“Fundraiser” on The Daily Caller

Hollywood raised its collective glass to Michelle Obama at a fundraiser Tuesday. (more)

Add Will Ferrell to the list of Hollywood types raising big bucks for President Barack Obama. (more)

Here’s one celebrity endorsement President Barack Obama has in the bag. (more)

The texts of Barack Obama’s recent speeches seem tailor-made for softening the White House’s often hostile description of American business, but the president’s impromptu additions are highlighting his efforts to subordinate business to government. (more)

Spike Lee will throw a fund-raising dinner for President Obama in New York on Jan. 19, Page Six has learned. (more)

Three guys named Joe are teaming up to try and help defeat one guy named Barack. (more)

New York Democrat Rep. Ed Towns is holding an exclusive fundraiser later this month at a Lady Gaga concert in Washington, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

In our Daily Caller column last week about immigration, we focused on policy and aggressively argued the case that America should import 100 million more immigrants of all types, including science PhDs and the working poor. Doing so would grow our economy, strengthen our position relative to China, and showcase America’s values. (more)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to have to be dynamited out of the leadership of her party. (more)

With only days left before the midterm elections, the question in many people’s minds is whether the elections will produce change that matters or change what matters. This may sound like a semantics game but it really goes much deeper. You see, the BarackObama.com website boasts that Obama will bring us “change that matters.” Yet it seems to this writer that the Obama administration, along with the Democrat-controlled Congress, actually “changed what matters.” I believe this is why the tea party movement was born. Many organizing these grassroots movements feared that Congress had been quickly changing what matters to the average American. (more)

President Obama enlisted some of the National Basketball Association’s biggest names to raise funds for the Democratic Party at a Miami fundraiser Monday night. (more)

Should they take control of the House in the midterm elections, House Republicans would propose a spending cut every week, their leader said Monday. (more)

Vice President Biden jokingly expressed his frustration toward Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of having insincere concerns about the budget deficit. (more)

(CNSNews.com) – Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for the U.S. Senate as an Independent facing both a Republican and Democratic opponent, visited Martha’s Vineyard last Friday, but, according to his campaign spokesman, the governor did not meet with President Barack Obama, who was also on the island that day, or with any members of the Obama administration. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Democratic political establishment came out in force for embattled U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel on Wednesday, packing a sold-out fundraiser to praise Rangel’s service to the city and state over a 40-year career recently tainted by ethics charges. (more)

GOProud, a Washington-based group that represents gay conservatives, announced Friday that feisty right-wing pundit Ann Coulter would keynote the organization’s upcoming “Homocon” fundraiser party. (more)

The Republican National Committee will invite Andrew Breitbart to its rescheduled “big donor” fundraiser in Southern California, which had been set to feature the conservative columnist and online-media mogul, along with numerous California Republican politicians. (more)

On April 15, a bill backed by the National Beer Wholesalers Association was introduced in the House aimed at limiting direct sales of beer, wine and other alcohol, which the trade group views as a mortal threat to its industry. (more)

Reporting from Washoe City, Nev. — Rory Reid would like to be Nevada’s next governor, but there’s a problem. Not a lack of money: He’s got plenty of that. Not a shortage of ideas: He’s got plenty of those. (more)

This past year, Bravo has brought us some memorable and often terrifying Real Housewives moments: Kelly Kiloren Bensimons’s descent into madness, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps’ hit song (the word “song” used loosely), “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” Danielle Staub’s repeated verbal, physical, and mental confrontations with the Manzo clan of Jersey mobsters, and SO much more. (more)