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Feeling the Obama Love Bethany Stotts, November 6, 2009 Is there an Obamania epidemic in America’s public schools? John Nolte, editor in chief at Big Hollywood, writes that 11 uncovered videos of students praising President Obama were recently “dropped in our email box;” he describes public school demonstrations of affection (psdas) for the President as an educational epidemic. “What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern,” he writes. The 11 videos, one of has since been removed from YouTube, mostly feature students from High School down through kindergarten performing rap, music videos and other performances in...

An important update about the creepy video we posted yesterday. The Burlington Township School District, to which B. Bernice Youngs Elementary School belongs, posted the following Letter to Parents this morning. Dear Burlington Township Families: Today we became aware of a video that was placed on the internet which has been reported in the media. The video is of a class of students singing a song about President Obama. The activity took place during Black History Month in 2009, which is recognized each February to honor the contributions of African Americans to our country. Our curriculum studies, honors and recognizes...

Is a new Mika Brzezinski emerging: a more fair-’n-balanced one? Signs point to yes. Yesterday on Morning Joe, as noted here, Joe Scarborough described the members of the White House press corps as being “in love” with Pres. Obama to the extent that at the big dinner this past Saturday night that PBO attended, they were like “a bunch of teenage girls waiting for a Bay City Rollers concert, waiting to scream at the top of their [lungs].” Not merely did Mika agree, she added another tasty morsel to the stew, revealing that behind the scenes, the TV production crew–big...

Tonight on ABC's show "Life On Mars," The main characters are brought out of hibernation during a long space mission to Mars in the year 2035. The head of the mission on Earth told them the following at their arrival; "President Obama wanted to be here but her father was ill and she wanted to be at his side."

With Stimulus like this, who needs a recession?

Obama-love could hurt what it cherishes By Chrystia Freeland Published: July 25 2008 19:32 | Last updated: July 25 2008 19:32 John McCain, it seems, has decided to re-run Hillary Clinton’s ultimately failed campaign against Barack Obama. John Heilemann, the New York magazine writer, spotted signs that the rightwing former prisoner of war was modelling himself on the left-of-centre ex-first lady a fortnight ago: both were served by feuding and leaking staffers, both were tempted into populist gambits such as supporting a summer petrol tax holiday and both were betting their record of experience could trump Mr Obama’s promise of...

Genius. It is so good, I had to wait till the end to see if it was really paid for by McCain. It’s the real deal.