END OF YEAR ONE

 Obama's Fifty Second Week in Office

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"The List" for 1/20/2010

More socialist ties for Obama.  Obama has been researched to have a history with the radical group "The Committee of Correspondence". The organization was born in 1992 out of a major split in the Communist Party USA, incorporating Trotskyites, former Maoists, socialists and anarchists to form an entirely new party. The party has strong ties to Cuba , Vietnam, Venezuela and the communist parties of France and the former East Germany.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lifted a U.S. ban on a planned visit by a leading European Muslim critic of the Iraq war.  Clinton signed orders which ended the ban on Professor Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University, who was barred due to alleged terrorism ties which he denies

The Social Security Administration (SSA) spent $30 million in stimulus money in 2009 to hire 585 new bureaucrats who will be responsible for certifying whether people are eligible for disability so they can be paid by the taxpayers not to work.'

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama donated $15,000 today to the Haiti relief efforts, the White House confirms.  The donation came from their personal bank account, a check written to the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund.

VIDEO: Obama- " The Senate certainly should not try to jam anything through until Brown is seated"

Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, told Congress that senior national security officials were not consulted before the FBI decided to press civilian charges against the suspect, alleged al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Blair said Abdulmutallab should have interrogated by the High Value Interrogation Group, which Obama set up last year by after deciding to close the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Obama's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday, a blow to an administration trying to explain how a man could attempt to blow up a commercial airliner on Christmas Day.  Erroll Southers said he was pulling out because his nomination had become a lightning rod for those with a political agenda.

VIDEO: David Axelrod and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on MSNBC this morning where they would not agree that Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts was a "wake-up call" to President Obama and the Democrats.

"The List" for 1/19/2010

White House and Coakley blame each other for Coakley loss.  Trade barbs

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says nothing special is being planned to take note of Obama's first year as president. Obama took the oath of office on the steps of the Capitol around noon on Jan. 20, 2009.

Erroll Southers, nominated by President Obama to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), said that “we will never win” a war on terrorism in the permanent sense, but we can focus on trying to “contain” terrorism.

Obama Black Panther-gate timeline

Hans Spakovsky has revealed that the involvement of the White House in the stonewalling of the investigation involving the Black Panthers.  By examining the schedule of visitor logs to the White House and significant dates in the saga of the Black Panther case, he builds a case -- at least circumstantially -- that political appointees, as well as a White House deputy counsel with close ties to Barack Obama, were closely involved in allowing the Black Panther party members to basically get off scot-free.

The Obama administration will demand IRA and 401(k) holders buy trillions of dollars in Treasury bonds. Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Mark Iwry are planning to stage a public comment period before implementing regulations that would require private investors to structure IRA and 401(k) accounts into what could amount to a U.S. Treasury debt-backed government annuity

"The List" for 1/18/2010

As the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to propose changes to NASA’s human spaceflight program in the president’s 2011 budget request to lawmakers Feb. 1, an independent NASA safety advisory panel is warning the space agency against abandoning its current plans.  In an annual report issued Jan. 15, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel cautioned the United States against halting work on NASA’s Ares 1 rocket to fund unproven commercial alternatives.

The White House new communications director is lobbing new firebombs at Fox News, saying it is not "a traditional news organization" and won't be treated as equal to other news networks. The remarks  were by Dan Pfeiffer, who recently replaced Anita Dunn as the White House communications director.

A handful of large insurance companies, most of which turned down government bailout funds, would likely owe money under the proposed Financial Crisis Responsibility tax.  The proposed tax, unveiled Thursday by President Barack Obama, would amount to 0.15% of total assets minus high-quality capital, such as common stock, and disclosed and retained earnings. Insurance-policy reserves would be untaxed, being already subject to federal fees, according to the White House

By the numbers look at Obama's first year

Obama met on Dec. 22 with top officials of the C.I.A, F.B.I., and Dept. of Homeland Security who ticked off a list of possible plots against the United States and how their agencies were working to disrupt them- prior to Detroit airliner attack.  Many clues were missed.

Chai Feldblum, the Georgetown University law professor nominated by President Obama to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has written that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, that may negatively affect homosexual “equality.

"The List" for 1/17/2010

White House sources: "Yeah, we think Coakley will lose"  Multiple advisers to President Obama have privately told party officials that they believe Democrat Martha Coakley is going to lose Tuesday’s special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy for more than 40 years, several Democratic sources told CNN Sunday.

Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston.  They couldn’t fill the hall at a university.

VIDEO:  Obama heckled at Coakley rally

Obama goes to Massachussetts for last ditch effort to salvage 60th Democratic Senate seat.

Obama's favorite phrase, "Let me be clear"- Obama relies on his "let me be clear" set-up. He deploys it in formal speech

 Obama's Fifty First Week in Office

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"The List" for 1/16/2010

Michelle Obama 7-10-08: Obama's mother "very single when she had him"

Obama on Saturday slammed Wall Street's "audacity" for fighting a bailout fee he wants to slap on financial firms and said his Republican opponents had sided with big banks.

The Obama administration is burnishing Barack Obama's image as intently focused on the plight of Haitians by pushing on the press a detailed-to-the-minute timeline of Obama's involvement with the response to the Haiti earthquake this week.

Obama's plan to fix the foreclosure crisis has been a dud, putting the housing market recovery at risk.  Hopes were over-inflated when Obama unveiled the program before an adoring audience of Arizona high school students last February. Almost a year later, it appears only about 750,000 homeowners -- a fraction of the 3 million to 4 million originally projected -- might complete the application process, predicts Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com.

The International Association of Fire Fighters--an influential union that belongs to the AFL-CIO--has released the strongest condemnation yet of President Obama's support for taxing high-end health insurance plans as a means of financing a major health care overhaul--accusing him of breaking a campaign promise, and threatening to hold him accountable.

The Justice Department is beginning a major campaign against banks and mortgage brokers suspected of discriminating against minority applicants in lending, opening a new front in the Obama administration’s response to the foreclosure crisis.  Tom Perez, the assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, is expected to announce Thursday in New York that the administration is creating a new unit that will focus exclusively on unfair lending practices.  “We are looking at any and every practice in the industry,” Mr. Perez said in a recent interview.

