Politics. On Point.

Microsoft's new app, How Old Do I Look? tries its best to guess the age of people based off photos submitted to the How-Old.net web site. The user clicks on 'use your own photo' (catchy language there) link to select a photo, then the app uses a number algorithm to guess the person's age and pins it to their forehead.  Microsoft's How Old Do I Look? app makes the president younger than he is.  Photo/CD Brown. We used 'our own photo' (we snapped it) to see how old the app says President Obama is.   Not bad. According to the app President Obama, who turns 54 in August, looks 37.   By those standards, anyone who says the president has aged considerably during his presidency doesn't know jack.  Not even the president who, himself, makes jokes about his own graying hair. To be fair, however, the app does make the following claim, suggesting their age-revealing technology might be a bit flawed. The words, " Sorry if we didn't qui...

The White House has released the financial disclosure reports of President Obama and Vice President Biden. From the White House: "The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 requires high-level federal officials to publicly disclose their personal financial interests. The public filing system serves to prevent financial conflicts of interest by providing for a systematic review of the finances of government officials. Those finances are set forth in annual disclosures which are reviewed and certified by ethics officials. Neither the President nor the Vice President have any conflicts of interest, and their reports have been reviewed and certified by the independent Office of Government Ethics. We are continuing this Administration's practice of posting these forms online here in the interests of transparency": View the President's 2012 financial disclosure report  (pdf) View the Vice President's 2012 financial disclosure report  (pdf)     Financial disc...