Common's Lyrics

Sen. Mike Lee has little in common with President Barack Obama when it comes to the issue of immigration, but they do agree on allowing foreign students studying engineering and computer science in the United States to stay and work here when they graduate.

“Instead of training entrepreneurs to stay here, we train them to create jobs for our competition. That makes no sense,” the president said during his speech Tuesday in El Paso. “In a global marketplace, we need all the talent we can attract, all the talent we can get to stay here to start businesses.”

(II)Lee didn’t hear the president’s speech but is familiar with the general idea and he told Utah reporters, “I’m supportive of that kind of idea.

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino has a real situation on his hands. His father has started a new little YouTube show he's affectionately calling "F.T.L.F - F*ck the Little F*ck." It is safe to assume that Mike and his father don't have the healthiest relationship as this web series is basically a slew of videos of Frank HARDCORE BASHING his son and revealing intimate secrets from his life.

Just to give you an idea here - Episode 2 is titled "Blow Job." Episode 3? "The Sex Tape" And so on in this fashion…

(III)Referring to “concerns by some law enforcement,” Carney said that “the president’s record of support for law enforcement is extremely strong.”

David Jones, the president of the New Jersey State Troopers Fraternal Association, voiced concern to the White House and to ABC News about Common’s invitation given Common’s song extolling Joanne Chesmard, a member of the Black Liberation Army, convicted in 1977 of the first degree murder of a state trooper and sentenced to life in prison. In November 1979, Chesmard escaped from prison.

That said, the White House press secretary suggested that some of the media coverage of this controversy has not be fair or accurate.

“While the president doesn’t support the kind of lyrics that have been raised here,” Carney said, “some of these reports distort what Mr. Lynn stands for more broadly,” referring to Common by his given name, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. “Within that genre of hip hop and rap he is known as…a conscious rapper.

(IV)American International Group (AIG: 30.55 +3.14%) and the Treasury Department began selling millions of shares of AIG common stock Wednesday morning, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

AIG is offering 100 million shares, while the Treasury, which owns about 92% of the insurance giant's common shares outstanding, is selling 200 million shares. Upon close, the Treasury will own about 1.46 billion shares, or 77%, of AIG stock outstanding, according to the SEC filing.

Reports across the industry claim the collective price for the shares will hit about $9 billion, less than half of what was contemplated earlier this year, according to Reuters. A Treasury official said Wednesday there was never a set price on the deal.