Top Earning On Screen Couples

Some couples have a special magic that makes movie goers sit at the edge of their seats as they watch the sparkling sizzle between them.  If the couple is lucky, that chemistry translates into mucho dollars.

Here are ten movie couples that banked-big time:

Rupert  Grint and Emma Watson
Harry Potter Films 6 and 7-Part 1 and 2
 $4.2 Billion

Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart
 The Twilight Series   
$2.5 Billion

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Harris-Perry Launches New MSNBC Show

The Melissa Harris-Perry Show will debut on MSNBC February 4th and is set to air on Saturdays and Sundays between 10AM-12PM. It will be the only politically-themed show hosted by an African-American woman on a cable news network.

MSNBC President Phil Griffin made the announcement and explained how he is thrilled to have her join the expanded weekend line-up.

The MSNBC audience is familiar with Melissa Harris-Perry. Perry is a frequent guest of PoliticsNation with Reverend Al Sharpton and Up With Chris Hayes. She also serves as an occasional host of The Rachel Maddow Show along with the The Last Word.

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Nevada Presidential Caucus-January 21, 2012

"Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it, and to fight for it."
Barack Obama

The Nevada Presidential Caucus is scheduled for January 21, 2012. Some voters maybe unfamiliar with the caucus process, particularly if you are accustomed to a primary with private voting as I was coming from Chicago. Here's a quick primer I'll call Caucus 101.

A caucus is a meeting of local Nevadans of a political party to show support and select delegates to a convention for candidates running for office. The caucus is the first step in Nevada's presidential nominating process and a simple gathering of neighbors to meet and discuss grassroots politics. Each political party is responsible for selecting its own presidential nominee. President Barack Obama will be the 2012 Democratic nominee.

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Minorities Targeted in Beverage Marketing Campaigns

A new study conducted by Yale University suggests that soft drink and other sugary beverage manufacturers target their marketing campaigns to Latino and African-American children and teenagers.

A report released today from Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity said that children and teens were exposed to double the amount of television ads for full-calorie and sugary beverages from 2008 to 2010. The study also reported that black children and teens saw 80- to 90 percent more ads compared with whites, including more than twice as many ads for Sprite, Mountain Dew, 5-hour Energy, and Vitamin Water. Hispanic children saw 49 percent more ads for sugary drinks and energy drinks, with Hispanic preschoolers seeing more ads for Coca-Cola Classic, Kool-Aid, 7 Up and Sunny Delight than their older counterparts.

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President Appoints Cordray to Head CFPB

President Obama in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with Richard Cordray, whom he appointed Wednesday to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Here's the story of the Senate's rejection of the President's nominee before the recess apointment:

The Senate rejected Richard Cordray, President Obama's nominee to head the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). There was little mystery to the vote -- 44 Republicans pledged in May to block his nomination. The final tally was 53-45, with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine voting "present." Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, facing the bureau's inventor Elizabeth Warren, was the lone dissenting GOP vote.

Republicans don't like the agency, so they've fought to hamper it by refusing to approve any one as its Director. Once again, they've made new rules and confirm they'll do anything to protect the rich and stick it to the middle class.

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