Obama's Thirty Fifth Week in Office

Hollywood — the geographic Hollywood as found on Thomas Guide map page 593 — has received $23,338,327 in grants, loans and contracting. This money has created just 20.57 jobs. That’s $1,134,580.80 per job. And as interviews with recipients reveal, even that tiny jobs claim is clearly false, with many of the claims of newly created positions either impossible to verify or lower than reported. Not even 20 full-time jobs have been created in Hollywood proper.

Report: After 10th session with his war council in the White House and after months of delay, Obama will announce a 25,000 troop increase in Afghanistan on Dec. 1st

Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. According to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”. Holdren’s emails show how sincere scientists would be made into raw “entertainment”.

Obama bows again. This time before Chinese premier Wen Jiabao

VIDEO: 2007- Rahm Emaneul takes on the NRA. No guns for anyone on the "terror list"

Obama signed legislation extending an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers. The refundable tax credit, available even if a family has no taxable income, will enable many more buyers to close on a home. But it also could bankrupt the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and, by doing so, damage an already weak housing market.

Obama's 49% Gallup approval in November ties Bill Clinton for the worst first term November approval rating since 1952

VIDEO: Dave Letterman Show- Barack Obama "uh count"

"The List" for 11/23/20

Obama's Justice Dept. Memo on the FOIA

Obama breaks his promises on the Freedom of Information Act. After seven months of stonewalling their FOIA requests, Don Loos and the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation have been forced to file a complaint with the U.S. District Court demanding the Department of Labor be compelled to give them the information they seek. On Obama's first day in office, the Department of Justice issued the following memorandum regarding FOIA requests: " The President directed that FOIA “should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.” Moreover, the President instructed agencies that information should not be withheld merely because “public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”

True cost of Obamacare/Reid Senate bill is 1.8 trillion over a 10 year period

The stimulus bill is actually killing new jobs by forcing states to raise taxes on employers

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed today that President Obama will not be making an Afghanistan announcement before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Obama will meet with his war cabinet Monday for "possibly" the last time before deciding whether to dispatch tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan, an official said. The meeting will be the ninth time Obama has met with his national security team as part of a review of Afghanistan strategy since August.

The new documents show the White House scrambling, in the days after the Gerald Walpin controversy erupted, to put together a public explanation for the firing.

Obama invites Hollywood bigshots to his first State Dinner

China State Construction Engineering Corp, the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about $100 million in New York’s Manhattan area, marking the construction giant’s third order in the United States’ infrastructure space this year.

Obamacare Senate bill Section 2708 does away with various preventative services included mamograms for women of the ages 40 to 49

Obama's Forty Third Week in Office

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India may get $1 Billion in outsourcing contracts from TARP money

Israel: Obama criticism of Jerusalem construction is racist

An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul.

The US and India will sign a pact on intelligence sharing on the anniversary of the Mumbai attacks

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said today.

The White House: Gitmo transfers means jobs. A study, performed by the Obama White House Council of Economic Advisers and obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times, asserted that 2,290 to 2,960 jobs would be created in and around Thomson, Ill., in the first year after its conversion to house some of the prisoners now held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility

Obama is delaying release of the Union/Labor administration contacts

Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial, one of his predecessors said Wednesday: Former Attorney General John Ashcroft

Weak U.S. dollar sets of new gold rush. Foreign governments and individuals in panic buying

The government agency charged with overseeing the economic-stimulus program says it doesn't plan to change its position that the package directly created or saved 640,329.17 jobs through September, despite its own admission and statements from the White House that the number is not accurate.

"Obama Pride' Official starts 'Church Outing' website to expose (or smear) Catholic Priests

The former director of the National Institute of Health is advising women to ignore new Obama administration recommended guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.

"The List" for 11/21/20

White House hails health care vote

VIDEO: The U.S. Senate votes 60-39 to invoke Cloture on the Senate Health Care Bill

Obamacare clears senate hurdle with a 60 to 39 vote on cloture for health care

Senate votes purchased by White House to ensure passing of cloture vote. Sen. Ladreiu of Louisana secures $100 million for his vote

Obamacare will make the states raise their taxes to fund the program

Obama plays golf for four hours after his tour of Asia

Obama asks for patience on economy

More details on administration's firing of investigator Walpin. Possible hush money scandal coverup. More details emerge.

A GOP congressional report accuses the White House of doing favors for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and prominent ally of Obama

Democrats are starting to worry that Obama's "charge-and-spend" debt, new "cap-and-trade" tax and "apologize to the world" agendas are going to hurt them when they run for re-election

mybarakobama website incites violence against Jews... again

Obama seeks 500K for ads to fight.... Sarah Palin

VIDEO: Candidate against Iraq war

Obama Union Rules: The National Mediation Board, which oversees labor relations in the air and rail industry, this month moved to overturn 75 years of labor policy. The board plans to stack the deck for organized labor in union elections.

Senate Obamacare to kill Health Saving Account plans

"The List" for 11/20/20

Obama administration moves to block restitution from Iran for Beirut Marine barracks bombing

Full list of taxes in Senate Obamacare bill

VIDEO: The National Football League has become an arm of the Obama administration with its partnership with Obama's "United We Serve" program.A video posted by the Obama administration to YouTube this week that is planned to air during broadcasts of the NFL's Thanksgiving Day games shows Barack Obama playing football on the White House lawn

Senate Obamacare raises taxes on families with special needs children

ACORN got 200K worth of Justice Dept. funds. ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according to a report issued Friday by the department's inspector general.

Emerson Electric leaves the US says the Federal Gov't. is anti manufacturing: The federal government is "doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing,"

Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues.

Obama is using Sarah Palin to raise cash

Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more. That's one of 17 new taxes imposed by the bill, which also creates a levy on elective plastic surgery - some call it "botax" - and places a 40 percent excise tax on those who have generous health care plans.

Indian Officials wary after White House slights during Obama visit to China

"The List" for 11/19/20

Obama leaves Asia after no progress and call the trip "a success"

Extremist Judge David Hamilton confirmed United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Obama was in the Florida to announce a $3.4 billion federal investment in a so-called Smart Grid, which amounts to a complete overhaul of the country's energy transmission system. The president compared the development of a "Smart Grid" to the creation of the country's interstate system. - Compared the project to the Apollo moon program

Obama has warned Israel that ignoring US pleas and continuing to expand housing in sensitive areas of Jeruslaem could end up being "very dangerous"

Obama calls stimulus data errors "side issue"

Obama's China remarks annoy India. Administration tries to make amends

White House cuts the size of its annual Hannuka party by half

The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.

The American war crimes ambassador said Thursday the U.S. is committed to ending impunity for crimes against humanity, in a speech signaling a softening of hostility toward the International Criminal Court. Stephen Rapp's brief remarks marked the first time a U.S. diplomat has addressed the 110-nation Assembly of State Parties, which oversees the court's work and budget.

David Michaels, a left-wing ideologue who supports junk science and wants to restrict gun possession, has been approved by the Senate Health Committee to head the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said.

The US public debt topped 12 trillion dollars for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed

IRS says cash for clunkers not taxable

Obama blurts out a predicted conviction and death sentence for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed -- then sheepishly qualified the prejudgment.

Senate Majority Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) late Wednesday published the final text of a Senate health care bill that would mandate federally subsidized abortion.

Two leading pro-life organizations that have analyzed the new 2,000-page government-run health care bill released by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late yesterday say the legislation contains massive abortion funding and a fake amendment that does not truly ban it.

After 12.5 Billion in bailout funding to create an electric car, Chrysler ends its electric car program

Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors. Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since Obama’s Inauguration, 56 percent were given to political appointees and 44 percent have gone to career diplomats, according to records kept by the American Foreign Service Association.

VIDEO: "You guys make a pretty good photo op," President Obama said to troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea.

Obama to U.S. GI's in Korea: "You guys make a pretty good photo op"

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a written statement, said the controversial new guidelines for breast cancer screening do not represent government policy, as the Obama administration sought to keep the debate over mammograms from undermining the prospects for health-care reform. Sebelius's statement challenged the recommendations of that influential panel, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, made up of independent experts assembled by her department to address one of the most explosive issues in women's health.

"The List" for 11/18/20

The Senate Health Care Bill is 2,074 pages.

Senate Democrat Health Care Reform Bill Text

The Obama Administration said today that they will recognize the winner of this month’s national elections in Honduras.
Previously, Team Obama said they would not support the democratic elections in Honduras if Manuel Zelaya was not reinstated as president.

Obama pledged to push for closer technical collaboration and eventual U.S. safety approval for China's ARJ21 commuter jet.

AARP recieves 18 million in stimulus money

VIDEO: Obama interview on FOX network

Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's website that tracks the flow of stimulus cash list 11 phantom Minnesota districts that supposedly have been awarded more than $7 million in grants.

A congressional report says Obama's nominee for undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs, Lael Brainard, was late in paying real estate taxe in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Stimulus boosts D.C. based special interests- Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package has been a bonanza for D.C.-based special interest groups, like the National Council of La Raza, AARP and a fund for the Service Employees International Union.

The chief federal oversight official for the stimulus program said in a letter Wednesday that he can’t certify whether the number of jobs “created or saved” by stimulus funds is accurate.

VIDEO: Obama said his administration has laid the groundwork for success on global and domestic matters. "I think that we've restored America's standing in the world, and that's confirmed by polls,"

Goldman Sachs could have suffered dramatic losses if the federal government had not intervened to prop up AIG, according to a government report.

VIDEO: Obama reveals he did not sign off on decision to try KSM

Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty.

VIDEO: Mother of flight 93 hero confronts Attorney General Holder

VIDEO: Attorney General Holder stumped by Lindsay Graham. Asks if he would read Bin Ladin his rights...

During Attorney General Eric Holder’s long explanation of his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court rather than by military tribunals or commissions. , he never really says why

During testimony, Attorney Gen. Holder calls Ft. Hood massacre a "tragic shooting" and is accused of a number of other lies

VIDEO: Lindsay Graham asks Attorney Ge. Holder if Osama Bin Ladin would be read his Miranda rights

VIDEO: Attorney Gen. Holder says Military trial would be a legitimate choice for 9/11 conspirators

Obama told Fox News in an interview that additional settlement building did not make Israel safer.

White House officials told the New Republic magazine this week that the Obama administration has been embarrassed at least twice by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for revealing in public information and policies that the State Department was supposed to keep private between Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the U.S.

"The List" for 11/17/20

VIDEO: Jody Evans gives Obama petition for Afghan women

Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before Evans was videotaped directly handing to Obama a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.

Obama bows again... to the Chinese

Executive Order: Establishment of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force

After Obamacare wins in the house- ...(6 month's later), the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommend fewer exams for women in their 40's

6 months ago, the the U.S Preventive Services Task Force, which works within the Department of Health and Human Services as a “best practice” panel on prevention, sounded a warning signal over a slight decline in annual mammograms among women in their 40s.

Strained relations between Israel and the United States hit a fresh low today when the State Department condemned the construction of 900 new housing units in an East Jerusalem settlement suburb as “dismaying”.

Was Obama connected to a Soviet "agent of influence", Alice Palmer? History of soviet influence on Palmer and influence with Obama

The White House takes control of the Ft. Hood Terrorist briefings. Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Silvestre Reyes issued the following statement regarding the postponement of a full Committee briefing on information related to the Fort Hood shooting: Here's the full text: "Due to the high visibility of the issues surrounding the tragic event at Fort Hood, the President has instructed the National Security Council to assume control of all informational briefings.

The Navy Secretariat Staff Officers Recreation Association, a service group run by Navy personnel and civilians at the Pentagon, has produced Obama Christmas ornaments for $15 each, limited to two per person. The normal Navy image has been replaced for the first time with that of the president. A gold frame surrounds a photo of Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as he takes the oath of office on Inauguration Day.

The FCC, in proposing to change the definition of an “open Internet” from competition-driven to government-driven is setting a very dangerous precedent; that it is acceptable for countries to preemptively regulate the Internet for what might happen in the future, even if they lack the legitimacy of constitutional or legal authority to do so, or even if there is thinnest of justification or evidence to support it. FCC is making in the broader international context is claiming that private companies are the primary threat to Internet freedom and free speech, and not governments

CNN fired Lou Dobbs to please Obama

Gov. Watchdog: Governement may have overpaid to bail out AIG.

The Obama asks Alaska pipeline coordinator Drue Pearce to step down. Vice Admiral Thomas Barrett, USCG (Ret.), the deputy federal coordinator, will be interim coordinator until a permanent replacement is named. Pearce, a former Alaska Senate president, had been appointed federal coordinator of Alaska natural gas transportation projects by former President Bush in 2006.

"The List" for 11/16/20

General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt has been to the White House five times since Obama has been in the White House. Suspicions now are a payoff for NBC promoting Obama's green agenda

GE uses its network to push Obama's green agenda, and gets federal funds for it.

White House advisor Andy Stern gets around "no lobbyists" rule by simply not registering as one

Drug makers raise prices in the face of health care reform

The Senate Armed Services Committee postponed its Monday briefing on the deadly Fort Hood massacre at the request of the White House -- despite calls from some lawmakers to press forward with a congressional investigati

Good news, Obama's stimulus plan creates 30 jobs in one congressional district. Bad news, there is no such district

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Report on AIG bailout slams Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s handling of one of the most sensitive moments of last year’s financial meltdown

Obama China Town Hall: Select Audience, easy questions

75,343 bogus jobs created by Obama stimulus plan. Inflated numbers- state by state

The Obama administration, under fire for inflating jobs created by the stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data,"

Obama linked to fallling U.S. Military morale

More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit. The tax credit, which is supposed to pay individuals up to $400 and couples up to $800, was President Barack Obama's signature tax break in the massive stimulus package enacted in February.

From January of 2009: Obama "Stimulus plan could save or create 4 million jobs"

VIDEO: Obama from 2008 Obama/Clinton debate saying he does not want to force the purchase of health insurance

"The List" for 11/15/20

Former Justice Dept. official: Trying KSM in civilian court will be an intelligence bonanza for al Qaeda and the hostile nations that will view the U.S. intelligence methods and sources that such a trial will reveal.

Netanyahu says to the U.S and Palistinians- that if the Palistinians make unilateral moves, so will Israel

A top Palestinian Authority negotiator told World Net Daily that the Obama administration won't stand in the way of a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel.

Most of the federal stimulus funding that's reached Michigan has created few private-sector jobs. Of the 22,513 stimulus jobs reported in Michigan, 13,555 were tied to state money for education, doled out to local school districts.

U.K. Daily Mail news: Obama has been branded the ‘Groveller-in-Chief’ after giving an exaggerated bow to Japan’s emperor Akihito - the son of the ruler who authorised the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor

The Obama administration plans to put on trial the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and four alleged accomplices in a lower Manhattan courthouse.

Obama assures Asia that U.S. borrowing will not spiral out of control

VIDEO: Obama in 2007 saying he will end the war as soon as he is in office

Two new items in the Walpin-gate case. First, Mr. Walpin filed a legal brief on Nov. 6 that convincingly refutes the arguments in a White House motion to dismiss the lawsuit he had filed demanding that he be reinstated to his job. Second, White House officials met on Tuesday with staff of Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, and narrowed but did not solve their differences over the Obama administration's withholding of documents related to the firing. Though the White House has shared with the senator several hundred pages of relevant material, it continues to claim that several hundred more pages are protected by various legal "privileges." Until Mr. Grassley is satisfied with the level of White House cooperation, he probably will continue his "hold" on the nomination of CNCS Chairman Alan Solomont to be ambassador to Spain.

The stimulus created jobs in China. The 11 U.S. wind farms that received stimulus money from the Treasury have imported 695 of the 982 wind turbines to be installed, creating 4,500 jobs overseas

A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo

The Obama administration reportedly plans to propose that subway and light-rail systems across the country fall under federal oversight.

AUDIO and VIDEO: Rahm Emanuel talks of (forced) civil service for all Americans of all ages

Obama on Sunday will become the first American president in more than 40 years to attend a meeting with the repressive rulers of Myanmar, marking a dramatic shift in the U.S. approach to bringing change to a regime that responds brutally to dissent, locks up journalists and political opponents, and has kept itself largely walled off from the Western world.

