posted on WashingtonPost.com outlines the current spending and attributes towards Maryland’s expenditures and the projected expenditures and profit if the Casino was in fact built.ace at their locations, no longer renting them from the state. The revenue that Casino operators retain increased and the EDUCATION trust …
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WATCH: Best Moments From the Final Presidential Debate
President Obama and Mitt Romney duked it out on America’s approach to Libya, Israel, China—and bayonettes?—in the third and final presidential faceoff Monday evening. Watch the most memorable moments. ‘We Can’t Kill Our Way Out’ Mitt Romney began Monday’s foreign-policy debate in Boca Raton, Fla., with a line that seemed to clarify his previously murky statements on our involvement in Iraq: “We can’t kill our way out of this mess,” he said. Romney has repeatedly criticized Obama’s decision to withdraw American troops from Iraq—and, more vehemently, has critiqued Obama for publicly announcing the U.S. withdrawal date—but has also, at times, refused to state whether he would send troops back to the country. Will this Etch A Sketch shakeup stick? ‘The 1980s Called …’ … and they want their expressions back? In a line seemingly designed to ignite memes across the Internet, Obama chided Romney for saying that Russia was America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.” Of course, Romney said that back in March—on Monday, the GOP standard-bearer shifted the “scary-foreigner” mantle to Iran, which he called “the greatest threat of all.” (Side point on Iran: Romney referred to Syria as Iran’s “route to the sea.” Two problems: Iran and Syria do not share a border, and Iran has about 1,500 …
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Newsweek Kills Print Edition
Tina Brown announced yesterday that Newsweek will be ending its print editions next year, with the December 31 2012 issue being the last U.S. print offering. It seems like obviously the right move. Any journalistic enterprise is both a product of the good journalistic skills of its staff and also of the technological possibilities of its time. In the era of print newspapers and nightly TV news, newsweeklies provided the extremely valuable function of timely up-to-date coverage of news and culture that didn’t rely on you literally checking the same news source every single day. The Internet in some ways exacerbates the dysfunctionalities of the daily news cycle by promoting relentless over-hyping of everything that occurs, but Google makes it trivially simple to just find a news story from Monday if you’re interest in reading about it on Thursday. There’s no need for a digest format and if you do great original reporting you want to publish that reporting as soon as possible not sit on it for two days to wait for a magazine distribution process. At any rate, that’s all obvious. As I mentioned yesterday, my mother worked at Newsweek when I was a kid. I seem to …
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Beyonce Confirms Superbowl 2013 Performance
It’s official! Beyonce will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. After the AP broke the story with an anonymous source, the singer took to her blog to confirm the gig in a decidedly Beyonce manner: She posted a photo of her face with eyeblack featuring the words “Feb. 3 2013.” That, of course, is the date of Super Bowl XLVII. From the AP: A source familiar with the Super Bowl told The Associated Press the Grammy-winning diva will take the stage at the halftime show on Feb. 3, 2013, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because that person wasn’t authorized to publicly reveal the information. The official announcement is expected Wednesday, the source said. Beyonce, whose pop and R&B hits include “Crazy in Love,” “Irreplaceable” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” has won 16 Grammy Awards. The 31-year-old sang the national anthem at the 2004 Super Bowl in her hometown of Houston when the New England Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers.
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A Lil’ PSA For Your Weekday…C/O NAS
Nas is urging young people to register to vote in a new video for OurTime.org. “The future of this country is in the hands of young people,” Nas says in the video. “We have the power. We can go to the polls in droves … and vote to get the person that we want. We can do that.” The rapper joins a group of celebrities getting behind OurTime.org’s voter registration campaign. Stars like Renee Zellweger, Usher, Steve Carell, and the cast of “Workaholics” have also recorded videos with the hopes of getting more voters to the ballot box this November. Make Your Vote COUNT PEOPLE!!! ThatDame.com Approves THIS MESSAGE!
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The Comeback Kids: Justin Timberlake & the NEW MySpace
About 15 months ago superstar musician, and occasional SNL distraction, Justin Timberlake acquired MySpace for a measly 35 million-a fraction of what it was worth in 2008. Many considered it a bad investment, the site had grown stale and vastly insignificant amongst the firestorm of Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr; but JT promised it would be back reinvented and more accessible on the music front. (Something it was always good at.) Well 15 months later, Timberlake and co. have released a video teasing the new MySpace and, well, it looks pretty damn good. It’s smooth and pretty looking, it combines some of the best things about other social networks and it teases new features for the music section, all in the name of getting more music out to the people. It’s definitely nice on the eyes, but is it too little too late? Can MySpace really be popular again? The name alone is sure to incite scoffs and laughs from people. I mean, we all remember when Napster tried to make a comeback-that one didn’t exactly go well. Everything the new MySpace offers can be found elsewhere and as much as speculation has started that Facebook is on the downturn, nobody …
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Report: DNA on Gun Grip EXCLUDES Trayvon Martin; More Proof Zimmerman is a Liar
The Orlando Sentinel reports that DNA tests run on George Zimmerman’s gun grip excludes Trayvon Martin as the donor, meaning the teenager did not wrestle with the former neighborhood watchman for his gun as he claims. Prosecutors released another batch of evidence this morning, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting. Zimmerman, 28, is charged with 2nd degree murder in the shooting death of Martin in February. The teen was returning to his father’s girlfriend’s townhome in a gated subdivision near Orlando when he was confronted by Zimmerman, who was the self-appointed neighborhood watchman. Zimmerman is free on $1 million bond. Source
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Michelle Obama Speech: DNC
(CNN) — If Barack Obama is re-elected on November 6, he will owe more to his first lady than any president ever to win a second term. On Tuesday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, Michelle Obama gave one of the finest speeches ever delivered at a national political convention. More important, it could have more impact on the immediate future of the country than her husband’s celebrated 2004 keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Why? Her speech tied the Obamas’ personal stories directly to the lives of millions of voters struggling not to be the first generation of Americans unable to offer hope of greater opportunities to their children than they had, thus drawing a contrast with Mitt Romney as an unnamed but unmistakable caricature of privilege without shading her talk with negativity or animosity. Michelle Obama is a beautiful example of what a true lady should be… Checkout her speech below.
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WATCH: Evelyn Lozada’s Full Nightline Interview
Last night, Evelyn Lozada sat down for an exclusive interview with Nightline, speaking for the first time on the altercation she had with her husband, Chad Johnson earlier this month. Evelyn spoke in detail, revealing information we’ve been wanting to know since the news of the incident broke. SOURCE
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