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I was a little surprised at the speed in which Mr. Steele,...
— Robert Gibbs
Mar 4th
First Lady Michelle Obama poses with veterans Alyce Dixon,...
Mar 4th
I was asked about Twitter the other night, and I spoke some...
— Keith Olbermann
Mar 4th
Bush Administration Weighed Restricting 1st...
Mar 3rd
30 Unexpected and Unusual Things You Can...
Mar 3rd
According to ABC, one attorney “plans to cut back on her...
— Media Matters - Does ABC News...
Mar 3rd
(via inothernews) So if Russia ever invades Alaska, Palin...
Mar 3rd
Yad Vashem is a testament to the power of truth in the face...
Mar 3rd
I think I am developing a crush on America’s first...
— CNN’s Jack Cafferty
Mar 3rd
When Chairman Steele over the weekend said anybody who is...
— DNC chairman, Tim Kaine
Mar 3rd
Israel’s President Shimon Peres gives flowers to U.S....
Mar 3rd
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton observes a moment of...
Mar 3rd
The President just said Joe Biden's...
notthatkindagay: Sheriff Biden!
Mar 3rd
azspot: Rob Rogers
Mar 3rd
Younger staff members said Obama likes to be kept up on...
— this is adorable (via...
Mar 3rd
soupsoup: unburyingthelead: Marines applaud as President...
Mar 3rd
freckledawesome: documentary: Another film I am posting...
Mar 3rd
There was a difference with Reagan and it is one, critical...
— Andrew Sullivan The Daily...
Mar 2nd
10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories
Mar 2nd
azspot: David Horsey
Mar 2nd
The significance of what Gates said yesterday about the...
— Talking Points Memo | Speak...
Mar 2nd
suitep:Obama Pics Daily
Mar 2nd
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with...
Mar 2nd
Jackie Kennedy’s official White House portrait. Just...
Mar 2nd
We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an...
— Rush Limbaugh Misquotes...
Mar 2nd
Jindal can sit on the rim and yell if he wants to save...
— Comment on Jindal and GOP...
Mar 2nd
julyshewillfly: Comedy’s New Legends, By Patrick...
Mar 2nd
Clinton: U.S. offers $900 million to...
Mar 2nd
The burst of entertaining is giving the new White House a...
— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (“White...
Mar 2nd
As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further...
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is...
Mar 2nd
think4yourself: shiningstar: fabulash:carolyns:(via...
Mar 2nd
The country is changing. Ronald Reagan won in 1980 with 51%...
— Mike Murphy on the future of...
Mar 1st
Jack (the lab) and Jill (the chihuahua).
Mar 1st
(Mike Lane, Baltimore, Maryland)
Mar 1st
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Utah
Mar 1st
Americans identifying themselves as Democrats outnumber...
— Ailing G.O.P. Risks Losing a...
Mar 1st
Because this photo never fails to amuse me.
Mar 1st
Paul Harvey Has Died
think4yourself: They just interrupted programming on TV to announce that radio commentator Paul...
Mar 1st
spaceships: Fourteen-month-old Yabila Kubemboli, who is...
Mar 1st
A switch to national health care coverage will be tough....
— Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer ...
Mar 1st
azspot:RJ Matson
Feb 28th
President Obama receives a high five from Miles Rawls as he...
Feb 28th
Bunning has always been a loose cannon. It’s just...
— A Democratic Senate aide told...
Feb 28th
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s...
— John Keating, Dead Poets...
Feb 28th
think4yourself: The White House - Blog Post - Responsibly...
Feb 27th
Some say Bunning, in frustration, hinted he...
Feb 27th
Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest...
Feb 27th
I don’t think he truly understands the plight of his...
— Candace Foss, 59, who lost her...
Feb 27th
No detail escapes her eye. She says she is planning for the...
— Managing the Highest-Profile...
Feb 27th
Marines peer though a window awaiting the arrival of...
Feb 27th
Big Changes on the Way in Lending to Students...
Feb 27th
We also know that service does not end with the person...
— Excerpt of President...