Obama's Forty Second Week in Office

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Attorney General Eric Holder has pledged not to allow the release of dangerous detainees in the United States if they are found not guilty in federal court or if their case is thrown out on a technicality.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers. The Obama administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court late Friday saying that Gates has invoked new powers blocking the release of the photos.

Congress ignores Obama and plans investigations into the Fort Hood murders

Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.

VIDEO of Obama in 2006: Khalid Sheik Mohammad will get a full military trial

The Obama Administration on Friday evening urged the Supreme Court to turn aside a test case by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees, and to do so without ruling on their claims of torture and religious discrimination by U.S. agents there. It is clear, Solicitor General Elena Kagan argued in the new filing, that the detainees had no legal basis for their claims at the time they were at Guantanamo — between early 2002 and March 2004. Thus, she contended, the officials sued are immune from the lawsuit.

The father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl slammed the Obama administration's decision to hold a public trial for admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed -- who boasted of killing his son in Pakistan. Judea Pearl said he was "sick to the stomach" when he heard that the Justice Department decided to prosecute Mohammed in Manhattan federal court.

Obama vowed Saturday to hold accountable anyone who may have missed "potential warning signs" about the danger posed by Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan..

Senator Lindsey Graham says he's keeping mum about that decision for now at the request of the White House. "I have been asked by the White House to withhold comment about today’s Guantanamo decision until I can meet face-to-face with the President after he returns from Asia,"

A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying a northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates.

Overall spending on health care would rise as a result of legislation approved a week ago by the House, and billions of dollars in projected savings contained in the measure will be difficult to maintain, according to a report by a top official at the agency that oversees Medicare. The analysis was issued by Richard Foster, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which is part of the Health and Human Services Department.

Newly appointed White House counsel Bob Bauer is "perfectly positioned to be tasked with erasing the tracks between Obama and ACORN," one Republican lawmaker charged Friday

Ten high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are being transferred to face justice in the United States (not merely the five heading to New York)

Flashback- The New York Times blasts Clinton for "almost bowing" to the Akihito (but ignored Obama's bow to Saudi king)

Obama bows to Japanese emperer Akihito

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that providing some kind of legal citizenship pathway and status to illegal immigrants -- which critics say is amnesty -- is key to U.S. national security.

VIDEO: Obama refuses to defend the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

New White House council Bob Bauer tried to block ACORN investigations

"The List" for 11/13/2009

AUDIO: ACORN organizer in Los Angeles admits that "we knew we were gonna put in Obama"

First lady Michelle Obama sought to assure older women on Friday that efforts to overhaul health care won't undercut the benefits they receive through Medicare, saying her husband considers the government-run program a "sacred part of America's social safety net."

Fort Hood murderer, Nidal Hasan listed on page 29 of Janet Napoitano's Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidental task force report.

4 days late, the Obama administration releases photo of Obama-Netanyahu meeting

The United States does not accept continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, a senior U.S. state department official has said, adding that Jerusalem's commitment to restrain settlement activity is not enough. In an address to the Middle East Institute, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns on Tuesday said that the Obama administration does not "accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." "We consider the Israeli offer to restrain settlement activity to be a potentially important step, but it obviously falls short of the continuing Roadmap obligation for a full settlement freeze," he said.

The FDA backs off a proposed plan to restrict oysters after huge criticism from the coast

The Obama administration is confident Congress will raise the country’s debt limit by year end to avert a showdown similar to the one that shuttered parts of the government in 1995, administration officials said.

Obama plans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs,

The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Secretary Janet Napoitano said Friday

On Obama's first trip to Japan he gives concessions on Marine bases

Obama says he would be "Honored" to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Obama administration to push for amnesty to illegal aliens in 2010

The EPA took a baseball bat to Arch Coal's knees last week with its stunning announcement that it's taking the first step that may lead to revocation of Arch's permit at the Spruce No. 1 mine.

VIDEO: Obama says he is "absolutely convinced" that Mohammed will be "subject to the most exacting demands of justice.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-described mastermind of the attacks, and four others will be tried in New York federal court. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday he expects to order prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the five cases

Obama covered his heart for Russian National Anthem.... but not for the US

"The List" for 11/12/2009

Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for the Democrat nomination deliberately appealed to white supremacy, fear and anxiety, charged longtime Barack Obama colleague and Weatherman terrorist William Ayers and wife, Bernardine Dohrn. In a co-authored article in the socialist Monthly Review magazine, the two radicals argued last year's national elections had "racist" undertones and that President Obama's ascent to power can be used to "build a new society."

Obama does not salute or cover his heart during the national anthem.... again

Rattner family ties, ACORN, and the Justice Dept. Rattner is a big donor to Obama with connections to ACORN. Rattner is asking for big stimulus dollars. No Justice Dept. investigation of ACORN. Questions mount.

Pakistanis blame the U.S. for recent Taliban terror bombings

Networks are silent as Obama breaks his pledge not to tax middle class

According to the Monthly Treasury Statement, the US economy continues melting away as receipts are nowhere near to funding outlays, meaning more and more debt has to be used (and more and more interest expense has to be paid as a result). The deficit last month of $176 billion was $20 billion worse than a year ago, and is the single worst October reading in US history. The number was a function of $312 billion in outlays and just $135 billion in receipts, an 18% decline YoY, and also the weakest reading for the month of October since 2002.

VIDEO: Obama and Hillary Clinton debate on CNN- Obama is asked "What is the most important policy difference between you and your opponent?" Obama mocks Clinton wanting to "force" insurance on people

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the dismissal of the first Obama eligibility case, filed in August 2008 by Phil Berg.

Obama administration considering using TARP funds to pay down deficit

Obama administration memo to remove Republicans

The Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the the civil service. Memo sent out to all agencies.

The acting inspector general of AmeriCorps said he shredded White House documents at the request of an agency press spokeswoman that pertained to the controversial firing of the previous inspector general, who was ousted after investigating a political ally of President Obama.

VIDEO: KOMO-TV: Nancy Pelosi justifies jail time for non-payment of health care. Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance? Pelosi: .. "the legislation is very fair in this respect."

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says there is a possibility that budget reconciliation rules could still be used to pass healthcare in the Senate.

Under pressure from a double-digit unemployment rate, President Obama announced that he will hold a jobs summit at the White House in December.

A Chinese government spokesman said Barack Obama should be especially sympathetic to China's opposition to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery.

"The List" for 11/11/2009

VIDEO: Bill Clinton's dire warning In 1993 on the economy if we didn't pass health care ...... the same dire warning as Obama in 2009

The White House inteferes in Israeli politics and protests a memorial to Rabbi Meir Kahane.- Any commemoration in the Knesset of the anniversary of Rabbi Meir Kahane's assassination would be harmful to the peace process, the US Embassy told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. In a a series of e-mails, an embassy official told the Israeli Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin's office that the possibility of such a ceremony was "something that Senator [George] Mitchell and his team are following with concern."

Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison's closure for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House.

Obama to pick anti-Israel J-streeter, Hannah Rosenthal, the envoy to combat global anti-semitism. Rosenthal is now a member of the advisory council of the faux Pro-Israel organization J-street, formed by George Soros and mentored by President Obama in order to give his administration a false appearance of being pro-Israel.

Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Obama and Democratic leaders plan to repeal the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in next year’s defense authorization bill.

In a show of miscommunication if not outright discord between Washington and New Delhi, an Indian intelligence team returned home on Tuesday after being denied access to question two Pakistani expatriates accused of plotting terrorist attacks in India.

U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns told the Middle East Institute in Washington on Tuesday that the U.S. recognizes the Iranian regime’s “right” to nuclear power, does not seek regime change and is ready for more talks with Iran.

White House endorses the paid sick leave bill. The bill would guarantee five paid sick days to employees at businesses with 15 or more workers who are directed to stay home by management because they have or are believed to have H1N1 or another communicable disease. The bill would sunset after two years.

Prodded by labor unions, the Obama administration is trying to fix the ailing airline industry, which could lead to a partial return to economic regulation.

While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started.

The White House expressed disappointment in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington, with officials saying that they had hoped that the prime minister would present a concrete plan to scale back Israeli construction in West Bank settlements, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The White House has not released any official photos of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting this week with President Obama – just one of several signs indicating a rift between the two leaders.

John Limbert, the new senior Iran official at the State Department who replaced Dennis Ross, serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). The NAIC is widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America. It opposes sanctions on Iran, soft-pedals any controversial events in Iran, and counsels "patience" regarding Iran's stance towards its nuclear program. The NIAC has been at the forefront of lobbying against continued congressional funding of the Voice of America Persia service, Radio Farad, and grants for Iranian civil society. The NIAC has reportedly received funding from George Soros, who was an honored guest and speaker at one of its symposiums.

US Diplomat says that Netanyahu was "trying to manuever the White House" on Army Radio

A top State Department official spelled out on Tuesday that the goal of the United States in its negotiations in the Middle East is to pressure Israel into expelling Jews from Judea and Samaria in order to "end the occupation that began in 1967."William J. Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, said in his address to the Middle East Institute Tuesday that he sees the U.S.mandate as one of "determined leadership" and that American must be straightforward about its intentions.

U.S. Officials punish Netanyahu with media blackout. Senior US diplomatic sources have confirmed that the media blackout and shroud of secrecy surrounding Monday's meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama was the result of strained relations between the two leaders. Speaking to Israel's Army Radio on Wednesday morning, one unnamed US diplomat said the Obama Administration had become unhappy with what is viewed as Netanyahu's efforts to manipulate its policies during press briefings, and imposed the media blackout on Monday's meeting as a means of bringing the Israeli leader back in line.

The U.S. wants Israel out of the West Bank. One of the top US State Department officials on Tuesday acknowledged that the ultimate goal of US Middle East policy is to cleanse all of Judea and Samaria of Jews and hand that territory in its entirety over to the Palestinian Arabs.

"The List" for 11/10/2009

At Berlin Wall, Hillary Clinton's speech gives message from Obama, ignores Reagan

The explanation of AARP's support of the Obama plan and what it gained.

ABC and CBS skip most of the Fort Hood memorial, exept for Obama

On the Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima

John Edards' $400 haircut tip came from Obama campaign

VIDEO: Obama says Hasan may have cracked under stress

Obama led a memorial service Tuesday for the 13 people killed in last week's massacre at the largest U.S. military installation, telling thousands of mourners that the legacy of the dead will live beyond their "incomprehensible" slayings.

The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration’s climate change policy.

VIDEO: Two EPA lawyers give a devastating critique of Obama's "Cap and Trade" idea

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended Obama's Middle East policies, saying that efforts to engage Iran through dialogue and earnest attempts to jump-start the peace process were bearing fruit.

The U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site, Indymedia.us, ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post at the end of the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy, will take over, according to sources familiar with the move.

Dispelling rumors in the Israeli media, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday had been "warm." Netanyahu made the comments as he boarded a plane Tuesday leaving the U.S., on his way back to Israel.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu left the White House after a one-hour and 40-minute meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama Monday night without speaking to reporters

"The List" for 11/9/2009

A former U.S. diplomat slated to become the No. 2 Iran official at the State Department, John Limbert, serves on the board of a controversial Iran council that has argued against imposing sanctions on Tehran and has received funding from groups tied to billionaire George Soros. Limbert, a former ambassador to Mauritania, reportedly was appointed to serve as deputy assistant secretary for Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

VIDEO: CBS reports that Obama will send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan over a 4 year period.

GMAC to get more bailout funds

The White House waited several days to confirm that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could meet with President Barack Obama Monday, and sought conditions first

Obama: "This is a health care bill, not an abortion bill"

Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to give a keynote speech next week to a Michigan group which includes the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even though the FBI has formally severed contacts with the controversial Muslim civil rights organization.

Obama pledges veto for any undoing of cuts in Medicare contained in healthcare bill. The cuts to Medicare must stay in or the bill faces his veto power.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Monday that the Obama administration has been withholding “critical information” on the Fort Hood murders allegedly committed by Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan and is demanding that the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and the Director of National Intelligence preserve documents relating to the incident for use in potential congressional investigation.

Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in Kareem Shora, the national executive director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the secretary

Arif Alikhan, currently deputy mayor for the city of Los Angeles, was appointed as assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Back in 2007, Alikhan was instrumental in removing the Muslim terror tracking plan in L.A.

The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action

U.S. Intelelligence knew that Fort Hood murderer tried to contact Al Qaeda months ago

Jake Tapper ask for suggestions from bloggers to form questions to ask President Obama: Nachumlist asks the president-

Mr. President,

Records released under the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) show that Andy Stern, the president of the SEIU visited the White House over 22 times. Why did he visit so many times? What role does he or the SEIU have in making public policy? And- What is your relationship with the SEIU?

"The List" for 11/8/2009

Barack Obama- it was a “courageous vote” by members of Congress..... Sarah Palin- "out-of-control bureaucratic mess"

According to Canadian government officials, a biography of U.S. President Obama provided to Prime Minister Stephen Harper shortly after Obama's inauguration last January qualifies as a state secret.

The Fort Hood murderer is likely to be tried by a military court. Obama would have final say if he gets the death penalty.

The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.

Obamacare/Pelosi health care bill orders jail for no insurance. Section 7203 -misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year. Section 7201 -felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]

UK Telegraph article about Americans who miss President Bush

The UK Telegraph hasstory from America about a new trend that, so far, seems to be going unreported in the American media. Americans, turned off by President Obama's cold demeanor, are missing George W. Bush.

The Obama White House stood silent as the U.N. General Assembly debated a resolution endorsing the stacked investigation that accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the Gaza conflict.

Two days after the Fort Hood Massacre the U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas. Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday's rampage by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There are reports indicating that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state unilaterally, bypassing Israel completely.

Obama's Forty First Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 11/7/2009

Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”

Pelosi sneaks Obamacare through on a Saturday night.

Obamacare passes in the house of representatives

VIDEO of President Barack Obama (Saturday after Fort Hood shooting) visiting the U.S. Capitol to personally lobby Democrats to support the Democrats' Health Care Bill.

Former President Bush and his wife visit the wounded at Fort Hood

Former presidnet Bush visits Fort Hood This weekend. Obama goes to Camp David.

VIDEO: Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently an invited guest to a public address in Washington by the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor. Hasan took a seat in the second row nearly across the from the ambassador.

President Obama says "we cannot fully know" what led Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to kill 13 people and wound 38 others at Fort Hood, Texas..."Americans of every race, faith and station" have served in the U.S. armed forces. "They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers," Obama says. "They reflect the diversity that makes this America."

When abortion Dr. George Tiller was murdered, Obama was "shocked". After Fort Hood massacre, not one mention of shock in Obama's remarks.

An Obama diplomat is wanted by the Lucknow police. Presently enjoying the status of an ambassador by virtue of representing the US in the United Nations Management and Reforms Committee (UNMRC), Jide Zeitlin was slapped with criminal charges like cheating and dishonestly, including delivery of property and criminal breach of trust, in case crime number 743/08 lodged with the Aliganj police station here in 2008 end

At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration. 'We better not see you on again,' the strategist says he was told by a White House official.

Nidal Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists

The U.S. Treasury blocked Fannie Mae's proposed sale of nearly $3 billion in low-income housing tax credits to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Friday after concluding that the deal was too costly for taxpayers.

"The List" for 11/6/2009

Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan was on a Homeland Security panel advising Obama

The Obama administration would be willing to hold bilateral talks with North Korea but only if certain conditions were met, the president's top adviser on Asia said on Friday.

Obama nominates U.S. District Judge David Hamilton to the appeals-court , whose resume includes a stint as a fundraiser for ACORN

FBI Given Fort Hood guman's name 6 months ago.

The White Hoise says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Germany for the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

With a new statement released today from the White House, President Barack Obama finally officially put his imprimatur on the House health care bill that contains massive abortion funding

Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings.

