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It’s true that both President Barack Obama and actor Will Smith have abnormally large ears. And they stick out.

Smith acknowledged the similarity in an interview today with the BBC, saying it’s what qualifies him most to play the role of Obama, should a movie be made about him.

“People see the ears and Barack and I both have the ears, so I’m the most natural choice,” Smith continued.

“I told [Obama] jokingly, ‘It’s definitely something I would consider, you just have to write the ending.‘ So he’s working on the ending right now,” the Oscar-nominee added.

I hope the ending is better than “I Am Legend“s

[New York Post]

The liberal media watchdog Media Matters has created an account on the social media site Pinterest, posting things under categories about Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

Pinterest is a magical place for users (mostly women) to share recipes, photos of their animals (children) and wish lists for weddings they hope to have some day. Nobody goes to Pinterest to hear annoying opinions on politics.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

Granted, the young girl’s written complaint was about dad popping her balloons, but it’s still applicable, no?

Translation (via BoingBoing): “Would you like it if just because you were getting old you got popped?”

“Today I armed my kids with unrolled paperclips and asked them to pop the two-week-old helium balloons that have been kicking around our house at ground level since my daughter’s birthday. I was not aware that my 8 year old daughter had given the balloons personalities and was really not happy with my plans for them. She was so upset she couldn’t talk, but marched into the room and gave me this note.”

I swear this isn’t a scenario painted by the Obama campaign.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is hosting a fundraiser along with his wife Lynne in July at their home in Wyoming for Mitt Romney, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The July 12 fund-raiser will be a tiered event, giving donors the chance to pay a little extra for the privilege of dining with Mr. Romney and the former vice president. The Romney campaign launched his Victory Fund last month to raise as much as $75,800 from individual donors by bundling contributions with the Republican National Committee and four state parties.

[Wall Street Journal]

In an address before a gathering of Kentucky Republicans this weekend, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie turned up the heat on President Obama, criticizing the commander in chief for “posing and preening” instead of working to resolve important issues facing the country.

“He is the most ill-prepared person to assume the presidency in my lifetime,” Christie told the crowd. “This is a guy who literally is walking around in a dark room trying to find the light switch of leadership.  He doesn’t even know where it is, let alone how to operate it.”  BURN.

With Mitt Romney the presumptive GOP challenger this November, Christie focused his remarks entirely on the general election and received a standing ovation for his critique of Obama’s first term.

“He has sat in the Oval Office and cared more about posing and preening and making partisan politics the rule of the day in Washington D.C. than he’s cared about progress,” the governor said. “Now listen,” he continued, “this country’s problems are too serious, too serious, to spend another day with a bystander in the oval office.”

He went on:

Obama is “embarking upon a strategy for re-election that pits one American against another, that tells American people who have been successful in life that somehow they should apologize for that success, that tells our middle class and our lower middle class that the economic pie in America has stopped growing, and the only way for them to get more is to take some from others who have already made economic growth happen.”

“This president is killing the entrepreneurial spirit in this country,” Christie added. “His strategy for re-election is the most divisive, depressing strategy that I’ve ever seen. It’s not leadership, Mr. President. It is a cynical strategy for re-election. I believe the American people will reject your cynicism and send you back to Chicago.”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who invited Christie to Kentucky, reportedly called him “the perfect conservative messenger to inspire and energize Kentuckians.”

A new editorial from the Washington Examiner today makes a very important point: When it comes to health care, the GOP is modeling Democrats’ budget plan — that is to say, they have no plan — and that’s a problem:

Although it is reasonable for Republicans to wait for next month’s Supreme Court ruling before they proceed on health care, a strategy of providing no replacement for Obamacare whatsoever would be very unfortunate. It would mean that Republicans are pursuing a similar strategy on health care to the one Democrats are pursuing on the budget.

We have repeatedly criticized Democrats in this space for not offering a long-term plan to reform entitlements and balance the budget. Their cynical strategy is to avoid doing anything, so as to keep a free hand to attack Ryan’s budget proposal. And that is quite similar to what Republicans are doing on health care — offering vows to repeal Obamacare as a substitute for real health care solutions.

Even if Obamacare is wiped off the books entirely, America’s health care system will remain as dysfunctional as it was before the bill passed. Conservatives must not shy away from fixing it the right way, or else Democrats will surely pass another misguided, government-based health care bill within a generation.

