Obama's Seventy Fifth Week in Office

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Document: Obamacare, Three months of broken promises

The List" for 7/1/2010

Obama will host a town hall meeting next month with African youth leaders as part of a U.S. celebration of 50 years of independence being marked this year by 17 African countries.

Obama's Supreme Court Nominee, Elena Kagan's Socialist Associations (the Middle Years)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that the Senate could pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation if Republicans would cooperate.

Obama by way of the EPA has shut down 33% of the country’s refining capacity.

Obama's Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism speaks out against "Islamophobia"

A former Justice Department attorney who resigned last month in protest of the Obama administration's handling of a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party accused a top Justice official of lying under oath about the circumstances surrounding the decision to drop the case.

Obama: U.S. Borders Cannot Be Secured With Fences and Border Patrols

VIDEO: Obama: Arizona Law “Divisive” and “Unenforceable”

Issa’s report on the Gulf cleanup: "How the White House Public Relations Campaign on the Oil Spill is Harming the Actual Clean-up"

The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats abruptly proposed phasing out TARP

On Monday good-government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked a House committee to look into whether the Obama White House violated federal laws regarding electronic records by using private email accounts to communicate with lobbyists and meeting with lobbyists outside the White House.

The EPA rejects Texas program that reduced emissions, increased productivity-  A Texas air quality program that slashed emissions in the Lone Star state while encouraging increased workplace productivity is turned down by the Obama EPA

Kagan's partial-birth extremism

The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans to release a report Thursday that he alleged would blow holes in White House claims about its command of the oil spill response and the amount of assets deployed. Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) report on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is titled “How the White House Public Relations Campaign on the Oil Spill is Harming the Actual Clean-up.

VIDEO: Obama: Being An American Not A Matter Of "Blood Or Birth"

VIDEO: Hatch to Kagan- Did you write the memo To Modify Its Abortion Statement, Kagan evades and doublespeaks

VIDEO: Obama Gives John Boehner the Middle Finger Salute in Racine, Wisconsin

Obama says U.S. troops are carrying too much of the burden in Iraq and Afghanistan and doing too many things that are more appropriate for civilians

AUDIO: Lousiana Governor Jindal rails against Obama's failures in Gulf oil disaster

Obama health site promotes vodka, P. Diddy

Obamacare faces first constitutional battle in Virginia courtroom

Elena Kagan: Well, That Looks Like My Handwriting On That Memo, But Gee I Don't Know What You're Talking About

The List" for 6/30/2010

Gunfire hitting City Hall prompts the Texas Attorney General to ask Obama for more troops on border

Obama's overhaul of the health-care system has done little to improve the nation's fiscal outlook, and his pledge to extend an array of tax cuts for the middle class would only make things worse, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday. In its latest long-term forecast, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that the national debt, which has surged to nearly 60 percent of annual economic output in the wake of the recession, would continue rising in the coming decades despite cost-containment measures in the health overhaul Obama signed

Time Mag: Faced With The Blagojevich Scandal, Did Barack Obama Tell The Whole Truth?  

Nazi references: Vice President Biden is out with an alarmed e-mail cash appeal warning that the GOP will mount a “blitzkrieg” against Democrats in the fall. Refers to the Democrats as "allies".

Kagan Defends Revising Medical Group's Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion

The administration is ready to sign a treaty stripping us of our ability to defend ourselves against enemy nuclear missiles, including Iran's and North Korea's.

Obama administration helps to create the most federal debt since WWII

Obama said Wednesday that the rising national debt is a "real and legitimate concern" and that the U.S.n must reorder its priorities to gain control over federal spending. But the president offered no specific ideas for how to tackle the budget problem.

The Civilian Expeditionary Force: Obama Says 'Burden' Can’t be All on the Military

VIDEO: Obama On Unemployment At 9.6%: At Least It's Not "12 or 13 or 15" Percent

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying that Obama will use a speech on Thursday to push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Gibbs said Obama will “reiterate” that we “cannot have immigration reform passed individually by each state through a patchwork of laws.”

Kagan Refuses to Answer Whether Marriage is a State Issue

Besides ACOG Kagan tried to influence AMA's position on partial birth abortion ban

Former DOJ Attorney Discusses New Black Panther Party Voter Intimidation Case

VIDEO: Robert Gibbs Dodges Question on Obama Lobbying for Jarrett to Get Senate Seat

VIDEO: At Tuesday’s confirmation hearing of David Petraeus to head ground efforts in Afghanistan, the four-star general stated that no one in the military had ever recommended President Obama’s mandatory Afghanistan withdrawal date of July 2011

Kenneth Feinberg, who is administering the new claims process for victims of the Gulf oil disaster, made crystal clear today that individuals and businesses hurt by the drilling moratorium are not eligible for a piece of the $20 billion escrow fund BP set aside to pay all eligible claims

Would Kagan allow books to be banned?  As solicitor general of the United States, Elena Kagan argued in front of the Supreme Court that the federal government had the constitutional authority to ban certain political pamphlets. She also strongly implied that some political books, if they were partisan enough, could also be censored. Kagan’s extraordinary claims emerged during the second oral argument of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the campaign finance case made famous by President Barack Obama when he publicly excoriated the justices for their ruling during his State of the Union address.

Slick Elena? Kagan evades questions on abortion memo

The press covers up Kagan's liberalism

Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four

 K Street influence peddlers told The New York Times last week that they've met routinely with Team Obama officials over the past 18 months to discuss policy matters -- at Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, even on a side lawn -- with the express purpose of circumventing the public's right to know.

The largest skimming ship in the world — known as an “A Whale” — is expected to arrive in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, but will be prevented from contracting with BP to help clean up the oil spill until the federal government decides that the vessel is “effective.”

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Shuts Down the Obama Administration’s Attempt to Close Yucca Mountain

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion Included 'Suggested' Text Found in Kagan's White House Files- On Dec. 5, 1996, the government relations office of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) privately provided the Clinton White House with the unreleased draft of a policy statement ACOG was preparing to put out on intact dilatation and extraction (D&X) abortion -- the procedure used in a partial-birth abortion. Having reviewed the draft of the ACOG statement, then-Associate White House Counsel Elena Kagan wrote an internal White House memo declaring that the statement would be a “disaster” for the Clinton administration if it were publicly released.

VIDEO: Robert Gibbs mocks GOP Sen. Jon Kyl in answer about border conversation with Obama

Judge halts questioning on Obama

 Tom Balanoff: Obama called the day before election about Jarrett appointment

Obama summoned a group of over 20 senators to the White House to push for energy and climate change legislation. But did not want to talk about at the BP disaster

The List" for 6/29/2010

The Obama administration is launching a special coverage program for uninsured Americans with medical problems this week, the most ambitious early investment of Obama's health care overhaul. But premiums will be a stretch for many, even after government subsidies to bring rates close to what healthier groups of people are charged. -And $5 billion that  Congress allocated to the program through 2013 could run out well before that.

Union leader Tom Balanoff just testified that right after the Presidential election, he met with both Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett and Alexi Giannoulias about Jarrett's possible appointment to the Senate by Rod Blagojevich.

Appeals panel considers whether Obama is even American

Obama  played host to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the White House on Tuesday but avoided the diplomatic trapdoor he fell through a year ago by greeting the monarch without cameras around to record whether he bowed first.

Shannen Coffin, a deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, was charged with defending the federal partial-birth abortion act in court. At National Review, she writes that documents released by the Clinton White House show Elena Kagan's "willingness to manipulate medical science to fit the Democratic party's political agenda on the hot-button issue of abortion."

71 days into the Oil Spill, the Obama administration says will take foreign help

Obama Supreme Court Justice pick Sotomayor targets guns now- Justice's dissent contradicts confirmation testimony

Elena Kagan's Pattern of Socialist associations

Picture of Obama and Blago from 2008

VIDEO: Kagan Declines To Say Gov't Has No Power to Tell Americans What To Eat

Obama administration officials say the arrest of 11 people accused of being part of a Russian spy ring is a mere bump in the road to better relations with America's former Cold War foe. The White House and the State Department both downplayed the implications of the blockbuster investigation, which revealed an elaborate Russian intelligence plot to infiltrate the U.S. government.

The White House was mum Tuesday after a union leader testified that Barack Obama personally asked him to approach then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich about appointing confidant Valerie Jarrett to his Illinois Senate seat.

Top Union leader Tom Balanoff: Obama called day before election about Jarrett appointment

Obama, with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke at his side, insisted the US economy was "strengthening" Tuesday despite foreboding data and a fresh stock market slump.

Kagan manipulated report to protect partial-birth abortion

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is calling the Constitution a living document, saying its framers wrote it to last through ever-changing circumstances.

‘Tectonic rift’ in Jewish Americans’ opinion of Obama, only 42 % would vote for him again

Reaction to Obama Oil Drilling moratorium: Oil companies move jobs overseas

The office of Solicitor General Elena Kagan has delayed responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by CNSNews.com that seeks records that might shed light on whether Kagan would need to recuse herself from certain cases if she is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

Elena Kagan Demanded Sex-Change Operations and Bathroom Access as ‘Equal Rights’; While serving as Dean of Harvard Law School, Kagan’s administration demanded and forced Blue-Cross, Blue-Shield to cover sex-change operations as an “equal right” paid benefit, harming gender-confused students, as confirmed in 2006 and 2008 by Harvard Crimson newspaper articles.

Obama’s political director, Patrick Gaspard, failed to disclose that he was slated to receive a nearly $40,000 payout from a large labor union while he was working in the White House. Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House. In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer

Elena Kagan defended expansive life and health exceptions on abortion during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings today on her nomination to the Supreme Court

More inside information on how Obama bungled the Oil Spill: Alabama

Axelrod: We proved we were competent by stopping the Swine Flu

Michelle Obama to wield influence over America’s diet, won't say what she eats

The List" for 6/28/2010

Obama connected to a cover up of Shore Bank?  Late last week, at the 11th hour, the Senate removed an amendment that would have required the inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to investigate the corrupt ShoreBank bailout

Federal officials told Arizona's attorney general and a congresswoman on Monday that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S.-Mexico border will be deployed in the state by August or September.

AUDIO: Kagan argues in front of the Supreme Court:: its Fine if The Law Bans Books Because Government Won't Really Enforce It

Obama today revised the national security-oriented policy for space adopted by President George W. Bush in 2006 to open the door to unprecedented long-term U.S. cooperation in space with international partners, potentially including nations such as China, India and Brazil.

Obama is calling for greater international cooperation in exploring space. Obama said in a statement Monday that the United States is no longer "racing against an adversary" in space.

Judge to Blagojevich lawyers: You can't see President Obama's interview with FBI

Biden defends stimulus at GE production plant; $24.8 million in tax credits help to create 830 jobs

The Obama administration said Monday that the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea was not terrorism, and not enough by itself to put Pyongyang back on a U.S. terror blacklist

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose agency is charged with securing America’s borders, told an audience in Washington, D.C., in reference to the U.S.-Mexico border, “You’re never going to totally seal that border.”

According to the FCC’s log, there have been thirty meetings  held this year attended by myriad Media Marxist organizations – Public Knowledge, Media Access Project, New America Foundation, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America and others.

Beginning Thursday, residents in most states will be able to apply for new federal health coverage for people denied insurance because of medical problems, but some of the nation's largest states will miss the deadline, according to state insurance departments.

T A scholar and charity head appointed to Obama's White House Fellowships Commission served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in startup capital to an education-reform project founded by Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama.- Documentation shows the White House fellow, Vartan Gregorian, was central in Ayers' recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.

The List" for 6/27/2010

VIDEO: Obama Cryptically Warns He’ll Present “Very Difficult Choices to the Country” Next Year

A scholar and charity head appointed to President Obama's White House Fellowships Commission served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in startup capital to an education reform project founded by Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama.

Obama says that attacks on his Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, have been "pretty thin gruel."

Obama - there's "a lot of obsession" about the withdrawal date for U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

VIDEO: Obama: Countries Must Not Have "Undue Advantage" If World Is To Recover

 VIDEO: Obama on controlling the debt: "Somehow people say, why are you doing that, I'm not sure that's good politics. I'm doing it because I said I was going to do it and I think it's the right thing to do. People should learn that lesson about me because next year when I start presenting some very difficult choices to the country, I hope some of these folks who are hollering about deficits and debt step-up because I'm calling their bluff. We'll see how much of that, how much of the political arguments that they're making right now are real and how much of it was just politics."

Obama: I Promise To Cut The Deficit In Half By 2013

Obama energy policy costs more American jobs: US agency's action may kill Bucyrus deal, cost 1,000 jobs

A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administration.

White House Preparing National Online ID Plan

Obama’s promise to bankrupt coal industry to cost 1,000 jobs in upper Midwest

Obama picks sanctuary cities advocate for ICE role- The Obama administration has tapped an outspoken critic of immigration enforcement on the local level to oversee and promote partnerships between federal and local officials. Harold Hurtt, a former police chief in Houston and Phoenix, has been hired as the director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of State and Local Coordination. Starting July 6, Hurtt will supervise outreach and communication between ICE, local law enforcement agencies, tribal leaders and representatives from non-governmental organizations.

No skimmers in sight as oil floods into Mississippi waters

The two final US space shuttle missions before the shuttle program is phased out will likely be postponed, a NASA spokesperson told AFP on Friday. "It's not official yet but it's very likely," said Allard Beutel, media services chief at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Obama administration is still not saying what it will do if and when the U.N. calls for another international investigation into the Gaza flotilla incident.

Obama sought $15 million to run his oil spill commission and a panel on the Wall Street meltdown got $8 million. The budget for his commission on reducing the federal deficit: $500,000.

The List" for 6/26/2010

VIDEO: Brewer to Obama: Warning Signs Are Not Enough

 U.S. Treasury chief Geithner urges G-20 leaders to continue government spending

Obama calls for bank tax as next step in reform

Obama at the G8 meeting: "You have lots of golf courses here?"

Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, painted a dark picture of U.S.-Israeli relations during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem last week. Israeli diplomats say Oren described the current situation as a "tectonic rift" in which Israel and the United States are like continents drifting apart.

Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams has now officially resigned over Obama's racist refusal to allow the prosecution of armed Black Panthers who openly intimidated voters during Election 2008

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's new financial disclosure report shows investments worth a minimum of $6.7 million, plus what many would consider priceless: 25 seats to Bruce Springsteen concerts directly from "The Boss."At $95 a seat, the gift totaled $2,375.

VIDEO: Biden Calls Manager Who Told Him To Lower Taxes A "Smartass"

Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy today, telling an audience of supporters, "there's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession."

NYT: Obama won’t close Gitmo in first term

Obama’s Drilling Moratorium Affecting More Than 33 Wells

Obama Internet kill switch plan approved by US Senate (Committee)

The Obama administration is set to propose a new system for authenticating people, organizations and infrastructure on the Web

Judiciary Republicans have disinvited a controversial military officer from testifying at the confirmation hearing of Elena Kagan. The minoity staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee had announced earlier Friday that retired Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin would appear before the panel next week, likely to discuss Kagan's efforts to restrict military recruiting while dean of Harvard Law School. The announcement that Boykin would no longer testify was made after The Hill and other media outlets reported his testimony.

As concerns mount about the presence of Asian carp near Lake Michigan, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin today urged President Obama to appoint a carp czar to oversee efforts to keep the invasive species out of the Great Lakes

The List" for 6/25/2010

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday denied any plans to grant blanket amnesty to the "entire illegal immigrant population,"

The Justice Department on Friday urged a federal appeals court to delay a judge's ruling overturning a drilling moratorium in the Gulf. In court papers, the Obama administration said the suspensions in deepwater drilling are crucially important to protect human health and the environment from another disaster.

The parents of Army soldier Benjamin Osborn said Thursday that U.S. Bill and Beverly Osborn say that new military rules of engagement are making soldiers on the ground more vulnerable to attack, including they say, in the final battle that took their son's life.

White House Fetes Lesbian Banned from Cross-Dressing at Prom; Earlier this year Constance McMillen was refused permission to attend her high-school prom with a female date while wearing a tuxedo.  Both President Obama and Vice-President Biden were expected to attend the reception.  Openly gay Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh also planned to attend.

The White House said Friday that Elena Kagan would be an impartial justice on the Supreme Court, as Republicans and conservative groups heaped criticism on  her for her stance on legal issues and position on military recruitment at Harvard Law School.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected Barack Obama’s request today after arriving in Toronto for the G20 meetings. Merkel told reporters that, “We need growth that doesn’t rely on debt.” This was in response to Barack Obama who sent a letter to G20 leaders last week urging them to continue to run massive budget deficits in order to “keep economic growth strong.”

Federal agencies now boycotting Arizona over immigration law

“News” Media who Hated Petraeus under Bush Think His Choice “Brilliant” Under Obama

Gen. David Petraeus says one of the first things the general will do when he takes over in Afghanistan is to modify the controversial rules of engagement to make it easier for U.S. troops to engage in combat with the enemy.

Rashad Hussain, Obama’s special envoy to the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Saudi-based body formed in 1969 to “protect” Jerusalem from the Israelis, announced a new title this week for Obama. According to Hussain, Obama is America’s “Educator-in-Chief on Islam.”

Witness: Blago given list of Obama favorites: After Barack Obama friend Valerie Jarrett publicly pulled out of contention for the U.S. Senate seat appointment, Rahm Emanuel called Rod Blagojevich's top aide. Emanuel, now Obama's chief of staff, wanted Blagojevich to know the list of Senate candidates "acceptable" to Obama, according to testimony Thursday in Blagojevich's corruption trial.

The former chief of staff to Rod Blagojevich says he believes that Barack Obama knew of the then-Illinois governor's attempt to get a job in exchange for appointing a White House preferred person to Obama’s old senate seat. John Harris

The United States ambassador to Turkey, meanwhile, released a statement earlier this week that America supports Turkey's efforts to clamp down on Kurdish resistance fighters and is ready to "urgently" consider any new request for help from Ankara.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the BBC that the world "cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past"

Obama's Seventy Fourth Week in Office

The List" for 6/24/2010

White House welcomes Shariah finance specialist- Obama selects Muslim expert in Islamic transactions as fellow

Almost one year after the Obama legal team at the firm Perkins Coie concluded that Governor Palin’s legal defense fund failed to comply with Alaska law, a new investigator dusted off that report and essentially re-issued it. Why are we not surprised? First, some context. Who is Perkins Coie? The firm is counsel of record for the Democratic National Committee, and other political clients include nearly all Democratic members of the United States Congress, as well as several Presidential campaigns, including those of John Kerry and Barrack Obama.

