Do people enjoy Bill Maher? He seems very hit or miss. Like, sometimes you want to hit him when he misses. On his HBO show, Bill Maher did a bit about what he thinks a real black president should do.

[You're not the only one looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Air Force One dropped off the first family in Chicago yesterday afternoon. Image via Getty]

Glenn Beck has never been very tactful, but his four-minute tirade against Malia Obama this morning over her "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" question regarding BP's oil leak represented a reprehensible new low. Audio inside. Update: Beck responds.

President Obama gave a press conference, just to make sure everyone knows that he's really mad at BP for spilling all that oil and saying, "it is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down."

Perhaps because an offshore oil well is destroying the Gulf of Mexico, today President Obama will extend a hold on applications for Arctic drilling until the end of the year. Alaska lawmakers are not happy. Meanwhile, Top Kill continues. [NYT]

This morning, on the eve of BP's attempt to cap the oil spill off the Gulf Coast, James Carville harshly criticized President Obama and his administration for neglecting to take action when the spill was in its infancy.

Coming soon to the Gulf of Mexico: "Top Kill," BP's newest method of "plug[ging] the damn hole."

It's been one month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up, and oil is still leaking at an astonishing rate. Entire state economies might be crushed, and whole ecosystems wiped out. So whose fault is it?

Good news! President Obama has given his stamp of approval to a compromise on repealing the Pentagon's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, which effectively bars gay people from serving in the military. It might even happen this week!

As if plagiarizing a speech weren't bad enough, if you're a Palin-endorsed Republican, is there anyone worse to plagiarize than President Obama? From his famous 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention, the one that all but launched his career?

An Indonesian biopic called Little Obama depicts Barack Obama's youth in Jakarta, when he was a ping-pong wizard and rode motorcycles around town with flamboyant Asian men. Here's an adorable (and only slightly weird) preview from Little Obama's set.

This is Les Phillip, a "Christian conservative" candidate for congress in—where else?—Alabama. What's his plan? "I'm going to Washington to stop [Obama] from destroying our nation—and they're not going to call me a racist." Because he's black.

Speaking to graduates at West Point, Obama just laid out a new national security strategy based on some things called "international engagement" and "diplomacy." Kind of confused... are these some new types of Predator drones? [NYT]

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, the nation's top-ranking intelligence officer, resigned on Thursday, partly because no one liked him very much, and partly because no one really knows what his job even entails. Welcome to Washington, D.C.!

A rat ran across the stage as Obama spoke about the financial reform bill that was just passed by congress. The rat has signed a two-book, five-figure deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux to write about its time with Obama.

As country music played and a pack of Marlboro menthols sat idly by, some bar patrons at a local watering hole in West Allis, WI burned an effigy of Barack Obama and cheered. Wisely, they took video. Here it is.

In plugging his new book, the former GOP Speaker of the House writes that leftists have infiltrated nearly all facets of society with their brand of "secular-socialism," and they will destroy America faster than you can say firecracker jihadist.

The President & First Lady Michelle Obama

Eva Longoria will be attending tonight's White House state dinner honoring Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Beyonce and George Lopez will be there, too. But not Bill Clinton. State dinner snubs: a comprehensive survey of the guest list and seating chart.

An Alabama high school geometry teacher is in trouble for, while teaching the kids about parallel lines and such, using the example of the angle a sniper would want when trying to kill Hussein Obama, our Muslim tsar. [AL.com]