President Obama will propose a $12 billion investment in the nation’s community colleges today, arguing that the money will drive expansions and reforms in the system that are needed to help people get educated in the struggling economy.

Obama will unveil the reforms during a speech at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., this afternoon. Later, he will throw out the first pitch at baseball’s All-Star Game in St. Louis before returning to the White House.

The college initiative is designed to drive growth in the number of community college graduates as fewer people are able to afford pricey four-year universities, senior administration officials told reporters Monday night. Obama will call for 5 million additional community college graduates by 2020.

Read all about the proposed bill, here!

Yesterday, President Obama signed into law a anti-tobacco bill, which will make the distribution of flavored cigarettes illegal. The law is intended to limit tobacco products being “marketed to children”, but this could also signal the end to something any pot smoker holds dear: flavored blunts.

Now, the wording of the bill seems to specifically target “cigarettes,” not cigars or tobacco wraps. But it doesn’t take much to imagine a judge ruling that flavored cigars and tobacco wraps qualify just as much as cigarettes do. And if that happens, it will be a sad day in Pot Town. (more…)

Amherst College President Anthony Marx spent six years at the school extolling public service and teaching. His efforts were rewarded this year when eight new graduates took jobs with Teach for America, now the largest employer of Amherst students besides the college itself.

As U.S. President Barack Obama urges young people to make a difference in the world and the recession crimps opportunities, new graduates are pursuing public-interest careers. At Amherst, at least 53 percent of May graduates with jobs are working in education, nonprofit groups or governments, an increase from 43 percent in 2003 when Marx started at the school, said Allyson Moore, director of the campus career center.

Read all the stats and find out more about Teach America!

Say you’ve got a few billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket and you can give it either to bankers or needy college students. Whom do you choose? This is not a trick question.

Confronted with that choice, Washington has for years given money to banks in subsidies and guarantees to encourage them to provide college student loans. But now, President Barack Obama wants to cut out the middlemen and loan the money directly to students.

Congress should make that happen. With the cost of a college education soaring and the economy sinking, students and their families could sure use the money. And it wouldn’t cost taxpayers an additional dime.

Read all about the plan here!

Well, for better or worse, we’ve made it through the first 100 days of the Obama presidency. There’s been a few ups, a few downs and whole hell of a lot of people acting like total douchebags. But regardless of whether or not you think Obama’s first 100 days has been a success, there’s one thing we can all agree on – super hot chicks! So we’ve compiled the loveliest lady from each day of the first 100 days of the Obama presidency to give you Obama’s First 100 Babes!

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Reports have surfaced that Seattle police chief, Gil Kerlikowske has been tapped for a job in the Obama administration, most likely as the administration’s new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, commonly known as the “drug czar.” But unlike past leaders in the “War on Drugs,” Kerlikowske is outspokenly lenient on the enforcement of marijuana possession laws – at least so far – with local supporters of medical marijuana laws very pleased with the choice. (more…)

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NSA approved and about the size of an 1980’s calculator – it is as close to a BlackBerry as President Obama is going to get!

After a bunch of phone calls to the Ontario-based Research in Motion Ltd., they would neither confirm nor deny the type of phone “the Obama” is using. However, they sent us a price listing of the only PDAs that are NSA approved…and the list had one phone on it. I am not the smartest dude at COED, but even I can figure that one out.

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Everybody knows the Barack and Michelle Obama are in a genuine relationship, with genuine love and affection for each other. But I bet you didn’t know THIS little tidbit. My question is, how does this woman know this?

Barack Obama has successfully been inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, and now it’s time to get down to the business of solving some serious problems. But before we get to that monumental task, let’s take a minute to celebrate the ushering in of a new era the only way we know how – with super hot chicks!  We’re not sure what it is about a beautiful woman in red, white and blue that makes us feel so good. But regardless of the reason – God Bless the US T&A!