Adm. Roughead: Other nations taking note of USA's shrinking Navy- The chief of naval operations said last week that the U.S. Navy is the smallest it has been since 1916 despite being asked to do multiple missions and that further cuts in naval forces are likely.

U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman is now receiving death threats in the aftermath of his ruling to overturn the Obama administration’s moratorium on deep water drilling

Harris: Obama knew of Blagojevich plot

Emanuel pal delivered message from Obama

Blagojevich on tape: Get Obama to fund-raise from Warren Buffett, Bill Gates

Testimony: Obama Had 4 Senate Successors In Mind- Jurors in ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial got a purported look Thursday at a short list of candidates President Obama favored to replace him in the U.S. Senate.  Federal prosecutors played a tape that revealed the first official message from the budding Obama administration about who the president supported for the Senate seat.  In the call, Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris, tells his boss that Rahm Emanuel, Obama's soon-to-be top aide, had called him to give him a list of four people that Obama would find acceptable as his successor in the Senate

850 Orthodox Rabbis: Kagan 'Not Kosher' for Supreme Court

The former Civil Rights Division lawyer who quit the Justice Department after he was denied permission to speak about his work on a controversial voter intimidation case will testify before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Obama's Space Economic Task Force Seeks Florida Public Comments

Gov't says it's complying with moratorium ruling on drillling ban

Judge denies Obama admin stay on drill ban

VIDEO: Obama agenda and organizing for america

A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich's plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. John Harris, Blagojevich's former chief of staff, testified Wednesday in the former governor's corruption trial that three days after the Nov. 4, 2008, presidential election, the ex-governor told Harris he felt confident Obama knew he wanted to swap perks.

Obama and leaders in his administration have made many statements to mark “LGBT Pride Month,” calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and the passage of anti-discrimination laws to advance the LGBT “agenda” in the U.S. and overseas. They characterized opponents as foes of progress. Obama spoke at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Pride Month Reception in the East Room of the White House. He noted his pledge not to put aside “matters of basic equality” despite “enormous challenges” for the economy and for foreign policy.

The List" for 6/23/2010

Document: Obamacare, Three months of broken promises

House Republican Leader John Boehner is marking the 90-day anniversary of health care reform with a 43-page report "designed to chronicle ObamaCare’s three-month journey from hype to harsh reality."

Days after the November 2008 election, Rod Blagojevich sent word to Obama that he would name one of the president-elect's close friends to the Senate in exchange for a position in the Cabinet, the ousted governor's former chief of staff testified Wednesday. After court adjourned Wednesday, Blagojevich attorneys filed a motion asking to see the FBI's summaries of interviews agents conducted with Obama.

Drilling companies and others who won an order from a federal judge Tuesday lifting the Obama Administration's moratorium on deepwater oil drilling are accusing the administration of defying the court's order by announcing plans to reimpose the moratorium

Gen. Petraeus' surge was pronounced by Obama as an "utter mistake" when Obama was a senator, now he is Obama's top commander in Afghanistan

A day after his disparaging comments about America's civilian leadership surfaced and dramatically struck a nerve in the White House, the top commander in Afghanistan has been relieved of his post. President Barack Obama accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal "with considerable regret" and nominated Gen. David Petraeus, the head of the U.S. Central Command.

Rolling Stone 'Runaway General'- Reporter: Aloof Obama 'Didn’t Really Understand What Counterinsurgency Meant'

Bork Says Kagan Lacks ‘Mature Philosophy' Needed in a Justice; Says Court is Becoming 'Committee of Ideologues'

A huge majority of senators co-signed a letter to Obama defending Israel's actions in the flotilla incident last month and urging the administration to oppose a U.N. resolution critical of the country

AUDIO: Obama suggested border-security tradeoff years ago (2004)

Obama loan program flounders: Half of all loan modifications delinquent within year

VIDEO: Obama Relieves McChrystal From Command: "I Welcome Debate, But Won't Tolerate Division"

Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court has complicated the government’s effort to force the tobacco industry to cough up nearly $300 billion. If confirmed by the Senate as a justice, Kagan would have to sit out the high court’s review of the government’s decade-old racketeering lawsuit against cigarette makers. That’s because she already has taken sides as solicitor general, signing the Obama administration’s Supreme Court brief in the case — an automatic disqualifier.

VIDEO: GOP Senator Sessions: Kagan Supported Teaching Islamic Sharia Law

VIDEO: Kagan on Bork

VIDEO: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 2007: BP is Going to Help Us Save the World

Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging

Facing health insurance premium hikes, Obama administration eyes price controls

The Obama administration formally asked Congress on Tuesday for $600 million in emergency funds to hire another 1,000 Border Patrol agents, acquire two drones and enhance security along the Southwest border.

Record Debt Reducing GDP, Costing As Many As 1 Million U.S. Jobs

New home sales plunge 33 percent in May after homebuyer tax credits expire

The Obama administration homebuyer tax credit program granted $9.1 million to 1,295 prisoners who were incarcerated when they said they purchased their home.

Obama vows to end homelessness in 10 years

The List" for 6/22/2010

VIDEO: Obama Judicial Nominee Believed “Sexual Sadism” Should be “Mitigating Factor” in Serial Killer Case

Democrats are looking at the possibility of raising taxes on families below the $250,000-a-year threshold promised by Obama during the election

The Obama administration on Tuesday backed a proposal to spend up to $6 billion more on subsidies for electric vehicles

The U.S. government plans to buy a state prison in rural Illinois even if Congress blocks President Obama's plan to use it for terror suspects

Louisiana becomes first state with a Democrat legislature to oppose requirement to purchase health insurance

Crist: You know who’s doing a great job in the Gulf ? Obama !

Kagan practices answers, poise in mock hearings

On another tape just played by prosecutors, Rod Blagojevich is heard talking to John Harris over the phone on Nov. 3, 2008 -- the day before the election. They are discussing how Barack Obama is sending two representatives -- union leaders Tom Balanoff and Andy Stern -- to visit to talk about Valerie Jarrett. "Do they think I would just appoint Valerie Jarrett for nothing?" Blagojevich is heard saying of the Obama camp. "Just to make it happen?"

Clinton pledges to defend gay rights at home and abroad

8 of 15 Experts Consulted by Obama Administration on Offshore Drilling Were Not Informed of Moratorium--And Now Oppose It

 U.S. Bribes to Protect Convoys Are Funding Taliban Insurgents

Obama warned insurance firms on Tuesday not to use his healthcare overhaul as an opportunity to enact big rate increases and said the federal government would work with states to monitor them. "Insurance companies ... shouldn't see it as an opportunity to enact unjustifiable rate increases,"

Over 2,000 Skimmers Available In US That Obama Refuses To Use

IRS May Tax Payments to Gulf Coast Victims

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he will issue a new order imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling after a federal judge struck down the existing one

The White House said Tuesday it will immediately appeal a federal judge's ruling against the Obama administration's moratorium on new deepwater drilling.

Judge blocks offshore drilling moratorium imposed by Obama administration after Gulf spill.

VIDEO: MSNBC Host Admits Working with White House on Talking Points, “I have a file that I’ve been working on with the White House—and I’ll be very transparent about that..."

Kagan sought secrecy in 4 of 5 open gov't cases

A defiant Obama says he'll defend his new health care law against a Republican campaign to repeal it.

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, on Monday evening warned that Republicans may boycott the start of Elena Kagan's Supreme Court hearings if senators do not get to review scores of documents from the solicitor general's past.

White House 'satisfied' with its response to Gulf disaster

Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he's talked to President Obama only once since taking command of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan over the summer

General Stanley McChrystal tenders his resignation

The reprinted Rolling Stone interview with McChrystal

VIDEO: Robert Gibbs Says Gen. McChrystal Has “Made an Enormous Mistake”; Won’t Say Job Still Secure

White House Questions McChrystal's Judgment, Maturity

Def. Sec. Gates makes statement on Gen. McChrystal: "I read with concern the profile piece on Gen. Stanley McChrystal in the upcoming edition of ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine. I believe that Gen. McChrystal made a significant mistake and exercised poor judgment in this case."

Gen. McChrystal called to Washington to explain anti-administration comments

The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan issued an apology late Monday for a "Rolling Stone" magazine profile in which he said he felt betrayed by the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, and comments by aides insulting some of President Barack Obama's closest advisers.

The US commander in Afghanistan has mocked the vice-president and accused a top diplomat of betrayal in a magazine interview. Tensions between General Stanley McChrystal and the White House are on full display in the unflattering profile in Rolling Stone.

The List" for 6/21/2010

There are profound differences between the Obama administration and Israel when it comes to the perception of the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran

Another crisis between the Netanyahu and Obama administrations looms over housing in Jerusalem, this time because of Jerusalem’s plan to wreck 22 illegally built Arab homes to make way for an archaeological park. The Jerusalem municipality proposal also calls for making legal 66 other Arab buildings built without permits.The U.S. State Department said Monday afternoon it is “concerned” over the plan that “we think undermines the trust that is fundamental in making progress to the proximity talks and ultimately in direct negotiations.”

Aides to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan insulted some of President Barack Obama's closest advisers, calling one a "clown" and another a "wounded animal," in an article to be published Friday in Rolling Stone magazine. The article also quotes an aide describing the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal's "disappointment" with his initial one-on-one meeting with Obama last year.

Road Built By Stimulus Money Named "Barack Obama Parkway"

VIDEO: Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton refusing to back comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that a decision has been made to challenge the Arizona anti-Illegal Immigration Law.

And he'll have fun fun fun

Obama White House loved the magazine cover of him walking on water

McChrystal Says U.S. Ambassador 'Betrayed' Him With Criticism of Afghan War Strategy- The top American commander in Afghanistan is complaining that he was "betrayed" by the U.S. ambassador during discussions of sending more troops to fight the war. WASHINGTON -- The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan told an interviewer he felt betrayed by the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry.

Obama on Tuesday will announce new health insurance benefits for consumers, marking the first 90 days since he signed landmark legislation to expand coverage.

The Labor Department is ready to tell employers they must give gay workers the same opportunity as heterosexual ones to take unpaid time off to care for their partners' newborns or loved ones. Two officials briefed on the policy changes said Monday that Labor Secretary Hilda Solis would announce the decision on Wednesday.

In 1995, Elena Kagan wrote a law review article praising the attacks on Robert Bork during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1987 by Ronald Reagan, but his nomination failed after contentious confirmation hearings. In the article, Kagan wrote that Bork’s hearing should be a “model” for all others, because even though it ended in the candidate's rejection, the hearings presented an opportunity for the Senate and the nominee to engage on "controversial issues" and "educate the public".  ABC News' article misrepresents her attacks on Bork as "praise".

Republican lawmakers are calling on the Interior Department to stop charging what they describe as "extortion" money from the Border Patrol -- millions of under-the-radar dollars meant to cover environmental damage stemming from their everyday duties along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Border Patrol, last year signed a deal with Interior -- the administrator of America's parklands -- to cough up $50 million for environmental "mitigation" needed in the wake of the construction of a border fence. That was after DHS had already spent or committed millions more for expected environmental damage

‘ACORN Youth Union’ Chapters Were Funded by Justice Department, Says GAO

While a congressman, Emanuel asked for trades with embattled gov. President Barack Obama's chief of staff, then a congressman in Illinois, apparently attempted to trade favors with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich while he was in office, according to newly disclosed e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.

Obama oil spill panel is unlikely to lift the 6 month drilling ban early.  The environmentalist stacked panel will delay its final report until next year

Obama Dept. of Labor chief offers to help illegals get paid 'fairly'

The White House defends Obama's fun time during the oil spill crisis. A White House spokesman says the whole country benefits when President Barack Obama takes time to go golfing and "clear his mind."

Prosecutors have now turned the questioning to yet another alleged shakedown by Blagojevich -- involving then-U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel and an experimental school on Chicago's Northwest Side operated by the Academy for Urban School Leadership. Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, had long been a close political ally of Blagojevich and even was elected to succeed Blagojevich in Congress when he became governor. The academy facility at 3400 N. Austin Blvd. was in Emanuel’s district, which of course was Blagojevich’s old district too.

Obama oil spill panel full of anti-oil-drilling activists

Bork to publicly oppose Kagan for high court

White House officials challenged the veracity Monday of an account of a private conversation Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said he had with President Obama.  Kyl spokesman Ryan Patmintra said the senator stood by his account, which he said was "about as straight forward as you can get."

VIDEO: Kenneth Feinberg – head of the “Oil Spill Compensation Fund” – saying people in the Gulf Region can file a claim with the Government and receive “emergency payments” without providing “the type of corroboration that would normally be provided.” Feinberg said they only need to provide “basic information,” which he did not explain.

Sarah Palin called White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a liar on Twitter yesterday, saying his comments on ABC’s “This Week” make him shallow, narrow-minded, political and irresponsible. The former governor of Alaska is apparently outraged over Emanuel telling ABC’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that Republican Rep. Joe Barton’s apology last week to BP was not a slip of the tongue, but a reflection of the “philosophy” of the Republican Party.

In direct contradiction of the White House storyline, the former Honolulu elections official who caused a national stir this month when he told WND Barack Obama was "definitely" not born in Hawaii, and that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate  even exists for the president in the Aloha State is now reaffirming those claims to a network television affiliate.

Gates rules out idea of 'containing' nuclear-armed Iran

The List" for 6/20/2010

The White House welcomed Israel's new rules for its land embargo, which has drawn heightened international criticism since a deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. "We believe that the implementation of the policy announced by the government of Israel today should improve life for the people of Gaza," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the "idealism" of Obama's inner circle.

The Department of Homeland Security Reports that it has nothing to show for spending 1.3 Billion during the last five years to build a fence to keep out illegal aliens, the fence along our border with Mexico doesn't exist and the money is gone.

Video - Sen. Kyl: 'Obama Says No Border Security without Amnesty'

Obama Fathers Day proclamation: "Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian."

An unlikely company has filed a claim for compensation regarding the disaster - a New Orleans strip club. The owners of The Mimosa Dancing Girls, located on the edge of New Orleans, claimed that the spill was bad for business

Rahm Emanuel: it would be "dangerous" if the GOP held power in Washington

Defense Secretary Gates says President Barack Obama could end up vetoing legislation that would lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday contradicted Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge that in July 2011 “a whole lot” of U.S. forces will be leaving Afghanistan. “That absolutely has not been decided

Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the Obama's homeland security chief, Janet Napolitano said Friday. 

Interview: Ariz. Governor Brewer prepared to meet Obama administration in court over immigration bill.  "Bring it on"

The White house hits the BP CEO for yachting, while Obama golfs

The Obama administration is repeating its pledge to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan next summer.  But the Pentagon and the White House are still saying different things about how many troops will leave—and when.  -Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, told ABS's"This Week" that the July 2011 date to begin withdrawal is firm. Gen. Petraeus, who oversees the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, told Congress last week that he'd recommend putting off the withdrawal if need be.

The head of the new office set up to handle damage claims for the Gulf oil spill is pledging that all eligible and legitimate claims will be paid—and paid promptly. Ken Feinberg, who's the chief of the Independent Claims Facility, wants victims to come forward, file a claim for an emergency payment and then work with the office to come up with a claims program

Over a week after Obama tried to push for more spending on the economy, stimulus spending stalls on Capitol Hill. Congress has delivered only about a quarter of the $266 billion in "temporary recovery measures"

The List" for 6/19/2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel directly contradicted US President Barack Obama on Saturday, saying spending cutbacks were now needed following the spate of throwing money at the global economic crisis . Referring to the G20 summit in Canada next weekend, Merkel said in a videotaped message that "we are going to discuss when to quit the phase of short-term measures and go on to lasting budget consolidation." Such a move was "urgently necessary, in the view of the Europeans and particularly of Germany," she said.

Kagan notes label KKK and NRA as 'bad guy' organizations

Obama went to Ohio to talk about economic recovery.  He stayed for 58 minutes.

Evidence that the BP disaster started in February? Did the White House know?

Obama Administration Only Accepted Help From 5 Countries Out of 28 That Offered Assistance, still ignores crisis

Jones Act not hampering Gulf clean up, (why did Obama turn down foreign help?)

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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told CNSNews.com he does "not know that" Obama had the constitutional authority to tell BP to surrender its stockholders' money into an escrow account outside the company's control that would be used to pay damages to victims of the Gulf oil spill.

Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanual, opened the door on Friday for a limited Senate climate bill that focuses on capping greenhouse gases from power plants.

Biden Promises Kenya 'Money to Flow' if Pro-Abortion Constitution Passes

Obama's trip to Ohio cost 'between $500K and $1 million'; Spoke for just 10 minutes...

Feds refuse to provide spill response plans for top oil companies drilling in Gulf.  The adminstration is stonewalling FOIA requests for information

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) became the first medical society to sue to overturn the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). AAPS sued Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Obama's point man charting a new future for the oil-poisoned Gulf Coast will do the job part-time. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who oversees 900,000 Navy and Marine personnel, is inheriting an amorphous second job as the Obama administration's leader of long-term environmental and economic planning.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said she's angry over comments by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the Obama administration will sue the state over its new immigration law.

Gulf oil leak video could haunt Obama: The live video of the coal-gray oil gushing from BP's well a mile below the Gulf of Mexico's surface has been viewed by 88 percent of the public.  The video is a daily reminder that two months after the oil rig explosion that killed 11 and caused the massive leak and resulting environmental and economic damage, BP still hasn't plugged the well.

Obama's Stimulus Visit Results in Lost Payday for Ohio Construction Workers

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Roberts threw out a lawsuit Walpin brought in an attempt to be restored to his position at the Corporation for National and Community Service, which runs Americorps and other programs.

Obama administration: Health-care mandates are taxes after all

Guess who holds patent for carbon trading plan... Disgraced Fannie Mae CEO set to cash in for millions Obama housing adviser Franklin Raines Former Clinton and Obama budget adviser Franklin Raines owns a key carbon-emissions patent he developed as CEO of the government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae, positioning him and his partners to make millions of dollars if it is used in any carbon-capping scheme implemented by the Obama administration

Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to begin the formal process of bringing the Internet under greater federal control – a move sought by both President Barack Obama and FCC Chairnman Julius Genachowski--even though federal law calls for an Internet "unfettered by Federal or State regulation."  This step comes after the federal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in April rebuked the FCC in its attempt to enforce a controversial regulatory doctrine called Net Neutrality, which would allow the government to prevent private Internet providers from deciding which applications to allow on their networks.

