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Barack Obama

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Facebook's Top Recipients of Campaign Donations Includes...Ted Cruz?

    With Facebook in the news for all types of political and financial reasons, different groups are looking at where the social-media giant spends its campaign cash. According to influenceexplorer.com, the top recipient of campaign funds from individuals connected to Facebook is Barack Obama, not surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Annise Parker Tweets Her Joy on Obama's Gay-Marriage Announcement

    Mayor Annise Parker has tweeted her joy -- if not astonishment -- at President Obama's announcement today that he endorses same-sex marriage. "Wow! I was wrong. Call from White House. The President has stepped up and stated his support for recognizing relationships...like mine!-a" Parker got a cal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Obama's Best Campaign Strategy: Keep Singing The Blues

    After President Obama crooning Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at a Harlem fundraiser became an unlikely iTunes sensation, even topping the ringtone chart, history is now repeating itself with his version of "Sweet Home Chicago" caught on an episode of PBS' In Performance at the White House Tuesd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Super Bowl Ads: Bud Skews Decrepit, Clint Endorses Obama -- 5 Things We Learned

    Another Super Bowl, another series of high-priced, high-stakes TV ads. What did we learn? These five things: 5. Budweiser has a hard-on for Prohibiition Because your target demographic is, we guess, is prople who remember fondly when beer was made legal again in 1933. 4. Never ever believe a baby ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    10 Rock Stars the GOP Should Nominate for President

    As the 2012 presidential race begins to heat up in earnest, Rocks Off can't help but feel that the front-runners for the Republican nomination are lacking a certain je ne sais quoi. Call it star power. Call it sex appeal. Whatever it is, these guys ain't got it. If the GOP is serious about wresti ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed

    In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Debt Ceiling: The 10 Worst Tweets From the Texas GOP Congressional Delegation

    Tweets don't fail me now​As the GOP debates whether it wants the Tea Party to drive it (and the country) off a cliff by playing games with the debt ceiling, we looked to Twitter for the updates from our state's congresssional delegation. Oddly, the Republicans didn't tweet anything like "Yes, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Even While Accepting Help on Wildfires, Rick Perry Blasts Obama

    Too little and late, Perry says.​President Obama today signed an order declaring 45 Texas counties to be disaster areas because of wildfires, and even while saying the action was "good for Texas," Governor Rick Perry couldn't resist criticizing Obama. "President Obama's decision to finally ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Rick Perry's Debate Guts

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Some People Don't Care About Space Shuttles

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Space Shuttle Blues: Obama Says He Had Nothing to Do With Decision

    Right-wingers are salivating over this interview of President Obama by Brad Watson of Dallas's WFAA -- The Drudge Report has a huge headline, "First Time: Reporter Turns Aggressive With Obama." It actually turns out to be a standard give-and-take, with maybe a bit more pressing than usual (Obama co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Obama Mural Defaced; Political Statement or the Work of a Hipster Wannabe?

    Photo by Monica FuentesSplash town: A statement of artistic or political principles?​Since 2008, commuters coming off the Southwest Freeway have been met by a large mural version of Shepard Fairey's "Hope" poster of Barack Obama. It adorns a shop, across the street from the Breakfast Klub, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Rick Perry to the Rescue

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    State of the Union Preview: Five Things You're Guaranteed to See

    No Nancy Pelosi on the screen tonight​President Obama addresses the Congress and the nation tonight in the annual State of the Union, which has become a rite as ossified and rigid as any. You've got the humble heroes sitting with the First Lady, the various standing o's, the predictable post-s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Herney The Great Is Really Doing It

    Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Shortly ago, we receive ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Lord, Now Right-Wingers Are Crying About "E Pluribus Unum"

    When do the impeachment hearings start?​You live in the rational world, so you probably were unaware of the latest great scandal to engulf President Obama. (And no, we don't mean agreeing to tax cuts for millionaires/billionaires.) Luckily for Houston, we have Texas Sparke, the Houston Chroni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Fa La La La La Impeach Obama Has a Nice Ring to It

    Jingle bells, jingle bells, Obama is Hitler​Friday night at Rice Village, as shoppers strolled the area of shops and restaurants, they were greeted by a group of people assembling at the corner of University and Kelvin for what most onlookers thought would be the usual holiday offerings of "O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Obama Shirt: Can't Vote. Reagan Shirt? Vote Away

    The fashion police are everywhere​Shirts are fast becoming the new weapon of choice in Harris County's 2010 polling places.One woman told KHOU she was not allowed to vote because she was wearing an Obama shirt. The county issued an official warning against people wearing Obama shirts (or, if anyon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Is The U.S. Education System Too Broken To Fix?

    Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Every Monday that isn't a national holiday, Rocks Off will have some of them here discussing issues relevant to their culture. Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​This Week's Panel: Fat Tony, Kyle Hubbard, Renzo, Brad Gilmore Not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Remembering Our Friends, The Mujahideen

    ​Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book about the President's management of the Afghanistan War, exposes some pretty significant divisions between Obama's civilian advisers and the U.S. military on strategy concerning what is now America's longest war: Book excerpts published yesterday sugges ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Obama Attempting Again To Brainwash Schoolkids

    Those poor, unsuspecting minds​Remember the glorious fall of 2009, when the right-wing universe exploded in paranoid fear that President Obama was going to give a speech to schoolkids? Just like his Republican predecessors had?Talk radio frothed, politicians shouted and school districts scrambled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    KTRH "News": More Of A Joke Than Ever

    Unfair and unbalanced, perhaps unhinged​KTRH used to be the radio-news powerhouse of southeast Texas, filled with aggressive and competent reporters who covered the city well.Now....well, budget cuts have affected all media, so it's no surprise the newsroom staff ain't what it used to be. But the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Pop Rocks: They're Baaaaack!

    As with government, we get the reality entertainment we deserve​Tonight marks the return of MTV's Jersey Shore. Season 2 moves the juice-headed, monosyllabic cast from East Coast to South Beach (which is still technically the East Coast, but let's not worry about that right now). The gang's a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Obama & Bill White: Five Reasons The Former Mayor Can't Meet The Prez

    Photo via White House Flickr group"Anyone seen Bill?"​President Barack Obama is visiting Texas -- including Houston -- next month to raise money for Democrats, but Bill White won't be appearing with him.White, in fact, has gone out of his way to be snippy about it, telling USA Today "I was in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Obama & JFK: Five Ominous Parallels Someone's Aware Of, Right?

    The Secret Service is on the case, we hope​As the dog days descend upon us, the mind starts to wander.It may wander so much that it occasionally turns into Fox News, although this is not recommended. Same with trolling though right-wing blogs.It's a scary world out there, folks. And it brings to m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Obama Assassination: It's Not Just For Geometry Anymore!

    Official White House photoObama, we hardly knew ye, but your death will help us teach geometry​A teacher in Alabama has been placed on leave after he used a hypothetical assassination of President Obama to teach his geometry class about angles.On the one hand, the guy's just trying to get his kids ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    A Day At Discovery Green With The Tea Partiers

    Photo by Marc Brubaker​The noise leading into the November election is only getting louder, as the dissent on the right side of the nation grows deafening. Yesterday on Discovery Green, a group of at least 1,000 Houston Tea Party supporters and some from other spaces in Texas converged to hold a T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Alleged Aggie Doctor Brags Of Firing Obama-Voting Employee

    ​The TexAgs political message board is probably not the best place to go for nuanced, sophisticated discussion of the day's issues, unless you think Fox News is fair and balanced.But things can get lively. Like recently, when a poster named dermdoc put up an item headed "Laid off my first Obama vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Fort Bend, You Could Have Had A "Patrick Swayze Elementary"

    ​Fort Bend is opening a new elementary, and they threw open the naming process. Three dozen suggestions came in.Some were old school: Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Honest Abe doesn't tend to get many things named after him these days outside of Illinois.Hillary Clinton Elementary? It would have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Opinions "Mixed" On Obama's Fort Hood Visit, Waco Paper Says, Demonstrating An Odd Use Of "Mixed"

    ​The once-respected Waco Tribune Herald was purchased this summer by a very conservative family whose first move was to put "In God We Trust" on the front page of each edition.Since then the paper has become very right-wing (even for Waco!!) on its editorial pages. We don't read it enough to know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

    ​President Obama and his new administration were going to be so tough on the corporate villains who had such a large role in fostering the recession that has upended the finances of so many. But as author James Lieber points out in this week's cover story "No Justice," that just hasn't happen ... More >>

  • News

    October 29, 2009

    No Justice

    We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    It's Funny, What They Graffiti'd On The Obama Mural

    Photo from KPRC​The Obama murals across the street from The Breakfast Klub have welcomed downtown commuters for a year now.Not everyone likes them, apparently.Someone took spray-paint to the signs over the weekend, writing "Puppet" over Obama's face and adding to the "Yes We Can" the words "lose o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    The Obama Invasion Of Aggieland Has Almost Begun; Where To Get Live Coverage

    Photo courtesy The Battalion​Some Aggies got upset with our interpretation of President George H.W. Bush's open letter to them saying "Chill out, brosephs, when Obama comes to town."Now the President is in town, and how are they doing?You can follow along at The Battalion, the campus paper, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    One More (Depressing) Statistic On That Very Controversial "Stay In School" Presidential Speech

    ​The Houston school district provided some anecdotal evidence of how many parents ordered their kids not to watch President Obama's speech on education (Westside represent!!), but we wondered if there was a little more info to be gleaned.The district put up on its website a link to a form that cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Obama, No Way. W And Some Dallas Cowboys? You Bet!

