President Barack Obama announced on his first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over 0,000 a year.
One of President Barack Obama’s first acts as president was to order federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until his administration can review them. The order went out Tuesday afternoon, shortly after Obama was inaugurated president, in a memorandum signed by new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
There were so many balls last night. And they were big and lavish and right in my face. Also, they threw a bunch of parties for President Obama.
nandemoari writes “Everybody was talking about Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday morning, and it showed. According to reports, a number of mobile phone networks faced overload circumstances that day until late afternoon, when the chat sessions finally began to dissipate. Having the most trouble that morning appears to have been T-Mobile, and AT&T also had some difficulty that morning.”
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Thousands of multicolored ecological toilets were spread over 2 miles in Washington for the inauguration of the Barack Obama’s presidency.
An anonymous reader writes “‘The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through Open Source technologies and products.’ The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley’s most respected business leaders Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. He revealed he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject for the new administration.”
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You can tell a lot about the measure of a man by the movies he likes. So what does the new President rate as his favorites? He has actually mentioned his top 5 a couple of times and here they are. What do they say about him?
I know this isn’t quite in keeping with our shiny new postpartisan spirit, but watching Marine Executive One take off almost brought tears to my eyes.
Placing his left hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln for his first term in 1861, Obama took the oath of office at noon as millions packed the windswept Capitol to be an eyewitness to history.