NBC TV in Chicago: Obama's "Frightening Insensitivity" after the Fort Hood massacre

Michelle Obama is the first Presidential Wife to appear on a reality TV series

"The List" for 11/5/2009

The Federal Reserve loses expanded powers proposed by the Obama administration. In the Obama proposal, which was released in the House last week in the form of a draft bill, the Federal Reserve would have the authority to ignore the recommendations by a firm's primary regulator (be it a bank or securities regulator) and simply impose its own standards on the firm.

VIDEO: Obama"Gives a Shout Out" to an audience member, right before he gives his remarks on the massacre at Fort Hood

Huge military slaughter, but first Obama gives a "shout out" to his buds

Incoming AARP CEO A. Barry Rand contributed $8,900 to President Obama's campaign committees, federal records show.

AARP supports Obamacare

More than $4.7 million in federal stimulus aid so far has been funneled to schools in North Chicago, and state and federal officials say that money has saved the jobs of 473 teachers . However the district employs only 290 teachers. The Obama administration last week released the first round of data designed to underpin the worthiness of its economic stimulus plan, which so far has directed $1.25 billion to Illinois schools. The Obama administration claims it has saved or created 14,300 school jobs in Illinois. These statistics, first compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education, appear riddled with anomalies that raise questions about their validity, according to a Tribune analysis of district-by-district stimulus spending and other state data.

Thousands of borrowers on the verge of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting their homes from Fannie Mae. The government-controlled company, through its new "Deed for Lease" program, will allow borrowers to transfer ownership to Fannie Mae and sign a one-year lease, with month-to-month extensions after that.

Obamacare monthly premium for abortions in Senate bill: - line 16, page 96, sectopm 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account - and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.

Obamacare to make uninsurables wait 6 months for coverage

A report from a store owner Kentucky: $889.60 in stimulus spending saved nine jobs. Storeowner blames complicated government reporting for the mistake.

A Wisconson stimulus job report that says more than 10,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin is rife with errors, double counting and inflated numbers based more on satisfying federal formulas than creating real jobs. In one case, five jobs were mistakenly listed as 50 - and then counted twice. In another, pay raises to workers were listed as saving more than 100 jobs. And in another, jobs were list

"The List" for 11/4/2009

Obamacare could regulate snack machines in schools at a cost to the tax payor of $56 million in the first year

Rahm Emanuel in 2005: Touted the importance of two Democratic gubenatorial victories. Says the opposite in 2009 when those same states go Republican

The public release of an independent actuarial study of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was delayed late Tuesday as the firm conducting the review completes additional tests. The supplemental tests come after FHA questioned the accuracy of the actuary’s modeling. The audit of FHA’s fiscal year 2009 — which ended in September — was scheduled for release today in conjunction with a press conference addressing the FHA’s fiscal health and financial outlook. A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spokeswoman indicated hours before the scheduled release that the report would not be completed in time, and FHA commissioner David Stevens later issued a statement on the cause of the delay.

The NEA recommends agitprop Alinsky book to teachers

More on Obama supported ACTA, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Negotiations in Seoul, South Korea have leaked: The leaks confirm the Internet provisions have nothing to do with addressing counterfeit products, but are all about imposing a set of copyright industry demands on the global Internet, including obligations on ISPs to adopt Three Strikes Internet disconnection policies, and a global expansion of DMCA-style TPM laws. US negotiators are seeking policies that will harm the US technology industry and citizens across the globe.

Secret Obama internet copyright treaty details released.(ACTA) Potential goververnment control of internet and censureship is feared. Obama's administration refused to disclose text due to "national security" concerns, has leaked.

Eleven videos of school children praising Obama

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted "forever."

After Democrat Governors lost in Virginia and New Jersey, the White House says it was not "a referendum on the President" The president had campaigned for both Democrats Corzine in New Jersey and Deeds in Virginia. The margin of victory for the Republican candidate was the largest in the history of Virginia

Under the Obama Stimulus: Salary raise counted as a saved job. Huge errors in counting jobs in program.

"The List" for 11/3/2009

A top advisor to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, considered to be a “moderate” and a peace partner by the U.S. government, has charged that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a “liar” who is being bribed by “Zionists.” Omar Hilmi Al-Ghul, and advisor to Fayyad and a columnist for a PA daily made the comments in an article translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

The AP names Republican Chris Christie the winner of the New Jersey governors' race, after Obama invested heavily in the race, campaigning with Democrat Corzine five times on three separate visits.

In 2007, Obama accused Bush of a photo-op with the troops: "The problems plaguing our military hospital system will not be solved with a photo op," Obama said in a statement. "Our military hospital system is in a state of crisis. Delays and rhetorical band-aids will not move us closer to a solution."

Tax-free spending accounts that are used to help pay for dental work, insurance copayments or over-the-counter drugs face a hit under the health overhaul bills in Congress

The White House reverses course, now says detainees at Gitmo are not receiving vaccinations against the swine flu vaccine

The EPA and the largest American Indian tribe, the Navajo Nation, are fighting over their coal-fired power plants and expensive air-scrubiing equipment

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was “imprecise” when he said Obama's advisers are considering a second stimulus measure, his spokesman said today.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim world

Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses. The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with the support of Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry and the late Edward M. Kennedy, both of Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of the Church of Christ, Scientist

In his first year in office, Barack Obama has visited more foreign countries than any other president. He's touched ground in 16 countries, easily outpacing Bill Clinton (three) and George W. Bush (eleven). It's an itinerary befitting a "citizen of the world." But there's one stop Obama won't make. He has begged off going to Berlin next week to attend ceremonies commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Pro-life group claims Obamacare will fund abortions for years to come

"The List" for 11/2/2009

The Washington Post reports the Obama White House played a critical, behind-the-scenes role in persuading former GOP District 23 congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava to endorse Democrat Bill Owens over Conservative Doug Hoffman.

VIDEO: Meet Andy Stern, Obama's most frequent White House visitor

More than half the 14,000 jobs created or saved by the federal economic stimulus in Minnesota are in public schools. Federal and state officials are reporting about 7,400 full-time teaching and school support staff jobs linked to the stimulus through the end of September.

Sarah Palin: Response to Vice President Biden's Comments Today About My Position On Energy Independence

The House Health bill will increase deficit by $200 billion

As part of the stimulus plan, Obama turns the $8,000 first time home buyer program into a boondoggle. Under Obama, limits were raised to the current amount of 8,000, and eliminated the requirement to repay the money after Jan. 1, 2009. Each home purchased under the plan actually costs the government $43,000.

The GAO says full recoup of the government investment in GM is unlikely

List of 111 new federal bureaucracies to be created by Obamacare

Obamacare hits the wealth with big new taxes. The big tax increases that could eventually hit future generations of taxpayers who are less wealthy.

Obama's mideast tutor and friend Rashid Khalidi bemoans Hamas' inability to fire more rockets into Israel

Stimulus dollars go to feed seniors hot meals

The AIG bailout not only bailed out Goldman-Sachs, but also their international client list.

Obama offers the Taliban in Afghanistan 6 provinces for 8 bases

Sec. of State Hillary Clinton now backtracks on statements to Israel about settlement construction. After drawing criticism from Arabs about her praise of Israel, she then read from prepared remarks not to "accept the legitimacy" of settlements

Republicans on Capitol Hill are challenging an assertion by House leaders that their new health-care package comes in under President Obama's spending limit of $900 billion over the next decade. The true cost of the measure, the GOP argues, is more than $1 trillion.

"The List" for 11/1/2009

Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern has made 22 visits to the Obama White House

A new left-wing organization created specifically to attack Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan, and Paul Brown has ties to ex-Obama green jobs czar Van Jones.

Hillary Clinton in Pakistan: We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.

CIT files for bankruptcy, 2.3 Billion in bailout money gone

Obama goes to New Jersey to campaign for the Democratic Governor

The Republicans'"10 Stimulus Projects to Remember"

Taxpayers Fund Research on Bugs, College Sex Lives, Facebook, and Rabbit Droppings with Stimulus Bill

The estimated share of Americans younger than 65 who'd sign up for the public option plan under the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is 2%.

The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.

No comment from the White House as Russia simulates nuclear attack on Poland during war games

Doctors claim that Obama will force them to violate the Hippocratic Oath

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on fires back at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, "Well, I think it's a surreal day when you're getting lectures on humility from Rush Limbaugh," Axelrod told CBS' "Face the Nation."

Edmunds.com reacts to being placed on White House enemies list and issues press release

Palestinians accused US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks after she praised Israel for offering to curb some Jewish settlement construction.

Annual Medicare fraud 60 Billion- Annual Insurance company profits 8 Billion

The Obama administration invoked the controversial "state secrets" privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at risk.

Obama's Fortieth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

10/31/2009

Obamacare protects lawyers fees. a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages. (page 1431-1433 of the bill)

Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out. Holder's effort to stop the lawsuit marks the first time the administration has tried to invoke the state secrets privilege under a new policy it launched last month designed to make such a legal argument more difficult.

Dealing a blow to the Obama administration’s efforts to restart Middle East peace talks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to persuade Abbas to accept an Israeli proposal that would slow but not stop the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Handy dandy White House Visitors list in PDF format from MSNBC

White House Visitors List so far

Obama health bill will now prohibit the sale of private health inusance

VIDEO: Joe Biden on job statistics, "We know this is not 100 percent accurate,"

After Obama promised Florida Space workers during the election that they would keep their jobs, contractors at Kennedy Space Center are pressing ahead with plans to lay off hundreds of workers. Boeing Co. announced Friday it will shed 330 jobs at KSC, starting in January and continuing in stages through August. There are 258 already laid off by the prime shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance, earlier this month. As many as 7,000 shuttle workers are expected to lose their jobs by the time NASA mothballs the orbiter sometime over the next 18 months, possibly as early as October 2010.

AUDIO: House Whip James Clyburn bluntly reveals plans to use "nuclear option" to ram through Obamacare

On Friday afternoon, the Obama administratin releases reports of 640,000 stimulus jobs, the latest economic numbers and the backing of Republican governor Arnold Shwartzenegger to try to undercut GOP attacks on the effect of its massive $787 billion package

The New York Times reported that on Friday, the Dept. of Justince released "hundreds of pages of partially declassified documents" on CIA interrogations.

Late Friday Obama asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan

Estimate of stimulus cost per job at $160,000. The White House cals the high estimate "calulator abuse"

Obamacare Health bill calls for 300 million in grants for health research(starting page 733 under "effectiveness research")

At a White House briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Barack Obama has spent "close to 20 direct hours" in meetings on Afghanistan since Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for tens of thousands of reinforcements was submitted over two months ago with a warning the war would be lost in twelve months without more troops.

"The List" for 10/30/2009

Buried in the House health care bill is a provision, requiring fast-food chains and vending machine owners to notify customers of calorie counts -- by conspicuously posting nutritional information on menus or machines.

The White House finally releases a list of visitors to the White House. The list includes Bill Ayers 2x, George Soros 4x, Michael Moore 8X, the head of the ACORN affiliated Union the SEIU Andrew Stern 20x,Jeremiah Wright, GE/NBC head Jeff Immelt 5x, Jesse Jackson 6x, John Edwards2x, and Al Sharpton 2x.

Former actor and present White House associate director of public engagement Kalpen Modi was directly involved in planning the controversial conference call hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create propaganda for President Obama, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The emails reveal that Modi worked with now-former NEA national communications director Yosif Sargant in planning the August 10 conference call that was first revealed by Andrew Breitbart's Bighollywood.com web site. Participants in the conference call were encouraged to use their talents to generate public support for the Obama agenda in Congress.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning to press Israel over the weekend to cease Jewish construction in the eastern sections of Jerusalem

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers said the Obama administration should not donate any of the nation’s H1N1 vaccine supply to foreign countries

The Department of Homeland Security is gagging local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens.

Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as billionaire George Soros, the Center for American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration. One of their Senior Fellows is Eric Alterman,a left-winger who writes for The Nation. Alterman revels in "outing" journalists as being Jews in the context of their support for Israel. He then blends this into charges that the journalists have dual loyalty and a tinged with treason.

Obama: Stimulus create or saved a million jobs

Obama administration argued in a recent court filing that the Privacy Act does not apply to the Executive Office of the President

Obama lifts the decades old travel ban on those with HIV or AIDS coming to the United States

Key post for the administrator for Medicare remains unfilled in the Obama administration The position is officially known as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, usually referred to as CMS, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The administrator oversees about $700 billion in annual spending -- more than the entire defense budget.

Despite the president's claimed distaste for the campaign finance practice known as "bundling" (rounding up aggregate contributions from friends, business associates and employees), The Obama administration has been a campaign finance bundlers' paradise from Day One. A new report by Matthew Mosk of The Washington Times confirms Obama's wealthiest Democratic donors have received lavish receptions, golf outings, bowling dates and movie nights with Obama.

"The List" for 10/29/2009

The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to "death panels" for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.

The White House is so nervous about the Governor's race in New Jersey, they have intervened and put one of their advisors in charge of the Corzine campaign.

The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations

Obamacare- Pelosi style: Codification of the “Economic Substance Doctrine” (Page 349): Empowers the IRS to disallow a perfectly legal tax deduction or other tax relief merely because the IRS deems that the motive of the taxpayer was not primarily business-related.

More than 40% of Obama's top fundraisers have secured posts in the Obama administration. One top-level fundraiser apparently awarded with a plum job is Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski who raised $500,000 for Obama

Under the Senate Finance Committee bill, HHS Secretary Kathleen will determine the meaning of terms such as "physician services," "premium," "prescription drug coverage," "deductible," and "emergency room care."

The Obama administration is using the White House blog to dispute the Edmunds.com analysis of Cash-For-Clunkers

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday a U.S. House health-care system re-write would extend health insurance to 96% of the nonelderly U.S. population by 2019, and spend $1.055 trillion to do so.

Volunteers who worked in Waco, Texas to put Obama in office are making calls to build support for the administration’s top domestic priority — health care reform. The group, Waco’s branch of Organizing for America, a political committee run by the Democratic National Committee, has been holding phone banks Tuesdays and Thursdays. For the past two weeks in a small office at Columbus Avenue and North 10th Street, one paid employee and a group of volunteers have been calling members of the community to talk about health care.

Cash for Clunkers turns out to be a huge boondoggle. Auto sales analysts at Edmunds.com say that the government ended up spending about $24,000 per car

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that there is no "veracity" to the argument that the U.S. Constitution does not authorize the federal government to force individuals to buy health insurance. The Congressional Budget Office has said that the federal government has never before in American history forced Americans to purchase any good or service.

At 1,990 pages, the new Obama health care bill is longer than War and Peace

Comprehensive list of all the new taxes in the Obamacare bill. Lots of them.

The Obama administration is pressing Congress for the power to dismantle other nonbank firms considered so large and influential that they could bring down the entire economy. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was asking a House panel on Thursday to pass legislation that would enable federal regulators to identify and monitor big financial firms and step in to wind them down before they collapse

The Obama administration slammed a report from The Associated Press alleging the government had overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under President Obama's $787 billion recovery program. Within minutes of the publication of AP's story, the White House released a statement at 12:15 a.m. Thursday that it said was the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago. "This story draws misleading conclusions from a handful of examples," Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program, said.

Documents recovered under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the Obama administration orchestrated the Van Jones resignation. documents released to this columnist through the FOIA include no indication whatsoever that Jones wanted to resign. Instead, the documents indicate that a resignation letter was written for Jones and issued in his name

Obama was nearly denied the photo-op he traveled to Dover Air Force Base for early this morning as all but one of the military and civilian families of the fallen refused permission for the media to report on the return of their loved ones.