While the press has focused tirelessly on reported tension between the McCain and Palin camps in the 2008 presidential campaign, a more significant story in a new book may be the campaign rift between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  According to journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new campaign exposé "Game Change," the tension was so great that aides kept Mr. Biden off internal conference calls and sometimes even refused to tell him calls were taking place. The authors report that Mr. Obama's aides would hold a separate call in order to "keep a tight rein on him."  Tensions between the running mates escalated after Mr. Biden told reporters on his campaign plane that he was more qualified than Mr. Obama to be president. After those remarks, the Obama camp limited Mr. Biden's access to the press and grilled new campaign staffers to ensure that they were more loyal to Mr. Obama than Mr. Biden.

"The List" for 1/15/2010

An intense security review is under way as the Obama administration considers holding a trial in Washington for the Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of planning a deadly Bali nightclub bombing, a move that would bring one of the world's most notorious terrorism suspects to a courthouse just steps from the Capitol, officials said.

The White House has proposed barring Energy Department research on fast reactor recycling of nuclear waste and technical support for licensing of small, modular light-water reactors, drawing protests from Energy Secretary Steven Chu that such prohibitions will have broad adverse effects, including hurting the U.S. nuclear industry's renaissance; crimping U.S. ability to influence other countries' fast reactor designs to address proliferation concerns; and taking away nuclear waste disposal options that might be considered by the administration's planned blue-ribbon panel on alternatives to the Yucca Mountain repository.

Obama plans a weekend trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate candidate Martha Coakley after a poll showed an edge for Republicans in the race for a seat Democrats have held for over a half-century

Obama advisor Cass Sunstein's paper "Conspiracy Theories"

The creepy mindset behind the creep proposal of Obama advisor Cass Sunstein.  

The Federal Communications Commission is considering aggressive moves to stake out its authority to oversee consumer access to the Internet, as a recent court hearing and industry opposition have cast doubt on its power over Web service providers.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tries to push abortion language into UN agreement.  Claiming to honor the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population Control (ICPD), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared in Washington D.C. on January 8 that the U.S. government will push for international acceptance of reproductive health for women, including abortion, contradicting the conference's previous agreements

Obama wants to substitute government annuities for non-government 401K's.  Obama appointees Phyllis Borzi (assistant secretary of labor) and Mark Iwry (deputy assistant treasury secretary) are floating the idea of “the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams.” paid to amd owned by the government not by privately controlled investments

"The List" for 1/14/2010

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), just back from a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said he and other senators found operational "confusion” among U.S. military officials on how to handle detained enemy combatants. “From the top to the bottom, the military, the American military people that we talked to, indicated some confusion, operationally, about what you do when you detain a terrorist,” McConnell said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Massachusetts's top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul even if the Republican who has vowed to kill it wins Democrat Edward M. Kennedy's former seat.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday the bailout of insurer AIG was not meant to help out bank counterparties and that he had no role in the decision not to disclose payments to banks.

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs, who has avoided answering questions on whether health care negotiations should be broadcast on C-SPAN, declined to say yesterday whether President Barack Obama would advocate posting the final negotiated bill on the Internet for 72 hours before it is voted on by the House and Senate.

The White House has reached a deal with health care negotiators, including labor unions, on taxing the high-level "Cadillac" plans that workers with high-risk jobs often purchase.  Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said the deal reduces revenue raised from the tax from the $150 billion estimate in the Senate version to $90 billion. It is not clear how the $60 billion will be made up. The value of the plans that are taxed would be indexed to the consumer price index plus 1 percent, meaning over time more and more people would be affected by the threshold than would be if the tax had been indexed to health care inflation. Health care spending in 2008, the last year for which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has data, rose at a historically low rate of 4.4. percent. Inflation was at 6 percent in 2007.

We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama - $60.7 million to be exact - and we're proud of it," Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andrew Stern proclaimed last year. Now he and other labor leaders want a full return on their investment. "A full return," more than anything else, means getting Congress, the executive branch and the courts to transform labor law and policy into vehicles for a massive expansion of union membership and bargaining power.

VIDEO: Declaring "we want our money back," President Obama wants to slap a tax on banks to recoup the money that the American public spent on bailing out large financial institutions on the brink of collapse.

A House committee probing bailout deals has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for correspondence from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other officials.

VIDEO: Obama makes ad for Massachussetts Democratic candidate Coakley, "What happens Tuesday in Massachussetts is so important"

Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown issued a stern warning to President Obama, cautioning him to "stay away" from Massachusetts as he battles Democratic rival Martha Coakley in a heated race, the Boston Herald reported. "He should stay away and let Martha and I discuss the issues one on one," Brown told the Herald. "The machine is coming out of the woodwork to get her elected. They're bringing in outsiders, and we don't need them."

VP Joe Biden has a meeting with the chief of transparency for economic recovery.   The transparency meeting is closed to the press.

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) takes action about a voter intimidation case in Philadelphia. The incident which occurred during the 2008 and has been stonewalled by the Obama Attorney General Eric Holder.  Wolf took his case to the House Judiciary Committee. He has introduced a measure that would require the committee to deal with the issue. Wolf introduced a Resolution of Inquiry last Wednesday and it has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee.  Under House rules, committees must take action on resolutions of inquiry within 14 legislative days.  Wolf’s resolution directs the U.S. attorney general to provide Congress will “all information” relating to the decision to dismiss the case.  The committee must vote the resolution up or down. Despite writing six requests to the attorney general six times Wolf has yet to receive a response. He also has written DOJ’s inspector general seeking answers.

In a step widely seen as off limits for government officials, Hannah Rosenthal, Obama's appointed "anti-semitism" envoy, criticized in a newspaper interview the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, for his characterization of J Street as a “unique problem. A breach of protocol by the administration’s new envoy on antisemitism recieved an implicit rebuke from her superiors at the State Department and a sharp retort from her former colleagues in the organized Jewish community

In a lengthy academic paper, Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban "conspiracy theorizing."

"The List" for 1/13/2010

After telling the people of the United States that "everybody must sacrifice" the Obama White House throws a party every three days during Obama's first year in office

George Mitchell, Obama's Middle East envoy, is using a suspect poll regarding Israelis' views of Barack Obama in order, apparently, to pressure Israel.  Interviewer Charlie Rose questions Mitchell as to why Obama's poll numbers in Israel show him at a historically low 4%.  The poll Mitchell relies upon seems to be from the "New America Foundation", a Soros left wing group run by George Soros' son Jonathan Soros.

