"white-house-correspondents-dinner" Articles & Blogs:
Obama Establishing White House Women's Council
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Women’s groups have been calling for women’s issues to get top billing in the Obama White House. Have they gotten their wish?Women's Rights | Today 11:45 am
Women will soon have a larger voice in the White House.
President Obama plans on ...[Read on] |
White House Dog to Come Tuesday -- And It's a Kennedy
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The dog the Obamas will be getting is from the same lineage as the Kennedy dogs, reports entertainment website TMZBow Watch | 04/10/2009 8:40 pm
Expect the First Family dog to grace the White House lawn on Tuesday — and according to the entertainm...[Read on] |
Modern Lady's Modern Take on the White House Report on Women (Hint: Not Doing So Hot, Ladies)
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Yay! The White House made a report on the status of women! Oh no, as far as women in America go, we're still paid less than men and doing most of the housework. Wait, is that really all the report focused on? Not only have women's strides been small, but ...[Read on] |
Spanish spoken at White House briefing for the first time
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Add this one to the list of firsts under the Obama Administration. From HuffPo:
The White House made history on Monday. And it wasn't just by loosening travel and remittance restrictions for individuals looking to reach out to family members in Cuba.
Wh...[Read on] |
Women more likely to be discharged for Don't Ask, Don't Tell
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With yesterday's National Equality March and President Obama's promise (again) to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell (the speech transcript was released last night), we missed the story last week about government stats showing that women are more likely than men t...[Read on] |
Target Women: Obama Arms
| The White House Correspondent's Dinner over the weekend has been getting a lot of press. In particular, Wanda Sykes' Rush Limbaugh digs and the President's appreciative reference to his wife's "guns."
Michelle Obama has made the sleeveless dress somethi...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Grading the White House on Women's Issues
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Our girl Samhita is quoted in this recent Forbes piece about the White House and Women's Issues.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, 32, executive editor of feministing.com, believes female support is slipping. "Using reproductive rights as a bargaining chip was a bi...[Read on] |
Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondent's Dinner
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I was shocked to find out that Wanda Sykes was asked to give a speech at the White House Correspondent's Dinner this past weekend, but was excited nonetheless. She was hilarious, as was Barack Obama ...[Read on] |
Activists Split on White House's Women's Council
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While some lauded the new White House Council on Women and Girls, others had hoped President Obama would have gone furtherWomen's Council | Today 10:10 am
President Obama made headlines yesterday when he established the White House Council on Women and ...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Follows the White House on Twitter, But the White House Does Not Follow Sarah Palin
| Photo by Lonerockalex/Wikipedia.Introducing Friend or Follow, arguably the most uncomfortable addition to Twitter since whatever Spencer Pratt last tweeted. The gist of the program is fairly self-evident: typing in one’s username on friendorfollow.com w...[Read on] |
Obama welcomes UConn women’s team to White House
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President Barack Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut’s national champion women’s basketball team to the White House Monday, and it was a reunion for many of the players and the Prez.
The UConn women won their second straight NCAA championsh...[Read on] |
White House Party Crasher Michaele Salahi Insists That Whoopi Goldberg Hit Her
| Oh dear: Real Housewives of D.C. participant Michaele Salahi has alleged that during her Wednesday appearance on daytime television’s The View, host Whoopi Goldberg perpetrated “outrageous abuse” upon the White House party crasher. Salahi’s lawyer...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama inaugurates new White House farmers market
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And I was there!
As the local food nerd that I am, I had to be there to hear Michelle Obama speak at the opening of the new White House Farmer's Market in DC.
One of the local dairy farmer's spo...[Read on] |
Food inside the Obama White House
| I was watching NBC’s Special Inside the Obama White House. I have to take pride in that my husband was on the production team making it happen.
Of course, the food expert in me has to find my personal interest hook – the food! So here’s a play-by-p...[Read on] |
UConn women’s basketball champions visit White House
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The benefits of being the best. Win a national championship and you, too, could go to the White House.
A championship ceremony at the White House is standard for many national sports teams. But shooting hoops with the president, now that’s something e...[Read on] |
Happy Birthday Mr. President: Obama Turns 49 Today
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Wednesday, August 4 is the 49th birthday of America’s 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama II. “I think his plans for tomorrow are dinner with some friends in Chicago. And I think he is looking forward to spending the nigh...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama's Updo Sparks Hairgate II
| Michelle and Barack Obama attend a celebration of country music in the East Room of the White House, July 21, 2009. By Matthew Cavanaugh-Pool/Getty Images. The Obamas hosted a country-music concert at the White House this past Tuesday night. Country lumin...[Read on] |
Time to Fix—or Scrap—the Confirmation Hearings
| Having now sat through the biggest part of my third Supreme Court confirmation hearing, I feel I have earned the right to say this: they have become an utter sham, a travesty upon truth and enlightenment and insight and knowledge, and they ought to be com...[Read on] |
Take your daughters to the polls!
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On this election day, we thought this video – produced by the White House Project – was appropriate. If you’re a mom, consider taking your daughters to the polls. And daughters, ask your parents or older siblings if you can be their +1 in the votin...[Read on] |
Is the Recession Over? People Are Partying Again
| Massimiliano Giometti, Euan Rellie, and Lucy Sykes Rellie. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Jessica and Janina Joffee.
"It feels like the season—we've seen the same faces for four out of the last five nights," remarked Euan Rellie at Massimo Ferragamo's di...[Read on] |
Couric Ratings Rise 22% in Six Months
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Couric’s critics should eat their wordsPost | Today 11:10 am
Remember when naysayers predicted Katie Couric would bomb as anchor for "CBS Evening News"? Well, they were wrong — really wrong.
Page Six reports today that Couric&...[Read on] |
First Farming: The White House Goes Organic
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After a long week of depressing, doom-and-gloom articles, I saw a news story that lifted me out of the funk: Michelle Obama will break ground on the White House South Lawn to plant an organic vegetable garden.
Not since Eleanor Roosevelt has a First L...[Read on] |
White House Roundtable celebrates Title IX’s 37th anniversary
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Today, the Women’s Sports Foundation represents the female athletes of the United States in a celebration of the anniversary of Title IX by visiting the White House for a special roundtable discussion.
“At 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, the White Hou...[Read on] |
Helen Thomas and the Perils of Overstaying Your Washington Welcome
| Helen Thomas takes notes during an informal press briefing with President Gerald Ford, 1976. (Yes, that’s chief of staff Dick Cheney looking on at the far left.) Photo from the Library of Congress. I am old enough to have been present in the White H...[Read on] |
Susanna White makes her feature film directing debut at 49
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I remember exactly when I first heard her name. It was in the summer of 2008 and I was walking through the park listening to a podcast of Elvis Mitchell’s show The Treatment. The guest was director Susanna White who was out plugging her new HBO war fo...[Read on] |
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