Twitter is all atwitter over a social media campaign on gun-control legislation that’s being promoted by President Barack Obama’s new policy group. In the past week, Twitter users have sent some 36,000 messages with the hashtag #wedemandavote, according to social...
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Students are viewed through a target at a class taught by King 33 Training at a shooting range on Feb. 24, 2013 in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Obama’s Gun-Control Campaign, #wedemandavote: Astroturfing?
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A same-sex couple during a sit-in protest after same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses from the San Francisco county clerk on Feb. 14, 2013.
Democratic Chair to Supporters: Get Obama’s ‘Back’ on Gay Marriage
So far, President Barack Obama has gone little further than voicing his own personal support for same-sex marriage, although the platform he gave it in his second inaugural address was significant. Impending arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over the...
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A White House aide carries the golf bag of Eric Whitaker, a friend of President Barack Obama, aboard Air Force One on Feb. 18, 2013, in West Palm Beach, Fla. President Obama spent the weekend golfing in Palm City, Fla.
Obama to Tiger Woods: ‘Good to See You Play Well Again’
President Barack Obama had a story to tell about his long President’s Day weekend in Florida. And he gave it to Golf World: He was going to school on Tiger Woods. The president’s radio silence during three days of golf...
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Gavin Newsom, lieutenant governor of California, is pitching a new book.
@GavinNewsom: Jerry Brown Watch
“Government should be as smart as Google,” Gavin Newsom said Friday at a party to celebrate the release of his book “Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government.” The fete brought the Democratic lieutenant governor of...
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A press conference in Tehran after the return of the capsule carrying this monkey was sent above the Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 28, 2013.
McCain’s Ahmadinejad ‘Monkey’ Line: ‘Lighten Up, Folks’
Sen. John McCain, no fan of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, probably wouldn’t mind the Iranian leader blasting off into the wherever. Nothing there is new. How he said it today, though, has rankled some, including a Republican congressman who called the jibe...
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President Barack Obama shoots clay targets with a shotgun on the range on Aug. 4, 2012 at Camp David, Maryland.
Obama Skeet-Shooting: Picture-Proof — JFK-Styled Video Next?
The proof is in the picture. After President Barack Obama allowed in a recent interview that he and friends shoot skeet “all the time” up at Camp David, cynics started to question why there are no photos of the...
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama stand on the edge of Lake Michigan to view the skyline of their home town, Chicago.
Obama: ‘My Story’ Impossible Elsewhere
President Barack Obama often has spoken of his improbable tale. He has written of “The Audacity of Hope,” and his first campaign manager has written of the “Audacity to Win.” Yet today, the second-term White House is waxing simply nostalgic....
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Volunteer Ginny Barahona of Washington hands out buttons before first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a Hispanic caucus on Sept. 5, 2012, in Charlotte.
Obama on Immigration: ‘Sí Se Puede’
So Univision planted the question, and the answer: “Will we have immigration reform by the end of this year?” interviewer Maria Elena Salinas asked President Barack Obama in one of the two Spanish-language TV interviews he gave about immigration today. He...
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Retired NASA astronaut and Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, right, and his wife, shooting victim and former Rep. Gabby Giffords arrive for a Senate Judiciary Committee followed by Chairman Patrick Leahy and ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley before hearing about gun control on Capitol Hill on Jan. 30, 2013.
Giffords on Gun Control: ‘Time is Now’
“The time is now.” The words of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was grievously wounded in a gunman’s attack in Tucson in2011, appearing today at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You must act,” Giffords told the...
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Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, arrives at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Super-Booker to the Twitter Rescue: ‘Cha-Cha Comes in from the Cold’
This time it was cold, not fire, threatening a Newark damsel in distress. Still, Mayor Cory Booker knew just what to do: He swept her off her four furry feet, placed her in a police cruiser and ordered the heat...
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