The Goldman Sachs-AIG scandal may be worse than we think. Former New York Fed President and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is being castigated for paying off AIG's counterparties - Goldman foremost among them - 100 cents on the dollar and then keeping these payments secret. But it seems likely that Goldman actually got much more than 100%. What is worse, Goldman may have received this windfall by trading on information that was deliberately withheld from the public.

Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 Billion to fight wars.  Total Defense Dept. spending to be a record $708 billion

The produce used on the Food Network's Jan. 3 Iron Chef of America two-hour special White House show was billed as being from the White House garden. But the show did not disclose that "stunt double vegetables" were used and not produce from the First Family's garden.

Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing the country together, acknowledging an atmosphere of divisiveness that has washed away the lofty national feeling surrounding his inauguration a year ago.

US House panel issued a subpoena for Federal Reserve Bank of New York documents related to American International Group Inc.

Black leaders say that President Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Congress have put politics ahead of helping low-income children in the District of Columbia by refusing to support a program that allows 1,700 children to go to a private school, including the school Obama’s two daughters attend

Obama is trumpeting a new White House estimate that his top economist calls "stunning": His stimulus plan has already created or saved up to 2 million jobs.

"The List" for 1/12/2010

A senior administration official says President Barack Obama is ready to announce an administration plan to recover Wall Street bailout shortfalls with a bank fee on the country's biggest financial firms.

Richard Foster, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reports that under his analysis national health spending will rise under the bills by $222 billion over the next 10 years

Obama’s top food stamp official: Texas could be providing food stamps to 650,000 more people — and could increase the amount of federal funds it receives for the program each year from $4 billion to $5 billion — if the state increased its participation rate to the national average

Obama's nominee to lead the federal agency in charge of airport security claimed in 2008 that America is subject to terror attacks because of its alliances with countries like Israel and France.

Obama's rejection of an obscure spending bill late last month is raising some unexpected constitutional questions.  Mr. Obama's use of both a "pocket veto" and a regular veto on a stopgap spending bill approved by Congress Dec. 19 has at least one leading scholar questioning the move as a possible stealth White House power grab. -The Constitution "simply doesn't give the president a multiple-choice option" on how to veto a bill, said Robert Spitzer, chairman of the political science department at State University of New York at Cortland and author of a noted book on the presidential veto.

Democratic officials say House and Senate negotiators working with the White House on a health care bill appear likely to drop a proposed income tax increase on high-wage earners. They also may jettison a requirement for large corporations to offer coverage to their employees.

VIDEO: The last time a white Democrat commented on Obama's campaign and race

A report by Common Cause says Obama gets "an A for openness"

The Obama administration now says it has no plans to transfer Guantánamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt and bipartisan criticism about its policy of transferring detainees to countries hosting terrorist activity.

Interpol's U.S. headquarters are located in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's offices

In what appears to be another setback for the White House security team, new photos reveal that an alleged party crasher posed for pictures with many powerful lawmakers at President Barack Obama's Nov. 24, 2009 state dinner.

"The List" for 1/11/2010

The Executive Order: National Council of Governors

Today, Obama, signed an Executive Order (attached) establishing a Council of Governors to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect our Nation against all types of hazards.  The bipartisan Council will be composed of ten State Governors who will be selected by the President to serve two year terms. In selecting the Governors to the Council, the White House will solicit input from Governors and Governors’ associations. Once chosen, the Council will have no more than five members from the same party and represent the Nation as a whole.  Federal members of the Council include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs, the U.S. Northern Command Commander, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. The Secretary of Defense will designate an Executive Director for the Council.

Obama has not held a news conference with reporters since July 22, almost six months ago.

A White House report on the foiled Christmas Day attempted airliner bombing provided only the sketchiest of details about what may have been the most politically sensitive of its findings: how the White House itself was repeatedly warned about the prospect of an attack on the U.S. homeland by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen. 

Obama considering deal to pay off more states to pass Obamacare- Many governors had protested a special funding allocation for Nebraska in the bill."We're going to continue to work with governors," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, referring to the healthcare bill. When asked if Obama might extend the deal to pay some of Nebraska's Medicaid costs to all states, he added, "I think that's certainly part of the discussion."

The Dec. 18, 2009 memo from the office of management and budget director Peter Orszag

The Obama administration changes the way jobs are counted.  In a Dec. 18, 2009 memo from the office of management and budget director Peter Orszag now counts "stimulus jobs" even if they were held before the stimulus money was given

VIDEO: Obama  TSA nominee, Erroll Southers, thinks that global warming deserves parity with war on terror

VIDEO: Obama nominee to head agency charged with keeping American travelers save from terrorism, Erroll Southers, thinks pro-life advocates are terrorists

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has gone too far to placate environmental groups when it comes to oil and gas drilling policy.

White House school czar Kevin Jennings funded "Gay Prize" at Harvard

Obamacare will probably including a bigger increase in the Medicare payroll tax than currently proposed

Amish families will be exempt from Obamacare mandates

Israel downplays White House envoy Mitchell's threat to cut off Israel loan guarantees

 "The List" for 1/10/2010

The federal government missed a real opportunity to get intelligence from Christmas Day accused bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because authorities indicted him while he was still talking, a Republican lawmaker said Sunday.

VIDEO:  White House spokesman Robert Gibbs:  Record cold due to "climate change"

Green Energy biomass subsidy program drives up lumber prices.  In a matter of months, the Biomass Crop Assistance Program -- a small provision tucked into the 2008 farm bill -- has mushroomed into a half-a-billion dollar subsidy that is funneling taxpayer dollars to sawmills and lumber wholesalers, encouraging them to sell their waste to be converted into high-tech biofuels. In doing so, it is shutting off the supply of cheap timber byproducts to the nation's composite wood manufacturers, who make panels for home entertainment centers and kitchen cabinets.

Dozens of released Gitmo detainees have returned to the battlefield, said a senior US Senator, urging the Obama administration not release more inmates from the war-on-terror prison camp.