The Obama administration issued strict rules Monday under which even some small changes to existing health care plans will make them subject to the requirements of the new health care reform law. The president promised repeatedly during the health care debate that individuals who like their current plans would be able to keep them. To meet that goal, the health care law envisioned that some plans would be “grandfathered in” under the old law — and therefore would not be required to meet some of the mandates of the new law, such as no-charge preventive care screenings.  But critics of the reform law said that the administration’s new rules clamp down too hard — and would effectively eliminate the old plans many Americans have and like.

Small Firms May Not Keep Current Health Plans After White House Decision

In three years a majority of workers will be forced to change their current health insurance plans, according to draft regulations being written by the Obama Administration. Despite promises that current plans will be “grandfathered” and allowed to continue once ObamaCare is fully implemented, minor changes will qualify plans as “new” and be forced to make broad, new changes to comply with the new law. To avoid ObamaCare’s new regulations, employers might drop their employer-provided insurance altogether.

An ill-conceived provision of ObamaCare is already threatening to upend insurance policies for millions of Americans. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners reported to HHS recently that they would not meet a regulatory deadline because of the massive disruption strict adherence to the new law would precipitate. According to some sources, there is potential for millions of people to lose their insurance next year based on rules which are supposed to control premiums by regulating the amount insurers are allowed to spend on administrative costs but actually just drive insurers out of the marketplace altogether.

Obama's Seventy Third Week in Office

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VIDEO: Obama Breaks His Word to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer-  Obama: We'll get back to you within 2 weeks. Greta: Have you heard anything from the President? Governor Brewer: "We've not heard a word"..

The deepwater drilling experts that President Obama consulted on his drilling ban and referenced in his announcement of the ban are now saying that they recommended nothing of the sort.

Today, the Coast Guard stopped oil skimming vessels that were hired by the state of Louisiana...because they couldn't verify if the ships had life preservers and fire extinguishers.

The Obama administration is secretly working with Russia to conclude an agreement that many officials fear will limit U.S. missile defenses, a key objective of Moscow since it opposed plans for a U.S. missile defense interceptor base in Eastern Europe, according to American officials involved in arms control issues.  According to the officials, the administration last month presented a draft agreement on missile defenses to the Russians as part of talks between Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state for international security and arms control, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov.  The secret talks and possible agreement have triggered alarm among pro-missile defense advocates who are concerned that the administration, in its effort to "reset" ties with Moscow, will make further concessions constraining current and future missile defenses.

Almost 62,000 acres in portions of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests will gain special protection under the San Juan Wilderness Act, which was approved Wednesday by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. The bill was introduced by Rep. John Salazar

Obama's oil commission has no oil industry or technology experts, but has of environmentalists and lawyers

Obama is asking Congress to set aside $15 million for the commission he recently named to look into the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and make recommendations on the future of offshore drilling.

Documents obtained from the Department of Energy and elsewhere appear to present a prima facie case of a senior Obama administration official, Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Cathy Zoi, participating substantially in decisions impacting companies in which she is heavily invested. This flouts ethics requirements and would be a violation of U.S. criminal law. The Department of Energy has yet to provide additional requested documents regarding Zoi. Even more troubling, the designated ethics officer has so far refused to even acknowledge the request for records she is required by law to provide the public.

You'll Pay the Price for Health Insurance, or Pay the Penalty-..."The penalty...will be levied on people who don't have health insurance starting in 2014.  In 2016, when the penalty is fully phased in, it will be $695 for an individual (up to $2,085 per family) or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is greater. The penalty will increase annually based on the cost of living."

Top Six Obama  Mistruths From National Energy Address

The List" for 6/16/2010

Obama's Muslim outreach is faltering. It's been a year since Obama addressed the Islamic world in Cairo,according to a new poll, the Muslim world has not exactly grasped his extended hand. In fact, Muslims have lost confidence in Obama over the past year, the poll found.

Vice President Joe Biden says it's "outrageous," "astounding" and "incredibly out of touch" for a GOP congressman to criticize the White House for demanding a BP victims' compensation fund

VIDEO: Clinton: Obama Administration To Sue Arizona Over Immigration Law

The feds awarded a staggering $54 million in stimulus funds to Connecticut's politically-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which runs one of the highest grossing casinos in the country

Test your knowledge of ObamaCare

Report: Governor Mitch Daniels, Indiana American Enterprise Institute

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels talked about the impact of ObamaCare on his state before a standing-room-only conference  at AEI on Tuesday, and the outlook is not good. He described "what this cannon looks like from the receiving end" and said his state is reeling from the expected costs -- as much as $3.6 billion in additional costs to comply with ObamaCare's mandates.

Currently enjoying a relaxing California vacation , Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha arrived at the extravagant beachside mansion of billionaire financial mogul, Howard Marks

68 banks - all "too big to fail" 18 months ago- are at least two quarters behind in the repayment of their TARP funding

EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers

The Obama administration more than doubled spending on cycling and walking initiatives to $1.2 billion last year as it seeks to coax Americans out of their cars. The new focus on biking and walking represents a turnaround from the administration of President George W Bush. Mary Peters, transportation secretary under Bush, dismissed biking paths and trails as projects that "really are not transportation," saying they had no place in federal transportation policy.

A combined audience of 32 million viewers on 11 channels tuned in Tuesday night for Obama's first address from the Oval Office. As large as that audience might sound, it was down 33 percent from his first State of the Union talk on January 27, 2010. It was also down 21 percent from his prime-time address on December 1, 2009

Obama: we’re running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.

Alaska Objects to Obama Administration Plan to Set-Aside California-Sized Polar Bear Habitat

House Republicans press Sebelius on ‘numerous’ missed deadlines under Obama health-care law- Key Republican lawmakers are pressing President Obama’s top health-care official for answers on why the administration has missed “numerous” early deadlines in implementing Obamacare. The missed deadlines “are some of the most basic provisions of this law,” the June 16 letter says, the administration’s “failure to meet these deadlines does not bode well for the [law’s] more complicated provisions.”

The name of President Obama came into play this afternoon at the political corruption trial of former governor Rod Blagojevich as an associate of political fund-raiser Tony Rezko testified that Rezko asked him to write a $10,000 check to Friends of Obama.

VIDEO: Obama's Oval Office speech was so similar to Jimmy Carter's Malaise speech, they almost seamlessly fit together.

Toxic BP Oil Spill Fumes Will Cause Death & Cancer – Government & BP Negligent In Alerting Public

Did the Obama EPA turn away the Dutch offer for help because of a moronic rule?- The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.  The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf 3 days after the oil spill started. The offer was apparently turned down because EPA regulations do not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean. If all the oily water was retained in the tanker, the capacity of the system would be greatly diminished because most of what is pumped into the tanker is sea water.

Top Six Obama Mistruths From National Energy Address

VIDEO: CBS' Mark Knoller asks White House press secretary Gibbs if any ass-kicking took place at today's meeting between Obama and BP

Obama takes cuts off money to build the Egypt-Gaza wall and gives it to Fatah

Ken Feinberg: the ‘Walter Cronkite’ of the BP Oil Spill

VIDEO: Obama says $20 billion BP has committed to is not a "cap." "BP will meet their obligations" to the people of the gulf, he said. "Another important element is that this $20 billion fund will not be controlled by BP or the government." Obama said the escrow account will be executed by an impartial third party. Ken Feinberg will run the BP escrow account. (Ken Feinberg is not an "impartial" third party. He has previously worked for the Obama administration in the Treasury department. His job was to oversee the compensation of top executives at companies which have received federal bailout assistance.)

Obama and BP reached agreement Wednesday on a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the giant British company's chairman apologized to America for the worst spill in U.S. history

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer scolded Atty. Gen. Eric Holder for holding open the prospect of a lawsuit when Arizona is already facing five legal challenges over the state's new immigration law. "I would much prefer for them not to file suit, given the fact that they could take the money and help me build a fence on my border,"

The Obama ban on drilling in the Gulf is estimated to cost 120,000 people their jobs

Clinton administration Justice Department official, Jamie Gorelick, whose name was floated as a possible attorney general pick for Obama represents BP in meeting with Obama.  BP agrees to a 20 billion dollar fund for victims.

May 2010- New Jersey, the private sector lost 3,600 jobs, while the Obama White House census dept. provided most of the 11,200 public sector jobs

The Dutch say Obama did not call for the skimmers

The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers.

      Obama BP meeting: No Interior Secretary, but lots of lawyers

Passing an energy bill will be Obama's top legislative priority this summer, White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said

VIDEO: Sen. Mitch McConnell says Obama is "holding the Gulf hostage" in order to promote a national energy tax (known as cap and trade).

Obama uses Oil Disaster to Promote Costly Environmental Legislation

Obama is the first American President to hold a press conference with no American Flag in sight

Picture: Obama's recent press conference- no American flag

In assuring Americans on Tuesday that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.

White House --BP Meeting to last a few hours but Obama will only be there 15 minutes, waited 58 days to meet the CEO of BP

A Republican effort to repeal Obamacare overhaul fails on a largely partisan vote.

The List" for 6/15/2010

Obama's schedule shows him spending just 20 minutes in the meeting with BP executives

New Obama "oil spill czar": Thad Allen was officially designated the “National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico” (45 czars now)

Issa Plans Showdown over White House E-mail and Tech Lapses; With the administration under fire for a range of ethical lapses from some of its top technology officials, a key Obama aide is scheduled to appear before a congressional oversight panel June 24 to discuss the tricky privacy and security issues new technologies present the federal government.

Obama’s oil drilling moratorium will cost tens of thousands of American jobs. But, not everyone will suffer. Oil companies are planning on moving their rigs from the Gulf of Mexico to South America off the coast of Brazil where the government is more friendly to energy corporations.

Obama has signed into law a bill that makes more money available to the Coast Guard to pay for its response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new law removes the $100 million limit that the Coast Guard can spend on the BP spill from a government trust fund used to pay cleanup costs.

Obama says the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes," but he vows that BP will pay for the damage it's caused.

The Obama administration says a climate and energy bill being pushed in the Senate would cost American households 22 to 40 cents a day, less than the cost of a postage stamp.

O bama Appoints Lawyer to Overhaul Oil Drilling Agency- The White House announced Tuesday that a former assistant U.S. attorney and Justice Department inspector general, Michael Bromwich, will lead a planned reorganization of the Minerals Management Service. The administration wants to break the MMS into three separate entities to eliminate conflicts of interest.

VIDEO: group of students affirming together that they can do anything because, “I am an Obama scholar.”

Pro-Abortion Group NARAL Solidly Supporting Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

VIDEO: Obama uses teleprompters to make remarks about the gulf oil disaster and military at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Florida.

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the UN and member of Barack Obama's cabinet, opened the door for the possibility of an international investigation into the U.S. military

The U.S. State Department is marking lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender “Pride Month” by changing its policy concerning gender change on passports and consular reports of birth abroad. As of June 10, the State Department no longer requires that individuals provide proof that they have had sex reassignment surgery, but only requires certification from an “attending physician” that the individual received “appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition,”

Obama is poised to seize the handling of oil spill damage claims from BP, his chief spokesman said Tuesday, as Obama sought to reassure people he's up to the enormous challenge of helping them recover from the environmental disaster. He will outline his specific plans and expectations in a prime-time Oval Office speech.

Obama, in his televised speech to the nation Tuesday, will announce the creation of an oil recovery “czar” to oversee progress in siphoning crude from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The List" for 6/14/2010

Union Contract Can Exempt Health Plan From ObamaCare

White House moves to keep employers from dropping insurance- outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them

Companies that offer employee health insurance expect another steep jump in medical costs next year, and more will ask workers to share a  bigger chunk of the expense, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

The Obama Administration handed out more than $400 million in awards to federal employees last year, up by more than $80 million from the prior year, according to new government data

Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP, so they're taking matters into their own hands. In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean.

The Obama administration on Monday announced new rules it said would protect Americans who want to keep their current health insurance but critics say the changes could end up causing millions to lose their coverage.  Part of Obama's healthcare overhaul, the new regulations are meant to discourage companies from making major changes in health insurance benefits.

Obama uses the Gulf Oil spill disaster to fundraise

Despite a resolution by Congress authorizing war against those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama’s nominee to be the number two official at the Justice Department, James Cole, wrote an op-ed in 2002 likening the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the domestic crimes of murder, rape and child abuse, while arguing that the attackers ought to be treated like domestic criminals.

John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Obama’s top science adviser, said last week that his past work is a “stale topic” and: “If you read it and you have a problem, you’re misreading it.”

Obama's membership in Gay Man's Club

Blago once offered Holder a $300K job....Blagojevich wanted to hire Holder to a $300,000 special investigator’s position, so that he would dispel allegations by state Attorney General Lisa Madigan,D, that Emerald Casino was tied to the mafia.   Holder appeared with Blagojevich at a March 24, 2004 press conference. Nearly five years later, he failed to mention the event in a 47-page questionnaire he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee five days after Blago’s arrest, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Secretary of State Clinton included the U.S. for the first time on the State Department’s list of nations “trafficking in persons” for forced labor ranging from farm workers to pole dancers and prostitutes.

ObamaCare appears to have one grandfathered standard for labor unions and another standard for everyone else.  Unions that had a health plan under a collective bargaining agreement by March 23, 2010, can switch insurers as long as the collective bargaining deal is in effect and not forfeit the grandfathered exemptions from many ObamaCare provisions. But anyone else — large business, small business, individual — who switches carriers loses their grandfathered status.

John Podesta of the Center for American Progress is nearly scripting the White House’s BP response, according to Jonathan Weisman at the Wall Street Journal in a blog post

Kagan Helped Bill Clinton Cover Up Scandals

You're losing your plan ObamaCare's true face emerges

Was the White House involved in the Israeli Flotilla incident?  Speculation grows of White House involvement to create an event to force Israel to capitulate to Obama concessions.  Implications of a conspiracy.

" David Axelrod, senior White House adviser, said on NBC's "Meet the Press," that Democrats are mounting a large scale midterm effort to ensure the party maintains control of the House and Senate. "They have rooted for failure," Axelrod said of Republicans. "They have contributed nothing." Axelrod said Democrats have a strong record of casting "courageous votes."

The List" for 6/13/2010

NASA has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon — effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.

Obama White House cavalier toward technology policies aimed at preventing abuses of Presidential Records Act

The former Honolulu elections clerk who says President Obama was "definitely" not born in Hawaii and has no birth certificate from any hospital in the Aloha State says he's willing to testify in court to those facts.

As an aide in the Clinton White House, Elena Kagan steeped herself in details of the Ruby Ridge controversy, an issue that Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania had zeroed in on as he sought the Republican presidential nomination.

As Supreme Court justice, Kagan would be forced to sit out some big cases, muddying outcome

Obama plans to use a meeting with BP executives this week to demand that they create and fund an escrow account and accept an independent panel to handle damage claims by individuals and businesses hurt by the Gulf disaster

Obama's radical associations go ignored by press

Reuters is reporting that Brazil stands to benefit from the BP oil spill disaster as the US moratorium makes more rigs available for other countries.

The Federal Aviation Administration banned flights over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and affected coastline this week

The List" for 6/12/2010

Obama has refused to waive the Jones Act. His Administration keeps putting the blame on the Coast Guard who puts the blame on others for not requesting the Jones Act be waived.

Barack Obama: I’m not anti-British

Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.

:Executive Order-- Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council

Obama- :Executive Order-- Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council: Sec. 5. details the President's "National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy," the Council will be charged with carrying out "lifestyle behavior modification" among American citizens that do not exhibit "healthy behavior."

Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters" and to support the still-fragile economic recovery

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said Thursday he was aware the White House had urged Andrew Romanoff not to challenge him in a primary

For four years as a White House lawyer and aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had a hand in many of the major issues that drove and vexed the Clinton administration.

Obama is sticking with his tried and true play-the-victim-then-blame-others approach. In an interview on Friday, he claimed that criticism of his handling of the situation is unfair because if he had tried to prevent the spill from happening, his political opponents would not have let him.

Coast Guard Head Was Informed of Maine Oil Boom on 5/21. Yesterday, He Claimed He Didn’t Know

The List" for 6/11/2010

US officials on Friday denied reports that the Obama administration plans to support the establishment of an international UN-monitored commission to investigate last week's flotilla raid.

Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Kagan Ignored Medical Group's Opinion to Keep Partial-Birth Abortions Legal

Obama could have issued a waiver to accept foreign help on the Gulf oil spill, but did not. Still has not. Is he protecting the unions?

Over and over in the health care debate, Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it. But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers—51 percent—will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to the draft.

VIDEO: Obama on the spill: “I can’t suck it up with a straw”

Kagan knee-deep in Clinton-era Whitewater, Paula Jones scandals: docs

Sessions: Clinton library withholding documents on Kagan- The top Republican overseeing the panel responsible for vetting Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan complained Friday that documents on her record were being withheld. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that the presidential library of former President Bill Clinton was not producing records of Kagan's time in the Clinton White House quickly enough, and was withholding some material from the committee.

Kagan role in Clinton sex harassment suit withheld

EDITORIAL: FTC dodges Drudge Tax questions

A new study by a former head of the Congressional Budget Office says that ObamaCare would make dropping employees' insurance the sensible choice for the employers of up to 35 million workers

Obamacare: Cadillac Health Plan Tax to Penalize Majority of Employers by 2018

According to a study done by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, ObamaCare’s $5 billion early-retiree reinsurance program could exhaust its funding well before the program expires at the end of 2013 -- and, in the long run, it would provide strong incentives for employers to drop coverage for early retirees.

Gays and Lesbians in the White House

Obamacare to cut Medicare Advantage: The White House is launching its latest campaign to resell ObamaCare, helped by $125 million that unions and other interest groups say they'll spend to make Americans love their new entitlement. -"First and foremost," Obama told seniors on Tuesday in Wheaton, Maryland, "what you need to know is that the guaranteed Medicare benefits that you've earned will not change, regardless of whether you receive them through Medicare or Medicare Advantage.", nothing about that sentence is true.  Obamacare cuts will virtually destroy the program.  Enrollments are predicted to deline over 50%

Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week

Vermont has asked 2,800 low-income seniors, for whom they had already covered prescription drug costs, to return the new Obama Medicare rebate checks to state government

Obama Orders Dance Classes, Movie Nights, and Bingo for Illegal Detainees

A Daily Caller investigation reveals a cavalier attitude at the Obama White House toward longstanding safeguards designed to prevent abuses of the Presidential Records Act and other laws – including acts that carry serious legal implications.

