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In advance of his new album, Jay-Z has been making the rounds. Earlier this week, in an appearance on New York City’s Hot 97, he described a phone call he had with Obama during the campaign, in which Obama evoked Michael Jordan and dissed the basketball team Jay-Z partially owns, the New Jersey Nets. Worth the listen, even if you don’t know the difference between a businessman and a business, man.
In other news, the White House is gonna get its own farmer’s market.
Three days after a trifecta of losses underlined lingering questions about his ability to win over the Republican Party’s base, Mitt Romney arrived at CPAC to allay skeptics’ fears. Throughout his second bid for the GOP nomination, Romney has made his business bona fides the centerpiece of his candidacy. But on Friday, before a packed room at the annual conservative confab, he sought to emphasize the record he compiled in Massachusetts. “I was a severely conservative governor,” he told the crowd. “I know conservatism, because I have lived conservatism.”
In the face of mounting pressure from Catholic leaders and politicians, the White House on Friday tweaked its position on contraception coverage mandates in the Affordable Care Act. Rather than require large religious institutions like Catholic colleges and hospitals to provide employees with free health insurance coverage for contraception, insurance companies themselves will have to pick up the tab.