VIDEO: Pictures from Obama "Photo Op" to visit war dead

The Obama administration is trying to strong-arm America’s colleges and universities into complying with a bill that hasn’t been signed into law yet. Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to colleges and universities urging them to make sure they are ready to switch to the government-run system for the 2010-11 academic year. Most of the nation’s 5,000 colleges and universities prefer to work with private lenders

The Pelosi Heathcare Bill in full text

Obama's nomination of a major campaign fundraiser as ambassador to Spain, Alan Solomont, has been delayed in the Senate over questions about whether the White House is withholding information from lawmakers about the abrupt firing of a government watchdog official. Alan Solomont, served from April until recently as chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, whose former inspector general, Gerald Walpin, was fired by the White House on June 10. Mr. Solomont, a Massachusetts health industry entrepreneur, helped raise at least $500,000 for Mr. Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and was among a group of top fundraisers, elected officials and others invited to a St. Patrick's Day party at the White House.

David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s campaign manager, on interviewing Joe Biden for the veep slot: Joe Biden a dog that "cannot be taught new tricks"

Desecrated American flag featured in Obama sponsored contest for the Democratic National Committee

Obama told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government. So far, 33 federal departments and agencies have awarded more than $1.2 billion in stimulus contracts to at least 30 companies that are ranked by one watchdog group as among the most egregious offenders of state and federal laws.

Obama visits returning war dead.... with a small contingent of reporters

The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president's $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program's first progress report

Obama videotapes a message to Israelis on the anniversity of Rabin's murder. Tries to speak directly to Israeli Jews due to his lack of popularity in Israel.

An in depth history of Van Jones by discovernetworks.org

More in depth coverage of Van Jones by New Zeal's Obama File (no. 72)

"The List" for 10/28/2009

Ignoring objections from the Pentagon, Obama signed a $680 billion military policy bill on Wednesday (10/28/2009). Obama cut back nearly all programs and cut off some that military leaders specifically said they needed- fulfilling his ambition as a senator to nueter the military

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, spent part of his briefing on Wednesday trying to dismiss the suggestion that people who gave money to Pres. Obama were given special access to the executive mansion. The questions arose after The Washington Times reported that Mr. Obama has continued the longtime practice of rewarding donors with perks, including use of the bowling alley.

An organization affiliated with ACORN is still eligible for charitable donations through a federal program for government employees, despite complaints that the program violates recent legislation targeting the now-scandalized community group The affiliate organization, the ACORN Institute, will not be barred from participating in the Combined Federal Campaign, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said. The program encourages federal employees to give to local charities.

Under the Senate Finance Committee version of the health-care bill, health insurance companies would be allowed to charge tobacco users premiums up to 50 percent higher than those of non-users, while marijuana and crack cocaine smokers could not be penalized with higher premiums.

Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Gitmoby signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Michael Clemente, Fox News' senior vice president for news, met at the White House for about 20 minutes on Wednesday morning (10/28/2009)

Obama signed a defense that kills weapons projects and expands war spending while at the same time sneaking in pro-homosexual legislation. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crimes to assault people based on sexual orientation.

The Obama administration and Pentagon prepare for homeland military deployment. U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) exercises to test preparedness to perform its homeland defense and civil support missions inside the United States.

Former Israel-hating Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been named co-chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board

A bill drawn up by the Treasury and the House financial services committee sets up a "Council of Regulators" charged with snuffing out systemic risks and gives the government and the Fed sweeping powers over financial companies at home and overseas. The bill does not address how this "Council of Regulators" will attain supreme wisdom to rule on markets.

The U.S. Chamber strikes back at Obama. It will run an ad campaign against Obamacare

Obama’s safe schools czar wrote a foreword to a book in 1999 that called for elementary school children to explore their sexual identities, for teachers to incorporate homosexual themes in grades K-5, for discarding a “hetero-normative” approach to education and for “acknowledging children as sexual beings. Kevin Jennings, now the assistant deputy secretary for education who heads the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, began the foreword to Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling

The Copenhagen Treaty

According to current documents the Copenhagen Treaty, if signed by President Obama in December, will ultimately make the U.S., along with other "developed nations", financially responsible for the CO2 emissions of "developing nations"

"The List" for 10/27/2009

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. delivered a lecture at the University of Maine where he reiterated President Obama's intent to push for repeal of the law defining marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman for purposes of federal laws.

The White House expressed its condolences to the families who have been affected by the increase in violence affecting U.S. forces. White spokesman says that Obama will decide what he will do "in a few weeks"

VIDEO: Obama pledges open and transparent health care negotiations

GMAC Financial Services Inc. and the Treasury Department are in advanced talks to prop up the lender with its third helping of taxpayer money, people familiar with the matter said. The U.S. government is likely to inject $2.8 billion to $5.6 billion of capital

In little noticed remarks, Michelle Obama stated at a public event that her husband's mother, Ann Dunham, was "very young and very single" when she gave birth to the future U.S. president. Her comments further undermine the official story as told by Barack Obama – that Dunham was married to his father, Barack Obama Sr., at the time of birth.

Democrat donors are rewarded with White House perks. Donors have been promised access to senior White House advisors in exchange for pledges to donate $30,400 personally or to bundle $300,000 in contributions ahead of the 2010 midterm elections

VIDEO: White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett on CNN telling Campbell Brown that Fox News is biased but won't say that MSNBC is biased

A case alleging Congress failed in its constitutional duties by refusing to investigate the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president has been sent on appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Obama has paid nearly $1.7 million to his top eligibility lawyer since the election.

Text of the Senate Health Care bill (America's Healthy Future Act of 2009)

Senate HELP committee bill (text)

Russia won't agree to zero nukes in talks with the Obama administration

The defense bill that Obama will sign into law contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said

Obamacare is now to include nursing home insurance. House health care legislation expected within days is likely to include a new long-term care insurance program to help seniors and disabled people stay out of nursing homes, senior Democrats say.

As White House budget director Peter Orszag disclosed that the fiscal 2009 budget deficit would be $1.4 trillion, House Democrats were moving on a dozen spending bills for fiscal 2010 that total 12.1% in more domestic discretionary increases.

National Organization of Women troubled by Obama's all-male outings

Obama, during a visit to a solar energy facility in Arcadia, Fla., is announcing that he is making available $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the power grid.

VIDEO: Obama called Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) an "outstanding" member of Congress at a fundraiser

Obama promotes foul mouthed Rep. Alan Grayson, says he is "an outstanding membe of congress'. He said this right after Grayson referred to Fed Chief Ben Bernanke as a “K Street whore”

VIDEO: Takeover of WAMU leaked to CNBC before the FDIC told the bank

A Senate committee on launches three days of hearings on a Democratic climate bill. The Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee begin with a panel from Obama's Cabinet: the secretaries of energy, transportation and interior and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Joining them will be the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. According to an EPA statement, the officials will focus on "creating a system of clean energy incentives" while "confronting the threat of carbon pollution."

Eight American servicemen were killed in a series of explosions today, making October the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. Still, no troop increase by Obama.

AARP to reap millions in insurance sales from Obamacare

VIDEO: Obama- "Nancy Pelosi is not simply the first woman Speaker of the House -- I think she's going to go down as one of the greatest Speakers of all time"

Pentagon Official, former Marine Corps Captain Matthew Hoh, 36, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. He was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province

"The List" for 10/26/2009

Fox News ratings up almost 10% since the White started war with the network

The Federal Reserve joined the Treasury Department on Thursday in imposing new limits on executive pay, extending the government's control over compensation at taxpayer-owned companies to institutions that are merely government regulated. The actions Thursday put the United States more in line with European governments. France and Germany, in particular, have pressed for international standards to limit executive pay, a move that the United States and Britain have resisted. At Treasury, President Obama's pay czar, Kenneth Feinber, announced sharp cuts in pay for 175 top executives at seven big banks and automakers

Rep. Bart Stupak said that Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written.

The State Department released its annual report on global religious freedom , with the chief author singling out bigotry-based murders in the U.S. and Germany while crediting progress made in Jordan, Qatar and Egypt. Assistant Secretary Michael Posner -- along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- announced the release of the government's Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. During a press conference with reporters Monday, Posner cited two egregious acts of religious intolerance -- one in the U.S., the other in Germany -- while noting progress made in countries like Qatar and Egypt, where religious persecution is widespread.

Obama said he will not rush his decision on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, telling a crowd of U.S. troops, "I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary."

VIDEO: Michelle Obama made a scary video to push for the nationalized health care before Halloween. A horror-story about women in the United States under the present private system

Anita Dunn's husband leads the effort to block Obama's birth records

Obama plays as many rounds of golf in his first 10 months in office as Bush did in almost 3 years of presidency

"The List" for 10/25/2009

On Sept. 13, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, told ABC's This Week program that the government was on schedule to deliver an "ample supply" of swine flu vaccine by mid-October: - five weeks later and news reports are coming in from across the nation of long waiting lines of people wanting the shot, but being turned away because of grossly inadequate supplies.

The Obama administration attacks the US Chamber of commerce

Obama's State Department has cut funding for Freedom House, the bipartisan organization that reports on freedom and human rights throughout the world, because it publishes material critical of Iran's murderous regime

A Fox News executive refuted on Saturday reports that the White House didn't make the administration's "pay czar" available for an interview because the network didn't ask. "Of course we requested the interview," Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said, responding to reports citing the White House as claiming it had excluded Fox News from a series of interviews Thursday with Kenneth Feinberg set up through the five-network TV pool

Obama's school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is not available to them based on their risk.

Obama's Thirty Ninth Week in Office

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"The List" for 10/24/2009

Johnson & Johnson executives said Tuesday a proposed tax on medical device makers, part of the health care reform package moving in the Senate, is too high and could cost jobs in the industry.

Obama hit out at naysayers he blamed for peddling "cynical" claims that global warming is a myth to derail a landmark climatebill in Congress

The White House highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world. The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds.

HHS Chief Actuary on ObamaCare: Total Health Care Spending Will Go Up, Not Down- Richard Foster, Chief Actuary for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, released this week to several Congressional offices a financial analysis of HR 3200, the House version of ObamaCare.

The conclusion of a new report "No Free Lunch: The True Cost of Obamacare" by policy analyst Matt Patterson just released by the National Center for Public Policy Resears says that Obama care would result in higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of privacy and individual liberty.

President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

The banking system today may be in a more precarious position than it was a year ago, the man charged with overseeing a $700 billion bailout program said Wednesday. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general managing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, said that the government's decision to support bank mergers over the past year may have put the U.S. economy more at risk.

A Muslim member of Obama's faith council, Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, did a phone interview on the Oct. 8 show. says she was misled about the nature of a British TV talk show on which she was recently interviewed. It was hosted by a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which the State Department has condemned for an anti-Semitic, anti-Western ideology that officials said might indirectly generate support for terrorism.

CBS does expose' on Obama administration lies about its war with Fox News

"The List" for 10/23/2009

Michelle Obama took part in a White House event to mark National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Mrs. Obama used the occasion to launch an extended attack on the insurance industry

The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama's policy czars to testify before Congress - a decision senators said goes against the president's promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress' constitutional mandate to investigate the administration's actions.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told CNSNews.com that after reviewing the Memorandum of Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state and local law enforcement agencies in 23 states, the only agency to lose its authority under the 287(g) program to operate task forces that can enforce federal immigration laws is the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The Office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to manipulate other news networks into isolating and excluding Fox News, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.

President Obama has difficulty reading from his teleprompter during a speech at MIT

"The List" for 10/22/2009

The Obama administration has allegedly offered to enrich Iranian uranium. The Iranians have not been able to remove low percentages of metallic fluorides from the UF-6 feed stock that they've laboriously enriched to 3.5% U-235 over the past five years. This has the potential to stop their enrichment program cold—at the level used for civilian nuclear power. The Obama administration has offered to have Iran's impure 3.5% UF6 shipped to Russia where it can be enriched to 19.75%

Obama's FCC commissioners ram through support for internet regulation measure

Speaking privately at the White House on with a group of columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Obama gave vent to sentiments about Fox

The White House tries to bar Fox News from interviews with the pay czar

The Senate passed legislation that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. Obama has said the country must make significant changes to ensure equal rights. The expanded federal hate crimes law now goes to Obama's desk. Obama has pledged to sign the measure

Obama stimulus: tax credits for electric golf carts

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently analyzed the House bill 3200 for the effect of the bill on health care costs-. The nation's medical costs will keep spiraling upward even faster than they are now under Democratic legislation pending in the House

Large employers that directly assume the cost and risk of health coverage for their workers — including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Xerox — wouldn't be subject to the same rules and restrictions that would be imposed on health insurers in the measure approved this month by the Senate Finance Committee.

A day after former Vice President Dick Cheney charged the Obama administration with "dithering" over its strategy for the war in Afghanistan, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs returned fire with guns blazing. "What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform,

VIDEO: Obama appointee Chai Feldblum not convinced that traditional marriage is good for society

4 Year Old buys a house with federal money

VIDEO: SEIU president Andy Stern connecting the Obama admistration's attacks on the U.S.Chamber of Commerce to the SEIU

Sources within the administration say the decision to cap corporate pay was White House pay cza Kenneth Feinberg’s, and his alone

Google is suspected of blacklisting FOX news stories

Obama economy: First-time jobless claims rise more than expected to 531,000, continuing claims fall - The Labor Department says new jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 531,000 last week, from an upwardly revised 520,000 the previous week. Wall Street economists had expected only a slight increase

VIDEO: Obama says about Republicans, "You know the other side, they just kind of do what they’re told."

Obama spent 2.5 hours with talk show host Rachel Madow and only spent 25 minutes with General McChrystal

"The List" for 10/21/2009

Obama's Dept. of Health and Human Services to Create a National Resource Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Elders. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced plans to establish the nation's first national resource center to assist communities across the country in their efforts to provide services and supports for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

Barack Obama has suffered the worst third quarter decline in his public approval rating of any elected president in the post-World War II era.

Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do

List of new taxes in the Obama/Baucus plan

Obama has had 22 fundraisers in his first year... so far

The analysis by the Obama Health and Human Services Dept concludes that total national health care spending would increase by an additional 2.1 percent from , 2010-2019 under legislation in the House

White House to cut the pay of execs by 90%

7 months after stimulus, 49 of 50 states have lost jobs. 6 million jobs less than adminstration projections

No mention of Obama on Google from 1981 until 2000

VIDEO: Obama says in 2008 campaign ad, " I don't want to pit red America against blue America..."

Obama Administration HHS website promotes pro-abortion health care bills

The Obama State Dept.: Gitmo detainees are "Refugees"

Senate to act on the Obama threat to strip health insurers of anti-trust exemption

Congress passed the 2010 homeland security spending bill that gives President Obama the authority to transfer terrorism-suspect detainees to the United States for trial, though only after he submits a plan to Congress.

TARP watchdog Neil Barofsky: Full payment of TARP funds "unlikely"

Steps taken by the Treasury Department to implement the $700 billion financial bailout program have undermined the credibility of the U.S. government, a top government watchdog, Neil Barofsky, said in a report released on Wednesday.

Obama cap and trade bill will mean gas will cost another $1 per gallon

"The List" for 10/20/2009

Obama is now making good on the promise to promote Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is now on his new volunteerism website, serv.gov

Anita Dunn, the White House communications director who has blasted Fox as an arm of the Republican Party is married to Robert Bauer, the chief of the political law group at Perkins Coie. Perkinds Coie is the Seattle law firm hired by the White House to defend Obama in court cases challenging his "natural born" citizenship status in the United States and thus, his eligibility under the U.S. Constitution to be president.

After President Obama announced last month that he would scrap Bush-era plans to deploy an antiballistic missile system in Eastern Europe, will accept an offer to host parts of a new, more mobile missile defense system, Polish officials said Tuesday.

Obama won a modest victory in his continuing effort to closeGITMO, allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees at the facility to the U.S. to be prosecuted.

Obama considers taking medical malpractice out of the courtroom

Pages 39 and 40 of the Health Care bill talk of possible rationed care for "high risk" individuals "reducing benefits... increasing premiums...establishing waiting lists.."

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the Obama administration cannot wait for the Afghan election to be resolved before making a decision on troop levels, appearing to be at odds with White House officials who have tied a decision on U.S. strategy to the resolution of the election and political stability.

China goes after US made Nylon in trade war began by Obama's tariff on Chinese tires

Secret meetings over health care reach day 7- The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support of healthcare reform.