President attended fundraiser during Gulf memorial service

Does Robert McChesney, a self-professed neomarxist media scholar and the founder of the lobbying group and think tank Free Press have influence over Obama's media policy?

Obama's Seventy Second Week in Office

The List" for 6/10/2010

Gibbs sidesteps Social Security question Asked about affidavits that Obama's ID was assigned to Connecticut

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday announced that the FBI is investigating whether excessive force was used by Border Patrol after an agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy on the banks of the Rio Grande

Obama and senior administration officials will meet BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg next Wednesday, the White House announced on Thursday

Obama to Kill NASA's Constellation Program, Despite Congressional Approval: The Obama administration may have found a back door way to kill the Constellation space exploration program, even while Congress is mulling over ways to continue it. The move to kill Constellation involves the 120-year-old Anti-Deficiency Act.

The United States joined with the Organisation of American States (OAS) in an unanimously passed voice vote resolution eralier this week calling for negotiations between London and Buenos Aires, a position which is completely unacceptable to Great Britain.

Senior White House officials acknowledged Wednesday afternoon that the new regime of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran “would not be sufficient” in and of itself to change the behavior of the Iranian government and convince its leaders to stop its nuclear weapons program.  

Obama Less Successful Than ‘Unilateralist’ Bush Was in Pushing U.N. Security Council to Sanction Iran

Clinton Files Show Kagan Advocated Cloning for Human Research

‘Thousands of Louisianans are going to be out of work because the president wanted a get-tough headline’

Senior Tories today warned Barack Obama to back off as billions of pounds were wiped off BP shares in the row over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Mayor Boris Johnson demanded an end to “anti-British rhetoric, buck-passing and name-calling”

The List" for 6/9/2010

Obama run Census Costs Skyrocket 325% Versus 2000

A Senate vote on Obama's choice for national intelligence director could be delayed into the fall because of questions about whether the nominee, a retired Air Force general, would be too close to the Penttagon

Obama's Deficit commission may target mortgage deductions (caps on tax breaks for mortgage interest)

Obama team honors Walpin-gate transgressor

Gibbs: Obama hasn't talked to Hayward because BP board calls the shots

 Elena Kagan, ran much of President Clinton's war on guns from 1995 to 1999.

Obama's Attacks On BP Hurting British Pensioners Barack Obama has been accused of holding "his boot on the throat" of British pensioners after his attacks on BP were blamed for wiping billions off the company's value

White House rejected Israeli intel, blocked use of anti-riot gear against flotilla: Diplomatic sources said the White House rejected Israeli intelligence assessments that the six-ship flotilla contained weapons and Islamist fighters trained to resist any boarding operation.

While Obama is publicly railing against lobbyists for Wall Street, his administration invited some of the same lobbyists to join an exclusive conference call with top White House officials

Gibbs defends Obama's coarse language: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday there have been no second thoughts over President Obama's coarse language directed at oil giant BP earlier in the week.

Tuesday evening was yet another party at the White House, this one for members of Congress to celebrate what host President Obama called the "incredible sacrifices" they make

Members of a panel of experts brought in to advise the Obama administration on how to address offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon disaster now say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar falsely implied they supported a six-month drilling moratorium they actually oppose.

All the Kalamazoo kids at Obama speech had to show they were legal.  Birth certificates were required

Issa asks Office of Special Counsel to investigate WH on Sestak-Romanoff: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) submitted a formal referral for two top White House officials to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for allegedly having violated a law prohibiting federal officials from using official resources for political purposes.

Obama said Wednesday the United States was to unveil a 400-million-dollar civilian aid package for the Palestinians, as he called the situation in the Gaza Strip "unsustainable."

Iran: Obama Makes It Easy for Us: “We are very proud of our diplomacy, although we are mainly benefiting from mistakes made by the United States and its allies,”

Bipartisan criticism of the Justice Department is soaring on Capitol Hill as the executive branch has repeatedly balked at answering congressional requests for information, according to lawmakers and aides.

Obama issuing memos of all sorts:  it appears the White House is issuing new orders to federal agencies at a feverish pace

The List" for 6/8/2010

Rahm Emanuel’s BP Connection

Obamacare forces its first insurer out of business.  The Virginia firm nHealth announced that it will close its doors by the end of the year, thanks to the costs associated with insuring people under the mandates imposed by Congress:

Clinton urges rich Latin Americans to pay 'fair' tax share

Obama has updated America's official vision of Israel's future to stress that the Jewish state must ensure equal rights for Israeli Arabs

Controversial comments made by the dean of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas, were "offensive," but at the same time she had a remarkable career, Obama said

VIDEO: Obama can’t explain why he hasn’t spoken to BP’s CEO

British Petroleum-gate

CNBC Host Says Obama Sullied Office With 'Ass to Kick' Line

Under Obama, the United States no longer provides Israel with automatic support at the United Nations where the Jewish state faces a constant barrage of criticism and condemnation

Administration Advances Plan to Federalize Private Pension System

Deficit reduction commission bailed out by White House

Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms.  Under the provision, insurance companies will no longer be able to apply broad annual caps on the amount of money they pay out on health policies. Employer groups say the ban could essentially wipe out a niche insurance market that many part-time workers and retail and restaurant employees have come to rely on

Boehner ridicules Obama's healthcare town hall with seniors as PR gimmick

Obama is defending his signature health care overhaul to seniors, doing his best to convince the crucial voting group that they'll actually benefit from the law. Speaking at a senior center in suburban Maryland

The White House and its allies are launching a massive public relations campaign to convince a skeptical public that its historic health care reform legislation is just what the doctor ordered. But some Democratic partisans say the PR juggernaut wouldn't have been necessary if the administration hadn't lost control of the message in the first place.

Obama Administration Says Most of $787 Billion Stimulus Funds ‘Spoken For,’ But only 50% Spent So Far To ‘Jolt’ Economy

The Netanyahu government’s attitude to the United States shows it is “waiting for President [Sarah] Palin, an Obama official reportedly told Peter Beinart, writing for the Atlantic Monthly news site.

The Obama administration, facing rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, said Monday that it would move quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters

Obama ignores D-Day anniversary – goes to theatre party instead

BP's chief executive wouldn't have a job if President Barack Obama were in charge of the oil company, the president said Tuesday.

The List" for 6/7/2010

 Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser

VIDEO: Obama... met with experts on Gulf 'so I'd know whose ass to kick'

Obama: I met with experts on Gulf 'so I'd know whose ass to kick'

BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward hasn’t spoken directly to Obama since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20

What oil disaster?  Obama to have second music party of the week.

In less than a week, the Obama administration left Israel hanging out to dry three separate times: UN Security Council, the administration succumbed to the rush to criticize Israel in a statement, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva it failed to sway opinion, and at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, the United States joined the consensus on a statement condemning Israel

Sestak skips Obama event as new job offer allegations surface

Obama-Hamas connection?

Grave Opposition in Congress to Director of National Intelligence Nomination by the Obama administration

Obama Wastes Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Personal Entertainment

Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is the “conscience of our nation” and that he has restored its primacy within the department during his first year on the job.

Obama has yet to veto any spending bill

The United States has asked Israel to investigate an incident in which an American woman lost an eye after being shot by Israeli forces with a tear gas canister during a pro-Palestinian protest in Jerusalem

Obama’s choice to be the next director of national intelligence supported the view that Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq sent weapons and documents to Syria in the weeks before the 2003 U.S. invasion. Numerous contradicitions as a choice for th eObama administration.

Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission Seeks Increase in its Budget

The Obama administration is unveiling a new $125 million publicity campaign over the next five years to promote the pro-abortion health care law

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today called anti-Jewish remarks by Helen Thomas “reprehensible”

Controversial remarks about Israel by veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas drew sharp criticism from the Obama administration on Monday

The List" for 6/6/2010

Obama will host a “tele-town hall” at a Maryland senior center on Tuesday as Democrats work to boost support for the healthcare law in advance of the November congressional elections.The event in Wheaton, Md., is timed to the first mailing of $250 rebate checks to senior citizens as part of the broad healthcare bill Obama signed in March

Sources along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana have reported to Conservative Examiner that citizens, private relief groups, photographers, bloggers, and citizen journalists have been barred from access to the region. Only 'authorized' personnel are allowed, and that includes those journalists that are deemed 'authorized' by the federal government. Conservative Examiner has also learned that the few authorized journalists and photographers that are allowed in the area have been instructed by the Feds not to write anything critical of the Obama Administration's response

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Sunday strongly backed the nomination of James Clapper as the new Director of National Intelligence

Gov. Rick Perry today was joined by local government and business leaders to decry Washington's latest attempt to extend federal control over the state's authority, an action that would undermine Texas’ successful clean air programs and cost the state thousands of jobs

A newly-produced document today from the Clinton archives is the second to show Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan defending ex-President Bill Clinton's veto of a bill to ban partial-birth abortions.

Obama breaks his promise on global whaling ban.

The List" for 6/5/2010

Lawmakers uneasy with Obama's intelligence nominee: conflict of interest.  Nominee could be beholden to the Pentagon

Blowback from White House  attempts to dangle administration jobs in front of insurgent Democratic challengers is now threatening to burn candidates in some of the most competitive Senate contests in the nation, expanding the scope of damage well beyond the two states where the furor originated.

Obama's message to voters: It's not as bad as it used to be.  In a broad defense of his administration’s economic policy, Obama referred at least five times the dire conditions he faced upon taking office 16 months ago

Obama promised Saturday to stand with the people of the Gulf Coast "until they are made whole" from the oil spill catastrophe.

A top adviser to Obama is the contact person within the White House for communications with the Free Gaza Movement over plans to challenge Israel's blockade of the terrorist Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, according to a reputable source close to the Netanyahu government. The source, a career official whose reliability was established through his tips for the book, "Why Israel Can't Wait," identified John O. Brennan, deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, as the contact.

VIDEO: Helen Thomas Mocks Gibbs Over White House's Lack Of Condemnation Of Israel's Act Of War

FTC draft study proposes massive bailout of newspapers

The List" for 6/4/2010

The United States continues to supply weapons and other security systems to Lebanon's security forces amid rising tensions with Israel

Obama and his team were briefed from the outset that the blowout at the Deepwater Horizons rig was epic in scope—and would not be fixable for a long, long time.

Obama FTC's government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, (and Nachumlist)

As a domestic policy adviser to former President Bill Clinton, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan helped defend the veto of a measure that would have banned late-term abortions with few exceptions.

The White House said on Friday Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was unsustainable and urged a Gaza aid vessel sent by pro-Palestinian activists to divert to an Israeli port to reduce the risk of violence.

The White House is encouraging an Irish aid ship bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip to avoid a possible repeat confrontation with Israel and instead sail to the Israeli port of Ashdod to deliver its supplies.

VIDEO: Obama advisor Brennan refers to Jerusalem as "Al Quds"

Janet Napolitano offers to help put stop to illegal border crossings — in Saudi Arabia The Obama administration has agreed to help Saudi Arabia secure its dangerous border areas near Yemen.

Obama told Netanyahu not to address Flotilla incident to the world from the United States because he did not want him to use the White House as a stage to present Israel's side of the story.  Administration officials to Netanyahu: "Don't come".

FLASHBACK: Census Bureau Hired Only 357,000 temp employees in May 2000 -vs. the Obama White House controlled Census Bureau number of 411,000 in May 2010

Now, the White House concedes that overtures were made to Romanoff about a job – but not an actual offer -- “to avoid a costly battle” with incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet, who has the backing of Obama.

Kagan Documents online

The National Archives has announced that about 46,500 pages of documents from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s four years of service in the Clinton White House will go online at 1 p.m. E.T. Friday

Coast Guard Logs Show Admin. Knew Extent of Oil Spill within 24 Hrs

VIDEO: ‘I Am Furious’: Obama Revs Up Anger Over Oil Spill for Larry King Interview

Obama's Seventy First Week in Office

The List" for 6/3/2010

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) said he and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel discussed how to persuade Rep. Joe Sestak (Pa.) not to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic primary.

Obama's new healthcare law reportedly doesn't allocate nearly enough money to cover the estimated 5.6 million to 7 million Americans with pre-existing medical conditions who will qualify for temporary high-risk insurance pools An analysis by the Center for Studying Health System Change found that the new law “could leave hundreds of thousands of potential participants with serious medical problems unable to obtain coverage,” and concluded that the $5 billion earmarked for the pools might cover as few as 200,000 people a year. That’s double the number of people now covered by underfinanced risk pools in 35 states

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at his briefing today that White House discussions with Democratic Colorado Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff do not undercut the Obama administration's claims of transparency. "I do believe we've been transparent, yes," Gibbs told reporters pressing him about revelations that White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina called Romanoff to discuss jobs that "might be available" if Romanoff dropped his primary challenge.

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs telling the Press that President Obama knew nothing about White House offers of three possible jobs to Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff to get him to drop his primary challenge to incumbent Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet

BP, feds could make millions from runaway well's oil

A tobacco tax loophole in President Barack Obama's children's health insurance program cost the government more than $250 million in its first year

The White House initially denied to Pennsylvania media Rep. Joe Sestak's (D-Pa.) claim that the administration had offered him a job in exchange for not running in that state's U.S. Senate primary against Sen. Arlen Specter (D.-Pa.)--an action that the White House admitted to on Friday with the release of a memorandum by White House Counsel Robert F. Bauer.

The White House responded Thursday to concerns that the ban on drilling for oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico will cost the region thousands of jobs

Obama is calling the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip "tragic" and says the loss of life that resulted was unnecessary. Obama stopped short of condemning the actions of Israeli forces, saying that the U.S. wants to wait for an investigation.

VIDEO: Obama fights the oil spill since day one

Among the twenty one tax hikes signed into law as part of Obamacare, at least seven directly break Obama’s central campaign promise.  The first of these tax hikes will take effect on July 1:  the excise tax on indoor tanning services -- a 10 percent tax on the retail price of a tanning session. 

US to probe American death in Israeli raid- "We will look into the circumstances of the death of an American citizen, as we would do anywhere in the world at all times," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. Crowley declined to specify who is "evaluating the facts" surrounding the death of the dual US-Turkish national, whom he identified as Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old born in Troy, New York.

The White House says Obama was unaware one of his top advisers suggested job opportunities to potential Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff in hopes of persuading him not to run against Sen. Michael Bennet, whom the president favored.

VIDEO: Gov. Jan Brewer Reacts to Obama Meeting; Just Smiles when Asked if Obama Has Read the AZ Law

Obama Praises Kenya's Draft Constitution Allowing Unlimited Abortions

VIDEO: Gibbs: White House Has Been "Transparent" On Job Offers

Mortgage applications hit their lowest level in over 13 years

The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach to ensure Israel’s security while allowing more supplies into the impoverished Palestinian area, senior American officials said Wednesday.- describes flotilla defensive measures as a "deadly attack"

Hiring by the U.S. Census Bureau is expected to spike May’s job figures dramatically.

The U.S. Census said on Wednesday it had 573,779 workers on its payroll in mid-May, suggesting a huge boost in Friday's U.S. employment report.

India made a push Thursday to interview an American  citizen linked to the deadly 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, adding a note of tension to high-level talks with the United States.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't publicly respond to the request by Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna.

The federal government is now $13 trillion in the red, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday, marking the first time the government has sunk that far into debt

VIDEO: Vice-President Joe Biden Defends Israel’s Right to Stop Smuggling of Weapons to Hamas

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's review of the book "A Confirmation Mess" is creating a confirmation mess of its own. Kagan's 1995 commentary on Stephen Carter's book rendered a harsh judgment on how lawmakers question Supreme Court nominees

Blagojevich reportedly subpoenas White House advisors Emanuel and Jarrett

The White House ordered BP to pay for construction of five more large sections of Louisiana barrier island sand berms

The List" for 6/2/2010

Romanoff Statement

Former Colorado state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff released a detailed statement tonight detailing his contacts with the White House last fall in which a top aide to President Barack Obama sought to convince him to leave the race

An Israeli government official said the White House asked Netanyahu for concessions in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in exchange for U.S. opposition to the establishment of a United Nations commission to investigate Israel's commando raid of a flotilla earlier this week that resulted in the deaths of nine violent activists.

U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff acknowledged tonight that he discussed three possible jobs with the deputy chief of staff of the Obama administration — all contingent upon a decision by Romanoff not to challenge U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.

Obama will call Wednesday for rolling back billions of dollars in tax breaks to oil companies, and will vow to push for climate change legislation “in the coming months,” setting the stage for another potentially divisive battle in Congress

White House approves Louisiana berm project-Jindal ...* Louisiana gets permission for five sand berms *

The June 2nd Letter from top House Republicans to the White House counsel

Three top House Republicans sent a letter to the White House counsel Wednesday saying they believe that a memorandum the counsel released Friday purporting to explain the administration’s actions in offering to appoint Rep. Joe Sestak (D.-Pa.) to a federal position in exchange for Sestak declining to make a Democratic primary run against Sen. Arlen Specter (D.-Pa.) presents a set of facts that appear to violate the law

VIDEO: Fierce Flashback: Obama Excoriates Government’s ‘Unconsionable Ineptitude’ in Gulf Disaster

Obama is extending child care, medical leave and other benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.

Obama offered Netanyahu guarantees that the U.S. would not let any decision made during the recent NPT review conference 'harm Israel's vital interests.'

The Fight over Kagan documents heats up: Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination is becoming contentious because of tensions over sensitive documents related to her past career. Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has asked the Department of Defense for all records related to its efforts to recruit at Harvard Law School while Kagan served as dean.

Vice President Joe Biden defended Israel's handling of the raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, departing from the Obama administration's posture of wait and see. Biden said Israel has an "absolute right" to defend its security interest

Obama administration's signature stimulus program has been an "absolute success" so far, Vice President Joe Biden said

The Obama administration appears to be rebuffing calls from some Jewish groups for the United States to be more assertive and public in defending Israel regarding the flotilla incident.

Romanoff-gate? Administration officials dangled the possibility of a job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, administration officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a similar job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race

Lawyers for Rod Blagojevich have subpoenaed Rahm Emanuel

Feds approve the first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since President Barack Obama lifted a brief ban on drilling in shallow water

NASA workers facing the end of the space shuttle era are getting $15 million from the federal government to help them find new jobs. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced the emergency grant Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil and send him a clean-energy bill that would help the nation end its "fossil fuel addiction" for good

Obama on Wednesday will promise to find the votes for comprehensive climate change legislation in the "coming months," saying the case for putting a price on the nation's addiction to carbon has been made clear by the environmental catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico

Citing his commitment to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), President Obama on Friday issued a proclamation declaring June 2010 “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.”