Feb 27th
Politico's Patrick Gavin:
What’s a common and accepted practice for Americans nowadays that you think we’ll look back on with regret?
John Kerry:
Up until this November, it was voting Republican.
Feb 27th
The White House has released the official portrait of First...
Feb 27th
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Italian...
Feb 27th
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER
Feb 27th
In a remarkable scene, Gibbs patiently and repeatedly...
— FiveThirtyEight (via...
Feb 27th
There comes a time when the thumbnails...
shiningstar: And that’s when you realize you’re old. And when they’re of babies AND booze you...
Feb 27th
think4yourself: hryan: via graphjam.files.wordpress.com ...
Feb 27th
Zen Habits: 10 Essential Money Skills for a...
Feb 26th
Begich, a Democrat, fired off a harsh letter to Republican...
— Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)...
Feb 26th
I think it’s fair to say that had I not been a Stevie...
— President Obama, honoring...
Feb 26th
In a very real way, Bush was a Reagan conservative - a big...
— Daily Kos: “Reagan...
Feb 26th
So what did Bobby Jindal choose to ridicule in this response...
— Paul Krugman (via rillawafers)
Feb 26th
Watch
Kenneth the Page responds to Bobby Jindal Comparison
Feb 26th
via Politico
Feb 26th
President Obama laughs alongside musician Stevie Wonder...
Feb 26th
First Lady Michelle Obama makes opening remarks as she and...
Feb 26th
To put this in Oscar movie terms, President Obama won best...
— Congresswoman Linda Sanchez...
Feb 25th
We have an African-American President, a female Speaker of...
— KATIE COURIC, noting the...
Feb 25th
Bringing relief to the battered region of Darfur is a top...
Feb 25th
Following President Obama’s incredible oratory, personal...
— Taylor Marsh
Feb 25th
[President] Obama truly believes he is at the beginning of...
— The Page - by Mark Halperin -...
Feb 25th
Gov. Jindal’s stories of self-reliance were inspiring. Like...
— Jon Swift (via azspot)
Feb 25th
Last year’s State of the Union: the big Clinton-Obama...
Feb 25th
…This was the most ambitious president we’ve ever heard in...
— CNN’s David Gergen (via...
Feb 25th
Mary Trody is wrapped up in a blanket as she watches U.S...
Feb 25th
First Lady Michelle Obama hugs Ty’Sheoma Bethea, a...
Feb 25th
Then a BIG, BAD monster
— “Then a BIG, BAD monster...
Feb 25th
So Hurricane Katrina is to Bobby Jindal...
Something he brings up in every other sentence? Sheesh.
Feb 25th
LOL @ Bobby Jindal!
(via notthatkindagay) This is the hope of the Republican Party? HA, bring it on.
Feb 25th
Joe's going to tether Nancy to that...
Feb 25th
notthatkindagay: inothernews: “Nobody messes with Joe.” ...
Feb 25th
We will rebuild. We will recover. And the United States of...
— Barack Obama (via inothernews)
Feb 25th
Eric Holder is "Odd Man Out" Tonight
Feb 25th
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Jose...
Feb 25th
Putting WALL-E up against Bolt and Kung Fu Panda rather than...
— John Gruber (via jeffrock)...
Feb 24th
You know, money from Democrats can still be exchanged for...
— Jon Stewart to Republican...
Feb 24th
Arnold Schwarzenegger Considered Party Switch
Feb 24th
suitep: I love stumbling across older photos of them I...
Feb 24th
suitep: I would never want to be on the receiving end of one...
Feb 23rd
via suitep Next year, I don’t care what movie...
Feb 23rd
Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is...
— Howard Zinn (via rwatuny) (via...
Feb 23rd
Insult to injury: Bunning TRIES to apologize...
Feb 23rd
spaceships: Jonathan Torgovnik — Intended Consequences: ...
Feb 23rd
spaceships: Another image from Jonathan Torgovnik’s photo...
Feb 23rd
Feb 23rd
Bunning: Ginsburg will be dead in nine months
Feb 23rd
Children run past a sand sculpture depicting eight Oscars...
