Articles Tagged with White House

White House Job Ad: Coders Needed For Project Of ‘National Significance’

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The White House is looking for a few good programmers. President Obama’s administration just posted round two of the White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows Program. The program is meant to attract a select handful of innovators from various fields. The goal is to “help develop innovation solutions in areas of national significance.” Posted on the… Read more »

White House Announces National Day Of Civic Hacking

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The White House has jumped on the hacking bandwagon by announcing The National Day of Civic Hacking, an event that runs from June 1 to 2. Twenty-seven cities around the United States will play host to various events where publicly-released data will be used to create “solutions for problems that affect Americans.” Participating in the… Read more »

White House Gun Control Petition Quickly Approaching 100,000 Signatures

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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, we the people, in order to form a more perfect union, have started a petition to address the issue of gun control on the White House’s official website. As we have reported before, other petitions this year included a Texas secession petition… Read more »

Mitt Romney, President Obama To Have Lunch At White House Tomorrow

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Mitt Romney will be visiting the White House tommorrow for a post-election tete-a-tete with President Obama, in what is sure to be a bittersweet meeting for the former governor of Massachusetts. Mitt Romney’s White House lunch date was announced this morning by White House press secretary Jay Carney. In a brief statement, Carney confirmed the… Read more »

Gennifer Flowers Claims Bill Clinton Called And Wanted To Come Visit

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Gennifer Flowers claimed during an interview with WGNO that Bill Clinton called her as recently as 2005 and wanted to come visit. The infamous mistress who allegedly engaged in a 12-year affair with Clinton is now a 62-year-old single lady living in Louisiana. Flowers claims that she received a phone call from Bill Clinton not… Read more »

Jill Kelley Claims ‘Truth Will Come Out’ About Paula Broadwell

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General David Petraeus whistleblower Jill Kelley reportedly believes she has been “unfairly targeted” by the media and feels the real “criminal” in the scandal is Paula Broadwell. Kelley sent multiple emails to Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn asking for help with the paparazzi outside her home, according to the New York Daily News. The Tampa Bay… Read more »

Texas Secession Might Have Some Legal Standing [Op-Ed]

Texas Secession Might Have Some Legal Standing In My Opinion

Commentary | The Texas secession movement is gaining steam through a White House petition. A question quite often raised is whether it is even legal for a state, such as Texas, to secede from the Union. I’m not going to consider whether or not Texas, or any other state, should secede from the Union, but… Read more »

Secession: The List Of States Posting Petitions To Secede Has Now Grown To 30

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The list of states posting petitions to secede on the White House website grew to 30 by Tuesday morning. Residents filed the petitions to peacefully secede from the United States through the Obama administration’s We the People program. According to the program’s guidelines, if a petition reaches 25,000 signatures within 30 days, it will be… Read more »

President Barack Obama Casts Early Vote In Chicago

President Barack Obama Cast Vote And Encourages Others To Do So

President Obama cast his vote today in Illinois and is encouraging voters in eight different states to do the same, BBCreports. Obama’s challenger, Mitt Romney is campaigning in Ohio, a swing state which could determine who will be in the White House after the election. A national poll say Romney has a 50 percent-47 percent… Read more »

The Pink House: White House Shows Support For Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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The White House looked a little different last night. President Obama issued a proclamation Monday morning declaring October to be National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and, to honor the occasion, the famous residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue became the Pink House. CNN reports that the White House was “bathed in pink lights” last night in… Read more »