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Mugshot: Obama's Uncle Omar in jail
The Framingham Police Department in Massachusetts just released Onyango Obama's mugshot photo to The Washington Times Water Cooler. Mr. Obama, President Obama's uncle, was arrested by Framingham police last week and charged with a DUI. He is being held by ICE authorities, as he is an illegal immigrant from Kenya.
PICKET: Obama hits new low in Gallup daily tracking poll
Gallup posted it's daily presidential tracking poll and the numbers for the president continue to look dismal. According to Gallup, President Barack Obama's job approval rating has hit another another all time low. Only 38 percent of those polled approve of the job president is doing while a whopping 55 percent disapprove.
MILLER: Will Obama be reelected?
Stormy seas rocked the ship all day Sunday. While some got sea sick, others were immune to the waves. The discussion at the Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC) Alaska cruise centered on which Republican can weather the presidential nominatin process and ride over President Obama to take the White House in 2012.
PICKET: Liberals cry, 'you're a racist if you're not us'
There is nothing new about liberals calling conservatives or Republicans "racists" or various insults similar to that. What is a little different is that liberals are now breaking down specific pieces of Capitol Hill legislation that have no ties whatsoever to civil rights law and they call anyone who disagrees with the legislation or, perhaps political proposal, racist.
MILLER: Conservatives cruise to Alaska
Conservative leaders set sail on Saturday for a week-long cruise to Alaska. Leaving behind the dry land -- or rather wet land from hurricane Irene -- the group embarked on a Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC) at sea.
PICKET: Obama's illegal uncle arrested; 'Uncle Omar' almost hits cop car, tries to call White House
A number of media outlets have already reported that an illegal immigrant from Kenya by the name of Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested last week on Wednesday after he nearly rammed his SUV into a police car in Framingham, Massachusetts.
PICKET: AP Poll - Obama losing support from women and youth
In a further sign that President Barack Obama is losing key demographics of the Democratic base, the Associated Press just released a new poll showing among other pieces of data that his support among both women and younger voter is dropping.
PICKET: Boehner tells Obama to reveal costs of regulations
Speaker of the House John Boehner asked President Barack Obama to identify and specify the cost of all the proposed rules and regulations coming from the administration.
Huntsman: (video) 'There's going to have to be shared sacrifice in this country'
Former Utah Governor and now Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was interviewed by PBS News Hour's Jeffrey Brown on Wednesday. Mr. Huntsman answered questions about his views on where the Republican party is politically right now as well as his platform on taxes among other issues. The Utah Republican explained in vague terms to PBS's Brown how he believes Americans of higher incomes should have to share the sacrifice to handle the high costs of Social Security and Medicare.
PICKET: Final group of wounded warriors to be transferred from Walter Reed
The Department of Defense is stating that about 200 outpatient wounded warriors at the soon-to-be closed Walter Reed Army Medical Center facility will be transferred this weekend to the nearby National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.
PICKET: Poll - 14 percent believe U.S. heading in right direction...lowest number since Obama took office
Rasmussen just posted their daily Presidential tracking poll and the numbers do not bode well for President Barack Obama.
PICKET: Facebook hits 1 trillion page views
The social networking site Facebook reached one trillion page views, according to Google's double click ad planner. Facebook is ranked number one as the most visited site on the web followed by youtube, yahoo, and live.com.
PICKET: CBO - Unemployment rate expected to stay above 8 percent until 2014
The Congressional Budget Office released it's annual summer update of the budget and economic outlook on Wednesday and according to the CBO's projection, the national unemployment rate "will remain above 8 percent until 2014."
PICKET: UPDATE - D.C. Park Police: Washington Monument not tilting
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered around Richmond, Virginia was felt as far as New York City and New England. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported at 2:30 pm that their bureau received information that the Washington Monument may actually be tilting as a result of the earthquake.
PICKET: NY GOP candidate for Weiner seat ID'ed as adoptive parent in high profile AIDS case
Bob Turner, the GOP candidate who failed to beat former New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner during the 2010 mid-terms, but has returned to take on Democrat David Weprin in a special election for Weiner's now vacant seat, revealed that his family was the focus of a high profile AIDS adoption case 20 years ago.