Great Lakes shippers are upset over new EPA proposals. The EPA wants to wean older lakers off their diet of inexpensive No. 6 “bunker” fuel to reduce sulfur levels 50 percent in 2012 and help prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths. The entire fleet would convert to low-sulfur marine diesel by 2015.But lake carriers say the effort could backfire if it drives more cargo to trucks and trains, which burn more fuel and emit more pollutants per ton of cargo than ships do.

AUDIO: story... Justice Dept. officials impesonate reporters at press conference for Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpio

VIDEO: Ron Bloom, Obama's Manufacturing czar "We know that the free market is nonsense"..."kind of agrees with Mao- that power comes from the end of a gun"

Obama hasreportedly informed the German government that he will not travel to Berlin on November 9 to participate in the 20th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He will skip the memorial of the fall of communism.

"The List" for 10/19/2009

Israeli shot in his car. Attack directly attributed to the Obama forced removal of roadblocks

Page 163 of Senate Finance Committee Health bill- health care tax on empolyer paid insurance to begin in January 2010

Voters in Kinston, North Carolina decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.

Pentagon chief Robert Gates says Obama may not be able to wait until the disputed Afghanistan elections are resolved to decide on a new war strategy.

Kathleen Sebelius: "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.

The entire Senate Finance Committee Health Bill

The Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages

VIDEO: Karl Rove, "..(the Obama administration) "is trying to destabilize Afghanistan in a fundamental way"

The White House and congressional Democrats are working to marginalize the Chamber of Commerce— the powerful business lobby opposed to many of Obama’s first-year priorities — by going around the group and dealing directly with the CEOs of major U.S. corporations.

After helping elect Obama, AKDP Media, the powerhouse political consulting firm founded by senior White House aide David Axelrod moved went to Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, to sign a lucrative contract to advise Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on her race for that country's presidency. The arrangement between Axelrod,, and Tymoshenko, a billionaire business tycoon once dubbed "The gas princess" has so far gotten no attention in the U.S. press. Axelrod's son now runs AKDP

Tens of billions of dollars in federal economic aid has created or saved 250,000 education jobs, the Obama administration announced Monday, although states and school systems continue to face enormous fiscal pressures. The figures in the report issued by the White House and the Education Department do not address how many education jobs have been cut this year because of the recession, nor do they project how many are in jeopardy in the coming year

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 's nomination process was so controlled that the White House even approved her clothes

Federal drug agents won't persue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana under new legal guidelines by the Obama administration

"The List" for 10/18/2009

U.S. State tax revenues drops the most since 1963. State tax collections tumbled the most in almost half a century in the second quarter as the economic recession curbed levies on incomes and sales. The 16.6 percent plunge was the biggest since at least 1963, said the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government

Connecticut has received through September $1 million out of $47 Million in stimulus money and created 20 jobs

White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president's inner circle that the cable network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming “is geared toward making money.”

VIDEO: Rahm Emanuel attacks Fox News- "It doesn't have 'perspective'..."

Axelrod attacks Fox News too, "Not really news.."

The Obama administration appears to be welcoming the efforts of the left-leaning Jewish lobby in Washington, J Street. Senior U.S. administration will be attending the group's October 25 conference. Officials who have confirmed their participation in the conference include James Jones, national security adviser in the Obama administration. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has still not acknowledged an invitation to address the conference. Oren apparently is inclined not to participate and to send a lower-ranking diplomat in his stead.

Secret Service is strained by increased number of death threats against Obama.

Obama and 3 senators, Harry Reid,Christopher Dodd, and Max Baucus wrote health bill behind closed doors. No transparency

VIDEO: Anita Dunn saying that Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled

Obama's Thirty Eigthth Week in Office

"The List" for 10/17/2009

76 days since the request for more troops were made by General McChrystal who submitted his review to the administration requesting additional forces

The Obama administration has formulated a new policy for Sudan that proposes working with that country’s government, rather than isolating it as President Obama had pledged to do during his campaign.

The Obama administration drops the gag order on the insurance industry

Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry, accusing it of using “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws.

New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire, Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.

Pre Election article from the Nigerian Observer said that Obama was born in Kenya

Anita Dunn latest excuse for her "Mao" statement- says that she picked up the Mao Quote from Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something she read in the late 1980's

The feds have spent a half-billion stimulus dollars on 10 of the largest government stimulus contracts in New York City and Long Island -- but created or retained only 54 jobs.

Obama: Health insurers "Deceptive and dishohest"

John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advocated having the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) force radio and television stations to surrender free time for advertisements calling attention to what he called “the population-resource-environment crisis.”

Obama: ACORN unfundended till October 31st, 2009, and then they are permitted funds again

The EU wins huge trade pact with South Korea that belonged to the U.S.

"The List" for 10/16/2009

The Obama administration on Friday said the government ran a $1.42 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2009.... -the largest deficit since 1945

Secretary of the Navy Mabus: Cut Navy oil use in half by 2020

Patterson Belknap Sports Group's Peter C Harvey and Obama were at Columbia Univ. in 1981-82. Peter C. Harvey was graduated from Columbia Law School in 1982, and served on Columbia Law School's Human Rights Law Review- Obama was deeply involved with the nuclear freeze movement at Columbia, and that William Ayers was just a few blocks away, at the Bank Street College of Education: Harvey maxed out his political contributions to Obama in April of 2007: Also at the Patterson Belknap Sports Group include Karen R. Berry, who appears to specialize in Axelrod type astroturfing campaigns on the internet. Ms Berry has a curious 17-year gap in her résumé, from 1978 to 1995

Rush Limbaugh was targeted by an Obama official. The search for the Wikipedia Libelist responsible for damaging posts to Rush Limbaugh while he was attempting to be part of a group to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL team has been narrowed to the IP address of a New York City law firm: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP- Sports group attorneys. Former Patterson Belknap Partner Richard Parsons is now president of bailout recipient Citibank, and an official Obama economic advisor

New Obama district court nominee, Edward Chen, former ACLU activist attorney with a history of extreme racial identity politics.

The Obama administration declined to name China as a country that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.

A report sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and conducted by Oliver Wyman Inc. says that health insurance premiums will rise up to 50 percent for individual policies and 19 percent for small group plans if healthcare reform passes

VIDEO: Obama scolds those his use of a "socialist mop" to clean up the nation's messes. -Maybe inadvertantly admitting it is socialism.

U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama's administration is "disgusted" with Israel, said a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The term "disgusted" was used more than once in recent meetings with U.S. envoys to describe the administration's attitude toward Israel.

At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Obama and Sen. Baucus helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.

Obama nominee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Craig Becker, is associate general counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is most recently in the news for its close ties to Acorn, the disgraced housing shakedown operation. Obama nominated Mr. Becker in April to the five-member NLRB, which has the critical job of supervising union elections, investigating labor practices, and interpreting the National Labor Relations Act. In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, Becker argued for rewriting current union-election rules in favor of labor. And he suggested the NLRB could do this by regulatory fiat, without a vote of Congress.

Obama official, NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, served as council to Attorney General Eric Holder and member of Obama’s transition team. Smith’s gross conflict of interest and apparent political targeting of Obama’s top foe Rush Limbaugh is a huge story. He was instrumental in calling for the Rush Limbaugh purchase of the St. Louis Rams NFL football team to be denied.

"The List" for 10/15/2009

The new Interior Department looks into a move to lock in beneficial royalties and regulations for companies with leases on public lands -- denounced by some as a massive giveaway to the oil industry. Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to lock in lucrative royalty rates and favorable regulations for oil companies holding leases for oil shale development on public la

House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held a hearing this morning to certify that H.R. 3200 -- the main House Obamacare bill which was the subject of all the town hall rage in August -- has met all requirements to pass as a “budget reconciliation” measure. Under reconciliation, the bill can be passed by a simple majority vote in the Senate -- just 51 votes

National security adviser James L. Jones - the president's point man in a momentous debate on U.S. policy in Afghanistan - has repeatedly shifted his assessments of the war as he transformed himself from a top Marine general to a civilian adviser in recent years.

U.S. veterans criticized President Obama's lengthy review of Afghan war strategy, saying on Thursday the drawn-out debate in Washington was a direct threat to troops and the nation's defense.

Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said Tuesday that statements about regulating freedom of speech in broadcasting made by FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd are “troubling.” Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech, McDowell added.

Legislators are growing increasingly frustrated with Obama's seeming unwillingness to pull the trigger on an Iran sanctions

VIDEO: White House spin doctor Anita Dunn admires Mao Tse Tung

VIDEO: Safe school czar Kevin Jennings hosted Obama in his home and was a member of Act Up.

Obama is pleased to note that Insurance company stock values have declined: "Firms nervous that health reform will pass"

The Obama administration released the first hard numbers on how many jobs their $787 billion stimulus package has created or saved on Recovery.gov today. The number: 30,383 jobs from roughly 16 billion worth of stimulus contracts awarded directly by federal agencies.

Obama signed into law a $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan that the U.S.-ally's military criticized as American meddling in its internal affairs.

The CBO scored the Obama backed "cap and trade" legislation. It would would slow the nation's economic growth slightly over the next few decades and would create "significant" job losses from fossil fuel industries as the country shifts to renewable energy. This contrasted sharply with those of President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders, who have suggested that a cap on carbon emissions would help revive the U.S. economy.

The United States reversed policy 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 Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better

AUDIO: Obama economics advisor "What an honest president would say" (dealth panels)

Obama economics advisor faces criticism for promoting death panels.

VIDEO: Harry Reid admits Obama health care bill will cost 2 trillion

Leaked Network Memo of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)

Revealed Network memo reveals Obama White house plan to "community organize" through network programming: -Hundreds of millions of Americans, will be urged through the use of public airwaves to log on to government sites and "volunteer".

Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis. No comment from the White House.

Obama makes his first trip to New Orleans, 9 months into his presidency.- Obama accused former President Bush of leading a government "that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns,

Almost nine months after the Obama administration took power, more than half of the 33 highest-level Treasury Department posts are still vacant.

Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department

Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama

Former White House speech writer calls on Obama to release his birth documents

Dutch article about Obama being raised in Indonesia until his teens scrubbed from the web.

"The List" for 10/14/2009

Obama appointee Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is found to have ties to SEIU, ACORN and disgraced Illionois governor Blagojevich

From 2004: The Standard publishes article "The Kenyen born Obama all set for U.S. Senate"

Special inspector general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Neil Barofsky told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was ultimately responsible for abdicating his oversight duties in the AIG compensation structures to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It was "a recipe for disastrous consequences"

Obama's new pastor, Carey Cash, says 'Islam is Violent'

Obama's administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there. The number could be as high as 45,000 troops

Recent letters sent from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to large pharmaceutical manufacturers have caused a large decline in the number of sponsored link exposures by drug marketers

President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House health care overhaul bill now being finalized would allow young adults to stay on their parents' health insurance policies until they're 27.

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services and touted HHS's recently-announced plan to spend $373 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on plans to, among other things, improve the healthfulness of foods in vending machines.

Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms

Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.

Russia says they reserve the right to preemptive nuke strikes during arms reduction talks with Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wrapping up a three-day trip to Russia, said the U.S. and Russia should work toward creating a joint missile-defense system to combat common threats.

The Obama administration to tone down criticism of Russia's human rights record

The Obama administration blames Bush for their 13,000 troop increase in Afghanistan

Russian Muslims to offer Secr. of State Hillary Clinton to convert to Islam. Want more mosques in America.

"The List" for 10/13/2009

A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened. The Obama EPA is releasing the memo as deliberations on Cap and Trade legislation grow nearer.

Michael Kerr, SIEU member, sworn in as a New Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the Department of Labor.

Additional 13,000 Afghan troop increase has already been authorized by Bush. Pentagon says numbers of troops no secret.

In an unannounced move, President Obama is dispatching up to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March.

The Obamacare bill proposed by the Senate could be used to ban guns

"The List" for 10/12/2009

Cass Sunstein, Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. He has also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.

After the Obama administration forces Israel to reduce check point security, weapons flow freely

Uncovered VIDEO: Obama chants at an SIEU rally to "paint the nation purple"

VIDEO: At Obama meeting with 'Doctors for America'on the White House lawn- doctors were handed their white lab coats by the White House staff

Obama does not win the Nobel prize in economics. The Nobel panel chose instead to award the prize to two obscure academics -- Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson -- one noted for her work on managing collective resources, and the other for his work on transaction costs.

Obama became the first U.S. President to make an appearance at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest pro-gay “marriage” organization in the country. Obama delivered an impassioned speech in which he criticized the concept of the traditional family and announced that his administration will work to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act

A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is “likely” that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions—as a “shell” for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting. Under the procedure, the substance of House Resolution 1586 would be removed and replaced with the entire Senate health care package.

Joe Arpaio vows to continue immgration sweeps despite Federal downgrade

Joe Arpaio, A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama Administration

The United States, criticized for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run jails, on Tuesday announced plans to convert hotels to detain some noncriminal immigrants.

According to the Center for Data Anaylis, the Obama supported Baucus bill would increase insurance costs

The White House tries to blunt insurance industry criticism about the proposed health care plan's forcing a large increase in premiums before a key vote on a plan.

After months of collaboration on President Obama's attempt to overhaul the nation's health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.

White House aide blasts bloggers: "Take off their pajamas"

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.

"The List" for 10/11/2009

The Department of Justice launches Justice.gov- blogging site

Obama says he will end 'don't ask, don't tell' military policy.

As the Obama administration reconsiders its Afghanistan policy, White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State Department about the risks of adopting a limited strategy focused on al Qaida

Economic crises can be used to usher socialism into the U.S., argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. In his 2004 book "The Second Bill of Rights," Sunstein used the precedent of the Great Depression to point out that historic economic crises "provided the most promising conditions for the emergence of socialism in the U.S."

White House science czar John Holdren has called for the United States to surrender sovereignty to a "Planetary Regime" armed with sufficient military power to enforce population limits on nations as a means of preventing a wide range of perceived dangers from global eco-disasters involving Earth's natural resources, climate, atmosphere and oceans.

VIDEO: White House spin doctor attacks FOX News as "a research arm of the Republican Party"

Obama's Thirty Seventh Week in Office

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The List" for 10/10/2009

1000's line up in Detroit for "Obama money"

The Obama administration is considering outbidding the Taliban to persuade Afghan villagers to lay down arms as it struggles to find a new approach to a war that is fast losing public and congressional support.

Wait for benefits is 3 years if Obamacare passes

US Secr. of State Clinton abruptly declines to enter from Turkish-Armenian signing.

VIDEO: According to radio host and activist Sandy Rios from the Culture Campaign, Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings wrote the foreword to a pedophilia book.

"The List" for 10/9/2009

United States feels that Taliban poses a lesser threat to American security than al-Qaeda, the White House said here today, as media reported that the Obama administration has concluded that Taliban cannot be eliminated in Afghanistan.

On the day of President Obama’s Nobel Prize victory, the Taliban raise their flag over Kamdesh, Afghanistan when the US Military leaves

The Navy announced today the newest Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo/ammunition ship would be named USNS Medgar Evers.

A lawyer for the Obama administration said on Friday it had no position on the legality of the former Bush administration's program to intercept Americans' e-mails and phone calls without a warrant.

Nobel Prize decision was made by the committee after Obama served in office 11 days.

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to President Obama.

The U.S. administration is furious over Israeli incitement against President Barack Obama, Democratic congressmen close to Obama told an Israeli source who returned from a visit to Washington this week.

"The List" for 10/8/2009

Obama's appointee- Robert Schoch, the Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Los Angeles, is under investigation for alleged embezzlement and/or misuse of ICE funds used in undercover operations. Schoch was slated by Obama Administration officials running ICE to be Director of Investigations of ICE, meaning that he would be running and overseeing all ICE investigations worldwide.

The Dept. of the Interio has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah, saying the process of leasing the land was rushed and badly flawed.

In 1986White House science czar John Holdren has predicted 1 billion people will die in "carbon-dioxide induced famines" in a coming new ice age by 2020.