As White House Memo on Sestak Raises More Questions, White House Refers to That Same Memo for AnswersWhite House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday would not say if there were multiple conversations with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) about serving on a presidential advisory board in exchange for Sestak dropping out of the Democratic Senate primary race in Pennsylvania.

Obama administration is stumbling out of the gate on its early steps to implement the president’s health-care law. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has already missed as many as four deadlines under the law

Military chiefs split with Mullen on gays; The debate over gays in the military has driven an extraordinary public wedge between the nation's highest-ranking military officer and the four service chiefs who collectively make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Obama Asks *You* To Celebrate Homosexual Pride Month

VIDEO: Arizona Gov. Brewer to Obama- If he challenges the law:"We'll meet you in court"

Arizona Gov. to Obama: We'll see you in court

VIDEO: Sean Hannity interviewing veteran Philadelphia newsman Larry Kane, the man who broke the Sestak Job Offer story with an interview he did of Joe Sestak on February 20 of this year. Here’s what Kane asked Sestak that got the entire story going

The List" for 6/1/2010

Hillary condemned the Israeli flotilla raid, but not the White House: The White House and lawmakers on Tuesday refrained from condemning a deadly Israeli attack on Gaza-bound ships carrying humanitarian aid.

VIDEO: Sec. Hillary Clinton condemns the Israeli flotilla raid.

Robert Gibbs says White House did not offer Joe Sestak intel post but refuses to provide details of job offer

Obama intends to meet with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday, a White House official told FoxNews.com, after criticism mounted over the president's refusal to meet her while she is in Washington this week.

VIDEO: Robert Gibbs Asked Why White House Waited 3 Months to Give Answer on Sestak Job Offer

Government to launch criminal probe into BP spill: Holder- Federal agencies, including the FBI, are participating in the probe and "if we find evidence of illegal behavior, we will be forceful in our response," Holder told reporters after meeting with state and federal prosecutors in New Orleans.

Obama warned Tuesday that if laws were broken in the BP oil spill, the federal government would prosecute anyone responsible.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been privately asking foreign leaders to "dial down" criticism of Israel until all the facts of the flotilla attack are known

Kagan: No need for court review of rogue juror

The Obama administration is taking steps to distance itself from BP and is dispatching Attorney General Eric Holder. to the Gulf Coast to meet with federal and state prosecutors.

The List" for 5/31/2010

The ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee said Monday that he's studying options for investigating the Sestak affair if the administration does not responded to calls for an inquiry.

Obama’s close family friends, terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and top campaign bundler Jodie Evans from Code Pink are top activists with the Gaza flotilla group that attacked the IDF today.

Hill acts to keep Gitmo's inmates out of U.S. -House bill OK'd; Senate one advances

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said the explanation for the Sestak affair -- that former President Bill Clinton offered the Democratic congressman an unpaid position on an advisory board if he would drop his challenge against party-switching Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter -- is not plausible because as a sitting congressman Sestak couldn't have served on a presidential commission. "It's a crime because they've admitted that they offered this position ... So that begs the real question. Do we believe this is a further cover-up because he's -- they're now talking about a job that President Clinton himself should have known Sestak couldn't take? " he said.

In a landmark Idaho case, the Justice Department forced a group of doctors to accept government price controls. -The Antitrust Division, joined by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, forced a a group of Boise orthopedists to accept price controls for worker’s compensation and HMO contracts as part of a settlement accusing the doctors  of “price fixing”

Obama,"I'm Not Going to Rest Until the Leak is Stopped"

Obama during oil spill — golf, parties, photo-ops… and more golf (photos)

‘I’m fully engaged’ in fixing oil leak, Obama says

Biden on Memorial Day, talks of gap between rich and poor

Socialist labor leader, Bill Lucy, slams Arizona, calls Obama “friend”

Millie Jeffrey, DSA and Obama

Obama to Netanyahu: wants to learn " all the facts and circumstances around this morning's tragic events as soon as possible.” about the Gaza raid

Netanyahu, who is currently visiting Canada, stressed Monday that IDF troops were forced to use force against Gaza sail activists after they refused to cooperate and attacked the soldiers.

Netanyahu is canceling a scheduled meeting with Obama at the White House to return to Israel to deal with the fallout of the raid by Israeli forces to enforce the Gaza blockade on a flotilla of ships trying to run the blockade

The White House on Monday said it "deeply regretted, and is currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy," said White House spokesman William Burton.

Elena Kagan took millions of dollars from the Saudis as dean of Harvard Law School and a chunk of it reportedly came from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. The bin Laden family has donated millions of dollars to the Ivy League university over the years, including generous endowments for the school’s Islamic law program and others to finance scholarships for students from Muslim countries

On Friday the full House voted 282-131 to prevent Obama from transferring any of the detainees being held at Guantanamo to the United States

The List" for 5/30/2010

Obama said he would veto any legislation to fund, over Pentagon protests, a controversial second engine program for the multinational F-35 fighter aircraft

Hamas leader says American envoys making contact, but not openly

Washington's unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising their biggest ally

Obama doesn’t have time to meet with Arizona governor, White House says

Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Obama's Charm Offensive Masks Israel Policy Change: as Jewish leaders were meeting in the White House, the president's diplomatic team was busy in New York cutting a nuclear deal at the UN with Egypt and other Arab states that stabs Israel in the back. With U.S. support and endorsement, representatives of 189 nations adopted a nuclear non-proliferation declaration that calls for expedited action on a nuclear-free Mideast zone, with an international conference in 2012 to get this project moving to fruition.   But even before 2012, the declaration already calls on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and invite UN inspectors' full access to lay bare its nuclear activities.

The Obama administration Friday extended for another year the moratorium on most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote and rugged backcountry sections of national forests.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Barack Obama has moved too slowly in asserting leadership over the Gulf spill response

Court accused of covering for Obama in 'Walpingate' : Court documents filed last week accuse U.S. District Court Judge Richard Roberts of failing to act within federally mandated time requirements and "doing nothing at all" to move the case forward.

The List" for 5/29/2010

Jerusalem Restricts Emanuel Bar Mitzvah Party; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s son Zach will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah Sunday at the Davidson Center near the Western Wall but without catering or music.

Netanyahu to ask Obama to block measures over Israel's nukes: The Israeli prime minister will meet with the U.S. president at the White House on Tuesday, after the U.S. backed a call for inspection of Israeli nuclear installations at the NPT Review Conference. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask for clarifications about the U.S. position on the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference when he meets with Obama at the White House on Tuesday.

The New York Times reported that Rep. Joe Sestak was not eligible for a place on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the job he was reportedly offered by former President Bill Clinton.

VIDEO: Sestak- "There was nothing wrong that was done"

Sestak: Clinton offered 'presidential board,' maybe intelligence or defense

Forced to disclose backstage political bargaining, President Barack Obama's embarrassed White House said on Friday it had enlisted Bill Clinton to try to ease Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania's Senate primary with a job offer. Nothing wrong with that, the White House said. Oh, yes, there was, Republicans countered.

VIDEO: Obama, touring a beach in Louisiana to see the impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. Obama lectures the press on “tarballs,” picking one up and talking about how teams can be brought in to pick up the tarballs and dispose of them. But rather than disposing of it, Obama just throws it back down on the beach

24 Hours After Telling People in the Gulf "We're in This Together," Obama Hoops it up in Chicago

A Gulf Coast official is pleading with President Barack Obama to scrap the moratorium on new oil drilling and exploration as the investigation of the massive oil spill continues, saying the economic impact to her Louisiana parish would be too much to bear. Charlotte Randolph, president of LaFourche Parish, said she spoke to Obama in person during his visit to the oil-stricken region Friday.

Obama said Saturday that the failure of BP's latest effort to stop the damaging flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is "as enraging as it is heartbreaking."

Obama visited oil-stricken Louisiana, where he saw a little oil, a lot of officials but none of the local inhabitants he promised not to leave in the lurch amid the worst oil spill in US history.

The Obama Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.

Did Gibbs know of Clinton connection when he had ‘nothing to add’ to Sestak story? When a reporter asked, “When did you personally find out about the Clinton connection?” Gibbs answered:I have talked to people — I answered questions on this I think in March that nothing inappropriate had happened based on conversations that I’d had with the lawyers. I’d have to go back and look at notes.

Obama has turned down Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request to meet while she's in Washington next week as tensions mount between his administration and Arizona over the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants. Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governor

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates sought Friday to ease concerns among U.S. troops about a legislative repeal of the military's ban on openly gay men and lesbians, saying that a long, careful review process lay ahead. Hours later, the House approved a bill containing language aimed at ending the Clinton-era "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

The List" for 5/28/2010

Sestak Still Hasn't Denied He Was Offered Navy Job

Denver Post Finally Gets Around to Mentioning Romanoff Job Offer Allegation Again- Romanoff silent

U.S. Trying to Deport Born-Again 'Son of Hamas' as Terrorist: The Department of Homeland Security is trying to deport the son of a Hamas founder who told of his conversion to Christianity and decade of spying for Israel in a New York Times best-seller. "Son of Hamas" author Mosab Hassan Yousef revealed on a blog hosted by his publisher he is scheduled to appear June 30 before Immigration Judge Rico J. Bartolomei at the DHS Immigration Court in San Diego. Yousef said the DHS informed him Feb. 23, 2009, he was barred from asylum in the U.S. because there were reasonable grounds for believing he was "a danger to the security of the United States" and "engaged in terrorist activity."

Jindal to Obama: "We don't understand why our federal government would be making excuses for BP."

Larry Kane writes about the interview with Sestak that "spread like wildfire"

Lawmakers oppose FCC plan to reassert Net authority

The White House acknowledged on Friday that it tried to get Representative Joe Sestak  to drop his Senate bid in exchange for an unpaid job with the administration, but said an internal review concluded it broke no laws.

Justice Department officials told the Arizona attorney general and aides to the governor in face-to-face meetings Friday in Phoenix that the federal government has serious reservations about Arizona's new immigration law.

Refuting allegations that the Obama administration offered Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., a job in exchange for dropping out of the contested Pennsylvania Democratic senate primary earlier this month, the White House says an internal investigation shows nothing improper took place and "that the allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and a lack of basis in the law."

GOP asks FBI to investigate ‘collusion,’ possible obstruction of justice in Sestak case

In Sestak news conference, he answered the question about his brother's involvement in this issue. He said his brother was contacted by the White House to serve as a conduit (to Sestak) and the White House gave his brother a heads up on what the White House statement was going to be. So now we know how they got their stories coordinated.

CBO Director Dr. Douglas Elmendorf refutes Obama claims about his health care legislation: For months the President and his Budget Director correctly argued that the goal of health care reform was to “bend the cost curve down.” The projected path of per capita health spending is unsustainable and will result in three bad outcomes: 1. Those with health insurance will have less money available for other needs; 2. It will be harder for the uninsured to buy insurance; 3. Government spending on Medicare and Medicaid will break federal and state budgets.

VIDEO: Sestak: Conversation With Clinton Was Not "Inappropriate," Lasted 60 Seconds

VIDEO: Former President Clinton refuses to comment on Sestak offer

Three months before the massive BP oil spill erupted in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration proposed downsizing the Coast Guard national coordination center for oil spill responses, prompting its senior officers to warn that the agency's readiness for catastrophic events would be weakened

Issa's response to Sestak

Statement from Joe Sestak on White House Counsel's Report

Did Obama Knew Birnbaum Was Fired?

As Harvard Law Dean, Kagan Did Not Require Study of U.S. Constitutional Law But Did Require Study of International and Foreign Law

Obama US stopped Israel from targeting Hizballah missile shipment

Obama hasn't returned call of lawmaker representing district of rig

VIDEO: Jindal - Obama sat on sand berm request 2 weeks, still no reply

VIDEO: 20 Days Before the Spill Obama Said Rigs Were Safe

White House admission to Sestak offer: Memo

White House asked Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about Senate run

The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration will say in a report to be released Friday morning, Fox News has confirmed.

Obama's Seventieth Week in Office

The List" for 5/27/2010

May 27, 2010: Obama holds first press conference since July 22, 2009

Rep. Joe Sestak said that his brother has spoken with White House officials about the congressman's allegation that he was offered an Obama administration job if he would stay out of a Democratic Senate primary.

An e-mail from Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) campaign suggested Wednesday that the controversy over Rep. Joe Sestak's (D-Pa.) alleged administration job offer could be President Barack Obama's Watergate scandal.

Obama said Thursday that the White House is preparing to issue a formal explanation regarding the allegation that it offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job to drop out of the Democratic primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter. 

Obama insisted Thursday that critics of the federal government’s response to the oil spill in the gulf “don’t know the facts.”

Obama and Emanuel: members of same gay bath house club in Chicago?  Obama began frequenting Man’s Country in the mid-1990s, during the time he transitioned from a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to his election as an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Man’s Country appears to be a “one stop shopping” center for gay men. The club’s website advertises steam rooms, “fantasy rooms,” bed rooms, male strippers, adult movies, and lockers. However, Man’s Country was not the only location for Obama’s predatory gay sex activities. The Chicago gay community is aware that Obama often made contacts with younger men at his famous “pick-up basketball” games. It was at these “pick up” matches where Obama first met Emanuel and a young Democratic campaign worker and senior bank vice president named Alexi Giannoulias.

Walpin-gate reopens--Fired inspector general files a new court petition

Video: Sestak on original W.H. job offer claim - I was being honest

Obama: "Nothing Improper" in Alleged Sestak Job Offer

 For the second time this month, NASA's chief faced tough talk on Capitol Hill from lawmakers - as well as from Apollo moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan, plus longtime aerospace executive Tom Young. Both astronauts told members of Congress that returning humans to the moon was not only desirable, but necessary for future exploration - even though NASA says it's no longer a priority.

The 1,200 National Guard who are headed to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona won't be on the front lines but will be helping out in vital support roles, President Obama said Thursday

Obama redefines national security strategy. In a broad redefinition of U.S. strategic priorities, Obama has said that the United States must revitalize its own economic, moral and innovative strength if it is to continue to lead the world. Just as it did following World War II, the United States today must also shape a new international order and system of global institutions that reflect a 21st century reality in which "America's greatness is not assured," Obama says in a 52-page "National Security Strategy" released Thursday morning.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to Texas authorities to be on the lookout for terrorists trying to sneak in through the Mexico border. The DHS warning follows an indictment of a Somali man accused of running a smuggling ring bringing in hundreds of Somalis all the way from South America up through Mexico

A leaked partial document produced by the Bureau of Land Management and obtained by Fox News suggests the Obama administration is considering a plan to lock up 13 million acres of land -- and the Department of Interior is refusing to answer questions

IRS Launches First Wave Of Small Business Attacks

The L.A. Times sings a new tune: Joe Sestak and the phantom -- or was it? -- job offer

The White House will continue a ban on new deepwater oil-and-gas drilling permits for six months and will also delay drilling in shallower Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast, administration officials said

Obama or his aides won't meet with Viet Nam vets group "Rolling Thunder"

Brennan Names Al-Qaeda and Affiliates as the Enemy, Silent on Hezbollah, Others

Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'.  The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies. During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in "religious terms."

"The Plug and Play Administration": Obama's self indulgent presidency:  Obama hosts conitnuous entertainment during crisis or goes out for personal play time.

Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate on Thursday killed a move by presidential rival John McCain to send an additional 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S-Mexico border

Obama open to Puerto Rican statehood

Chiefs of Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marines Oppose DADT Repeal

The List" for 5/26/2010

Justice Department poised to challenge Arizona immigration law (Holder to challenge rule of law)

Obama eyes fresh stimulus as the M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.

On September 27, 2009 the Denver Post reported that the Obama administration offered Senate candidate Romanoff a position if he canceled plans to run for the Democratic nomination against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet.

Five years into the recently passed health care reform law Tennessee could have nearly a half million more residents on Medicaid, according to a report released Wednesday. And the state could be paying an extra $1.5 billion for those services over five years,

Axelrod Says No Proof Sestak Received Illegal Job Offer

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called White House reporters into the West Wing Friday and criticized them for asking too many BP questions.

Construction workers at the Solyndra Plant in Fremont will be spending the day at home Wednesday without pay as President Obama visits the company to praise its work on solar panels

The level of U.S. debt has reached a point at which economic growth traditionally begins to slow, a bipartisan fiscal commission making recommendations to the White House and Congress was told Wednesday

Rahm Emanuel invites Netanyahu to visit Obama.  Will allow an photo-op this time

Obama's new national security strategy will make clear the United States is not at war with Islam.  John Brennan, Obama's leading counterterrorism adviser, said: "We have never been and will never be at war with Islam."

New information obtained by a member of Congress makes it appear the Obama administration has spent $10 million potentially illegally promoting a pro-abortion constitution in Kenya.

Arizona Gets Border Soldiers; None for Texas Perry's request goes ignored for more than a year

 The Republicans' letter requesting appointment of special prosecutor in Sestak claim

Exclusive: Republicans Ask AG Holder to Appoint Special Prosecutor...In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee "urge the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak's claim that a White House official offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter."

As Gulf oil spill worsens, Obama flies to San Fran to party with Getty Oil tycoons, fund raise for Boxer

VIDEO: Carville Tees Off on White House Again

Radical Royalty - Obama's Federal Reserve Pick - Sarah Bloom Raskin

The List" for 5/25/2010

The Obama temperment exposed

The Huffington Post, Obama, and the Obama campaign paid Huffington Post $ 55354 in 2008

Obama White House probe of Obama White House finds no Obama White House impropriety on Sestak

Obama Administration Backs Vatican In Pedophile Case

Kagan’s “Judicial Hero,” Aharon Barak

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak pledged Monday to "absolutely" comply with investigators if his claims of a politically motivated White House job offer become the focus of a federal probe.

AUDIO: Reporter Reveals: Gibbs Privately Scolded Press for Asking Too Many BP Questions

Congressman: White House Job Offer to Sestak May Be an 'Impeachable' Offense

Justice Department declines to appoint independent counsel for Sestak case

Obama also clashes with Republican Senator Bob Corker at Obama/Republican private meeting.  Corker is said to tell Obama, ""I told him I thought there was a degree of audacity in him even showing up today after what happened with financial regulation," Corker said after the meeting. "I asked him how he was able to reconcile that duplicity, coming in today to see us."

