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Authors: Carmen Cox

'This Week' Roundtable Questions Benefits of Romney-Trump AssociationEthan Miller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Sunday morning on This Week, ABC News’ George Will called Donald Trump a ”bloviating ignoramus,” questioning why presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is associating with the real estate mogul, who once again questioned President Obama’s birthplace...

Authors: Tara Parsell

Poll: Professionals Prefer Obama; Business Owners Choose RomneyEthan Miller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) --  Preisent Obama leads GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney among voters in professional occupations, according to a new Gallup poll.
Professionals include Americans who work as teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc. This category includes 24% of the population, and is, by far, the largest....

Authors: Tara Parsell

Vice President Biden Addresses West Point GraduatesJoe Raedle/Getty Images(WEST POINT, N.Y.) -- Vice President Joe Biden told a graduating class of army cadets on Saturday that their entrance into the service had come at time of rapid change for the nation’s military.
Delivering the commencement address to roughly a thousand students of the U.S. Military Academy at West...

Authors: Carmen Cox

David Beckham to Send Obama ‘Big Box’ of UnderwearMANDEL NGAN/AFP/GettyImages(LOS ANGELES) -- International soccer star David Beckham says he’s sending President Obama a “big box” of underwear from his H&M clothing line after the president gave it a welcomed plug during a public roasting of Beckham at the White House last week.
“To be in the White...

Authors: Carmen Cox

GOP Address: Rep. Jenkins Says We 'Owe' Strong Economy to Returning Service MembersUS House of Representatives(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas delivers the Republican address this Memorial Day weekend honoring the fallen men and women of the U.S. Armed forces and praying "for our sons and daughters who are risking their lives so that we may live in freedom and security."
Jenkins underscores the...

Authors: Carmen Cox

Obama's Weekly Address: Honoring Our Fallen HeroesWin McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As Americans prepare to fire up the grill, open the pool and enjoy the holiday weekend, President Obama is paying tribute to the nation’s men and women in uniform, thanking them for their service and reaffirming his commitment to “serve them and their families as well as they...

Authors: Carmen Cox

Donald Trump Doubles-Down on Birther Issue; Romney Campaign Stays MumEthan Miller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In an interview with The Daily Beast Friday, real estate mogul and Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump doubled-down on his fact-challenged claim that President Obama was not born in the U.S. -- a claim that the Romney presidential campaign, currently raffling off a dinner with Trump and...

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Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’

Written by Carmen Cox

Authors: Carmen Cox

Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’Kevin Winter/NBCUniversal/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.
In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke...

Authors: Carmen Cox

Biden Reflects on Grief, Suicidal Thoughts After Death of Wife and DaughterOfficial White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Joe Biden Friday delivered a deeply personal and at times emotional address to survivors of slain U.S. military service members, recounting his struggle with intense grief after his wife and daughter were tragically killed in a car accident almost 40 years...

Authors: Carmen Cox

Mitt Romney Ordered $55,000 ‘Phantom Park’ Car Elevator, Designer SaysAC Lifts(SAN DIEGO) -- The man designing a custom car elevator for Mitt Romney’s La Jolla, Calif., home said the Republican presidential candidate has ordered the “Phantom Park” model -- the same one installed in the homes of actor Harrison Ford and singer Britney Spears.
“It’s exactly what...

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