VIDEO:  2009- Obama accept apology from Harry Reid for racial slur, but not in 2007 from talk show personality Don Imus

Obama in 2002 re: Trent Lott slur... "Republicans have to drive out Trent Lott

The world's biggest banks will pay out more than $65 billion in salaries and bonuses over the next fortnight, with banking conglomerate JPMorgan Chase alone likely to shell out a record $29 billion, barely a year after the bailout of the banking system.

Islamic terrorism is on the rise both domestically and internationally since Obama became president in 2009, according to a count of high-profile, terrorism incidents in 2009, both in the US and abroad

An American official said Saturday night that Mideast envoy George Mitchell's remark that US aid to Israel may be jeopardized was not a threat, but a response to an interviewer's question on the American administration's options if Israel refused to resume peace talks with the Palestinians

 Obama's Fiftieth Week in Office

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"The List" for 1/9/2010

George Mitchell:  The U.S. can cut aid to Israel

A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a terrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.  Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani allegedly engaged in a 2 1/2-hour firefight with Pakistani authorities before his capture in a Karachi apartment in 2002.

Dept. of Homeland Security secretary Napolitano is surprised at "Al Quaeda's determination"

Richard Foster, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid,a division of the Department of the Health and Human Services just released a study predicting overall spending on health care would rise by a total of $222 billion dollars over the next decade as a result of the House health care bill passed at the end of December.

VIDEO: Obama's activities after the Detroit bomber attempt

"The List" for 1/8/2010

A House committee is planning to grill Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about his role in the massive bailout of failed insurer American International Group Inc.

Obama will unveil a $2.3 billion tax credit on Friday to boost jobs by promoting clean energy, as fresh data showed that the country's unemployment remains stuck in the double digits.

Military health coverage first to feel rates increase to pay for Obamacare

Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on December 25, pleaded not guilty Friday to six federal charges

Military members serving overseas will have to resubmit their voter registration this year if they hope to cast a ballot in the November midterm elections.

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats' health proposals  the media.

The federal government's budget deficit reached $389 billion through the first three months of fiscal 2010, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.    This was up from last year's $332 billion at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2009, CBO said.

An exodus of discouraged workers from the job market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent in December, economists said.  Had the labor force not decreased by 661,000 last month, the jobless rate would have been 10.4 percent, say economists including David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff & Associates in Toronto and Harm Bandholz at UniCredit Research in New York.

40% of the unemployed, or 4% of the workforce, a record number of people, or 6.1 million, are now unemployed for over 27 weeks.

In his first year, Obama presides over 4.1 million jobs lost, the most since 1940

Massive 43% jump in unemployment benefits

Obama said Friday that a disappointing report showing 85,000 US job losses in December showed that "the road to recovery is never straight."

New data shows that the US lost 85,000 jobs in December

White House visitor logs show that a ‘Jodie Evans’ met with Buffy Wicks, the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE) on June 19, 2009. The meeting came just days after Evans’ group, Code Pink, visited the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza from May 28th to June 14th and was given a letter by Hamas to deliver to President Barack Obama.

Israel's Prime Minister's Office issued a complaint to the White House lamenting ongoing incitement against Israel by Palestinian leaders. In the complaint, senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office urged their American counterparts to demand that Palestinians President Mahmoud Abbas cease to glorify the memory of terrorists who murdered Israelis. The complaint went on to insist that the Palestinians live alongside Israelis peacefully and spread peace.  

President Obama and his White House counterterrorism adviser on Thursday accepted responsibility for attempted terror attack on Christmas Day that could have knocked an airliner out of the sky over Michigan.

"The List" for 1/7/2010

For transparency, Obama holds "Online" video chat for 20 minutes..  

“All of the major leaders of the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan are former Gitmo releasees -- All of them,” U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Thursday. That is among the things the U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence officer learned on his holiday deployment to Afghanistan, he told an audience at Chicago’s Union League Club Thursday.

Fannie Mae is seeking to prop up Florida's real estate market by reviewing hundreds of condo project in the state the currently don't qualify for its loans

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the nation's strictest-ever smog limits this morning, a move that could put large parts of the country in violation of federal air quality regulations.

Secretary Clinton said that the State Department “fully complied with the requirements set forth in the interagency process” about sharing threat information.

There is no specific mention of terrorism in 7-Page indictment of Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airline

The Obama White House rushed Thursday to defend a top counterterror official who went on a ski vacation for six days after an alleged Al Qaeda bomber attempted to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day

The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats, Michael Leiter, did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day

VIDEO: White House press corps clash with the White House spokesman Gibbs over promise to broadcast health care deliberations on C-SPAN

AUDIO: Obama allows only one hour of health care coverage

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer's payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show.

US airplane manufacturer Lockheed Martin has been given permission by the US government to sell 24 F-16 jet fighters to Egypt in a $3.2 billion deal. Additionally, Egypt will receive four batteries of highly advanced Harpoon Block II anti-ship cruise missiles, four fast missile boats, 450 Hellfire anti-tank missiles (to be sold with restrictions on use and transfer, according to the Pentagon), and 156 jet engines for F-16 aircraft.  Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates also have new military acquisition contracts with the United States.

The Obama administration will share control over U.S. foreign aid with recipient countries, ending Washington's longtime policy of "dictating" to those nations how to spend the money, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

Obamacare marriage penalty: Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan

The List" for 1/6/2010

GM backs off and is now trying to re-instate all the dealerships they let go

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span.

Obama wants to tax high-end health plans.  Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they'll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.

December, last, U.S. Congressman Nathan Deal (GA-R) challenged the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of the U.S. presidency.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday that big oil and natural gas companies will no longer be "the kings of the world" like they were under the Bush administration, announcing new drilling policies to protect the environment on western federal lands.  While the reforms would likely slow the permitting process to search for oil and gas on government lands and decrease the number of acres available for energy exploration, Salazar rejected industry claims that the Obama administration's policy change would reduce domestic energy supplies.

The Bloomberg administration has placed the price for security operations for the trials of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terrorism suspects connected to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at more than $200 million a year, which would make it by far the costliest security operation for a single event in the city in recent memory.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdraws his support for Obamacare..says ...health care to nowhere" that's infected with "bribes, deals and loopholes."

Obama administration revokes the visa of the Detroit airline bomber

The United States is “fed up” with Israelis who "adopt the right ideas too late," and also with the “Palestinians who always miss opportunities,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel angrily told an Israeli diplomat recently.

