This isn’t the first or the last time we’ve posted about Lin-Man (a.k.a. Lin-Manuel Miranda).  This guy is both a disgustingly talented freestyler and a Tony-award winning actor.  Hell, this guy was even on House.
He was invited to perform at the first-ever White House Poetry Jam and absolutely killed the spot.  You can see President Obama loving every minute of the performance.  And what was this performance?  A rap about Alexander Hamilton.
Informed, talented, and dope.  Lin-Manuel in a nutshell.

On November 8, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, by a razor-thin 220-215 margin.  It sounds good, but what does it actually mean?  Has free, universal health-care finally arrived in the States?  Have Obama and his cabal of socialist advisers pulled the wool over the eyes of an unsuspecting public and converted America into a full-fledged worker’s paradise?  Well, not really.  In fact, despite what you may have heard from any number of teabaggers (whose scare tactics seem increasingly desperate), comprehensive health …

In what is basically breaking news, law enforcement officials in the US have “broken” a plot to kill Barack Obama.
The plot itself does lack some credibility, but I’m happy that the security officials took it so seriously.  In essence, this is what transpired:
Two neonazi skinhead douchebags (one of them pictured on the left) met on the internet, decided they needed to kill some people.  These idiots hatched a plan to murder 102 people by attacking a primarily black school.  Then, they would drive at Obama really fast and try shooting …

Colin Powell gave a resounding endorsement to Barack Obama recently, and this is a pretty huge development.
He is one of the mot eloquent statesmen to come out of the Republican party in the last few years, and one of the few from the Bush administration that is still looked on with serious amounts of respect.  There was some controversy over  his speeches to the UN about going to war in Iraq.  He essentially fed everyone misinformation about Iraqi WMDs, but in his defence he himself was likely misled.
There is quite …

This was a refreshing change from the increasingly dark and mean presidential campaign.  John McCain and Barack Obama managed to sit down together at the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith foundation dinner.  It’s become somewhat of a tradition for the presidential contenders to appear at this white-tie event to raise money for the charitable foundation, and actually seems to lighten the mood.
The candidates basically roast each other, and spare no expense mocking themselves either.  You can check out all the videos below.
Quite honestly, I think that McCain was a better …

The “town hall” style meeting held instead of an actual debate was more of an annoyance than anything else.  Just now, when both candidates are sharpening their attacks and all that, we’re forced to settle for no real discusson or debate.  Instead, Tom Brokaw asks them questions he’s selected from submissions (and the audience gets to ask), and would then gently chastize each candidate for consistently going longer than the one minute they were each assigned to answer the questions.
For the majority of the time both candidates would deftly side-step …

Those of you following the Democratic National Convention in Denver may have noticed a couple of interesting guests lately.
Kanye’s probably the biggest name to grace the stage, at least in terms of commercial success.  But Wyclef and Pharrell are expected to make appearances as well.
It should prove to be interesting, to have hip hop artists alongside a lot of the other musicians who’ve been backing Obama.  The Black Eyed Peas are also making an appearance, but there’s no real surprise there after will.i.am’s Yes we can music videos.
We’ve been doing …

Despite our earlier conjecture,  Obama went ahead and announced his choice for his running mate as Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware).
Not a bad choice, I guess, especially when you look at him on paper.  He’s got extremely strong foreign policy experience and is well recognized for it.  He chairs the Senate foreign relations committee and has been in the senate for more than 30 years.
That’s a huge amount of “experience” to add to the ticket, especially since that is the biggest weakness in Obama-land right now.  We’re all aware of how …

I don’t know how this isn’t all over the news, but apparently Vanity Fair has tracked down Obama’s half-brother.  He’s living in a shanty town somewhere in Kenya, near Nairobi.
He’s living there on less than a dollar a month, and this is how he describes his existence:
“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you….I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with …

Until recently, Barack Obama’s lead in the polls appeared insurmountable.  The presumptive Democratic nominee’s message of change seemed to be resonating with the American public, while his Republican counterpart’s efforts to endear himself to evangelical voters was proving largely fruitless.  In July, for example, polling website electoral-vote.com had Obama leading his opponent by over 100 electoral college votes.  Similarly, the results of a national poll released in mid-June showed Obama holding a healthy 15 point lead over McCain. 
Over the last few weeks, however, Obama’s lead has shrunk dramatically.  Pollster.com shows him leading by less than …