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From HuffingtonPost.com: Our friends at the White House Flickr just uploaded a short behind-the-scenes look at what’s been going on in Obamaland in June. So far, the President chowed down on boiled seafood in Louisiana and he met Dick Van Dyke (and fixed his bow tie!).

From AlterNet: President Obama hails a post-racial future for America. But being colorblind to our society is not a smart move.

Newsweek Senior Editor Julia Reed, was on CNN’s Anderson Cooper show last night to discuss President Obama’s response to the BP oil spill. Here’s what she had to say. “He said I know this is going to be — lead to some, quote, difficulty for the guys who work on those rigs. Well, if he […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Preliminary DNA tests found no evidence of semen on a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who police said was gang-raped after her stepsister sold her for sex.