Stimulus dollars go to phantom zip codes in Virginia

VIDEO: Obama promised to televise health care eight times

Obamacare hospital deals.  Hospitals deal for more federal funding in health scare scheme.  A small group of influential hospitals that stand to gain millions in Medicare dollars

The List" for 1/5/2010

Former Bin Ladin guard is among ex-jihadis in Yemen

GMAC financial posts a $5 billion loss after latest bailout

The highly touted intelligence fusion center at the heart of the nation's counterterrorism establishment was preparing for deep budget cuts across 2010, senior intelligence officials said. According to one official, who asked not to be identified because intelligence budget matters are classified, the administration and Congress slashed the budget for the National Counterterrorism Center by at least $25 million.

Obama's Afghan security chief sharply criticised the work of US spy agencies there on Monday, calling them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people.

The Obama administration has suspended transfers of Yemeni detainees held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to their home country.  Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees once believed to be bound for Yemen will instead be sent to a prison in Thomson, Ill., once the all-but-empty prison is purchased and refurbished by the federal government

Obama says terror attack not his fault.  Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence had enough advance information to prevent the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day but failed to connect the dots.   He said there were enough "red flags" that an attack was planned on the U.S. but errors were made by intelligence officials.

The White House accuses the British of making "a mistake" over allegations Britain told American intelligence agents more than a year ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists.

In a little-publicized interview given with the Feminist blog, “BlogHer.com,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised the language in the Senate version of the health care bill because it upholds publicly-funded abortion coverage.

Obamacare: bypasses normal committee meetings, netiotiating in secret- Democratic leaders are likely to sidestep a conference committee in merging the House and Senate versions, an attempt to block Republicans from delaying the bill.

Stimulus money going to fake zip codes in New Mexico

The White House says that it was a "different Bertha Lewis" on the White House visitors' log

The U.S. Senate has rejected one of President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.  The president had nominated Craig Becker, counsel for the Service Employees International Union, to the powerful board. His nomination was rejected last week by the Senate.

The List" for 1/4/2010

Despite the fact that at least 12 former GITMO detainees are returning to terrorism, Obama still is closing the GITMO detention camp

Obamacare expands the IRS' authority

On the first day of supposedly tighter screening ordered by the Obama administrations, a number of countries and some airports around the world admitted that they have not cracked down.  The U.S. demanded more carefully screening but nothing has changed

Obamacare secures a sweetheart deal for big Unions. Unions get to insert language in Obamacare bill to penalize businesses with as few as five employees for not providing health insurance

Senate and House Democrats combine to pass Obamacare in secret, no Republicans allowed

Obama is trying to implement by revitalizing the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), a panel that Congress shut down in 2008 because it had become “too politicized.”

The actual INTERPOL executive order

The Executive order language, and more possible ramifications

After Obama granted diplomatic immunity to INTERPOL, was he aware of their history of Jew hatred?

Documents produced by the Department of Homeland Security indicate that in fiscal 2010 the department is planning to catch only 26 percent of travelers committing major criminal violations while seeking to enter the United States through international airports.

Obama's plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other US agencies, a US newspaper reported late Sunday.

The List" for 1/3/2010

Obama White House insists it will continue to send those Gitmo inmates to Yemen -- a country now recognized as a hotbed of terrorism so dangerous that the U.S. has decided to close its embassy there.

The Obama's administration supports Egypt's vision for a Middle East peace plan that would include a complete halt of construction in West Bank settlements as well as the release of senior Palestinian officials from Israeli prisons, the Qatar-based news network Al-Jazeera reported

The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday. Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that.

ViDEO: Obama security adviser John Brennan talks about possible plea deal with Detroit Terror bomb suspect

Top Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan says the Justice Department made the decision to handle the case of Detroit terror bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the criminal justice system.

Obama's security adviser, John Brennon, attacks Dick Cheney and his criticisms of Obama- Brennan, said Sunday that former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to the Christmas Day terror attempt is misinformed or intentionally false.

President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, will lead the White House review of intelligence community information practices and aviation security, even though he was CEO of the private company the government used to help manage a key terrorism database before he joined the administration.

U.S. and Latin America's relations turn sour under Obama

Obama's Forty Ninth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 1/2/2010

Obama got pre-Christmas briefing about terror threats to homeland that a terror attack may be coming

Saudi's warned Obama White House about underwear bombers in October of 2009.  MI5 knew three years ago

The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than good.

The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.

CIA upset over Obama comments about "systemic failure" after seven CIA personell are slaughtered in Afghanistan

Barack Obama used his weekly address to acknowledge what everyone already knows — that the botched terrorist attack on Northwest 253 on Christmas Day was an al-Qaeda operation. 

VIDEO: Obama promises justice for Christmas terror plotters

"The List" for 1/1/2010

New Year's Day

The head of a prominent U.S. business group accused President Barack Obama of compromising Taiwan's security to promote U.S. ties with China.  Self-ruled Taiwan, which China deems a wayward province, is watching "with increased exasperation," said Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.

Acknowledging he has given inconsistent answers to Congress, Obama's pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration wrote to lawmakers to explain a reprimand he received for running background checks on his then-estranged wife's boyfriend two decades ago.

Erroll Southers, the Obama White House's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, refuses to answer questions about whether he would work toward unionizing the TSA.   There are claims that Southers misled the senate in sworn testimony about about an incident 20 years ago in which Southers improperly accessed a government criminal database. The White House did not send Southers' nomination to the Senate until September 10, 2009 -- 243 days into the Obama administration. The nomination was then in committee -- controlled entirely by Democrats -- for more than two months, finally coming to the Senate floor on November 20, when Reid proposed that Southers be confirmed by unanimous consent.

Obama makes the first transexual appointment, Amanda Simpson as a senior technical advisor to the Dept. of Commerce

"The List" for 12/31/2009

The Mayo Clinic, Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

Letter to Obama from Senators Sessions and Kyl about possible violation of the executive order

The Obama administration, by releasing Qais and Laith Qazali and more than 100 members of the Iranian-backed Asaib al Haq, may have violated an executive order put in place by President Ronald Reagan to prevent negotiations with hostage takers. Senators Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl asked this question to the Obama administration in a letter sent to the president in July.

A federal judge is slamming the Obama administration for refusing to take a position in a lawsuit brought against the Palestinian Authority in connection with an alleged terrorist attack in 2000 that claimed the life of a 25-year-old American, Esh Gilmore.