Feb 23rd
In an industry that insists that most actresses remain...
— Mark Harris in Time on Kate...
Feb 23rd
The Gatekeeper: Rahm Emanuel
Feb 23rd
julyshewillfly: Good call, Time magazine.
Feb 23rd
Hahaha Angelina likes to adopt foreign...
kaytee: Hahahahahahahaha. Great joke, y’all. Yeah, SO original. I’ve never heard that one...
Feb 23rd
You commie, homo-loving sons of guns.
— Sean Penn (via shiningstar)
Feb 23rd
Sean Penn for the upset!!!
Awesome!
Feb 23rd
The President has been writing a letter to the family of...
— The Moment - TIME (via...
Feb 23rd
First Lady Michelle Obama laughs with White House executive...
Feb 23rd
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama make...
Feb 23rd
Feb 23rd
Feb 23rd
Neighbours of Azharuddin Ismail, who acted in ‘Slumdog...
Feb 23rd
soupsoup: I’m tired of being the funny guy.
Feb 23rd
If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think...
— Dustin Lance Black (via...
Feb 23rd
Best...
walpaper: Opening to the Oscars I’ve ever seen. Agreed, and I was skeptical to begin with.
Feb 23rd
Sean Penn & Robin Wright Penn
Feb 23rd
Feb 23rd
Love the emeralds.
Feb 23rd
shiningstar: semichrmd: Vanessa and Zac. Zanessa, why you...
Feb 23rd
thedailywhat: 81st Academy Awards: OMGKEWT! [via.] Just...
Feb 23rd
People are very excited to see Hillary Clinton. It doesn’t...
— Daniel Sitorus, 24, a lawyer...
Feb 22nd
(via bouvier)
Feb 22nd
Schwarzenegger said Sat. that if fellow...
Feb 22nd
julyshewillfly: Happy 77th, Senator.
Feb 22nd
langer: When we’re young we wake up on Sunday mornings and watch cartoons. When we’re older we wake...
Feb 22nd
In Seoul on Friday she had an admission. “Maybe it is...
— Andrew Malcolm, Hillary...
Feb 22nd
Clinton broke with diplomatic discretion at several points...
— Hillary Clinton: diplomat,...
Feb 22nd
webravebees: Hold the Eulogies, Kennedy Says Since the...
Feb 22nd
webravebees: Clinton Redefines Approach to Being Secretary...
Feb 22nd
A chandelier is reflected in a teleprompter as President...
Feb 21st
(Getty)
Feb 21st
…we hope you won’t make the same mistakes we made…
— Secretary of State Hillary...
Feb 21st
Charm Offensive: Clinton Campaigns to Mend...
Feb 21st
I'm tired of people saying Obama...
Rockstar maybe. But I spend far much more time pissed off at God than I do at Obama.
Feb 20th
Finally, A Use for Twitter
Feb 20th
Hillary in Korea, on the Beatles
JAMES ROSEN: I have less than a minute left and I want to pursue a topic of extreme importance to ...
Feb 20th
How does anybody know about love? If you can describe it,...
— Secretary Clinton mused when a...
Feb 20th
Now I’m no psychiatrist, but I question her mental...
— Octuplet Mom’s father to...
Feb 20th
suitep: The poignancy of this image just kills me. ...
Feb 20th
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Commander of...
Feb 20th
urg: The right way to handle the release of the Rihanna photo. The wrong way to handle the...
Feb 20th
President Obama talks with Adnan Ustun while shopping in his...
Feb 20th
I don't like it when English professors...
think4yourself: wikirocks: LOL. I don’t think it’s that serious. It’s NOT that serious. It’s...
Feb 20th
Protesters, holding portraits of U.S. Secretary of State...
Feb 19th
I’m grateful for Sarah Palin. Were it not for Sarah Palin, I...
— pretty dumb things: thanks a...
Feb 19th
chuckmore: Heh… Remember when Bush went to Canada and got...