VIDEO: Obama 4/08/08....""For a nation to remain a preeminent military power, it must remain a preeminent economic power."...
"We are borrowing from China non-stop"..."You lose respect for people who are like that"

AUDIO: Mark Lloyd, Obama's current chief diversity officer for the Federal Communications Commission in 2005: "Well, all media in this country, but particularly broadcast media, was established at a time when all non-white Americans, and actually most women had very few protected legal rights in this country. As a result of that, various policies were developed that put essentially white Americans in a very protected position vis a vis broadcast stations. White Americans own and control 98 percent of all federal licenses to all broadcast operations in the United States. If this were South Africa, if this were any other country, and you saw roughly a third of the population licensed to two percent of the resources, that we would be shocked and dismayed and quite concerned about that situation. But, again, that is the situation in the United States."

President Obama is inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as are needed to keep Al Qaeda at bay, a senior administration official said.

The White House is stepping up its attacks against the Fox News Channel, labeling it a bastion of stilted and opinionated journalism- "They will say anything"

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn attacks Fox News: "It's opinion journalism masquerading as news"

The Obama administration has repealed a rule that would have threatened employers with prosecution unless they fired workers whose Social Security numbers did not match entries in a government database

White House advisor Dalia Mogahed says Sharia law misunderstood

Dept. Of Justice denies the existence of a "blog squad"

Bowing to the reality that the Taliban is too ingrained in Afghanistan’s culture to be entirely defeated, the administration is prepared, as it has been for some time, to accept some Taliban role in parts of Afghanistan, the official said. That could mean paving the way for Taliban members willing to renounce violence to participate in a central government — though there has been little receptiveness to this among the Taliban. It might mean ceding some regions of the country to the Taliban

AUDIO: GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann reporting that ACORN to again receive federal money on Halloween night

Obama administration officials said Wednesday there is no chance that ACORN will get a Homeland Security grant it was awarded last month because of a provision in a bill signed into law last week prohibiting any federal funding to the controversial group

Deepak Bhargava, super extreme leftist, is connected to almost every aspect of the Obama movement-from George Soros to ACORN, to Democratic Socialists of America, to The Nation, to the communist dominated United for Peace and Justice, to a whole raft of "progressive" non profits.

New health bill would cost California 8 Billion dollars

The three intelligence experts- Tom Fingar, formerly of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research; Vann Van Diepen, the National Intelligence Officer for WMD; and Kenneth Brill, the former U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-who published the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate which all but absolved Iran of suspicions that it was on course to develop nuclear weapon were all promoted and given positions within the Obama administration

Obama has made clear that he wants a bill that will not cover illegal aliens, yet, every proposed bill on the table does not require verification of citizenship. Each and every time that House and Senate Republicans have offered amendments that specifically bar illegal immigrants and require verification, they have been rejected

"The List" for 10/7/2009

The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's "white majority" opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. -"The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)," wrote Sunstein. Theses comments were made in Sunstein's 2004 book "The Second Bill of Rights"

Pakistan's powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus yesterday said women soon will serve on submarines, suggesting a reversal of the long-standing ban by the Navy.

Leaders in the house and Senate have a plan to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care plan by Thanksgiving without any significant participation by the American public.

Congressional Analysts: Senate Finance Health Care bill will cost 829 Billion over the next 10 years

Thousands of people jammed into Cobo Hall and lined up around the building to seek out housing aid from the federal government. It quickly turned into a mess with reports of fights and nearly a stampede.

The Obama administration has announced a $35 million federal construction project in New Hampshire that requires union representation for the workers and forces nonunion employees to pay dues and contribute to a union pension fund.

Nearly $1 million in Homeland Security funding typically earmarked for fire departments has been awarded to ACORN, despite a clear signal from Congress that it intends to cut off federal funding to the embattled group. The grant to ACORN's Louisiana office became public on Oct. 2, the Washington Times reported Wednesday, less than three weeks after the House and Senate voted to cut off ACORN funding after employees were caught on video advising a fake prostitute and pimp on scams.

The Obama administration is curbing the powers of an Arizona sheriff who has led one of the most contentious fights against illegal immigrants. Under an agreement involving local enforcement of federal immigration law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies will no longer have the authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants in the streets in the course of their duty.

Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of Obamaism in the comments sections.

Obama makes war on medical specialists in the health care plan. Plans to systematically attacking specific medical fields like cardiology and oncology. With almost no scrutiny, they're trying to engineer a "cheaper" system so that government can afford to buy health care for all—even if the price is fewer and less innovative ways of extending and improving lives

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop Dec. 1 and 2 concerning "How will journalism survive the Internet age?"

Five constitutional experts testified at a Senate hearing Tuesday that President Obama's extensive use of policy "czars" is legal -- as long as the officials do not overstep their authority.

"The List" for 10/6/2009

Obama expressed gratitude to the newly streamlined intelligence community Tuesday even as he warned that "no one can ever promise that there will never be another attack on America's soil."

Senate Subcommitte hearings are heald on "Examining the History and Legality of Executive Branch 'Czars'"

The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of 'protecting' these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009. A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America.

Obama science czar John Holdren warned that there would be an ice age before he argued for population control to limit global warming

The Obama administration is expected on Tuesday to unveil an outline of sweeping changes for the nation's immigration-detention system, saying it will decide whom to lock up and for how long based on the danger and flight risk posed by detainees.

Despite the embarrassing rejection of his effort to lure the 2016 Olympic Games to his hometown of Chicago, President Barack Obama will keep the first-ever White House Olympic Office.

AUDIO: Obama Safe Schools czar Kevin Jennings rails against the Boy Scouts in the public school system

AUDIO: Obama's "safe schools" czar Kevin Jennings addressed his former organization the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network in Iowa in 2000. In this audio clip, he talks about Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential win and references it back to a Karl Marx quote.

AUDIO: Obama Safe Schools czar Jennings discusses an upcoming ballot measure in Oregon that would restrict Oregon public schools from promoting homosexuality or bisexuality in the classrooms (measure 9 which failed at the ballot box in 2000). He says he is not worried about the outcome of the measure. Jennings says he is undeterred and believes their win is inevitable. He further says it will be against the law to discriminate against sexuality and implies a pro-homosexual educational curriculum will eventually be mandated in schools

In a chance meeting with conservative blogger Anne Leary, Bill Ayers makes a stunning claim that he wrote--not just edited--President Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father."

Chief White House advisor David Axelrod met with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago

The Obama administration's pay czar plans to cut the cash salaries of the top employees at seven firms that have received large sums of government aid, in a bid to reshape their compensation packages, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Kenneth Feinberg plans on shifting a chunk of an employee's salary, in some cases more than 50 percent of the total salary, into stock that cannot be accessed for several years, the paper said

Jew hatred from the Obama website blog- cached page of allowed published material from site

Obama doctor rally filled with Democrat donors

AUDIO: Obama's "Safe School Czar" Jennings- criticizes schools for promoting heterosexuality

In a new report, Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), reveals that then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key federal regulators forced the nation’s nine largest financial institutions to take billions in taxpayer bailout dollars in October 2008, threatening that if the banks refused, the government would take their stock shares anyway.

VIDEO: White House criticizes Fox News on Safe Schools czar Jenning

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) won't allow its Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd to be interviewed by the news media about his views and past statements on federal communications policy.

Obama praised U.S. intelligence and other national security agencies Tuesday for cooperating in pursuit of al-Qaeda, saying "real progress" has been made against the group

The Obama Administration has defunded the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, an organization that investigates the human rights abuses of Iran

"The List" for 10/5/2009

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that President Obama's advisors should keep their guidance private, in effect admonishing the top U.S. and allied commander in Afghanistan for publicly advocating a troop-intensive military approach at a time when the White House is considering an overhaul of its strategy.

The FTC said Monday its commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the final Web guidelines, which had been expected. Violating the rules, which take effect Dec. 1, could bring fines up to $11,000 per violation. Bloggers or advertisers also could face injunctions and be ordered to reimburse consumers for financial losses stemming from inappropriate product reviews.

The Taliban has the momentum in Afghanistan now because of the inability of the United States and its allies to put enough troops into the country, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday.

The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression- The Obama administration decided that a revamped freedom of expression resolution, extracted from Canadian hands, cosponsored a resolution on the subject with Egypt- The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. Including "the exercise of the right to freedom ...with it special duties and responsibilities . . ." which include taking action against anything meeting the description of "negative racial and religious stereotyping." It also purports to "recognize . . the moral and social responsibilities of the media" and supports "the media's elaboration of voluntary codes of professional ethical conduct" in relation to "combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."

The (cached) material on the Obama organization official website that equates Israelis to Nazis

Barack Obama's official Web site, over which Obama's organization exercises editorial control, carried an entry that equates Israelis to Nazis and their treatment of Palistinians to the Holocost (now removed)

A federal judge in California today listened to government lawyers argue that a lawsuit over President Obama's eligibility should be immediately dismissed but refused to grant their request, saying he would make his decision and announce it later.

The U.S. government has decided not to seek the death penalty against a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

AUDIO: Obama's chef speaks about what Michelle Obama: (she said) "Never kiss a white woman"

President Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the Equal Employment Oportunity Commission signed a manifesto praising polygamy and arguing traditional marriage should not be privileged above other forms of union. Chai Feldblum, an outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law professor, is a signatory to an online petition entitled "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships."

"Gay" sex is morally good and is as "wonderful" as heterosexual relations, according to Chai Feldblum, President Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Regardless of whether Barack Obama thinks he can make his self-imposed deadline for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Congress has no intention of helping him do it. Republicans and Democrats have combined in both chambers of Congress to deny funding in 2010 for any effort to close Gitmo and transfer its detainees to the US. Almost 90 Democrats in the House defied their party leadership to support a ban on the funds:

Carol Browner the White House coordinator of energy and climate policy for the Obama administration admitted that Congress will not have an climate and energy bill for the president to sign before he heads to Copenhagen in December.

Despite the American people’s overwhelming rejection of the notion of government-run health care, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on passage of their amended “conceptual draft” of a health care bill this wee

Doctors for America was formerly Doctors for Obama

Obama plans to address the nation's largest gay rights group this weekend

The Defense Dept. Tricare health plan announces a rate increas of more than $110 dollars a day. Tricare Standard is the military's fee-for-service insurance option.

As 10 more soldiers die in one day in Afghanistan, Obama still does nothing

In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month,

Obama military advisor Jones downplays threat of Al Quida haven in Afghanistan and rebukes Gen. McChrystal for asking for more troops

Michelle Obama gave a tear-jerker of a speech during which she recounted that she sat on her father's lap while watching Carl Lewis' triumphs in the Olympics. But Carl Lewis's first Olympics was in 1984 when Michelle Obama was 20 years old.

"The List" for 10/4/2009

Obama will make a decision on how to proceed in Afghanistan in "a matter of weeks," his national security advisor said Sunday.

According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week. The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago's unsuccessful Olympic bid.

Obama will focus "at the right time" on how to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military, his national security adviser said Sunday."I don't think it's going to be — it's not years, but I think it will be teed up appropriately," James Jones said.

Goldman Sachs to be paid 1 billion if CIT fails.

Declining home values have put a serious squeeze on one of the mortgage market's most popular and fastest-growing financing concepts: the Federal Housing Administration's reverse-mortgage program for senior citizens 62 or older. In a letter to reverse-mortgage lenders on Sept. 23, FHA Commissioner David H. Stevens said his agency must reduce the maximum amounts that senior citizens can receive on reverse mortgages because the program faced an estimated budgetary shortfall of $798 million in the fiscal year that began Thursday.

Obama's Thirty Sixth Week in Office\

"The List" for 10/9/2009

On the day of President Obama’s Nobel Prize victory, the Taliban raise their flag over Kamdesh, Afghanistan when the US Military leaves

The Navy announced today the newest Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo/ammunition ship would be named USNS Medgar Evers.

A lawyer for the Obama administration said on Friday it had no position on the legality of the former Bush administration's program to intercept Americans' e-mails and phone calls without a warrant.

Nobel Prize decision was made by the committee after Obama served in office 11 days.

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to President Obama.

"The List" for 10/3/2009

Nuke expert says that the Two week deadline Obama gave Iran time to hide the evidence

France is anxious about the Obama administration’s pursuit of a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme, warning that the US must not allow Tehran to expand its uranium enrichment without facing fresh sanctions.

Obama's top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen. Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, said a finished U.S. climate bill was unlikely before December's international meeting. The remarks by the official, Carol Browner, during an onstage interview in Washington, were the first definitive statement by the administration that it saw little chance of Congressional passage this fall.

"The List" for 10/2/2009

The United States will press Iran and not allow it to stall long enough to develop a nuclear program, American officials Thursday told Haaretz at the Geneva Talks 2 forum

Estimate for Obama's trip to Copenhagen for Olympics bid - $3 Million

Draft of the Senate Finance Committee's Health Reform Bill

Rahm Emanuel, the Chicagoan who is chief of staff for Obama,taunts Republicans before Chicago lost the bid for the Olympics...: "You know, we'll make sure they get some good seats once Chicago does host the games.''

Cass Sunstein's new book calls for monetary fines for spreading rumors

A two-week deadline set by world powers for Iran to open a newly-revealed nuclear site to inspectors is not "written in stone," the US State Department said on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security will hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks, an Obama administration official said.

Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher today defended President Obama's new plan for missile defenses in Europe, saying it provides more protection to the United States and its allies from potential Iranian attacks and does not abandon previous security commitments in the region.

Carol Browner, the former Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) administrator who now serves in the Obama administration's newly created role of energy czar, floated the possibility today of the EPA implementing cap-and-trade energy policies, during an interview at The Atlantic's First Draft of History symposium in Washington, DC.

After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system.

Obama's bid to get Chicago the Oympics fails in the first round vote

The Ban on "Jesus" on the capitol Christmas tree has been lifted. Just one day after it was reported that rules for the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree program prevented children from submitting decorations with themes such as "Happy Birthday, Jesus" and "Merry Christmas," state and federal officials are confirming the policy has been rescinded.

Obama finally meets with General McChrystal, the US General for operations in Afghanistan, for 25 minutes as the President is about to fly out to Copenhagen for the effort to sell Chicago to the Olympic committee. This is the first time he has met with his commander in the field.

The Department of Justice has hired a team of partisan Democrat campaign bloggers to work at the Department.

White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein seeks "chilling effect" on the internet. Book "Rumors" examines "what can be done" to quell rumors. For Sunstein, "part of the answer lies in recognizing that a ‘chilling effect' on those who would spread destructive falsehood can be an excellent idea.

Senior White House officials have begun to make the case for a policy shift in Afghanistan that would send few, if any, new combat troops to the country and instead focus on faster military training of Afghan forces, continued assassinations of al-Qaeda leaders and support for the government of neighboring Pakistan in its fight against the Taliban. In a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the White House, senior advisers challenged some of the key assumptions in Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's blunt assessment of the nearly eight-year-old war, which Obama has said is being fought to destroy al-Qaeda and its allies in Afghanistan and the ungoverned border areas of Pakistan.

"The List" for 10/1/2009

The White House lashes out at Fox News on the White House blog... -blasting the network's "disregard for facts". White House Online Programs Director Jesse Lee, the post takes issue with Fox News' coverage of the president's attempts to help the city of Chicago secure the 2016 Olympics,

The House went on record Thursday against allowing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to be transferred to the United States, even to face trial or to be jailed in maximum-security prisons. The 258-163 vote on a nonbinding recommendation put Democrats controlling the House in a difficult spot and prompted senior lawmakers to postpone unveiling a House-Senate agreement on a homeland security funding bill. If such a ban were to become law, the Obama administration would be hard-pressed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by January as Obama has promised.

Funding for NASA 's commercial crew and cargo work has been slashed from $150 million to $90 million with just $1 million for a human rating study contract that was announced and withdrawn in September.

Senate defense appropriators on Wednesday opted against funding an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, handing President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates an initial victory.