VIDEO: Obama Uses Same Joke As Bush At West Point Commencement

President Obama clashes with McCain in Republican luncheon

Obama redistribution: Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts rise

The Obama administration on Monday asked a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state's lawsuit alleging Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds with the new health care reform law

VIDEO: Once Again, Joe Sestak Repeatedly Dodges Questions on Job Offer Bribe

Two census workers divulge Obama controlled Census Dept. plays games with labor statistics.  Jobs numbers unknown and inflated

Accuracy in Academia has identified four consecutive years during which Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan worked with the law school’s Lambda group to oppose military recruiting on campus. Between 2003 and 2007, Dean Kagan not only used her position as Dean to encourage the academic community to protest military recruitment efforts, but was at rallies herself and appears to have coordinated her policy announcements with HLS Lambda, according to student news accounts at that time.

Obama skipping Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. 'He'll be on vacation in Chicago'

Axelrod tells CNN’s John King that there is “no evidence” that the bribe attempt ever happened, even while he acknowledges that it would have been “a serious breach of the law.” In order to believe that there is “no evidence,” though, one has to discount the repeated direct testimony of Sestak himself (via The Daily Caller)..Axelrod acknowledged that if White House officials dangled a job in front of Rep. Joe Sestak’s face to keep him away from challenging incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, that would “constitute a serious breach of the law.

Dr. Donald Berwick, nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs Medicare, published an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), advising leaders of Britain’s socialized health care system: “Please don’t put your faith in market forces.”

The White House and congressional Democratic leaders reached an agreement Monday night on a so-called “compromise” that could force a vote within days on a bill to end the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy on homosexuality

The List" for 5/24/2010

Kagan's writings suggest her view on judge's role

Nine former employees of a U.S. Department of Education contractor pleaded "not guilty" today to charges of gaining unauthorized computer access to Barack Obama's student loan records. The nine are charged with accessing the information at various times between July 2007 and March 2009, both before and after Obama was elected president, from the Coralville, Iowa, offices of Vangent Inc., a consulting firm that serves the federal government and higher education institutions.

Barack and Michelle Obama host the first-ever White House reception marking Jewish Heritage Month.

Obama's last full-scale session with the press was on July 22, 2009.  Press gets the cold shoulder

Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago's gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.

The Obama administration is warning the health insurance industry that it will block mergers that threaten to stifle competition.

IDF Prepares for Potential Attack from US-Trained PA Military- The Kfir brigade, created December 2005 to deal with unrest in Israel’s Judea and Samaria regions, trained extensively in urban warfare and simulated a scenario in which IDF soldiers were pitted against the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s new American-trained military.

Biden: Maybe the EU capital is the center of the free world

Senate Takes Up 'Emergency' War Bill Despite Obama Pledge to End Practice

VIDEO: White House senior adviser David Axelrod says "it has been looked into" and the White House has come to the conclusion nothing inappropriate happened.

The White House is talking with gay rights activists, lawmakers and Pentagon officials about a push to hasten the repeal of a ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. The group was meeting Monday at the White House to discuss a faster pace to end the Clinton-era ban on openly gay sevice members.

Obama's Nominee to Run Medicare: 'The Decision is Not Whether or Not We Will Ration Care--The Decision is Whether We Will Ration Care With Our Eyes Open'

Obama to get briefed on oil spill… and then host party at White House. In the morning, Obama will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. Later, the president will attend a reception for the Federal Judge Association at the White House.

Syria: Obama has failed in peace efforts and lost influence in Mideast -Assad's comments come as Obama set to meet with Lebanon PM to raise concerns about alleged Syria-Hezbollah Scud transfer.

Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) called on the White House on Monday to detail conversations it allegedly had with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to try to convince him to drop his Senate bid.

About one-third of employers subject to major requirements of Obamacare may face tax penalties because they offer health insurance that could be considered unaffordable to some employees, a new study says

The List" for 5/23/2010

Obama tells Americans to sacrifice, then throws lavish party for Mexico's Calderon

Shore Bank's shady Obama administration connections

Is the U.S. Selective Service System now blocking access to President Barack Obama's online registration records? Members of the public searching the federal database for the commander in chief's registration are suddenly finding new difficulty, possibly due to the startling revelation of Obama's alleged use of a Connecticut-based Social Security Number.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and his family dined on seafood at an Eilat restaurant and left the bill for the Israeli Tourism Ministry, according to reports in Israeli media.

John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, met with Lebanese leaders during a recent visit. "Hezbollah is a very interesting organization," Brennan told a Washington conference

Rep. Joe Sestak, winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, is refusing to provide more information on what job he was offered by a White House official to drop of that race, although he confirmed again that the incident occurred

Commanders have ordered a U.S. military unit in Afghanistan to patrol with unloaded weapons, according to a source in Afghanistan.

Obama Advisor: Warm Words for Saudi Arabia, Hizbullah- John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security, called Jerusalem “Al-Quds,” praised Saudi Arabian religious tolerance, and is encouraging of Hizbullah. Speaking to an apparently Muslim audience at New York University in February, at a forum co-hosted by the White House and the Islamic Center at New York University." Brennan first told a story in Arabic, evoking laughter and concluding with, “Don’t tell the folks who don’t speak Arabic what I said.” He then said that his favorite city in the Middle East is “Al Quds, Jerusalem.”

Claiming that there are too many files to sort through, Clinton Library officials won’t provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with crucial information on Elena Kagan’s work in the administration in time for her confirmation hearings.

VIDEO: Cong. Darrel Issa's "So Who is Wrong" on the Sestak bribery scandal

Gibbs on Sestak: 'Nothing inappropriate'

White House spokeman deflects Sestak bribery question 13 times in a row

VIDEO: Gibbs deflects Sestak bribery question

Obama Gives a Bipartisan Commission Six Months to Revise Drilling Rules

Carville on Obama’s Handling of BP Oil Spill: “Lackadaisical” and “Naive”

Obama’s economy: More moms take phone sex jobs

As the oil arrives on the Louisiana shores, Obama goes golfing

The U.S. Justice Department has dropped a probe of American International Group Inc executives involving the credit default swaps that sent the insurer to the brink of bankruptcy and forced a huge taxpayer bailout, lawyers for the executives said on Saturday.

Three top Obama administration officials are returning to the Gulf Coast to monitor the massive oil spill

The List" for 5/22/2010

GOP wins House seat in Obama's home district in Hawaii

Obama has decided to pre-announce to the world once-secret American ballistic missile tests and satellite launches.

Republicans were forced to "back down" from blocking Wall Street reform, according to a fundraising letter sent by the president. In the e-mail to his supporters, President Barack Obama wrote that pressure on lawmakers forced Republicans to "back down" from blocking the legislation

Obama on Saturday blamed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill on "a breakdown of responsibility" at energy giant BP

VIDEO: Obama uses teleprompters to speak to cadets at West Point

Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review

Obama unveiled a commission Saturday to probe the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the growing environmental catastrophe blackened Louisiana's fragile wetlands and beaches

VIDEO: Reporter to Gibbs: Did the president say Limbaugh can “play with himself?”

Derivitives sour Wall Street on Obama- Wall Street executives say language in the Senate financial reform bill dealing with derivatives is like a horror movie slasher — repeatedly left for dead, only to rise again and again. The move to force banks to spin off their derivatives desks could by some estimates slice 20 percent off Wall Street profits

VIDEO: Obama Calls For New "International Order"

VIDEO: from Obama's Commencement Speech at West Point today, where he used humor to remind everyone his "power is absolute" over the military

VIDEO: "They Lead No Religion": Obama Defends Islam, Muslim Fanatics At Commencement

US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner tried to reassure China, ahead of his talks in Beijing, that the United States will get its deficit in order

Obama's mother, Stanley A. Dunham, worked for Tim Geithner's Father Peter Geithner at the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is partnered with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Peter F. Geithner, Treasury Secretary Geithner's father, worked for the Ford Foundation.

Obama outlined a new national security strategy rooted in diplomatic engagement and international alliances on Saturday as he repudiated his predecessor’s emphasis on unilateral American power and the right to wage preemptive war.

Elena Kagan, a Supreme Court nominee without judicial experience, has suggested in writings and speeches over a quarter-century that when judges make decisions, they must take account of their values and experience and consider politics and policy, rather than act as robotic umpires.

As it sought support for international sanctions on Iran, the Obama administration gave Moscow two concessions: lifting American sanctions against the Russian military complex and agreeing not to ban the sale of Russian anti-aircraft batteries to Tehran.

Fatah does not rule out the possibility of resuming an ''armed struggle'' against Israel if the US-sponsored proximity talks fail

The List" for 5/21/2010

It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama’s prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama’s name

Did President-elect Barack Hussein Obama commit a federal crime in September of this year? Or did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him?
It’s either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama’s official Selective Service registration for the draft. A document released through a Freedom of Information Act request,of Obama’s draft registration shows many signs of fraud,- putting the lie to Obama’s claim that he registered for the draft in June 1979, before it was required by law. if the signature on the document is in fact his, our next Commander-in-Chief may have committed a federal crime in 2008

A leading House Republican is threatening to file an ethics complaint against Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) if he doesn’t reveal who in the White House offered him a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary.

The Obama administration said Friday it has lifted sanctions against four Russian groups that had been accused of helping Syrian and Iranian weapons programs

VIDEO: Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wear bracelets protesting the Arizona immigration law during Mexican President Felipe Calderon's address to Congress.

Obama's Fiscal Commission: Obama and the leadership in Congress have delegated enormous, unaccountable authority to 18 unrepresentative, inordinately wealthy individuals. The 18 individuals are meeting regularly, in secret, behind closed doors, until safely beyond this year’s mid-term election. If they reach agreement, their proposal will be voted on in December by a lame duck Congress, without the benefit of open hearings and deliberations in the pertinent committees and without the opportunity for open debate and amendment on the floors of the House and Senate. Despite the speed and lack of accountability, the legislation will affect, in substantial ways, every man, woman, and child in this nation.

After Chief of Protocol of the United States Capricia Penevic Marshall slips and falls on her seat, Obama orders the press not to print or take her picture.

The White House is standing behind Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who has acknowledged that he misspoke about his military service.Blumenthal, the attorney general of his state, found himself on the defensive when The New York Times reported Monday that he had repeatedly claimed that he had served in Vietnam. Blumenthal was in the Marine Reserves during the Vietnam War, but did not serve in Vietnam.

Robert Gates aims to kill F-35 jet engine: Gates has warned Congress he will urge President Barack Obama to veto any defense bill that provides funding for the engine — made by General Electric and Rolls-Royce for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities. John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune

US envoy George Mitchell left Israel on Thursday afternoon, ending the second round of proximity talks, with each side claiming their contacts with the American mediator focused on something completely different.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent President Barack Obama in January a secret “wake-up” call warning of lack of strategy to deal with an Iranian nuclear threat, The New York Times reported Saturday. The memo warned President Obama that his administration had no long-term strategy to deal with the growing inevitability that the Islamic Republic will be able to produce a nuclear weapon.

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean warship ''cannot go unanswered'' and the response by the international community must not be ''business as usual.'' The evidence that North Korea fired a torpedo and sank the ship is ''overwhelming and condemning,'' Clinton said at a press briefing in Tokyo today (Snip) The U.S. wants China to help shape a response, an American official told reporters later in the day in Shanghai.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it has “no records” of any communication either “to or from” its chairman that mentions Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham or Michael Savage. The FCC made the declaration in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by CNSNews.com that sought all its records reflecting communications from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski mentioning the popular radio hosts. "No records of correspondence responsive to your request were located as a result of a search of records of the Chairman's office," said the FCC in a May 6 letter to CNSNews.com. Despite this assertion, a letter about “hate speech in the media” specifically citing “radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh” was in fact sent to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski by a coalition of liberal groups last fall

Stealth IRS changes mean millions of new tax forms: The massive expansion of requirements for businesses to file 1099 tax forms that was hidden in the 2,409-page health reform bill result- A blizzard of new tax forms that the Internal Revenue Service will begin rolling out next year.

U.S. intelligence has strong reason to believe that the Pakistani Taliban is actively plotting to hit interests in the U.S. and American targets overseas, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday

The Shady ShoreBank Bailout: The federal government and a coalition of big banking interests are poised to bail out a crony Chicago bank with longtime ties to the Obama administration

America's Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, was AWOL when it came to the vote to allow Libya onto the UN Human Rights Council;  was AWOL in a Sec Council Resolution that condemned Israel (the first time such as Security Council resolution was not vetoed by America). She promised to reform the UN Human Rights Council when controversy arose from pro-Israel supporters over our joining the Council. But that promised reform has not happened either.

Obama called for first-ever mileage and emissions standards for big rig and work trucks Friday, seeking to limit pollution from the large vehicles that contribute a big share of it.

Obama has decided to pre-announce to the world once-secret American ballistic missile tests and satellite launches.

The Judiciary Committee asks for letters, memos, e-mails and more, before hearings on the Supreme Court nominee begin June 28. A library official says meeting the deadline would be 'very difficult.' The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday set June 28 as the start date for hearings on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, and asked the Clinton presidential library to turn over voluminous documents related to Kagan's time as a top presidential assistant in the 1990s.

Elena Kagan's reliance on foreign law for statutory interpretation presents another concern for pro-life advocates, says Americans United for Life in a new memo about President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

VIDEO: Yesterday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez asked Sestak whether the White House had offered him a gig as Secretary of the Navy in order to buy him out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. He dissembled, although he did confirm that the White House offered him a job.

Palestinian negotiators have surprised Washington with a bold opening offer to White House peace envoy George Mitchell that includes concessions on territory beyond those offered in past Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, according to officials briefed on the current negotiations.

Obama's Sixty Ninth Week in Office

The List" for 5/20/2010

At the end of Obama's 69th week in office- still no news conference since June of 2009...

It was President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, who hired radical regulatory czar Cass Sunstein as a Harvard law professor.

Obama will replace his Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair

White House weighs in on speculation over Reid's successor, even as it entrusts agenda to Reid

VIDEO: Holder & Napolitano give Mexican President standing O for bashing the AZ law

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refusing to answer a question as to whether Rep. Joe Sestak was offered a job by the Obama Administration in order to get him to drop his run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania against Sen. Arlen Specter.

Scientists accuse Obama over oil spill- Expert claims NOAA is guilty of a 'catastrophic failure

The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up "moderate elements" within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard-liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday.

Obama has decided to use his executive power to order tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, accelerating the fight against climate change without waiting for Congress

Is Factcheck.org working with Obama? Post and Mail's attempts to ask staff about Obama's purported COLB are ingnored

Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, says the resignation of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair “is the result of the Obama administration’s rampant politicization of national security and outright disregard for congressional intelligence oversight.”

Companies are discovering that it's cheaper to pay fines to the government than to cover workers. Millions of American workers could discover that they no longer have employer-provided health insurance as ObamaCare is phased in

White House Staffer, Andrew McLaughlin, Who Did Favors for Google Must Resign

The Greek debt crisis is "not going to happen" in the U.S., Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Wednesday

The Pentagon's top leadership refused on Thursday to label the sinking of a South Korean ship an act of war.

WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign -- more than John McCain or Hillary Clinton, are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and working together to limit BP's liability for damage caused by what can be called a "mega-disaster

"The White House appears to be laying the groundwork for President Barack Obama to shake the hand of each senior at Kalamazoo Central High School’s commencement ceremony next month. "Seniors are being asked to provide their birthdates, Social Security numbers and citizen status to the Secret Service so background checks could be performed

Elena Kagan and Cass Sunstein connection

Obama said his administration is taking a “very close look” at Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law, examining it for any “implications, especially for civil rights.” “I want everyone, American and Mexican, to know my administration is taking a very close look at the Arizona law”

Soros-funded group, "Free Press", urges media run by government Marxist-led study has close ties to Obama White House officials

The List" for 5/19/2010

Russia, U.S. may jointly develop spacecraft engines

Senate probes Ft. Hood-linked imam's escape: The Lieberman panel seeks info on Awlaki's '02 catch-n-release -Stonewalled by the Justice Department in its efforts to get to the bottom of intelligence lapses that led to the Fort Hood massacre, the Senate Homeland Security Committee has broadened its probe to look into why Justice a year after 9/11 withdrew an arrest warrant for the radical American-born imam who corresponded with the Fort Hood terrorist. The chief counsel for the Senate panel, led by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., has requested an interview with a federal agent who shortly after 9/11 attacks worked with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego investigating Anwar al-Awlaki's ties there to two of the 9/11 hijackers.

Feds: Nightstick at polls 'not prosecutable'- Commission demands to know why Obama administration gave Black Panthers free pass

DOJ Voting Rights attorney resigns over Black Panthers stonewalling

The List" for 5/18/2010

According to The Politico, HHS is quickly becoming a campaign organization for congressional Democrats: “The Obama administration Tuesday night gave more shape to its health reform selling strategy: Focus on the early roll-out of tangible benefits and, if all goes as planned, win over a skeptical public more than any argument ever could.

State Dep’t deputy: My comments about China and Arizona were taken out of context

VIDEO: State Department Spokesman Critical of Arizona Law Admits He Too Hasn’t Read It

Congressional investigators say some of the same intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks also allowed a man to slip on board a U.S.-bound jetliner with a bomb on Christmas.

VIDEO: Issa grills Holder on bringing a special prosecutor on the Sestak bribery allegations.

The White House has Jay Angoff as their "Hit Man".   Angoff has lots of experience and a zest for trench warfare against health plans. Sebelius picked Jay Angoff to head the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at HHS.   Angoff is a class-action litigator who specialized in and made millions by suing insurance companies for "price gouging."

Ahead of anticipated tough questioning on Capitol Hill about the Gulf Coast spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday the government will tighten requirements for onshore oil and gas drilling. The new measures would not apply to oil rigs at sea.

Kagan papers emerge amid questions on abortion- In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York  said she views as "troubling" a 1997 memo Kagan wrote urging then-President Bill Clinton to back all abortions of viable fetuses except when the physical health of the mother was at risk.

Federal Regulator Repeatedly Failed to Inspect Deepwater Horizon – Including for One-Quarter of Obama Presidency

Grilled by skeptical lawmakers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities  and that may have contributed to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

IRS pitches tax credit for health insurance

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) Tuesday called on the top Obama State Department official repsonsible for human rights issues to “retract and apologize” for telling officials of the Communist government of China that Arizona's new immigration-enforcement law is an example of a “troubling trend in our society” and for portraying Arizona as the moral equivalent of Communist China.

