He's kept it no secret that if you want to take his Blackberry away, you'll have to pry it from his cold, dying hand, but now Barack Obama is telling Barbara Walters that him getting to keep his Blackberry as president is for your own good: 

We said that this would happen and several days later we were finally proven right. 

Verizon Wireless has finally and official fired the suspended employees that had been caught snooping on Barack Obama's person phone records; while slightly clarifying what had and hadn't happened.  

If Barack Obama can actually create jobs once he's sworn in as president remains to be seen, but so far it looks like he's actually costing people jobs.

It's not a 100% clear, but contrary to a slew of articles out today I believe the answer is actually yes. 

You see because of something called the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all of the President's correspondences to be transparent to the public, his legal advisers are telling him that he probably won't be allowed to indulge his Blackberry addiction for the next four years.

Be it a Republican or a Democrat, one thing all Presidents agree on is you need a Presidential dog. W. Bush has Barney. Ronald Reagan had Rex. Bill Clinton had Hillary. But Barack Obama? Well he has a serious conflict in making the first major decision of his administration:

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Here's video footage of potential VP Sarah Palin waaaay back in 1984, competing in the Miss Alaska Pageant.

While it might seem odd to see someone trying to become a major political figure gliding across a stage in a bathing suit and high heels, and well it is, remember that far more respected politicians like Barack Obama have far more embarrassing moments in their past - Barack for instance has admitted to using cocaine. 

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Is Barack Obama trying to turn America into a Banana Republic or is this ad just political monkey business?

Neither, this Japanese spot is meant to sell cell phones for EMobile, who thought having the Ku Klux Klan introducing the all new WHITE iPhone would be a little bit too overly overt.