Feb 19th
Watch
Secretary Clinton appears on an Indonesian teen talk show.
Feb 19th
A young girl, picked from the White House tour...
Feb 19th
bennybing: The New faces of North America. A Black president...
Feb 19th
A Filipino war veteran is wheeled to the U.S. embassy in...
Feb 19th
jaimeleighfairbrother: I’m 25 now. Should I be ironing my clothes? My mother is 46 and refers to...
Feb 19th
SC gov says he'll take money despite...
Feb 19th
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and...
— Winnie the Pooh (via...
Feb 19th
Best Dressed Kids EVER? Yeah, I think so.
Feb 19th
spaceships: unicornology: (via stewardesses)
Feb 19th
ESPN: Team's gesture supports grieving...
Feb 19th
First lady Michelle Obama arrives for a performance for...
Feb 19th
Politico internal memo revealed
Feb 19th
vruz: AP own the President ? a primer on fair use:...
Feb 19th
think4yourself: urg: I’m with you, kid. I’d be doing the...
Feb 19th
Lainey Gossip on Brangelina/JJ Oscar Showdown
Feb 19th
President Obama Opposes Fairness Doctrine
Feb 18th
Maybe I am just a bad person. Maybe the only reason I have...
— Emily Giffin, Something...
Feb 18th
Golf.com: Tiger Woods Baby Photos I love that they’ve...
Feb 18th
think4yourself:allthingsalishan:marseeah: Tiger Woods Baby...
Feb 18th
In the event that Heath Ledger should be selected as the...
— Bruce Davis, executive...
Feb 18th
NYTimes: Enforcing Manners, Tumblr Shuts Down...
Feb 18th
ND House Passes Abortion Ban
Feb 18th
esandberg: It’s amazing how educational The Real Housewives...
Feb 18th
absurdlakefront: White House Social Secretary Desirée...
Feb 18th
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets journalists in...
Feb 18th
Mickey Rourke Loses Beloved Chihuahua
Feb 18th
My first reaction was to start laughing — I just kept...
— For Uninsured Young Adults,...
Feb 18th
I strongly dislike
katoleary: ohfortheloveofdog: People who give up their pets when they have a baby. Overall, I...
Feb 18th
think4yourself:emilyelisabeth: JFK-Norman Rockwell
Feb 18th
A few of my favorite Presidential...
think4yourself: emilyelisabeth: Grover Cleveland: “Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The...
Feb 18th
The Republican party is not, at this point in time, a...
— The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
Feb 18th
shiningstar: sade: This is vintage Rahm Emanuel, guys. You...
Feb 18th
Now, I have to say that given that they were running the...
— President Obama (via...
Feb 18th
thedailywhat:John Sherffius.
Feb 18th
(via soupsoup)
Feb 18th
To meet urgent security needs, I approved a request from...
— President Obama’s...
Feb 18th
Megachurch pastor resigns, admits to 'sexual...
Feb 17th
Everyone should be paying attention to the political/fiscal...
— Apocalypse now - Paul Krugman...
Feb 17th
Pat Robertson on Rush's "I Hope He...
brooklynmutt: “That was a terrible thing to say. I mean, he’s the president of all the country. If...
Feb 17th
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is welcomed by...
Feb 17th
azspot: David Horsey
Feb 17th
Watch
chuckmore: Here’s the video of Bristol Palin stating the obvious… The look of “you dumb bitch you...
Feb 17th
McCain on CNN's "State of the Union"
Feb 17th
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Minister for...
Feb 17th
Jessie “The Body” Ventura Wants Bud Selig...
Feb 17th
Jan. 27, 2009: House Republicans surround the President...
Feb 17th
Feb. 5, 2009: Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel meets in the Oval...
Feb 17th
freckledawesome: via www.whitehouse.gov
Feb 17th
freckledawesome: via www.whitehouse.gov
Feb 17th
When you’re a little kid, you’re a little bit of everything....
— The Wonder Years (via...
Feb 17th
A reader informs me that, fresh from “Barack The Magic...
— Andrew Sullivan (via...