Read the whole thing here

Clearly not made with longevity in mind but it’s creative nonetheless. According to the description on the YouTube video this was this guy’s third attempt at making the jawbreaker shot glass.

I wonder what’s the best drink to use it with…

[JWZ, BoingBoing]

While President Obama and his international counterparts were hard at work discussing important economic issues at Camp David’s G8 summit over the weekend, First Lady Michelle Obama invited the world leaders’ wives and girlfriends to the White House for a tour of the executive mansion and to “do lunch.”

In attendance were France’s Valerié Trierweiler, the European Commission’s Margarida Barroso, Italy’s Elsa Antonioli Monti, the European Council’s Geertrui Windels Van Rompuy, Japan’s Hitomi Noda, and Canada’s Lauren Harper.

The AP reported:

White House curator Bill Allman led the tour, which included stops in the East Room, where the visitors viewed portraits of George and Martha Washington, and the State Dining Room.

During a walk through the Grand Foyer, Mrs. Obama, wearing a purple sundress, explained how the president walks through the long hallway into the East Room for news conferences and other events.

Following the tour, Mrs. Obama and the G-8 spouses gathered in the White House Blue Room for a lunch prepared by renowned chef Jose Andres.

On the menu: gazpacho; Maryland rockfish with asparagus, grapefruit, Virginia berries, greens from the White House garden and caramelized olive oil; and tangerine sorbet with Virginia strawberries.

I personally think it’s odd that the Obama White House — which openly accuses Republicans of waging a “War on Women” and of not respecting “women’s issues” — has relegated Mrs. Obama to such a passive role in her husband’s administration.  So far, the First Lady’s leading example for women has included tending to a vegetable garden and maintaining toned arms while her husband tackles more complex issues like national security and the economy.

In fact, this muted role for Mrs. Obama is part of the president’s reelection strategy:

As the presidential campaign ramped up earlier this year, Michelle Obama presented poet Maya Angelou with an award and a hug at the BET Honors award show. Two days later, she danced on an episode of iCarly, a tweens sitcom.

In late January, the first lady began a tour of the late-night television circuit that culminated in mid-April with a visit to Stephen Colbert’s show to promote her work with military families. She has appeared on the talk show “Ellen” twice this year, doing push-ups and joking about her high school photo, and made a cameo on “The Biggest Loser.” She is on television almost as much as her husband.

But as ubiquitous as the first lady has become, she also has carved out a distinct role in President Obama’s reelection campaign and in the country: innocuous cheerleader, steering clear of the tough, hot-button issues and carrying no hint of political liability that occasionally worried the campaign in 2008.

It seems that the Obama campaign sees an opinionated and outspoken woman by the president’s side as a liability.  And they call Republicans “anti-women”?

Despite the national debate over policies affecting women, Mrs. Obama has been silent.  Despite being a Harvard-educated attorney (like her husband) and a former hospital executive, Mrs. Obama has kept her distance from weighing in on the pending Supreme Court decision on her husband’s health care overhaul.  And although President Obama insists that he and his wife share “evolving” views on gay marriage, the First Lady has left it to her husband to discuss such details in public.

How “pro-woman” is an administration which muzzles the nation’s leading lady on all things policy-related?  Instead, the Obama campaign cares more about maintaining the First Lady’s popularity than her opinion:

After a rocky start to the 2008 campaign, when she was cast by Obama critics as overly opinionated and strident, Obama campaign aides helped remake her into a beloved, noncontroversial first lady with almost no political liabilities. She has not been at the center of a controversy since August 2010, when she was widely criticized for taking a vacation to Spain with her daughter Sasha.

She is overwhelmingly popular — seven out of 10 Americans have favorable views of her — and the campaign is determined to maintain that popularity by keeping her away from the ugly polarization of modern politics.

The message is clear: In the Obama White House, a woman’s role is to keep quiet, look pretty and smile for the cameras.  Is this what being “pro-women” looks like?  If so, I’ll take an “anti-women” conservative like Sarah Palin any day of the week.

At $4.8 million in campaign debt, Newt Gingrich is America’s most indebted politician. Just behind him in the hole: A convicted felon.

