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.... Obama hosted NBC’s Savannah Guhtrie in the White House kitchen to taste his home brews and answer some softball questions about his tone toward Republicans in the recent State of the Union address. Obama assured Guthrie that he did not do “an endzone dance” after the Democrats’ severe losses in the primaries, but rather celebrated a recovering economy, though he stressed that his last two years would be focused on a more even distribution of the economic benefits.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has become one of the first modern day U.S. presidents known for enjoying a cold beer that is brewed and tapped right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Obama aides on Tuesday confirmed the small brewery during a three-day re-election campaign tour across Iowa. An official admitted the Obamas have their own alcoholic beverage made and kept in stock at the White House. Revelations about the White House beer came to light after the president gave a bottle of it to a patron at a coffee shop he was visiting in Iowa. The gift prompted the...

Almost 100 seniors at Concord Academy received their diplomas on Friday after a poignant address by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University. Headmaster Richard Hardy said the diploma “connects you to the past and the future” to sustained applause from the audience of faculty and parents seated under a tent on the verdant campus. “This is your day,” alumna Amy McCarthy of the Board of Trustees told the students. “I am living proof that there is nothing final about today.”

It came as no surprise when a Cambridge Review Committee concluded Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose combative behavior and mouthiness led to his arrest last summer, was provoked by an overly aggressive and culturally insensitive cop. Even by Cambridge’s hare-brained standards, that’s unconscionable. Sgt. James Crowley, believing he was responding to a break-in when he arrived at the professor’s door, had every reason to suspect he was in harm’s way. So he encountered Gates in a highly charged atmosphere, which the latter then intensified by becoming belligerent when asked to produce identification.

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama has invited James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates to the White House to reconcile over beers. White House staff are preparing for a late night bender. To help ease the tension brought over the unjust treatment of Professor Henry Louis Gates by the Cambridge police the President has invited them over to share beers and discuss their problems on Thursday. White House veterans realize that in order for the men to be able to discuss their feelings they will first need to get hammered drunk. In preparation staff are preparing entertainment and “drunk proofing” the...