Obama gives Iran a two week deadline: "Iran will have two weeks to follow through on the commitments"-

Obama administration formulates its economic policies from the playbooks of communist philosophers Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky, joked White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee. "I mean, it's been a long, long time since things were this bad, so we kind of had to go back and look at the old textbooks – Karl Marx, Trotsky – and the thing that we found was that it was critical that we do something," Goolsbee quipped at the 16th annual "D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity" contest.

The Obama administration Wednesday defended an Education Department official over advice he gave a gay student about sex 21 years ago. In a statement Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Jennings has devoted his career to promoting school safety. "He is uniquely qualified for his job, and I am honored to have him on our team," Duncan said. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said: "I think there are many good people from every political persuasion that seek to serve their country and serve in government," he said. "...I hope that, as people watch, they'll match up some of the actual truth to what is being said on some of these occasions, and start to provide a little reality check to some of what's going on."

Kevin Jennings, Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education made statements by Jennings a decade or more ago prasing Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.

Obama has cut off communication with Republican leaders, going more than four months without hosting the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House to discuss his health care proposal, the No. 2 Republican in the House said Wednesday.

VIDEO: Jimmy Carter denying that he ever accused those who oppose President Obama of doing so because of racist motivation. In fact, he repeatedly corrected Crowley in saying he did not say what he actually said. On same page,another video of Carter saying the opposite

Chicago's bid to win the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games is an important strand in President Barack Obama's diplomatic efforts to reach out to the world, his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett told AFP on Thursday.

The U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the Capitol Christmas Tree this year

Earlier this month and despite the public scrutiny over the voter fraud and felony criminal activity associated with ACORN, the Department of Homeland Security went ahead and granted $997,402 to ACORN under the FY 2008 Fire Prevention and Safety Program.

43 troops died in Afghanistan since Gen. McChrystal called for reinforcments

Patrick Gaspard, White House director of the Office of Political Affairs- proven ties to extreme Marxists and Socialists.

Under Obama Health Care bill abortions may be offered at school health clinics discussed in H.R. 3200

Senate protects funding C-17 cargo planes over Obama objections

Obama has backed away from a campaign pledge to invest in more military cargo planes. On the campaign trail and shortly after he was sworn in as president, Obama pressed for investments in programs such as the C-17 cargo aircraft, calling it the “backbone of our ability to extend global power He shifted his stance on the C-17 shortly after Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced in April that the Pentagon wants to stop buying the planes made by Chicago-based Boeing Co. All the references to the cargo plane were promptly removed from the White House’s new website.

"The List" for 9/30/2009

Obama's safe school czar, Kevin Jenning, apologizes for hiding a case of pedophilia

Obama nominates extreme gay activist to be Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “Chai Feldblum is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center where she has taught since 1991. She also founded the Law Center’s Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, a program designed to train students to become legislative lawyers. Feldblum previously served as Legislative Counsel to the AIDS Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. In this role, she developed legislation, analyzed policy on various AIDS-related issues, and played a leading role in the drafting of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and, later as a law professor, in the passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has also worked on advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and has been a leading expert on the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.”

The U.S. Forest Service will spend $2.8 million in "Wildland Fire Management" stimulus funds on Washington, D.C., despite the fact that the city does not have a national forest. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) does not even include Washington, D.C. in its annual wildfire statistics.

Michelle Obama: It's a sacrifice to go to Europe to pitch the Olympics

The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule Wednesday to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions from thousands of power plants and large industrial facilities. The proposed rule would require polluters to install the best available technology to capture greenhouse gases whenever a new plant is opened or significantly changed. The rule applies to any industrial plant that emits at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year.

The official White House blog slammed Glenn Beck today , accusing the host of displaying a "disregard for the facts in an attempt to smear the Administration's efforts to win the Olympics for the United States."

Obama's administration put the brakes on 79 applications for surface coal mining permits in four states Wednesday,saying they would violate the Clean Water Act.

President Obama will hear from his top commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the general warned that America's mission in the unstable country will likely fail without more troops.

Obama takes 5 billion from the stimulus plan and gives it to the National Institute of Health for medical research. The program included $10 billion for the NIH.

Obama used not one, but two faulty anecdotes during his health care speech to Congress earlier this month. Obama told a story about a Texas woman who lost her insurance just before breast cancer surgery, "because she forgot to declare a case of acne." But the truth is Robin Beaton lost her coverage because she failed to report a heart condition and did not list her weight accurately. Republican Congressman Joe Barton fought the insurance company until it restored coverage, allowing Beaton to get the surgery she needed. The Associated Press writes: "Beaton's case is just one cited by Obama that mixes fact with fiction."

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are both traveling to Copenhagen this week to promote Chicago's bid to host to the 2016 Olympic Games--and they will be making the 3,979-mile trip on separate airplanes.

VIDEO: Sarkozy of France thinks "Obama is increadibly naive and grossly egotistical"

Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas Everett Eissenstat told a crowd at the Americans Conference that work was progressing on free trade agreements with both Panama and Colombia, though ``less tangible'' concerns about violence and impunity in Colombia have yet to be fully resolved.

The Diversity Czar of the Federal Communications Commission, Mark Lloyd, believes in racial exceptionalism. It is not enough to provide equal opportunity and a level playing field, Mr. Lloyd desires minority supremacy and the control of the media by “social justice” elites.

"The List" for 9/29/2009

There is a secret Obama plan to pass health care despite the unpopularity with the American people.
The Senate plans to attach Obamacare to a House-passed non-healthcare bill. Nobody knows what that legislation looks like, because it has not yet been written. Yet many members plan to rubber-stamp Obamacare without reading or understanding the bill. The Senate Finance Committee worked furiously last week to mark up a “conceptual framework” of health care reform. The committee actually rejected an amendment by Sen. Jim Bunning (R.-Ky.) to mandate that the bill text and a final cost analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) be publicly available at least 72 hours before the Finance Committee votes on final passage

The White House is expected to exempt Canada from a provision in the U.S. stimulus package that gives priority to American-made products used in public works projects, CBC News reported on Tuesday. In return Ottawa will offer U.S. companies guaranteed access to procurement contracts awarded by provincial and municipal governments, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on its website, citing Canadian government sources.

The Los Angeles Times has no plan to ever release a video it stated it obtained of President Obama attending an anti-Israel event in which he delivered a glowing testimonial for Rashid Khalidi, a pro-Palestinian professor who excuses terrorism. At the 2003 event, poetry reportedly was read comparing Israelis to Osama bin Laden and accusing the Jewish state of terrorism.

The White House defended President Obama’s trip to Denmark this week to promote Chicago’s bid for the Olympic Games, saying health care reform is in good enough shape for him to miss a couple of days. “I think he believes he can do this and get back in time,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. “He felt strongly and personally that he should go and make the case of the United States, and that’s what he’s going to do.” Obama will lead a delegation that includes first lady Michelle Obama, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Oprah Winfrey and others. The International Olympic Committee on Friday will choose the site of the 2016 Summer Games. Also in contention are Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Tokyo; and Madrid, Spain.

Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that "illegitimate children" born to unwed mothers could be taken by the government and put up for adoption if the mother refused to have an abortion.

Obama said on Tuesday the war in Afghanistan was not purely an "American battle" but was a broader Nato mission, as he met the western alliance's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "This is not a American battle, this is a Nato mission," Obama told reporters after the Oval Office meeting, which comes as he launches a series of intense talks on whether to send more US soldiers to the Afghan war.

Cuba and the US are in high level talks. A senior level diplomat has held high level talks with the Cuban government in Havana. State department official Bisa Williams held the unannounced talks with Cuba's deputy foreign minister during a visit to Cuba earlier this month,

Critics are lambasting President Obama for hitting the pause button on the war in Afghanistan, making U.S. commanders seeking thousands more troops there wait for a decision as he tries to get the "strategy right first." "The commander in chief is the commander in chief, period," said retired Army Lt. Col. James Carafano, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "You can't fight a war from Washington D.C. There's only one way this works: You have trust and confidence in the leaders on the ground, or you don't."

The Obamas -- and their ties to the most senior members of Chicago 2016 are far more extensive than the mainstream media has bothered to uncover. Obama senior adviser David Axelrod's firm, AKPD Message and Media, which employs his son, and which owes Axelrod money, is one of the contractors on the Chicago Olympics bid. Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett has been deeply involved in the strategizing for the Olympics bid since before the 2008 election, and until accepting her job in the White House she was a deputy chairwoman of the Chicago Olympics Host Committee. Both have close ties to a number of Chicago 2016 committee members.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is making it known he's not happy with President Obama's recent meddling in the state's 2010 gubernatorial race. "The whole thing to me was not presidential," Rangel told the New York Daily News over the weekend. "It wasn't good for the president, and it wasn't good for the governor.

The Obama administration is planning to push for new sanctions against Iran, targeting its energy, financial and telecommunications sectors if it does not comply with international demands to come clean about its nuclear program, according to U.S. officials.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday easily rejected the inclusion of a government-run "public" insurance option, backed by President Barack Obama, in its sweeping healthcare reform bill.

The United States called on its close ally Israel on Tuesday to conduct credible investigations into allegations of war crimes committed by its forces in Gaza, saying it would help the Middle East peace process

White House Director of Political Affairs, Patrick Gaspard, has close ties to Bertha Lewis and to ACORN

Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group ACORN has a man in the Obama White House. This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director , the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House. Evidence shows that years before he joined the Obama administration, Gaspard was ACORN boss Bertha Lewis's political director in New York.

If the academic year gets pushed deeper into summer, as President Obama is advocating, the grumbling will not be limited just to students and teachers who will be forced to spend more days in school. Critics say the president's call for a longer academic calendar and a shorter summer vacation will bring on a host of unintended consequences -- including increased costs for school systems, major cuts to the nation's hotel and tourism industries, and a serious blow to summer camp operators.

Wall Street executives feel betrayed by Obama. They won't admit it in public -- but in private conversations, the top guys on Wall Street are feeling burned. The execs who had such hopes for the president are now wondering fearfully just how radical he really is.

"The List" for 9/28/2009

The U.S. won’t recognize a scheduled November election in Honduras without a resolution to the political crisis that began with a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in June, a State Department aide said.

A Wall Street Journal writer has documented President Obama's history with ACORN, the now-beleaguered organizing enterprise that was found by a team of undercover volunteers apparently willing to aid and abet in child prostitution and tax evasion, goes back 20 years.

The Obama administration is working up plans to push for new sanctions against Iran, targeting its energy, financial and telecommunications sectors if it does not comply with international demands to come clean about its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Monday.

Obama State Dept.: Gitmo detainees are "Refugees"

VIDEO: Obama from 2008- "Losing is not an option" and says "Troop levels need to increase"

An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort to close the detention camp, a military spokesman said on Monday.

Poles indignant that the White House altered the missile shield plans

The government should be required to fund abortion in cases such as rape or incest, argues President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

Obama's trip to Copenhagen, Denmark for the International Olympics Committee meeting just happens to take him out of the country the day the unemployment numbers for September are announced. T he flight to Copenhagen takes about eight hours, so at a cost of $56,518 per hour (according to a 2006 report) to fly Air Force One, the cost to taxpayers for this trip is roughly $904,288.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama has a message for other countries seeking to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games: in the fight the "gloves are off."

The military general credited with capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, says he has spoken with President Obama only once since taking command in Afghanistan.

The United States blasted ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya for his "irresponsible and foolish" return from exile before a settlement was reached in the Central American country's political crisis.

Despite federal lawmakers' pledge of transparency, the final stages of most money trails, along with key information about job impacts, will remain invisible to users of the Recovery.org website when it debuts next month. Only details of a stimulus grant's passage through its first two stops after it leaves the federal government must be reported, according to guidance memos from the White House Office of Management and Budget. - billions of dollars will be untrackable and thousands of recipients will be left unidentified through the database, officials acknowledge. "That isn't transparent, and that's the primary concern," said Craig Jennings, senior policy analyst for OMB Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank examining stimulus spending.

"The List" for 9/27/2009

China formally ordered an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe into imports of US poultry, according to the Ministry of Commerce. China first announced it would launch an anti-dumping probe into US poultry exports and automobile parts, just days after US President Obama announced new tariffs on US imports of Chinese-made tyres on September 11. Preceding the G20 summit earlier this week, Chinese President Hu Jintao made China's concern over the new tax clear in a meeting with his US counterpart. 'The recent US decision to impose special safeguard measures on tyres imported from China contradicts the interests of both countries, and similar cases should not recur,' Hu was quoted as saying in a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In an article on the subject published Sunday, the Associated Press mysteriously hid the seriousness of this revelation while never once mentioning the Republican push to solve this problem four years ago, or that Democrats in January 2006 -- including Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) -- actually applauded the death of the previous year's reform efforts.

A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.

Federal Insurance to be withdrawn from money-market accounts by the treasury

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday denied any rift between the US military and the White House over the war in Afghanistan, and suggested a possible radical shift in strategy was unlikely.

Iran said it test-fired short-range missiles in a show of force Sunday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the country would have to prove it is not developing nuclear weapons or face more sanctions.

Obama's safe school czar, Kevin Jennings, encouraged child sex with an older man. In this one case in which Mr. Jennings had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only failed to do what the law required but actually encouraged the relationship.

A top official in the Obama Administration has at last admitted what intelligence agents and Israeli government officials have been warning about for years: Iran intends to build a nuclear arsenal. "The reality is there is no military option that does anything more than buy time

Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next two years, the first time that's happened since the 1980s. The deficits — $10 billion in 2010 and $9 billion in 2011 — won't affect payments to retirees because Social Security has accumulated surpluses from previous years totaling $2.5 trillion. But they will add to the overall federal deficit.

The Obama administration is close to selecting a location on U.S. soil to house some detainees from the controversial American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an administration official said on Saturday.

Ten Republican senators have written to National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman, expressing concern that the Obama administration may have violated federal law by trying to use the agency for political purposes -- something the White House and NEA have denied

VIDEO: Former President Bill Clinton says the vast right-wing conspiracy still exists and wants President Obama to fail.

Obama's Thirty Fifth Week in Office

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A report from the US Library of Congress legal branch released this week concluded that the ousting of elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was “legal and constitutional”.

Obama has not set a deadline for determining a new strategy or for committing more troops to the war in Afghanistan, despite an urgent request from his top commander, his national security adviser said Saturday.

U.S. policy of pressuring opponents of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by canceling their visas is “totally ineffective,” Adolfo Facusse, president of the Central American nation’s Manufacturer’s Association , said in an interview today.

Three detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to Ireland and Yemen, the Justice Department said on Saturday, the latest transfers as President Barack Obama tries to close the facility by January. “There are still some 223 detainees at the prison. Some are expected to be transferred abroad while others could face charges in U.S. military tribunals or in American courtrooms.”

Obama is offering Iran "a serious, meaningful dialogue" over its disputed nuclear program, while warning Tehran of grave consequences from a united global front.

White House press briefing: No closure of Gitmo by Obama's Jan. 22nd date deadline

Flow Chart of how one keeps their doctor in Obama's health care plan

Obama used a dinner-time address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to make an impassioned plea for health care reform, placing it in the tradition of the civil rights struggle.

The Treasury is unlikely to get back the full amount of money lent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program despite a recent spate of repayments from large banks, warned the program's watchdog. The program "played a significant role" in rescuing the financial system from a meltdown, Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. But it was "extremely unlikely that the taxpayer will see a full return on its TARP investment," according to his prepared testimony

In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard.

US Senate Republicans on Friday pulled out of a bipartisan investigation into controversial "war on terror" detentions and interrogations, including tactics widely condemned as torture. Senator Kit Bond, the panel's top Republican, blamed Attorney General Eric Holder's investigation into alleged CIA abuse of detainees, which he said made it impossible for current or former CIA officials to work with the committee.

"The List" for 9/25/2009

President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is on a path to confrontation with world powers unless it agrees to "come clean" and disclose all its nuclear activities. He said he would not rule out military action.

Treasury officials are considering another round of bailouts for banks that were deemed to risky to qualify for earlier aid

The Obama administration has aroused a fierce First Amendment controversy after threatening companies selling private Medicare coverage not to tell their customers that current health care legislation would result in benefit cuts - or else face a lawsuit.