Feb 17th
The Simpsons on Cain and Abel:
(Filming a home movie about Cain and Abel.)
Todd:
Daddy, if Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve’s only children, how did they make more babies?
Rod:
Did they make babies with their mother, or with each other?
Ned Flanders:
Your mouth is hoping for a soaping boy. Now stop asking silly questions and go kill your brother!
Feb 17th
julyshewillfly: bluecoat: Bobby, Ted, and John
Feb 16th
I found it quite comical that my last name was a swear word...
— Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of...
Feb 16th
Nate Silver Predicts the Winners of the 2009...
Feb 16th
By 2000, the savagery and relentlessness of Lauren’s...
— PARADE Magazine—I Must...
Feb 16th
President Barack Obama gestures to his family as they enter...
Feb 16th
Let this be a model for peace in the middle east.
Feb 16th
All this takes us to last July, when I was digging in the...
— Lives - Saying Yes to Ryan -...
Feb 16th
Paul Begala: If you oppose the stimulus,...
Feb 16th
Hib infection in children makes a deadly...
Feb 16th
When the GOP is in the minority,
langer: 60 is the new 50. Update your civics textbooks accordingly.
Feb 16th
A hippopotamus and her young playing at their enclosure at...
Feb 16th
Sarah Palin's 'Secret' Pregnancy--& How...
Feb 16th
100 Healthiest Foods for Women
Feb 16th
Bradley Whitford on Playing Rahm Emanuel -...
Feb 16th
I am an eternal optimist [but] that doesn’t mean...
— President Obama, promising to...
Feb 16th
Gulls—Ship Island, Mississippi via laszlo-photo
Feb 16th
They Sure Showed That Obama - NYTimes.com
Feb 15th
I would never want Obama to go through what my brother went...
— Jeb Bush Think...
Feb 15th
This is a real situation. You have to have compassion for...
— Jay Z on Rihanna
Feb 15th
M.I.A.: It's a B.O.Y!
Feb 15th
vruz: Franken is no joke to GOP GOP dead set against 59th...
Feb 15th
It’s eerie — I read the news from the Beltway, and there’s...
— Ann Seltzer, the authoritative...
Feb 15th
soupsoup: azspot:rjmatson.com We need to liberate...
Feb 14th
sparklingpants: Centerpiece for tonight’s dinner party. I...
Feb 14th
Ha! Demi Moore totally just responded to...
Perhaps I’m a dork, but I must admit…pretty cool! I love the internet!
Feb 14th
urg: Woah, Sasha’s boots are FIERCE
Feb 14th
Watch
brooklynmutt: President Jokes About Commerce Secretary at Lincoln Tribute
Feb 14th
Emanuel Says Obama Team Lost Message on...
Feb 13th
lorenrochelle:via
Feb 13th
Octuplets doctor has another patient...
Feb 13th
Our Charming First Couple: Behind-the-scenes photo from the...
Feb 13th
Nadya Suleman
Feb 13th
The first thing I did when they asked me to do this gig, I...
— wanda sykes on being asked to...
Feb 13th
(via smartblonde)
Feb 13th
"We know she was on that plane, and now she's...
Feb 13th
…he was a man, in ways as familiar as the guy next...
— What Would Lincoln...
Feb 13th
Love Ever After—Photo Essays—TIME Moe and...
Feb 13th
Feb 13th
karenh: Happy 200th birthday Charles Darwin It’s funny...
Feb 13th
Knee jerk disdain of government cannot rebuild our levees or...
— President Obama, addressing...
Feb 13th
Obama just brought up that today is also...
Have I mentioned lately how refreshing it is to have this guy as our President?
Feb 13th
From the Wall of a...
…on Facebook. This is from a lady I used to babysit for when I was in HS: 1 I DON’T...
Feb 13th
mckennl:sharpless: babydeer: americanshaft: Happy Birthday...
Feb 13th
robot-heart: dlifson:gluttonyisabliss:michele cat No girl...
Feb 13th
Those who are best suited to power are those who have never...
— Prof. Dumbledore, Harry Potter...