The second-largest campaign debt belongs to conspiracy theorist and perennial candidate Lyndon LaRouche, whose five political action committees have amassed debts of more than $3.2 million, including nearly 5,000 loans from individual donors to his 1984 campaign totaling over $1.7 million. Those loans are remnants of a practice for which LaRouche was convicted of fraud in 1988 when a jury found he had no intention of repaying them.

Rick Santorum pulled out of the Republican primary in April a little before Gingrich did. Santorum has $2.3 million in debt.

[Washington Post, Forbes]

Economics professor Mark Perry has found a number of institutions now offering bachelors degrees in Barack Obama’s favorite subject: social justice.

1. Social Justice & Human Rights Degree (M.A.) at Arizona State University.

2. Bachelor’s degree in Social Justice at Hamline University.

3. Master of Arts in Social Justice and Community Development (M.A.) at Loyola University.

4. Social Justice Education Concentration at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Do you know of another that should be added to the list?  Let us know in the comments.

Obama is “obsessed with being on Mt. Rushmore”

Lobbying industry going strong inside the Obama White House

Obama not on the guest list for Barney Frank’s wedding

Confirmed: Buying organic food makes people jerks

WSJ: Bain Capitalism 101

Marco Rubio: Obama is most “divisive” figure in American politics

If you didn’t guess, that cover of Time with the three-year-old suckling on his mom’s breast was a huge success for the magazine.

A Time spokeswoman said the breast-feeding cover was its best-selling issue this year, and Time doubled the number of subscriptions typically ordered in a week.

What happens when Time decides to tackle the issue of penis envy?

[New York Times]

I would be soooo ticked…

WATCH:

h/t Daily Mail

Related: Complete coverage of the NATO Summit

Via the Washington Times:

The 10th Amendment, the amendment supposedly reserving for the states all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government, gets a lot of rhetorical love on the campaign trail.

But on issues from medical marijuana to voter-identification laws to malpractice reform, both President Obama and presumptive GOP challenger Mitt Romney have shown few qualms about trampling all over the 10th Amendment.

Worth the read to see how convenient “states’ rights” has become in politics.

“We’ve said [Romney's faith is] not fair game, and we wish that Governor Romney would stand up as strongly and as resolutely, consistently, to refute these kinds of things on his side. Instead, he’s amplified them in the past and he’s put logs on that fire and that’s not leadership.”

–David Axelrod, strategist for President Barack Obama‘s reelection campaign, on CNN Sunday clearly refusing any attempt by the Mitt Romney campaign to avoid making Rev. Jeremiah Wright‘s association with Obama an issue. The Romney camp said Thursday going forward that it “repudiates” any anti-Obama group who tries making the associations relevant this year. In response, like a bitter and unforgiving sister who wasn’t asked to prom, Axelrod says “that’s not leadership.”

We asked you yesterday to caption that photo of a very Dairy Queen Joe Biden.

The winner:

“To further prove he’s not homophobic Joe proudly has two same flavor cones in a Dairy Queen.”– CANE4U

Runners-up:

“Lady Stupidity.”– KANKOKAGE

“My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to work for Dairy Queen, I could. I could be Soda Jerk.”– TROLL TRAINER

“Before we start, I’d like to thank Dairy Queen and Dr. Pepper for coming out here.”– PETER YOHANSEN

“Oh give me a f***ing break, just take it.”– GBTVFAN_NON_AMERICAN_OVERSEAS

“Guess what I got! Three letters. Ice cream!”– LCALLDAY

“Who ordered the Caucasian?”– DTHOMPSON579

“The one in my left hand is almost gone; the one in my right hand hasn’t been touched. Another sign that the right is out of touch!”– BIKERR

“Quick, lick it before it drips. No Travolta, I was talking about the ice cream cone!”– JAKE IN DENVER

Yesterday afternoon, Canada’s Sun News invited me to join their host Brian Lilley to discuss Agenda 21, the UN plan for global control of virtually everything.

For those of you who were unaware, I made the move down to Texas about three weeks ago. Ever since, I’ve been fed a steady diet of Texas Rangers baseball. It helps that they’ve made it to the World Series the past two years. It also helps that everyone around here is a raging fan.

