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Karen Santorum: My husband shouldn’t have called Obama ‘snobbish’
Among the many who disapproved of Rick Santorum calling President Barack Obama “a snob” for wanting kids to attend college, the most surprising critic of those comments maybe the GOP presidential candidate’s wife. In an interview with Politico released Sunday evening, Karen Santorum shared her disapproval over her husband’s choice of…
Santorum: ‘Higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes’
Republican presidential Rick Santorum is advising President Barack Obama not to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans because “higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to.” “Once we defeat Barack Obama this economy will start turning around,” the former Pennsylvania senator told a…
Obama had transgender nanny in Jakarta: report
As a child, President Barack Obama once had a nanny in Jakarta who was a little different from other female caretakers: she was actually a he, who discovered at a young age that she was simply born the wrong gender. Her name is Evie, now 66-years-old, according to The Associated…
Romney to 11-year-old: Iran will get nuke if Obama re-elected
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday warned an 11-year-old boy that the world would be one step closer to nuclear war if President Barack Obama was allowed another term in office. “If Barack Obama gets re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change if that’s…
Obama announces top award for Israel’s Peres
President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he was bestowing America’s highest civilian award, the presidential medal of freedom, upon Israeli President Shimon Peres, for his “moral example.” “Shimon once described the story of the Jewish people by saying it proved that, ‘slings, arrows and gas chambers can annihilate man, but…
Obama to AIPAC: ‘Loose talk of war’ inflating gas prices
President Barack Obama on Sunday told a pro-Israel lobbying group that “loose talk of war” was only serving to benefit Iran because it was driving up the price of oil. In his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the president warned of the “cost and consequences of…
Gingrich: ‘Baloney’ that Obama’s Quran burning apology saved lives
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday blasted President Barack Obama for apologizing after U.S. troops allegedly burned Muslim holy books in Afghanistan. The president told ABC News last week that the apology was necessary to “save lives” because protests over the Quran burnings have caused multiple deaths, including at…
Toddler survives twister that killed her family
A two-year-old girl survived a terrifying tornado that killed her parents and siblings at the weekend, US media reported, noting that she was in critical condition in hospital. The unidentified toddler was found lying among the bodies of her family in a field near a flattened home in New Pekin,…
Obama calls for new energy technologies
President Barack Obama called on Saturday for the development of new technologies to help tackle America’s energy problems and the scrapping of a $4-billion-dollar tax break for oil companies. “We’ve got to develop new technology that will help us use new forms of energy,” Obama said in his radio and…
Fluke: Obama told me my parents should be proud
Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke on Friday choked up as she recalled an encouraging phone call from President Barack Obama after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh smeared her as a “slut.” “You were in our green room getting ready to come on and the White House tells us that…
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