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US President Barack Obama said he is concerned that the way people consume news may be contributing to the growing divisiveness in the country. "The biggest challenge that I think we have right now in terms of this divide is that the country receives information from completely different sources," Obama said in  an interview with Rolling Stone  published this week. Obama suggested the root of the problem is that some people only look to news sources that confirm their existing political views. "People are no longer talking to each other; they're just occupying their different spheres," Obama said. He also commented on the proliferation of fake news —  a problem that put Facebook in the hot seat  during the election. "In an internet era where we still value a free press and we don't want censorship of the internet, that's a hard problem to solve," he said. // At first, Facebook founder  Mark Zuckerberg dismissed  accusations that p...

A war correspondent stood in the rubble in front of the remains of an exhibition center and government office in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 8, 1945. The United States had dropped the first atomic bomb used in war on the Japanese city about a month earlier //   President Obama  will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, making a heavily symbolic stop this month at the site where the United States first  used an  atomic bomb  at the end of  World War II . The visit, which had been under consideration for most of Mr. Obama’s presidency, could serve as a coda to the transformation in the relationship between Japan and the United States from wartime enemies to the closest of allies. But it also has the potential to open old wounds, and it will take place in the shadow of a growing nuclear threat from North Korea. Both American and Japanese officials sought to avoid any appearance that the visit would amount to an apolo...

Four Out of Five of Obama’s Supreme Court Finalists Are Obama Donors by  Tammy  on March 11, 2016 Posted in:  Dumb Bastard ,  Judiciary ,  Politics   Pay to play! Typical and not surprising. LiveWire The Tammy Bruce Show Tune in weekdays from 1pm-3pm ET Encore 8pm-10pm ET Exclusively at  TalkStreamLiv e Via Free Beacon. The White House has reportedly narrowed its list of potential Supreme Court nominees down to five people, and four of them have donated to Barack Obama’s political campaigns. The five federal judges who will be interviewed by the White House for the nomination are federal judges Sri Srinivasan (who has donated $4,250 to Obama), Jane Kelly ($1,500 to Obama), Paul Watford ($1,000 to Obama), Ketanji Brown Jackson ($450 to Obama), and Merrick Garland, who has not donated to Obama. None of the judges are major political donors and the contributions made to Obama account for the majority of each...

Battleground States Obama Romney Virginia 99% Rpt. 51.1% 47.4% Florida 100% Rpt. 50.0% 49.1% N. Carolina 100% Rpt. 48.3% 50.4% Ohio 100% Rpt. 50.3% 48.3% New Hampshire 100% Rpt. 52.0% 46.4% Colorado 100% Rpt. 51.3% 46.3% Wisconsin 99% Rpt. 52.8% 46.1% Iowa 100% Rpt. 52.0% 46.2% Nevada 100% Rpt. 52.3% 45.7%  

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President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are tied with only a week left before election day, according to the latest Washington Post /ABC News daily tracking poll. The new poll finds each candidate receiving support from 49 percent of likely voters. That represents a 1-point bump for the president, who trailed Romney 49-48 in Sunday’s numbers. Romney also has the edge among independent voters who back him 53 to 43 for the president. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/264743-poll-romney-obama-locked-in-49-49-tie ELECTION 2012 TRACKING JavaScript required to view full data. Oct 22-28, 2012 – Tracking suspended as of Monday, Oct. 29 due to effects of Superstorm Sandy REGISTERED VOTERS CHANGE Obama 48% - Romney 48% +1 LIKELY VOTERS CHANGE Romney 51% +1 Obama 46%   - http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx  

Now that the Senate has voted to extend middle-class tax cuts, President Barack Obama is appealing to the GOP-run House to "do the right thing." At a Cabinet meeting, he told reporters the one-year extension will give families and businesses certainty at a time of economic worries in Europe and elsewhere. But GOP leaders say by exempting top income earners, the extension is a tax increase on job creators. And there's little chance the House will go along. Still, Obama said he and Cabinet secretaries will make the case in the next few days for the 218 votes needed for House passage. The president has long supported ending the Bush-era tax cuts for those making more than $250,000. The White House and the president's re-election team are reviving his arguments now as a way to suggest that the push by Romney and congressional Republicans for an across-the-board extension of the tax cuts could put America's middle class at risk. Republicans total nonsense lot of s...

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