Pattern on the way Obama deals with problems? First, White House aides downplays that something may have gone wrong on their part. While staying out of the spotlight, the president conveys his efforts to address the situation and his feelings about it through administration officials. After a few days, the White House concedes on the issue, and perhaps Obama even steps out to address it.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer went after Republicans again on the Obama adminisration's blog

Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top $400 billion, according to Peter Wallison, a former general counsel at the Treasury

The number of US military dead in Afghanistan doubles in 2009

China on Thursday decried a U.S. decision to impose duties of 10 to 16 percent on Chinese-made steel pipe, the biggest U.S. trade case to date against China, and said it had been made a scapegoat of protectionist interests.

"The List" for 12/30/2009

Obama has rejected his first piece of legislation from Congress, after almost 50 weeks in office

Iraqi hostage dealing: British citizen Peter Moore freed in exchange for terrorists

The United States will slap penalty duties on imported Chinese steel pipes targeted for unfair subsidies, officials said Wednesday, heightening trade tensions between the two powers

U.S. AG Holder’s former law firm, Covington & Burling, represented a number of Yemeni detainees who are/were being held in GITMO.

The US Treasury announced Tuesday a 3.8 billion dollar fresh capital injection into ailing GMAC, the former finance arm of General Motors that became a bank to access federal rescue aid.

Treasuries headed for the worst year in at least three decades as the U.S. stepped up debt sales to help spur growth in an economy recovering from the biggest slump since the Great Depression.  Obama is borrowing unprecedented amounts for spending programs. U.S. marketable debt increased to a record $7.17 trillion in November from $5.80 trillion at the end of last year.

Obama White House takes 3 hours to respond to Dick Cheney remarks

Obama takes 3 days to respond to terror attempt on Delta flight

White House visitors' log shows that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis was in the White House residence one week before the famous sting videos of ACORN were released

More "visitors" to the White House:General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt visited roughly a dozen times....Goldman Sach's CEO Lloyd Blankfein spent almost an entire day at the White House on October 29.   Steven Rattner,who runs the government's auto task force and is co-founder of the investment firm, Quadrangle Group, met with Larry Summers over 25 times..... George Soros met with Summers in February....SEIU President Andy Stern's top assistant Anna Burger met with the President 10 times....Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, met with the President 4 times.

William Ayers visited the White House three times in 2009

25,000 additional White House visitor records posted online

The CIA rejects Obama claim of intelligence failure over Detroit terrorist

Jide Zeitlin, the Obama administration's nominee to be America's point man for financial reform at the United Nations, has withdrawn himself from consideration for the job, an administration official tells The Cable.  Zeitlin, a former Goldman Sachs executive and telecom entrepreneur, had faced criticism for his business dealings related to Indian contractors and was also accused of identity fraud for an incident in which he admitted to sending an email to investors masked as coming from one of his competitors. Zeitlin testified before Congress that the email was a prank.

While a terrorist was plotting to kill Americans over the Christmas holidays, the Federal Aviation Administration spends $5 million on a three-week-long Christmas party

Obama gives INTERPOL a free hand in the US and says as little as possible about it....this new directive from Obama may be the most destructive blow ever struck against American constitutional civil liberties.

Obama conceded that both human and systemic failures of U.S. Intelligence had failed to bar a Nigerian man posing a reported security risk from boarding that Detroit-bound jetliner - a near-''catastrophic" breakdown in security - Obama left the reporters taking his words in Hawaii and went snorkeling

"The List" for 12/29/2009

The Palistinian Authority believe the US will force Israel to allow them to build an airport

Obama created by executive order Tuesday a National Declassification Center to oversee efforts to make once-secret government documents public.

Obama has apparently issued a long-awaited executive order on classification that fulfills one of his campaign promises by setting up a National Declassification Center to oversee the release of historical documents. But the announcement, ironically, is shrouded in secrecy and confusion.  A new presidential order, and blog entires appear and disappear.

Rep. Peter King of New York, the leading Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, tells National Review Online that the Obama White House has built an “iron curtain” around national-security information in order to block Congress from investigating Northwest Airlines Flight 253. “This administration is not cooperating,” says King. “They have a stonewalling mentality.

The White House has published an internal memo to calm tension between CIA director Leon Panetta and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, who is seeking increased control over covert operations.  

GMAC to get another $2.5 Billion

AUDIO: From 2007, Obama tells the nation When he's elected America will be safer from Islamic terrorism because he has lived in a Muslim country

The Obama administration spent Christmas weekend in an internal debate over whether to tell the American people the government failed to protect airline passengers in the wake of the terror attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253

The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year's elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina.

"The List" for 12/28/2009

The Justice Dept. requests that DNA tests for the Detroit Bomber Abdulmutallab be cancelled

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, ABC News is reporting, quoting American officials and citing Department of Defense documents.

Transcript of Obama remarks on terror attack over Detroit

Obama refers to the Northwest Airlines terrorist as an “isolated extremist”

Nicolas Sarkozy, the most pro-American president of France for half a century, has gone cold on Barack Obama, the most popular American leader in France in generations.

Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) said last week he was “shocked” to hear a senior Department of Defense official agree with him that the administration’s plan to move detainees of Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Ill., would pose an increased security risk.

The Obama administration said today it opposed Israel’s move to build about 700 apartments in East Jerusalem.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that "the system worked."

Obama promised Americans in a speech to Congress that his version of a government-run health care bill would not contain abortion funding. Now his top spokesman confirms that Obama favors the Senate bill that funds abortions over the House bill that bans abortion funding.

Yields on benchmark 10-year notes will climb about 40 percent to 5.5 percent, the biggest annual increase since 1999, according to David Greenlaw, chief fixed-income economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. The surge will push interest rates on 30-year fixed mortgages to 7.5 percent to 8 percent, almost the highest in a decade, Greenlaw said.  Investors are demanding higher returns on government debt, boosting rates this month by the most since January, on concern President Obama's attempt to revive economic growth with record spending will keep the deficit at $1 trillion

"The List" for 12/27/2009

Obamacare: There are scores of provisions in the 383 pages of changes made to the $871 billion Senate bill that benefit only a handful of states, sometimes even a single institution.