AZ Gov Calls Obama 'Comic-in-Chief'

Obama: Beheading of Daniel Pearl ‘captured the world’s imagination’ [video]

Obama State Dept. Tells Communist China: AZ Immigration Law Is Indication of 'Troubling Trend' of 'Discrimination' in U.S.

AUDIO: Cass Sunstein Wanted to “Mandate” Links on Private Websites (2001)

White House health care czar Nancy-Anne Deparle repeated the claim that the health care reform law signed by President Obama will result in lower health care costs despite a well-known government report to the contrary.  Deparle, speaking to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in Washington on Monday, said that the new health care reform would make health care more affordable by lowering premiums and reducing costs.

Obama will name a special commission to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Obama Won’t Say Who Killed Daniel Pearl

Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni”, who was discovered by The Times living illegally in Boston, was granted asylum in America yesterday in a controversial decision that will fuel the already charged debate on illegal immigrants. A judge ruled that Zeituni Onyango, 57, the Kenyan half-sister of President Obama’s late father, would be allowed to stay in the country despite ignoring a 2004 deportation order. Ms Onyango received the notification by mail three months after she turned up in a wheelchair to testify before an immigration judge at a closed-door hearing in Boston. The rationale for the judge’s decision was not made public.

The Hawaii Department of Health claims in official communications that the original birth index and index of foreign births (which are both required to be retained permanently) don't exist.

VIDEO:Napolitano: I’m not comfortable with this Arizona law that I haven’t read yet

Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

India is turning to Europe for support of the naval version of its Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), after its initial choice of the U.S. was stymied by an inability to gain the requisite approvals from Washington. India selected Lockheed Martin as the winner of a bid for consultancy work on its naval LCA, but failure to secure U.S. State Department licensing approvals — at least in a timely fashion — now has resulted in EADS being in negotiation for the work.

The List" for 5/17/2010

The number of homeowners dropping out of the Obama administration's main mortgage assistance plan is growing, and is now almost equal to the number who have received permanent relief. The Treasury Department's report on Monday was the latest evidence of problems in the administration's $75 billion program.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledged Monday that the federal government doesn't have the resources or expertise to deal with an oil spill 5,000 feet below the sea, and must largely depend on oil companies to deal with an incident of such magnitude

The appointment of a well-respected ex-Navy lawyer to oversee war-crime trials is being seen in military legal circles as a sign the Obama administration might reverse its decision to bring Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to New York for a civilian trial.

Obama says he loves Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) — just not quite enough to hazard an 11th-hour political trip to Pennsylvania for an ally of convenience increasingly viewed as unlikely to win

EPA Sets Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements

The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed breaking up the agency responsible for both policing the oil industry and acting as its partner in drilling activities

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday defended the Obama administration's response to a Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and oil spill as crude and natural gas continued to gush from a well pipe on the ocean floor. "Since day one, the administration has engaged in an all-hands-on-deck response to this event—and DHS has played a significant role"

Analysis: the greatest beneficiary of the GM bailout was the United Autoworkers union hierarchy. Along with sympathetic Obama agents, union officials were effectively left in charge of the company.

Obama’s plans for reducing America’s nuclear arsenal and defeating Iran’s missiles rely heavily on a new generation of antimissile defenses, which last year he called “proven and effective.” His confidence in the heart of the system, a rocket-powered interceptor known as the SM-3, was particularly notable because as a senator and presidential candidate he had previously criticized antimissile arms. But now, a new analysis being published by two antimissile critics, at M.I.T. and Cornell, casts doubt on the reliability of the new weapon.

White House Reports Two-Year Building Freeze in Ramat Shlomo

The federal agency that regulates offshore oil drilling declined to send a witness to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s hearing Monday on the federal response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman said.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will lose $2.1 billion on a loan made to Chrysler in early 2009.

Mitt Romney held a fundraiser in Manhattan last week and outperformed Obama

Michelle Obama to Food Manufacturers: Cut 1 Trillion Calories Annually by 2012

Napolitano Says She 'Doesn't Like' Arizona Immigration-Enforcement Law, Then Is Forced to Admit She Hasn’t ‘Reviewed it in Detail’

. The Obama administration is using U.S. government resources to help the embattled radical advocacy organization spread the gospel of left-wing community organizing in India. Obama’s ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer, recently lent his name and the prestige of the U.S. government to ACORN India’s efforts to organize rag-pickers in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). Roemer is a former Democratic congressman who represented an Indiana district.

Kagan Helped Craft Clinton Strategy for Blocking Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

After the signing of the Freedom of Press Act on Monday, President Obama declined to take any questions from the press.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has gotten an angry thumbs-down from 9/11 family members who say she played a key role in quashing a lawsuit that accused the Saudi kingdom of helping finance the terror attacks. "Kagan is the main reason why the Supreme Court ruled against the 9/11 families," said William Doyle, who lost his son in the Twin Towers.

The List" for 5/16/2010

Obama Administration Apologizes to China . . . For Arizona Law

White House message machinery spinning faster than ever (Regarding BP Gulf Oil Spill )

Kagan once defended 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny” in obscenity case

The Obama administration gave the BP Oil rig a "safety award" last year.

Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies

Interior Minister: Israel will never freeze construction in Jerusalem

Obama’s Faith-Based Programs Pushing Global Warming, Climate Change, Green Issues

The Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions, seized on Elena Kagan’s role in prohibiting military recruiting on Harvard's campus during her tenure as the dean of Harvard Law School in an exclusive "This Week" interview and called it “no little-bitty matter.” He insisted that Kagan was not only wrong in her decision, but broke the law.

A leading international Arab newspaper has hailed Obama for officially removing the description “Muslim terrorist” as part of his campaign “to reach out to the Muslim world.

Obama and Elena Kagan and Abner Mikva, their respectable socialist "mentor" connection. Alinsky connections

Organizing for America, the former grass-roots campaign arm for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, is trying to rally supporters to phone bank and get out the vote in Pennsylvania for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., the former Republican locked in a tight primary race with a far more progressive Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Penn

Lawmakers disregarded Defense Secretary Robert Gates's calls for fiscal restraint on Wednesday, approving a military pay raise higher than President Obama and the Pentagon requested. The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee approved a 1.9 percent pay bump for uniformed military personnel, half of a percentage point higher than Obama's fiscal 2011 budget.

The List" for 5/15//2010

The White House on Saturday asked Bill Clinton's presidential library to speed the release of more than 160,000 pages of paper, including e-mail, in its possession from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's tenure as a Clinton adviser in the 1990s.

White House: Kagan Volunteered to Us That She’s Straight -- After Erroneous Outing

The Obama administration has “screwed up the messaging” about its support for Israel over the past 14 months, and it will take “more than one month to make up for 14 months,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday to a group of rabbis called together for a meeting in the White House.

The White House creates its own media blog, side steps the media

Kagan's college thesis pulled from the net

An Updated List of Goldman Sachs Ties To The Obama Government Including Elena Kagan

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to answer pointed questions from Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., about allegations the Obama Administration offered U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., a high-ranking position in return for dropping out of the primary election against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter

Barack Obama sends nuclear experts to tackle BP's Gulf of Mexico oil leak

US Sends Israel Smart Bombs To Match Syrian Missiles For Hizballah

The List" for 5/14//2010

Wall Street bigs snubbed President Obama and were no-show sat a big-bucks campaign fund-raiser in New York City

E. Jerusalem: Demolition orders for illegally constructed Arab homes in east Jerusalem are highly unlikely to go ahead in the near future, it emerged on Thursday, despite a recent announcement to the contrary by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch. The U-turn came after the US State Department sought clarifications over comments by Aharonovitch, who said on Wednesday that “police have no instructions to refrain from carrying out the demolitions.

As part of the continuing White House effort to assuage the American Jewish community of its pro-Israel credentials, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel met with a group of 15 rabbis from across the country

Full text of 14 law review articles by Elena Kagan- Includes title..."Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine"

Elena Kagan's paper trail thousands of pages long, but no one has seen them yet

Obama pushing $23 billion teachers union bailout

Obama on Friday angrily decried the "ridiculous spectacle" of oil industry officials pointing fingers of blame for the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico and pledged to end a "cozy relationship" between the oil industry and federal regulators that he said had extended into his own administration.

Obama's Dept. of the Interior, tasked with managing oil exploration allowed BP and other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first obtaining required permits, a complaint said.

 Nominee Kagan: the White House is blocking access to anyone who might be able to tell her personal story to the American people. -When a New York Times reporter attempted to observe Ms. Kagan's brother teaching his constitutional law class at Hunter College High School, Mr. Kagan and the school agreed but a school spokeswoman said all media requests had to be given final approval by the White House. The White House decidedly did not approve. Joshua Earnest, a White House spokesman, said that the administration was "uncomfortable with the idea at this time."

The day after the hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, Presidential Science Czar John Holdren was asked about going up against Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan. -He arrogantly suggested that the "President and his advisers" concluded that the Obama approach, bypassing the Moon and going to an asteroid and so on was "more exciting."

Obama's self-imposed deadline to have all troops out of Iraq within 16-months expires next week

“Moderate” Elena Kagan Donated to Extreme Left Political Candidate in 2006- Kagan made a maximum contribution ($500) to the campaign of John Bonifaz who was running for the Democratic nomination to be Secretary of the Commonwealth of MA.

Holder Admits to Not Reading Arizona's Immigration Law Despite Criticizing It

The nation's most influential small business lobby is joining a court challenge to Obama's overhaul, arguing that Americans cannot be required under the Constitution to obtain insurance coverage.  The National Federation of Independent Business will announce Friday it is joining a federal lawsuit filed in Florida by 20 state attorneys general and governors, NFIB President Dan Danner said in an interview. All but one of the state officials are Republicans, and the case coincides with an election year.

Obama's Sixty Eighth Week in Office

The List" for 5/13//2010

VIDEO: (2008) Elena Kagan Jokes She Doesn’t Have the Worldly Experience Required for The Supreme Court

Elena Kagan Donated to Pro-Abortion Women's Group With Ties to Emily's List.  Emily’s List,  is an organization that works to elect pro-abortion Democratic women to Congress, and NARAL Pro-Choice America (NARAL), an organization that advocates for increased access to abortion.

Kagan: Confirmation Hearings are a "Charade"

Government funds must not be granted to any religious organizations seeking to prevent teen pregnancies, since such groups may "inject" religious teaching, argued Elena Kagan, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court. However, when questioned during Senate hearings earlier this year about her argument – made in a 1987 legal brief – Kagan reversed course and called her own memo "the dumbest thing I ever read."

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, once called a judge universally regarded as one of the most extreme liberal activist  high court justices in history "my judicial hero."  Kagan was referring to Aharon Barak, the retired president of the Supreme Court of Israel, who at the time was receiving the Peter Gruber Foundation 2006 Justice Prize at Harvard. Barak has been recognized across the political spectrum as one of the most liberal activist judges.

Interpol is helping Iran to track dissidents here  --Their job is made easier by Obama who allowed INTERPOL US Jurisdiction.....".executive order signed by President Obama...which allows an international law enforcement agency to have jurisdiction in the United States without being subject to the U.S. Constitution"

U.S. Government Pays $23,000 a Month to Mosque of Ft. Hood Shooting Supporter Al-Awlaki... Bill paid by the US Census Dept. ----..... The White House now controls the Census Dept...

The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries

VIDEO: Eric Holder Refuses To Say "Radical Islam"

White House press secretary Gibbs misrepresents president’s role in assigning Secret Service protection. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday that President Obama does not decide who receives Secret Service protection and who does not.  -The Secret Service often provides recommendations on who can or should be protected based on their own assessments. But nothing happens without the president’s signature.

Obama's former, auto czar, Steve Rattner, has nothing but praise for General Motors' new chief executive, Ed Whitacre, but he acknowledged this week that the auto giant may have "slightly elasticized the reality of things" by airing an ad claiming it had repaid its government loans "in full."

Kagan on Second Amendment: Like Freedom of Speech Enjoys “Strong But Not Unlimited Protection”

AUDIO: Obama flashback- "A Supreme Court Nominiee with no judicial experience requires extreme scrutiny" (about Harriet Miers nomination)

A former Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer, who prosecuted terrorists in front of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, says Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan displayed poor judgment as dean of Harvard Law School.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has been a faithful Democratic donor over the past decade, lavishing nearly $15,000 on candidates from Barack Obama to Al Gore

U.S. troops in Afghanistan could soon be awarded a medal for not doing something, a precedent-setting award that would be given for “courageous restraint” for holding fire to save civilian lives

Obama will have the US to join a UN advisory group with anti-Israel past: Alliance of Civilizations.  The Obama administration is preparing to join an international advisory group that the United States generally has shunned due to fears it would adopt anti-Israeli and anti-Western positions

Obama has been happy to beat up on Wall Street "fat cats," but tonight he'll be even happier to take their money. Obama is slated to headline a superswank, $50,000-per-couple fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at Manhattan's gilded St. Regis hotel on Fifth Ave.The high-dollar affair will feature fine French food, a bevy of Wall Street titans and 23 Congress members - including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Claim: Obama Was an Incompetent State Senator-- His Transcripts on the Floor

As articles editor for the Harvard Law Review in 1985 Kagan helped shepherd into print a racially noxious story by a radical law professor and architect of Critical Race Studies, which is essentially "blame whitey" in legal vernacular.

Obama still hasn't been to Nashville- ignores flooding

Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has said that President Barack Obama is "poorly advised" on space matters

Pioneering moonwalking astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of hastily concocting an ill-conceived road map for manned space exploration in its move to shelve NASA's back-to-the-moon program.

The Ministry of Planning of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) announced on Wednesday that the United States will provide the PNA 500 million U.S. dollars as a support for the year 2010.

Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney's office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport.

Obama files first defense of health care law in Detroit court

The Obama administration will announce tomorrow it has slashed anti-terror funds for New York City, despite the attempted Times Square bombing less than two weeks ago that underscored the enormous threat to the city.

Obama’s is the first administration to state explicitly that the Jewish presence in the parts of the city that the Jordanian occupiers vacated in 1967 is illegal and to actively oppose the building of Jewish housing even in existing Jewish neighborhoods in the city.

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, helped shield Saudi Arabia from lawsuits filed by families of 9/11 victims seeking to target countries and leaders who helped finance al-Qaida. "I'm very concerned about her views on executive power and her views with respect to the separation of power," said Stephen A. Cozen, the lead attorney in the case for 9/11 victims

Questions surround Kagan's handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy --n 1995 and 1996, future Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was involved in a bizarre controversy in which the Clinton White House was accused of siding with an eco-terrorist group locked in a standoff with federal agents deep in the woods of Oregon. The incident led to an investigation by House Republicans, who concluded that a staffer on the White House Council on Environmental Quality tipped off the environmental radicals to impending action by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement agents -- a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground.Kagan, at the time an associate White House counsel, had no role in leaking the feds' plans to the radicals, but House Committee on Natural Resources investigators concluded she shirked her responsibility by not searching for the source of the leak or pushing for punishment of the leaker.

Orszag: The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he simply “preferred”

At the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's upcoming hearing on May 14, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez will attempt to explain why the Obama administration dropped federal voter intimidation charges against two New Black Panthers. --Their principal argument is that the Panthers were not scary enough. They contend that two men who dress up like soldiers and stand in the doorway of a voting place brandishing a billy club cannot be prosecuted for voter intimidation in the absence of testimony from a voter who was intimidated, or proof of someone who was turned away from voting. Without such evidence, they argue, it is impossible to prove what the Panthers intended by their actions.

Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem

Netanyahu: We will never divide Jerusalem During a speech marking Jerusalem Day, the prime minister said that Israel will continue to build and develop in Jerusalem.

The not so well-known  (then Harvard Law School Dean) Kagan's contemporaneous approval of and promotion of a little-known but richly endowed Harvard Law School program called The Islamic Legal Studies Program.

Kagan Says ‘Governmental Motive’ is Proper Focus in First Amendment Cases, Backs Limits on Speech That Can ‘Harm’

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in a 1996 article entitled "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine" that "redistribution of speech" is not "itself an illegitimate end" for government.

Memo Misread: Elena Kagan Did Not Tell Clinton to Back Partial-Birth Abortion Ban -- explanation

Elena Kagan Helped Keep Partial-Birth Abortion Legal Longer, Pro-Life Group Says- While mainstream media outlets misrepresent a legal memo Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote during her tenure with the Clinton administration, a pro-life group says the reality is that Kagan's memo helped ensure partial-birth abortions stayed legal six years longer. At issue is a memorandum Kagan wrote to President Bill Clinton advising him to support a phony partial-birth abortion ban that actually prohibited no abortions.

The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers found that the package would add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government’s reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech.-Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States under President Obama, expressed that idea in her 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.” ..In her article, Kagan said that examination of the motives of government is the proper approach for the Supreme Court when looking at whether a law violates the First Amendment. While not denying that other concerns, such as the impact of a law, can be taken into account, Kagan argued that governmental motive is “the most important” factor.

Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August. -The insurgent threat has prompted military officials to figure how to keep as many troops on the ground, for as long as possible, and still withdraw all but 50,000 U.S. troops by Aug. 31, as ordered last year by Obama.

Kagan Thesis: The decline of U.S. socialism is “sad” for those looking to “change America”

When President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat, was: "Limbaugh can play with himself."

The List" for 5/12//2010  

Pioneering moonwalking astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of hastily concocting an ill-conceived road map for manned space exploration in its move to shelve NASA's back-to-the-moon program.

The Ministry of Planning of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) announced on Wednesday that the United States will provide the PNA 500 million U.S. dollars as a support for the year 2010.

Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney's office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport.

Obama files first defense of health care law in Detroit court

The Obama administration will announce tomorrow it has slashed anti-terror funds for New York City, despite the attempted Times Square bombing less than two weeks ago that underscored the enormous threat to the city.

Obama’s is the first administration to state explicitly that the Jewish presence in the parts of the city that the Jordanian occupiers vacated in 1967 is illegal and to actively oppose the building of Jewish housing even in existing Jewish neighborhoods in the city.