So when my wife’s family was over on Friday night, you can be sure the Rangers game was on TV — especially since they were playing their in-state rival the Astros (and especially since my wife’s family is from the Houston area). While coming back from a break, the station carrying the game decided to show Rangers (and Astros) legend Nolan Ryan. The famous pitcher now leads the Rangers’ front office, so his appearance on the screen is as assured as the seventh inning stretch.

And you think he’d know by now that he needs to be prepared to be on TV at any given moment. Apparently not. See, as we sat there finishing our dinner, we couldn’t help but notice Ryan might have been mining for his. Check out what I mean:

Let’s hope not everything is bigger in Texas. Or that he‘s just itching his nose and it’s an optical illusion.

UPDATE:

One commenter brings up a good point:

If you had been watching Ranger games for a while you would know the answer to your question. Nolan has a tendency to rub and scratch his nose a lot during the games. Don’t know if it is a nervous tic, a skin irritation or a secret sign to the pitcher. :)

Don’t get me wrong, I‘m a big fan of Ryan’s. But I couldn’t resist a fun post for the blog.

We’ve heard a lot from Vice President Joe Biden these last two weeks. Many believe he forced President Barack Obama to speak out ahead of schedule in favor of same-sex marriage by voicing his own support of it. Then Biden had that Howard-Dean moment, yelling and flapping his arms at supporters during a speech in Ohio this week.

In honor of Biden and everything he stands for, caption that photo!

We’ll post the winner and a few runners-up this weekend.

When I click a story headlined by ABC News “Minority Births Enrage White Hate Groups,” I expect to feel at least a little anxiety after reading it.

Instead I get this:

“I think that what we’re seeing is that hate groups, particularly white supremacist groups, are talking a lot about the fact that whites will soon be a minority in this country, that their goal at all costs is to preserve the white race in civilization, which spurs them to recruit more, and have more incendiary rhetoric,” [Marilyn Mayo, co-director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism] said.

“White hate groups” are apparently talking a lot more than usual.

I feel more anxiety about the woman sitting next to me who keeps yelling “HELLO?!” into her cell phone. She’s causing problems.

On Monday, The Blaze stimulated your braincells with what sounded like a rhyme from the pages of a Dr. Seuss storybook (if Seuss had written one about government bureaucrats). The plot went something like this: Government is issuing a study to study a study done on government studies.

Not missing an opportunity to lampoon the administration over this most recent gob-smacking abuse of tax dollars, Glenn Beck broke the situation down in its simplest terms.

It would be funny, if it wasn’t so sad.

Two years after Al Gore and his wife Tipper announced their separation, daddy’s got a brand new bag.

Her name is Elizabeth Keadle — better known as Liz — a well-heeled Democratic donor from Southern California in her 50s with a background in science and a devotion to environmental causes.

That crazed sex poodle has done pretty well for himself.

[Washington Post]

Just as Mitt Romney‘s campaign decides that it’s going to stop trying to get the public to fall in love with the candidate, the public starts to fall in love with the candidate.

Sort of. Okay, not really but there’s some good news for him.

Fifty percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, up from 39% in February and his highest by 10 percentage points. His current 41% unfavorable rating, though, leaves him with a net score of +9, after being at -8 in February.

Having half Americans like you isn’t too bad. Maybe he could work on that laugh to gain a few more fans.

[Gallup]

Keeping his messaging on target, Mitt Romney continues to pound President Obama for the sluggish American economy:

According to Roll Call, the Democratic Party’s congressional campaign arm is diverting funds away from the party’s congressional races and instead pouring it into efforts to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is investing in Wisconsin’s June 5 gubernatorial recall election.

The DCCC confirmed to Roll Call today that the committee has shifted its Badger State operation, in place to aid Democratic Congressional candidates in the fall elections, to boost the party’s effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) and replace him with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Today, the DCCC today sent an email fundraising appeal asking its supporters to help underwrite its participation in the recall campaign.

“We’ve gotten a lot of questions about the upcoming Wisconsin election,” DCCC Field Director Brynne Craig wrote in the email. “Here’s the answer: our Wisconsin team is in.”

The committee has been building an infrastructure in Wisconsin to go on offense in the fall. The two most prominent Republican seats on the DCCC’s radar are Rep. Sean Duffy’s 7th district and Rep. Reid Ribble’s 8th district. Roll Call rates both races as Leans Republican.

This news comes as recent polls show Walker enjoying a slight lead over Barrett.