Feb 12th
Pink Drops, aussiegall
Feb 12th
via Sukanto Debnath
Feb 12th
Kentucky’s Capitol Rotunda: a statue of Lincoln and a...
Feb 12th
Obama Invokes Forbidden Word
Feb 12th
And the idea that things like replacing the federal fleet...
— wish i was taller My husband...
Feb 12th
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
think4yourself: thegreg: O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has...
Feb 12th
julyshewillfly: President Barack Obama and first lady...
Feb 12th
julyshewillfly: (via andertho) Happy post-humous Birthday...
Feb 12th
President Obama is Driving Republicans Insane
Feb 12th
Feb 12th
Listen
kaytee: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere- Dwight Yoakam One of the country artists I think everyone...
Feb 12th
The route of Abe Lincoln's funeral train -...
Feb 12th
mckennl: No, it’s Maryland, for some reason I thought you were in the DC metro area. (politics...
Feb 11th
Ceremonies will be held across the country tomorrow to mark...
Feb 11th
Rainbow behind my house, like…just now.
Feb 11th
I suggested that we have a talk show together called...
— Ex-Weather Undergrounder Bill...
Feb 11th
notthatkindagay: What Can You Turn to When Times Are Tough?
Feb 11th
We want entertaining in the White House to feel like...
— Michelle Obama, Leading Lady
Feb 11th
Michelle Obama at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C....
Feb 11th
There are some reporters, you know, in that briefing room,...
— Former Pres. Bush’s press...
Feb 11th
'Failure' of the New Deal
Feb 11th
When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our...
— Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t...
Feb 11th
Daily Show Comes to the White House
Feb 11th
First Lady Spends Tuesday Visiting DC Community Health...
Feb 11th
via Monroe’s Dragonfly
Feb 11th
Summer Colors, Shahram Sharif
Feb 11th
Danfoy.com
Feb 11th
girlindc: Michelle Obama - Vogue by Annie Leibovitz, March...
Feb 11th
Sunrise by Biscayne Bay, alexdecarvalho
Feb 11th
via Politico
Feb 11th
With their party out of power, the GOP is flailing more than...
— Stephen Colbert, The Colbert...
Feb 11th
Honey, all you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself.
— Reality Bites (via...
Feb 11th
Town Hall: House Offered to Homeless Woman Senator Nick...
Feb 11th
inothernews: YAY-MY POEHLER!!!
Feb 11th
girlindc:(via)(meredithnyc via think4yourself)
Feb 11th
Watch
Michelle Obama reads to DC kids.
Feb 11th
via TIME Magazine
Feb 11th
First lady Michelle Obama reads to children at Mary’s...
Feb 11th
Feb 10th
Julio Osequeda, FL College Student, Rules...
Feb 10th
notthatkindagay: How to Get a Good Spot in the Unemployment...
Feb 10th
Margaret, I ask you, if a book falls in the forest and...
— Helen Philpot (via fuddmain) ...
Feb 10th
Teddy!
— Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV),...
Feb 10th
Henrietta Hughes: Obama Asked For Help At...
Feb 10th
Kanye West: I'd Do Anything to Help Rihanna
Feb 10th
Get a six pack of Budweiser and we’ll meet Hannity...
— Robert Gibbs, who also...
Feb 10th
Hillary & Chelsea
Feb 10th
President Obama high-fives with a boy as he greets military...
Feb 10th
absurdlakefront: Helen Thomas has covered every President...
Feb 10th
Guilty pleasure? You know, really shameful, horrible thing...
— Anthony Bourdain. I’m...
Feb 10th
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: Is it sad that this was the...
Feb 10th
The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill...
— Helen Thomas, July 2006 ...
Feb 10th
Mark Nickolas: Obama's Press Conference...
Feb 10th
Feb 10th
Feb 10th
…the backlash against Nadya Suleman, the mother of six...
— Heather Mac Donald as quoted...
Feb 10th
ohfortheloveofdog: New baby girl at the National Zoo!
Feb 10th
suitep:
Feb 9th