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, helped shield Saudi Arabia from lawsuits filed by families of 9/11 victims seeking to target countries and leaders who helped finance al-Qaida. "I'm very concerned about her views on executive power and her views with respect to the separation of power," said Stephen A. Cozen, the lead attorney in the case for 9/11 victims

Questions surround Kagan's handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy --n 1995 and 1996, future Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was involved in a bizarre controversy in which the Clinton White House was accused of siding with an eco-terrorist group locked in a standoff with federal agents deep in the woods of Oregon. The incident led to an investigation by House Republicans, who concluded that a staffer on the White House Council on Environmental Quality tipped off the environmental radicals to impending action by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement agents -- a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground.Kagan, at the time an associate White House counsel, had no role in leaking the feds' plans to the radicals, but House Committee on Natural Resources investigators concluded she shirked her responsibility by not searching for the source of the leak or pushing for punishment of the leaker.

Orszag: The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he simply “preferred”

At the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's upcoming hearing on May 14, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez will attempt to explain why the Obama administration dropped federal voter intimidation charges against two New Black Panthers. --Their principal argument is that the Panthers were not scary enough. They contend that two men who dress up like soldiers and stand in the doorway of a voting place brandishing a billy club cannot be prosecuted for voter intimidation in the absence of testimony from a voter who was intimidated, or proof of someone who was turned away from voting. Without such evidence, they argue, it is impossible to prove what the Panthers intended by their actions.

Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem

Netanyahu: We will never divide Jerusalem During a speech marking Jerusalem Day, the prime minister said that Israel will continue to build and develop in Jerusalem.

The not so well-known  (then Harvard Law School Dean) Kagan's contemporaneous approval of and promotion of a little-known but richly endowed Harvard Law School program called The Islamic Legal Studies Program.

Kagan Says ‘Governmental Motive’ is Proper Focus in First Amendment Cases, Backs Limits on Speech That Can ‘Harm’

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in a 1996 article entitled "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine" that "redistribution of speech" is not "itself an illegitimate end" for government.

Memo Misread: Elena Kagan Did Not Tell Clinton to Back Partial-Birth Abortion Ban -- explanation

Elena Kagan Helped Keep Partial-Birth Abortion Legal Longer, Pro-Life Group Says- While mainstream media outlets misrepresent a legal memo Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote during her tenure with the Clinton administration, a pro-life group says the reality is that Kagan's memo helped ensure partial-birth abortions stayed legal six years longer. At issue is a memorandum Kagan wrote to President Bill Clinton advising him to support a phony partial-birth abortion ban that actually prohibited no abortions.

The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers found that the package would add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government’s reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech.-Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States under President Obama, expressed that idea in her 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.” ..In her article, Kagan said that examination of the motives of government is the proper approach for the Supreme Court when looking at whether a law violates the First Amendment. While not denying that other concerns, such as the impact of a law, can be taken into account, Kagan argued that governmental motive is “the most important” factor.

Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August. -The insurgent threat has prompted military officials to figure how to keep as many troops on the ground, for as long as possible, and still withdraw all but 50,000 U.S. troops by Aug. 31, as ordered last year by Obama.

Kagan Thesis: The decline of U.S. socialism is “sad” for those looking to “change America”

When President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat, was: "Limbaugh can play with himself."

The List" for 5/11//2010  

Does Obama have a fake social security number? Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.

Why Do They Hate Elena Kagan? The left-wing blogosphere hates Elena Kagan. Really. The venom percolating up from the depths of the nutroots is getting pretty toxic. A sampling of names of the list and why they hate her so much...

The left comes out against Kagan

VIDEO:White House video interview done with Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The interview was done by White House staff, and was posted to the internet to allow people to hear from Kagan "unfiltered."

TheWhite House Press Corps was not happy that they were not allowed to interview Kagan, and they let Press Secretary Robert Gibbs know it today at the White House Briefing

The nation's largest conservative youth outreach organization charged Monday that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "trampled on the rights" of students during her tenure as the dean of Harvard Law School, and "segregated" students who sought to meet with military recruiters to hear about possible careers in the U.S. armed services.

Obama to Abbas: I am committed to creation of Palestinian state

US President Barack Obama urged the Palestinians to move to direct negotiations as soon as possible in a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday.  Obama said that the two sides need to “negotiate seriously and in good faith” and stressed his intention "to hold both sides accountable for actions that undermine trust during the talks,” according to a statement put out by the White House following the call.

Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits- In May of 2009, Elena Kagan, as US solicitor general, filed papers with the US Supreme Court encouraging it not to listen to arguments in a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government. The suit was filed by thousands of family members and victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the US.

Congressional budget referees say President Barack Obama's new health care law could potentially add another $115 billion over 10 years to government health care spending.

White House Seeks Controls on Food Marketing; Warns of 'National Health Crisis' for Children

U.S. 2010 Afghan Death Toll Third Worst Since 2001

Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Attacked Pro-Life Advocates in 1980 Essay

Supreme Court Sleeper Agent: Elena Kagan

Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by Obama to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has called the military’s ban on homosexuals “a profound wrong” and “a moral injustice of the first order.

VIDEO: Axelrod: Obama willing to loosen Miranda Rights

Kagan's oral argument before the Supreme Court

Obama appointee to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, didn’t do her homework before arguing the Citizens United case on behalf of the Obama administration and the FEC — which her probably-soon-to-be colleagues on the Supreme Court wasted no time in pointing out.  It came at the very beginning of her oral arguement, when one might expect a Solicitor General to attempt to impress the panel with her grasp of law and precedent: the crux of the case was the issue of limiting expenditures as an expression of political speech, not contributions.  Kagan started off her argument by misconstruing the issue and then offering a factually incorrect reading of precedent.  Both Scalia and Kennedy objected to it before Kagan even had time to get the argument completed

Top Obama advisers Jarrett and Axelrod given car privileges traditionally reserved for national security officials.   Obama has expanded the very small group of top aides who are given the privilege of taxpayer-funded personal drivers — who take them from their house to work and back home again each day — to include two top political advisers

Obamacare: Letting young adults stay on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26 will nudge premiums nearly 1 percent higher for employer plans, the government said in an estimate released Monday

The letter to congressional leaders

The Obama administration is no longer interested in debate of health care. The administration told congressional leaders in a letter on Monday that it has made "significant progress" implementing the health care overhaul, including a load of consumer friendly provisions that could ease negative perceptions of the plan among a skeptical public. The letter is part of an administration campaign to convey the impression that the debate is over and the health care train is leaving the station.

WellPoint CEO Angela Braly blasted President Barack Obama for repeating a charge that her company singled out and dumped women with breast cancer from its rolls. In a sharply worded letter to the president sent on Sunday, Braly said the characterization “grossly misrepresents” reality. Braly criticized Obama for raising the point in his weekly address on Saturday. She wrote that she was “disappointed to hear you repeat false information.” She also urged Obama to stop his attacks on health insurers.

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This weekend, secretary of defense Gates called for additional spending cuts to keep the defense budget flat for the future

If you've spent months trying to get a job with the federal government, things are about to get easier. Obama plans to instruct federal agencies to radically overhaul the process now used to hire government workers. The change is expected to cut in half the time it takes to fill vacancies and allow the government to better compete with the private sector for top talent

Kagan and the Military: What Really Happened : Robert Clark

Kagan's scant writings spark concern

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese issues a statement on the potential nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court:  Highly critical and wary..."Senators should vigorously question Ms. Kagan about such statements to determine whether she is truly committed to the rule of law."

More Elena Kagan history- and comments on socialism...“I absorbed ... liberal principles early,” she said. “More to the point, I have retained them fairly intact to this day.”

Lyles: New NASA budget harms human space flight- Obama’s new plan for NASA takes too much money from the the agency’s human spaceflight program to fix funding in other parts of the agency, said one member of a presidential panel that met last year to recommend changes to NASA. “This time the pendulum has swung the other way,” wrote retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, who said that previous NASA budgets have starved the rest of the agency at the expense of human spaceflight and NASA’s back-to-the-moon Constellation program. “It makes no more sense to have a NASA with an under-emphasis on human spaceflight

More from Elena Kagan's paper on socialism:- "In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness,"..."Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation's established parties?"

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, argued certain forms of speech  that promote "racial or gender inequality" could be "disappeared."

Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Senate committee in Washington this week on the Obama NASA plan

 On Kagan's record: As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 Kagan treated two liberal law professors with kid gloves when they were busted for plagiarism. Her chicanery was so blatant that even a leftist academic said she should be fired for her "whitewash."  

Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama, told that court in September that Congress could constitutionally prohibit corporations from engaging in political speech such as publishing pamphlets that advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office.

Kagan: Speech is free if government decides it has more value than 'societal costs'

In her undergraduate thesis at Princeton, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, lamented the decline of socialism in the country as “sad” for those who still hope to “change America.”

A List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: Names Attached to the Giant Squid’s Tentacles

With Obamacare Cash Comes New Abortion Supercenter for Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) has announced that they are constructing a new clinic and administrative headquarters in St. Paul.  The 46,000 square foot, three-story, LEED certified "green" structure is expected to open in 2011.  It is one of a number of mega-clinics Planned Parenthood has opened recently or is planning to open, such as the 78,000 square-foot Houston facility that some have called the largest abortion center in the western hemisphere.

Obama appointees rewrite the rules for airline unions

In a major victory for organized labor, unions will have an easier time signing up airline and railroad workers after the Obama administration Monday changed a 76-year-old rule on union elections. The new rule, announced by the three-member National Mediation Board, would recognize a union if a simple majority of workers who cast ballots approve organizing. The previous rule required a majority of the entire work force to favor unionizing. That meant workers choosing not to vote at all were effectively counted as "no" votes.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has never been a judge, she's never ruled on a case and she's never written an opinion.

VIDEO: Tennessee under water and nobody gives a dang (Where's Obama?)

A quick look at the six Title II sections that FCC wants to apply to broadband providers... "Net Neutrality"

Kagan and Obama met at the University of Chicago in the 90's

Obama's nominee: As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933...As dean at Harvard Law, Kagan write to the U.S. Senate, urging that body to kill an amendment that would have protected the White House from lawsuits filed by foreign terrorists charging that their "constitutional rights" had been violated by American law-enforcement and intelligence authorities..

VIDEO: Who is Obama nominiee Elena Kagan, who just got the nod today from President Barak Obama? Here is a YouTube video of her as Dean, accepting an award from this orginization, called “Equal Justice Works”

VIDEO: today's announcement by President Obama that Elena Kagan is his nominee to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. In this clip, Obama said he is choosing Kagan because she understands "behind the law there are stories." .... "That understanding of law - not as an intellectual exercise, or words on a page, but as it affects the lives or ordinary people . . . "

The new federal health-care law, or “ObamaCare,” claiming to eventually provide coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans, is already being used by scam artists to prey on those in need of care, Penn. state Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario said Monday. Scam artists are already at work, according to Mr. Ario, attempting to sell the federal plan to those who believe they are in need or simply want to get into national health care early.

Republicans are questioning Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s ties to a liberal icon and the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.   In its first memo to reporters since Kagan’s nomination to the high court became public, the Republican National Committee highlighted Kagan’s tribute to Marshall in a 1993 law review article published shortly after his death.  Kagan quoted from a speech Marshall gave in 1987 in which he said the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was “defective.” She quoted him as saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”

At Harvard, Obama nominee Elena Kagan reinstated a ban on military recruiters using the Harvard Law School Office of Career Services – and then under pressure from the Bush administration, she lifted the ban.

The Obama administration is “pleading” with Congress to give military personnel a much smaller increase in pay than proposed by lawmakers.

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VIDEO: Obama Compares Lynching, Desegregation To Passing Health Care Reform

VIDEO:  Obama..."information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you; it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.”

Newly uncovered correspondence quotes a purported communist activist claiming he served as political mentor to President Obama's Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Don Rose, founder of the pro-communist Hyde Park Voices and member in the 1960s of a purported Communist Party front, the Alliance to End Repression, boasted of his relationship with Axelrod: "Your dad and I 'mentored' and helped educate [Axelrod] politically," Rose writes, "which is perhaps why you may recall seeing him hanging around the house."

VIDEO: Attorney General Eric Holder- Arizona law not racist

Israel has agreed to freeze construction in east Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo for two years, the US  State Department said Sunday, following the completion of the first round of indirect Middle East peace talks.

Majority US Government owned General Motors Corp. has ended its long, long relationship with Warren-based Campbell-Ewald. GM officials Friday confirmed it was transferring the balance of the Chevrolet account to the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest ad agencies located in France

Obama  Pentagon gives $500M 'NO BID' contract to Halliburton

United States President Barack Obama has lost nearly half of his support among American Jews, a poll by the McLaughlin Group has shown.

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham says Newsweek having Obama on the cover numerous times and thorough coverage of him is not to blame for the magazine's

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Even as the BP drilling explosion which killed eleven people continues to gush hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has continued to exempt dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Twenty-seven new offshore drilling projects have been approved since April 20, 2010; twenty-six under the same environmental review exemption used to approve the disastrous BP drilling that is fouling the Gulf and its wildlife.

W.H. waives ethics rules for counsel (Robt Bauer)-  late Friday afternoon, the White House issued Bauer a waiver  to ethics rules established by Obama that prohibit officials in his administration  from working on issues affecting their former clients for two years.

E-mails and other records of Dr. Eric Whitaker -- one of President Obama's best friends -- have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

An Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America

Caterpillar Inc. has discussed the possibility of dropping the health care coverage of its active employees because paying the federal penalty for doing so might be more cost effective.

Obama plans to ask Congress for a tool similar to a line-item veto that would let him single out new spending for cuts

Chump Change: U.S. regulators and stock exchange authorities fined Goldman Sachs $450,000 Tuesday for hundreds of violations involving short sales.

The Obama administration has delivered new and stiff warnings to Pakistan -"If there's a successful terrorist attack, we will have to act (within Pakistan)"

Faisal Shahzad Was Blogging on Terror Websites Since 2006: Obama administration removed him from watch list anyway

The new health care law already is helping millions of people through  tax breaks for small businesses and assistance for families with young adults, President Obama said Saturday.

A U.S. official said Taiwan's government is continuing to press the Obama administration to sell the island nation additional F-16 jet fighters to replace aging F-5s. However, the official said it was unclear whether the administration will grant the request due to White House's concern of further upsetting China.

Mainstream media: Tens of millions doubt Obama eligibility: ABC Poll

Hawaii governor announces 'exact' place of Obama birth- 'The question has been asked and answered, and I think we should all move on now'

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Tensions are rising inside the House Intelligence Committee over the White House's refusal to fully brief lawmakers on events leading up to the arrest of accused Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Angry at having been kept in the dark during previous terrorist incidents, all nine Republican members of the committee have sent a letter to President Obama accusing the administration of withholding critical national security information. "A clear pattern has emerged," the lawmakers write

The U.S. Navy told Congress it wants to keep 11 aircraft carriers through 2045, just days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates called into question the need for that many.

Vladimir Putin snubs Britain and US over VE Day celebrations- Russian president refuses to let Prince Charles and Joe Biden attend Red Square for parade of allied and Russian troops

Holder defends Mirandizing Shazad

A proposal to grant medals for "courageous restraint" to troops in Afghanistan who avoid deadly force at a risk to themselves has generated concern among U.S. soldiers and experts who worry it could embolden enemy fighters and confuse friendly forces.

VIDEO: FRAUD IN THE USA, The end of the birth controversy

VIDEO: Speech by Don Berwick, Obama appointee to head Medicare lauds  Britain's National Health Service.  

Why the AMA wants to muzzle your doctor: The American Medical Association (AMA), a major cheerleader for ObamaCare, is now trying to silence doctors who oppose it, Scherz writes. The organization wants to protect a monopoly that the federal government has created for it -- a medical coding system administered by the AMA that every health care professional and hospital must use if they wish to get paid for the services they provide. This monopoly generates income of $70 million to $100 million annually for the AMA. That makes the AMA less an association looking out for doctors and more a special interest group beholden to Congress and the White House

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made it clear the Pentagon remains committed to scrapping the law that bans openly gay people from serving in the military

Obamacare tax penalties: The IRS will enforce the individual mandate penalty in the same manner as taxes, according to this CRS report. The IRS would be able to assess the penalty based on a person's tax return.

But, come 2014, the new health care bill will make it harder for employers to hire low-skill workers. And, as workplaces around the country prepare to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, employers are considering how best to comply. For some companies, that means that low-wage and part-time jobs will start to go, not in 2014, but now.

Documents reveal AT&T, Verizon, others, thought about dropping employer-sponsored benefits

The US has assured the Palestinians there will be no “acts of provocation” by any party during the indirect talks between the PA and Israel next week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday....The PA understood that acts of “provocation” include settlement construction by Israel and incitement by the Palestinians- Abbas’s comments were published on a day when US envoy George Mitchell met for the second time in 24-hours with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The talks are taking place amid an almost total news blackout, with neither side releasing any information about the discussions.

The Justice Dept. document recovered by the Weekly Standard

last week's Weekly Standard cover story, by Jennifer Rubin on the FOIA requests of the Justice Dept.

The Weekly Standard Obtains Top Justice Department Official's Recusal Document.  In last week's cover story cover story, Jennifer Rubin described the run around she received in response to her Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documentation of recusals by Justice Department lawyers who previously represented Guantanamo detainees. The official responsible for documents from the top offices at DOJ--the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and associate attorney general--told Rubin the documents were not in a readily accessible place, that three individual attorneys' offices would need to be searched, and it would take a total of eight to eleven months to produce them. However, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has now managed to obtain one of these documents--an apparently complete list of the recusals by Thomas Perrelli, the associate attorney general (the number three attorney in the Justice Department). Covering cases and clients Perrelli or his former law firm (Jenner & Block) worked on, it is six pages long and includes a list of forty-one cases involving former or current Guantanamo detainees. 

Failing ShoreBank, Cap-And-Trade and Jan Schakowsky - Obama connection?

The President's Cancer Panel Report

U.S. Panel Criticized as Overstating Cancer Risks: the President's Cancer Panel report on cancer risks from chemicals and other hazards in the environment has drawn criticism from the American Cancer Society, which says government experts are overstating their case. The government’s 240-page report, published online Thursday says the proportion of cancer cases caused by environmental exposures has been “grossly underestimated.” It warns of “grievous harm” from chemicals and other hazards, and cites “a growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer.”

U.S. Adds 290K Jobs, But Unemployment Hits 9.9%

Jobs Gained: Only 6,662,000 More Needed in 2010 to Fulfill Obama Promise- in order for Obama to meet his pledge of 4 million jobs created by the end of 2010, the U.S. economy would have to add 932,000 jobs each and every month between now and the end of the year

White House says job report shows labor market "healing"

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