This afternoon, President Obama took part in the annual pardoning of the White House turkey, bringing along daughters Sasha and Malia as he pardoned Courage the Turkey. Obama said, "Thanks to the intervention of Malia and Sasha, because I was planning to eat this sucker, Courage will also be spared this terrible and delicious fate." The lucky turkey will spend his life at Disneyland. No word from Obama elaborating his fears of a potential hostile robot takeover. more ›

This really shouldn't surprise us at this point, but the Sun-Times has uncovered even more money-related shenanigans from our ousted governor Rod Blagojevich. It seems that back in '06, Blago pardoned Anan Abu-Taleb for a past tax-fraud conviction. But Blago took things one step further: besides the pardon, he also permanently wiped the incident from Abu-Taleb's record. Meanwhile, as many as 20 other pardoned folks were denied similar treatment from Blago, and that's probably because they didn't donate campaign cash to the ex-gov. more ›