Politics

Second term, baby.

Embracing his annual role as Standup Comedian-in-Chief, President Barack Obama certainly delivered the laughs at the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner.

Obama White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech 2013

Walking out to DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win," Obama started off his speech joking "second term, baby" and noting, "I've got 99 problems and now Jay-Z is one."

The President also didn't hold back when it came to wife Michelle Obama's bangs in Photoshopped pics, or to his own notorious college pot smoking.

Weighing in on the success of the site BuzzFeed, he said "I remember Buzz Feed was just something I did in college around 2 a.m. [pause] It's true."

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Steve Kush, director of the Bernalillo County (N.M.) Republican Party, is in some hot water over a Tweet he directed at a 19-year-old volunteer labor advocate.

Specifically, he called the Working America volunteer a "radical bitch" after she testified before the county commission in favor of raising the minimum wage.

"Nice hat Working America chick but damn you are a radical bitch," he tweeted.

Working America, a labor movement advocacy group, sent several members to a county meeting in a bid to advocate a measure increasing minimum wage.

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In a rare event, all five living U.S. Presidents converged today for the official opening of George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas, Texas.

Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were cheered by a crowd of former White House officials and world leaders.

They were joined on stage by their wives - the nation's current and former first ladies (below) - at the outdoor ceremony on a sunny Texas morning.

The leaders were putting aside the profound ideological differences that have divided them for years for a day of pomp and pleasantries for Bush, 66.

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Adam Savader, a 21-year old former intern for Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney during the 2012 Presidential campaign, was arrested at his home in Long Island Tuesday.

Authorities tell The New York Daily News that Savader is suspected of cyber-stalking a blackmailing various women over the Internet.

Savader has been charged with illegally obtaining naked photos of 15 females and threatening to make them public unless… well, the woman sent him even more naked pictures of themselves.

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President Barack Obama was LITERALLY inaugurated just three months ago.

Still, in this age of never-ending news cycles, 2016 election talk has begun.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton 2016 buzz is already palpable.

On the GOP side, one name surfaces a surprising amount: Jeb Bush.

Have enough Americans moved on from the George W. Bush era that they'd vote for his younger brother? Jeb is doing several things that indicate he thinks so ...

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Stacey Campfield is not about to apologize.

The Republican State Senator posted a photo on his blog this week that featured a pressure cooker and the words "Assault Pressure Cooker (APC)" printed below it, a reference to the items that were used for bombs last Monday at the Boston Marathon.

The post was titled "Here comes Feinstein again," a clear dig at gun control advocate Diane Feinstein, as Campfield sees hypocrisy in anyone criticizing the picture as inappropriate.

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On Monday night, the Nevada Senate voted by a margin of 12-9 to start repealing the state's gay marriage ban from the constitution.

And while the floor debate was heated and emotional at times, no speech stood out more than that of Senator Kelvin Atkinson. He came out as a gay in front of his colleagues.

“I’m black. I’m gay,” Atkinson told the assembly, his voice trembling. "I know this is the first time many of you have heard me say that I am a black, gay male.”

Atkinson - a single father - subsequently rejected the argument that gay marriage threatens any so-called traditional definition of marriage.

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Two hacking groups are taking responsibility/credit for the cyber attacks Tuesday against the White House and AP, and both are likely telling the truth.

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claims it "owned" the AP after hacking into its Twitter and reporting that President Obama was injured in an explosion.

SEA has hacked Twitter for months to spread political messages, but it looks like they had some help in this case as part of a coordinated hacker effort.

Exposed, the group behind most of the major L.A. celebrity swatting incidents in recent weeks, says it was behind the White House swatting as well.

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About 900 sites have blacked out in protest of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which passed a House vote last week.

The protest is being led by the hacker activist group Anonymous.

The bill seeks to remove current restrictions on websites that prevent them from mining and sharing sensitive information about their users.

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A hacker group issued an ultimatum to the U.S. government today, demanding America declare war on North Korea or the White House would explode.

The hacker group that took responsibility for exposing the private financial information of Michelle Obama and many other celebrities is behind this, too.

The hackers have also swatted Diddy, Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake, Paris Hilton, Chris Brown, Tom Cruise, Rihanna and others in recent weeks.

Contacted authorities through 911, the group threatened to detonate eight bombs around the White House perimeter if President Obama did not comply.

He had 24 hours to declare war, they claimed.

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