VIDEO: 2 million in stimilus dollars to caulk 7 homes

White House sources tell ABC News the President will "likely" speak publicly about the alleged attempted terrorist attack on Flight 253 in the next few days. 

The United States has demanded clarifications from Israel after IDF special forces killed three terrorists Saturday who murdered a civilian, Rabbi Meir Chai, on Thursday.

Plans to send Guantanamo detainees to Yemen must be re-examined in light of an attempt to destroy a Northwest Airlines jet, lawmakers said.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that "the system worked."

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday there was no indication so far that a botched terror attack on a U.S. airliner was part of a broad international effort.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tells ABC's Jake Tapper- “everything went according to clockwork” in how passengers, crew and the government reacted to the attempted bombing of Flight 253.  ...But she wasn’t so sure about how well the government performed before the incident. 

Senate health bill is closer to Obama's goal on abortion

Obama's plan to force contractors to hire union workers for large government construction projects is proving easier said than done, confusing and costlier than expected.

Obama scores well among ethics watchdog groups in his first year in office

 Obama's Forty Eighth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 12/26/2009

Obama adviser Valerie Jarett: claims that the White House is engaging in "seedy Chicago politics" are "completely unwarranted."

The Obama administration's decision to cover an unlimited amount of losses at the mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the next three years stirred controversy over the holiday.  "The timing of this executive order giving Fannie and Freddie a blank check is no coincidence," said Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee. He said the Christmas Eve announcement was designed "to prevent the general public from taking note."

The White House handles the Northwest Airlines terrorist incident differently than the Fort Hood incident.  The Obama White House has been aggressive in its press outreach regarding the Northwest Airlines terrorist incident. Some of the earliest stories on accused terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to set off an explosive device on board Northwest Flight 253 were sourced to the White House, and White House officials were quick to label the incident an "attempted act of terrorism." The White House wants the public to know that President Obama, on vacation at a luxurious oceanfront home in Hawaii, has received conference call updates and is keeping close tabs on the situation.

"The List" for 12/25/2009

No churchgoing on Christmas for the first family

VIDEO: A look inside Obama's $8.9 Million Hawaii Getaway

Obama has a $4,000/day  two-week Christmas vacation

A US diplomatic car allegedly tried running over a Defense Ministry security guard recently at an IDF checkpoint in the West Bank.

The government hasremoved cap for Fannie and Freddie aid. The Treasury Department said Thursday it removed the $400 billion financial cap on the money it will provide to keep the companies afloat. Already, taxpayers have shelled out $111 billion to the pair, and a senior Treasury official said losses are not expected to exceed the government's estimate this summer of $170 billion over 10 years.

Under Obamacare, primary care physicians who refer patients to specialists will  be subject to a mix of financial penalties and regulations to constrain their use of the most costly clinical options

"The List" for 12/24/2009

Obamacare directs the secretary of health and human services to award federal grants worth billions of dollars to educational institutions that train medical-service providers. However, “priority” for federal dollars is to be given only to those institutions offering “preferential” admissions to underrepresented minorities

The Obama administration pledged to back Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, no matter how great their losses

The Treasurey Dept.and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, approved as much as $6 million in pay for the CEO's of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said Thursday that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's job is "very safe" in the wake of a letter penned by a surprising political couple requesting the Justice Department to investigate him

Early in the morning on the 24th of December, the senate passes health care bill by a vote of 60 to 39 on a straight party line vote, enters final stage

Wednesday expressed frustration with the way the Senate does business, saying the use of delaying tactics there harms the nation's ability to "deal with big problems in a very competitive world."

"The List" for 12/23/2009

New GM CFO's pay exceeds gov't limits: The new chief financial officer at General Motors Co. will receive a salary of $750,000 next year, but he'll get up to another $5.45 million worth of stock starting in 2012 if GM successfully sells shares to the public.

Obama's landmark health overhaul has cleared its last procedural hurdle in the senate and is headed for final passageChristmas eve

Exultant senate Democrats prepared to deliver a Christmas Eve win to Obama with passage of health legislation

Obama funds Alabama disaster relief on the same day the Senator from Alabama switches parties from Democrat to Republican

Democrats refuse to fund "Gitmo II" in Illinois

Audio: Obama calls into a local Washington, D.C radio station and identifies himself as "Barry from D.C."

Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.

A host of medical services that insurers must pay for in California — from cancer screenings to diabetes treatment to two-day hospital stays for delivering mothers — could be weakened or lost if the health care measures pending if Obamacare becomes law.

"The List" for 12/22/2009

White House says it is unaware of Ornaments on tree

Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree

VIDEO: HHS Secretary Sebellius says everybody will pay into abortion fund

The White House counsel's office has barred congressional investigators from interviewing Jackie Norris, former chief of staff for First Lady Michelle Obama, about events leading to the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin.

Obama support for measure to pay almost $900 million over the next 10 years to extend federal employee benefits to homosexual couples

Obama and world leaders are on the verge of finalizing a climate deal that caps the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees — but punts major emissions decisions until 2012

Obamacare: ACORN qualifies for funding

70% of growth in the 3rd quarter was "Cash for Clunkers"

Obamacare unrepealable? Video of Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) .... discovered some "particularly troubling" rule-change provisions, especially with regards to the proposed Independent Medicare Advisory Board, which he finds could be unrepealable:

Congress writes "no change" law that might make Obamacare unrepealable

VIDEO: Liberal reporter Ceci Connolly admitted to Greta Van Susteren that the Senator Dodd received a $100 million sweetheart deal from the White House in the Obamacare bill to help him with his re-election.

White House picks a "Cyber Czar"

Tent city for the homeless in Colorado named "Obamaville"

"The List" for 12/21/2009

A top executive of American International Group Inc. has been granted a $4.3 million pay-package bump by the troubled insurance giant's majority owner — the U.S. government — because the executive has decided to remain with the company. Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, approved an AIG request to grant the executive a long-term compensation package that includes stock options with a current value of $3.26 million and an additional incentive award of up to $1 million. The package comes on top of the executive's 2009 base salary of $450,000.

Obama will meet with chief executive officers and presidents from a dozen community banks today to discuss his proposals to boost small-business lending and his plans for regulatory overhaul.

“During his syndicated radio show Friday, lMSNBC host Ed Schultz relayed to listeners how he observed ‘Morning Joe’ Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski take feedback directly from the White House during their program last week.”