Sarkozy mocks Obama at the UN Security council: Obama said: “We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.” Sarkozy responded: “We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions

Cash for clunkers success in July and August sees sales plummit in September

The top Republican on the Senate intelligence committee has pulled out of the panel's bipartisan review of Bush-era terrorist interrogation techniques, saying Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s criminal investigation into the CIA undermines the committee's ability to interview witnesses. "Had Mr. Holder honored the pledge made by the president to look forward, not backwards, we would still be active participants in the committee's review," said Sen. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, the panel's vice chairman. "Instead, DOJ sent a loud and clear message that previous decisions to decline prosecution mean nothing and old criminal charges can be brought anytime against anyone — against these odds, what current or former CIA employee would be willing to gamble his freedom by answering the committee's questions?"

Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia and China about Iran's newly unveiled nuclear facility to get the two countries' leaders on board with new sanctions against Tehran, senior U.S. officials revealed Friday.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is joining a growing list of Obama administration officials who will travel to Denmark next week to support Chicago's Olympic bid.

US intelligence officials say they have known about 2nd Iranian nuckear plan for years and that they briefed Obama before he took office

As a group, the bottom 70% of Americans will get more benefits than they pay in under Obama's plan

It has long been claimed that Rahm Emanuel wanted to find someone to keep his congressional seat warm while he served as President Obama's chief of staff. Now, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned that Emanuel wanted then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to appoint Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool to his 5th Congressional District seat. A new book by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he and Rahm Emanuel, in 2003, discussed Blagojevich appointing a "placeholder" for Emanuel's U.S. House seat. Emanuel and the White House declined comment Thursday. Cook County Board member Forrest Claypool, pictured in 2006, says he never would have agreed to be Rahm Emanuel's "placeholder" in the 5th District U.S. House seat. Claypool would serve one or two terms and then be considered for a place in Obama's Cabinet, according to sources familiar with Emanuel's proposal. That would give Emanuel the option of returning to Congress, where he could vie to become House speaker.

A proposed amendment that would have given Congress more oversight over the White House cybersecurity czar and at least 17 other czars appointed by President Obama was shut down in the U.S. Senate today.

Iran's newly unveiled uranium enrichment facility "is inconsistent with a peaceful (nuclear) program," Obama said Friday. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow," Obama said. He called on Iran to "take concrete steps" to demonstrate it will comply with its international obligations to ensure its nuclear program is for civilian use and not a covert weapons program.

White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig, who initially guided the effort to close Gitmo and who was an advocate of setting a closure deadline, is no longer in charge of the project, two senior administration officials said this week.

Restrictions on access to abortion would turn women's bodies into vessels to be "used" by fetuses, according to President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

The U.S. State Department said it is rethinking a decision to give $2.5 million in aid to Libya, including to foundations run by the Libyan leader's sons, after lawmakers on Thursday asked it to cancel the plan.

"The List" for 9/24/2009

Women should be allowed to serve aboard submarines, and the Navy is "moving out aggressively" to make it happen, according to the service's top civilian. "I believe women should have every opportunity to serve at sea, and that includes aboard submarines,Obama appointed " Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Thursday in a statement to Navy Times.

Obama's commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, wrote a 66-page "assessment" of the war in Afghanistan. The document has laid out a strategy to combat Taliban jihad in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan without once mentioning Islam, or jihad

U.S. Commander denies Afghan rift with Obama

On a conference call today, Vice President Biden told 30 of the nation’s governors that if the Recovery Act fails, he’s “dead.”

The Obama administration has decided to decrease by 384 the Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S. southern frontier.

The Centocor Company developed its chemotherapy agent Yondelis. The culmination of the company's efforts was an appearance July 15 before the FDA Oncology Drug Advisory Committee (ODAC), a panel of cancer experts that assists the FDA. But on the day of the meeting the FDA turned its back on 25 years of regulatory precedent and rejected a new cancer drug that by all known standards had passed muster for approval.

A cloud of pessimism is suffocating hopes that U.S. President Barack Obama can pull off a miracle in the Middle East by setting negotiations on course for rapid progress towards a comprehensive peace agreement. The New York encounter he arranged between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week produced no more than a schedule of lower-level meetings this week and next, which has only deepened scepticism

The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn. The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A $200,000 share is set to go to the Gadhafi Development Foundation, which is run by Gadhafi’s son, Saif, and another $200,000 are to go to Wa Attassimou, an organization run by Muammar Gadhafi’s daughter, Aisha.

The Treasury Department's inspector general is looking into the government's oversight of tax-exempt organizations like ACORN when they engage in political activities.

The government is failing to disclose the full details of how the $700 billion bailout of the financial sector has been implemented, the program's top government watchdog will say on Thursday. Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General over the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), will testify to Congress that the government's "basic attitude" on the transparency and accountability of the program "remains a significant frustration."

The man that Barack Obama insists the Hondurans should restore to power, Manuel Zelaya, now claims that Israelis are torturing him with mind rays and toxic gasses while holding out in the Brazilian embassy in Tegulcigalpa.

Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, argues that the U.S. government should have the right to force broadcast media companies to air commercials that foster a "diversity" of views, "If it were necessary to bring about diversity and attention to public matters, a private right of access to the media might even be constitutionally compelled. The notion that access will be a product of the marketplace might well be constitutionally troublesome," wrote Sunstein in his 1993 book "The Partial Constitution.

"The List" for 9/23/2009

Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that compulsory, government-mandated "green abortions" would be a constitutionally acceptable way to control population growth and prevent ecological disasters, including global warming, because a fetus was most likely not a "person" under the terms of the 14th Amendment. Holdren further suggested government-mandated population control measures might be inflicted in the United States against welfare recipients, writing on page 840: "There has been considerable talk in some quarters at times of forcibly suppressing reproduction among welfare recipients (perhaps by requiring the use of contraceptives or even by involuntary sterilizations).

The IRS says it is severing ties with ACORN, the community activist group involved in a scandal after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp.

In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage," Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without intending to do so. "With the deadline pressing, Michelle recommended that Barack seek advice from "his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.""In the end, Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams From My Father would be significant--so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."

The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal will submit his request for additional troops and resources in Afghanistan to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Gates intends to sit on the request until the White House national security team completes its review of the general’s strategy assessment

The U.S. government will have issued $7 trillion in bonds by the time the current fiscal year ends next week, but it expects the debt deluge to stabilize by mid 2010, a Treasury official said on Wednesday.

Gordon Brown lurched from being hailed as a global statesman to intense embarrassment tonight, after it emerged US President Barack Obama had turned down no fewer than five requests from Downing Street to hold a bilateral meeting at the United Nations in New York or at the G20 summit starting in Pittsburgh today.

A White House official "misspoke" when he said the Obama administration would not allow the Goldstone report recommendations on Israel's conduct in the Gaza war to reach the International Criminal Court. A top White House official told Jewish organizational leaders in an off-the-record phone call Wednesday that the U.S. strategy was to "quickly" bring the report -- commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council and carried out by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone -- to its "natural conclusion" within the Human Rights Council and not to allow it to go further

Riki Elison, Chairman and President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) has developed a white paper that analyzes the recent missile defense decision by Obama. The white paper states that the protection of our homeland population is a risk we are facing with the new missile defense plan.

Israelis and Palestinians said Wednesday that their envoys would meet with U.S. officials but not with each other, cementing the impression that a U.S.-sponsored meeting between their leaders had fallen flat.

Links to the Senate bill at the Library of congress webite

The Senate does not want to put the next Obamacare bill online....Is the bill here?: America's Healthy Future Act of 2009

Serve.gov now scrubs all ACORN links from taxpayer funded site

Obama used his speech to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday to fire a warning at Israel that "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." Obama's stark declaration, which drew applause, was coupled with a call for Palestinians to end their "incitement of Israel." But it was the use of the U.N. forum to carry the settlement message to Israel that drew the most enthusiastic response on the floor -- and incredulous reaction outside its walls.

During the entire administration of George W. Bush, the Iraq war cost a total of $622 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service. President Obama's welfare spending will reach $888 billion in a single fiscal year--2010--more than the Bush administration spent on war in Iraq from the first “shock and awe” attack in 2003 until Bush left office in January.

The GOP is charging that AARP is getting kickbacks in Dem. health bills. AARP -- which sponsors a Medicare Advantage program in addition to the Medigap policies it offers, but was exempt from the Obama administration's gag order on Humana.

The Obama administration will unveil a new policy on Wednesday that will make it much more difficult for the government to claim it is protecting state secrets when it hides details of sensitive national security strategies, according to a published report. Under the new policy, agencies will have to convince Attorney General Eric Holder and a team of Justice Department lawyers that release of certain information would significantly hurt "national defense" or "foreign relations,

ABC reports on the Obama Administration's attempt to suppress criticism of Obamacare

VIDEO: Mark Lloyd, Obama Diversity Czar lauding Chavez' Venezuala's "Incredible... democratic revolution'

AUDIO: Mark Lloyd, Obama "Diversity Czar" - 'Few things frighten Americans more than dark skin black men' -'Who is going to have to step down to make things more equal?'- 'The fairness doctrine is not enough'

In just 41 speeches so this year, not including this week's big speech at the United Nations, Obama has talked about himself nearly 1,200 times – 1,198 to be exact. (That breaks down to 1,121 “I”s and just 77 "me"s.)

Socialists/Marxists in the white house as of today

Obama administration said it would lend more than $500 million ($539 million) to Irvine-based Fisker Automotive Inc. to develop a pair of plug-in hybrids.

Obama's diversity czar at the Federal Communications Commission has spoken publicly of getting white media executives to "step down" in favor of minorities, prescribed policies to make liberal talk radio more successful, and described Hugo Chavez's rise to power in Venezuela "an incredible revolution." Mark Lloyd's provocative comments were mostly made during a tenure at the liberal Center for American Progress think tank

"The List" for 9/22/2009

Experts say "Cash for Clunkers a boondoggle". For the $4,000 per car that taxpayers shelled out, “we could have gotten a lot more,” wrote Lisa Margonelli. a senior research fellow with the New America Foundation in a piece in The Atlantic.

Condoleezza Rice blasts Obama: If you want another terrorist attack on the U.S., abandan Afghanistan

Obama-mania cools off for the young. Young people voted for Obama by a 2 to 1 margin, but now according to political analysts, his populartity has fallen off

The conference call by the NEA violated 6 Federal laws and regulations. Among the laws viloated, includes 19 U. S. code 1913 concerning the appropriation of monies for personal service. The conference call also violates the Hatch Act – in particular, 5 U.S. Code §7323(a)(4), which prohibits federal employees from “knowingly solicit[ing] or discourag[ing] the participation in any political activity of any person who – (A) has an application for any compensation, grant, contract, ruling, license, permit, or certificate pending before the employing office of such employee

Congress' chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack Obama's oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn't see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators Tuesday that seniors in Medicare's managed care plans would see reduced benefits under a bill in the Finance Committee.

Obama meets with Netanyahu and Abbas at the U.N., nothing is accomplished except a photo-op

Obama's authority undercut at the G-20 summit. His ability to lead at home has created doubt in him abroad

White House officials told agencies across the government Tuesday they should take care to avoid even the appearance that politics played a part in the award of federal grants. (new guidelines)

An August 10, 2009 National Endowment for the Arts conference call in which artists were asked to help support President Obama's agenda -After media picked up on it and created a hue and cry- prompts the White House to issue new "guidelines" to prevent such a call from ever happening again.

New York Governor Patterson blames Obama for his problems

VIDEO: Obama spoke to the UN this on the topic of climate change, in part to take credit for pushing the US towards the state-run energy paradigm that Europe has begun to regret. After the obligatory “no one before us had the wisdom to think we could change the weather” opening, Obama makes a couple of odd — and eminently refutable claims about his presidency

Transcript of Obama's odd address before the U.N.

Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said

The new Obama health care bill sponsored by Baucus funds abortions

Obama tax-cut calculator (www.obamataxcut.com) has been taken off line

In his Sept. 9 speech to Congress, Obama unveiled a new claim that 30 million Americans “cannot” get health insurance, but this statistic is not supported by the government's latest definitive data produced by the Census Bureau on Americans lacking health insurance.

Obama's science czar, John Holdren, contended in a textbook he co-authored that involuntary birth control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under certain conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by "climate change."

"The List" for 9/21/2009

White House senior adviser David Axelrod stumbles and bumbles his way through an incoherent explanation of why President Obama favors more consumer “choice” by opposing greater choice through increased health insurance competition across state lines

Asked at a seminar on reconstructing America's electrical grid about the Obama administration's efforts to persuade people to conserve energy, Secretary of Energy StevenChu said “the American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act.

The Stimulus plan was largely written by a collection of leftist interest groups called the Apollo Alliance that counts among its directors a co-founder of the Weather Underground.

Glenn Fine, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice today wrote to the Chairman and Ranking Republican of the House Judiciary Committee – Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Lamar Smith, R-Texas -- informing them that his office is planning on opening a review into whether ACORN applied for or received any Justice Department grants or funds and whether or not the Justice Department ever carried out any audits or reviews of those funds.

Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda.

The Pentagon has told its top commander in Afghanistan to delay submitting his request for additional troops, defense officials say, amid signs that the Obama administration is rethinking its strategy for combating a resurgent Taliban.

Three officers at the Pentagon and in Kabul tell reporters that General McChrystal would resign before he'd stand behind a faltering policy that he thought would endanger his forces or the strategy. "Yes, he'll be a good soldier, but he will only go so far," a senior official in Kabul said. "He'll hold his ground. He's not going to bend to political pressure."

The government is investigating a major insurance company for allegedly trying to scare seniors with a mailer warning they could lose important benefits under health care legislation in Congress. The Health and Human Services Department launched its investigation of Humana after getting a complaint from Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., a senior lawmaker usually viewed as a reliable ally of the insurance industry

The Obama administration may make it easier for Indian tribes to build casinos far from their reservations. The White House is "rethinking" a policy from the previous Bush administration that off-reservation casino sites be within commuting distance of the reservation, a spokesman for the Bureau of Indian Affairs said

AUDIO: White House use of NEA for partisan agenda

New evidence of Obama/ACORN connection

VIDEO: 2007 Obama Revelation: Health Care Reform Requires Tax Hikes

VIDEO: of President Obama yesterday on CNN with John King saying he has not intention of heeding the plea of seven former CIA Directors - from both parties

A study in contrasts: President Obama's Rosh Hashana message compared to message for EID-UL-FITR and Ramadan. He tells the Jews they should make peace with their neighbors.... and to the Muslims, praise for giving chairty

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.

The White House tells New York Governor Patterson to stay out of governors' race, then changes its story

"The List" for 9/20/2009

Obama readies to slash U.S. Nuclear arsenal. Obama has demanded the Pentagon conduct a radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine to prepare the way for deep cuts in the country's arsenal

Former National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski who was a foreign policy adviser to President Obama during the campaign, has suggested that the United States should shoot down any IDF Plane on the way to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.

The Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. military will soon hold a training exercise in which they will simulate missile attacks on Israel from Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Sunday.

President Obama and ABC News' George Stephanopoulos got in a testy sparring match Sunday over whether the president's health care plan includes a tax increase, leading the host to look up the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of taxes.

Obama turned media critic during his Sunday show marathon, zinging television news during interviews on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC for making stars out of people who are "rude." Obama wants bookers to reward "decency" and "civility" in public discourse.

Obama says ACORN misdeeds captured on secretly taped videos should be investigated, but that the controversy over the community service group was not occupying much of his time.

VIDEO: Obama today being pressed by George Stephanopoulos about ACORN. His response was that he "did not know" that ACORN was getting "a lot of Federal money," and this is not "the biggest issue facing the country.

Obama is warning U.S. commanders that he’s “skeptical” about whether more troops will make a difference in Afghanistan, saying he’ll approve an upcoming request only if the forces fit into a strategy to beat back al-Qaida and protect the United States.

Nine months into his term, Obama has yet to nominate someone to head Medicare or Medicaid

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