    ​Houston, whenever you worry the right-wing loons are making you look bad, take solace in this: There's always Dallas.North Texas was perhaps the country's capital of the awe-inspiring movement that kept schoolkids from hearing a president speak about staying in school. And the Dallas area played ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    And So It Begins: Do You Know Where Your Children Are? (Updated With Speech Analysis)

    It's too late, parents....Unless you filled out the proper paperwork offering definitive proof you're a right-wing radical blinded by Fox News, your kid is being subjected to the amazing hypnotic power of Barack Obama at this moment.You can watch here, if you dare.Will you recognize your kids when t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Exposing Obama's "Brainwash The Kids" Scheme, With KTRH's Michael Berry

    ​You gotta admit this about the right-wing, talk-show-listening, Fox-News-loving one-third of America -- no one can whip up a paranoid kerfluffle like they can.The latest insidious event causing them to storm the barricades is Barack Obama's Stalin-like plan to hypnotize mass numbers of gullible s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    KTRH Listeners Speak Out, Inanely

    ​If you've been listening to Rush, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, you know that President Obama has called every single police officer in the nation "stupid," and that he has absolutely no respect for them.It's not because he's black, it's because....he's not Republican?We're not sure. Sometime it's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Right-Wing Nut Says Obama Ordered Bush Tribute At Ellington Erased

    The Right-Wing Nutjob Forces are on the march again!! Today's Target: Houston!!Not all conservatives are "nutjobs," obviously, but Debbie Schlussel is. The Ann Coulter-wannabe spouts nonsense pretty much full-time, and she has a new cause: President Obama has ordered officials at Ellington Field to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Annise Parker, The $5 Mayoral Candidate

    Annise Parker's Facebook photoTaking a page from the Barack Obama playbook, Houston City Controller and mayoral candidate Annise Parker announced today that she's launching an "I Can Make a Difference" campaign on the Internet in which she's asking supporters to send her $5. Parker proposes to use ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    The Stimulus Bill's Benefits: Coming Soon To An Unemployment Check Near You

    Photo by borman818The Texas Workforce Commission announced this afternoon that they're upping the weekly payments to people getting unemployment checks, thanks to the Obama stimulus bill.The checks will increase by $25 a week starting mid-March, for everyone receiving benefits as of February 22.Twen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Chamillionaire's Inaugural Diary, Part 5: Back Home

    I was told by my travel agent that I wouldn't be able to leave Washington D.C. 'til the end of the week because of the lack of return flights, but luckily some seats opened up for me. A high fever had already taken over my body, and I was ready to get home to get some rest.

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Chamillionaire's Inaugural Diary, Part 4: Bush Departs, Obama Arrives

    Photos by Massa Mohawk The sweetest revenge for eight years of failed policies came when the helicopter door opened. To watch former president George W. Bush walk to that helicopter and wave bye to the world had to be the most memorable moment of the entire inauguration. Who would have thought that ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2009

    David Alan Grier

    The star of The Chocolate News says Barack Obama is better than a “pretty, pretty unicorn”

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Chamillionaire's Inaugural Diary, Part 3: The Inauguration

    Photos by Massa MohawkThe inauguration events started early. The people that left the hotel late last night were smart. They knew it would be too packed and too crowded. The police were blocking off all of the entrances to where the inauguration of the first black president would be held. My ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Rosa's Photo Corner: Obama's Pals Extra Golden, and a Shopping Cart of Hope

    Photos by Rosa Guerrero "When the band Extra Golden, which includes two Americans and two Kenyans, approached Barack Obama for help guiding them through the Visa process, the then-senator with Kenyan ancestry was kind enough to help them out. The band was then to able to tour a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Dudes, Time To Get That Thoughtful Anniversary Gift

    Annoyed because you're not able to stand in long, long lines for the Obama inaugural?Why not wait in long, long lines for free make-up?As a result of a court settlement, several of the nation's fancier chain stores -- including ones in Houston -- are giving away free make-up in order to "make up" (h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    World's Saddest Disclaimer

    In case you haven't made your final Inauguration Night plans, be sure to read the fine print on the ticket page for the bash at House of Blues."The Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama" is selling entry for $55-$100.But tucked deep in the details is this disclaimer: "This is a party for the inauguration. ... More >>

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