Gets Former Sequoia Co. VP Named as adviser to U.S. Election Assistance Commission

E-Vote scandal info connected to Obama appointments and the potential to affect the 2010 elections

Obama makes 4 questionable appointments to the "Election Assistance Commission".  Individuals tied to New York's "E-Voting scandal

Obama said Monday that federal agencies will cut roughly $19 billion from government contracts this fiscal year, putting them on track to meet his goal of trimming $40 billion in fiscal 2011.

The CBO reported that Harry Reid spent $1.2 billion to buy off democrats for the Obamacare vote last night.

VIDEO: Obama- "We can't continue to spend as if tax dollars were "Monopoly Money"

Health care legislation backed by Obama passes key test in Senate on a 60-40 vote

"The List" for 12/20/2009

Obamacare insurance regulation will destroy the private insurance market

White House senior adviser David Axelrod on Sunday pushed back against Republican characterizations of Democratic health care reform efforts as driven by the very backroom deals that then-candidate Barack Obama decried during his presidential campaign. “I challenge the notion that it hasn't been a transparent process,” Axelrod told host John King on CNN’s "State of the Union."

ABC financial reporter, Bianna Golodryga, is has been dating Obama's Office of Management and Budget director, Peter Orszag, since the summer of 2008

The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during President Obama's first year in office. This far exceeds the spending for any other first-year president. 

Obama's Forty Seventh Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 12/19/2009

CBO:  real cost of Obamacare still costs $10 trillion

Non-profit health insurers get health bill's tax break

Congressional Republicans raised new concerns this week about the Obama administration's firing of Gerald Walpin, who served as inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service.  GOP lawmakers said White House visitors logs contradict statements made by the former chairman of CNCS, the agency that oversees AmeriCorps.

Senate leaves out increase in Medicare doctors' payments in Obamacare bill

Obamacare will still levy an "abortion fee"

Obamacare to be voted on at 1 in the morning early Monday

VIDEO: Obama "on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in America"

Obama on Saturday praised the compromise reached on the Senate's version of his health care overhaul plan, saying, "We are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in the U.S."

Ben Nelson makes Obamacare deal for his vote.  Increased Medicaid benefits for Nebraska.

After a day spent frantically darting around Copenhagen trying to locate world leaders, getting snubbed by China's premier and crashing a meeting where he had initially been kept out, President Obama heralded a last-minute, largely toothless UN global-warming summit deal that drew fast fire from all sides as a sham.

A pair of studies analyzing U.S. jobs and the effects of Obama's American Reinvestment and Recovery Act suggest the so-called "stimulus" bill has boosted partisan interests far more than employment figures.

"The List" for 12/18/2009

Settling for something small rather than a big nothing, President Barack Obama and four peers on Friday brokered a climate policy framework that other nations reportedly agreed to support as the U.N. climate summit here wraps up.

Chinese premier snubs Obama at private meeting on climate

VIDEO: Obama bows again in Copenhagen

"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they're living up to their end of the agreement."

After Obama comes to the Climate summit, India and China walk out

Speculation on ABC getting financially rewarded by the Obama adminstration for their prime time special for Obamacare

The Obama administration is planning to repatriate six Yemenis held at the U.S. military prison at GITMO, a transfer that could be a prelude to the release of dozens more detainees to Yemen

 G.M. to shut down Saab

43 Exectutive orders by Obama so far

"The List" for 12/17/2009

Rep. Frank Wolf turned up the heat on the Justice Department yesterday, introducing a Resolution of Inquiry that recounts the degree to which the Justice Department has stonewalled on efforts to find out why a serious case of voter intimidation was dismissed. Wolf wants the attorney general to hand over to the House all information relating to the dismissal of the case United States v. New Black Panther Party, the egregious voter-intimidation case that was captured on videotape.

Democrat districts received twice the amount of stmulus funds as GOP districts.  A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without regard for what states were most in need of jobs.

Obama's recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Del Carmen Aponte was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba,

U.S. to contibute to $100 Billion fund to help developing countries: Hillary Clinton

Obama still has not articulated his national security strategy deep into his first year in office

Trying to stave off a sudden fusillade from the left, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Thursday that Howard Dean's criticisms of health-care reform are "predicated on a bunch of erroneous conclusions" and that for progressives to torpedo the legislation "would be a tragic, tragic outcome."  “To defeat a bill that will bend the curve on this inexorable rise in health-care costs is insane,

"The List" for 12/16/2009

U.S. President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much longer, said senior officials in Jerusalem

Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs a Senate oversight committee, chided the Obama administration Tuesday for not providing information to lawmakers probing the Fort Hood killings.  The Connecticut independent said his Homeland Security panel still has not received the personnel file of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the Nov. 5 shooting spree that left 13 people dead.

The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has - at least numerically - exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill.

The CBO Memo "Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios.

VIDEO: Obama scare tactics over health bill

A new report by Vice President Joe Biden, which President Obama mentioned briefly in an appearance Tuesday, projects that the number of U.S. homes with smart meters will jump from about 8 million now to 40 million by 2015.

The White House will announce plans Wednesday to provide another $5 billion in tax credits for manufacturers of wind, solar, electric vehicle and other renewable energy products, hoping to leverage at least $15 billion in private investment and create "tens of thousands" of jobs.

Bank holding company Washington Mutual has asked a federal court for the power to make the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, and a long list of other parties turn over documents and witness interviews related to the bank's 2008 collapse.

The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Obama goes back on his promise to get tough with Big Pharma.  

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton takes a possible swipe at Obama, "Our outreach on Iran has produced very little"

The United States and Egypt, along with France, are planning a joint move to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks on the basis of the June 4, 1967, borders, territorial exchanges and a complete freeze of construction beyond the Green Line, including East Jerusalem. The freeze would not be announced publicly.

"The List" for 12/15/2009

Obama warns Democrats that this is their last chance to pass comprehensive reform

The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.

ACORN cookies are at the White House holiday party

Nelson aid now says Offut Air Base closure threat claim is false

Obama threatens to close a Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base if Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson does not support Obamacare.  Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a "naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson's vote." They are "threatening to close a base vital to national security for what?" asked the Senate staffer.

Report: Obama colluding with the left to subvert his own Afghanistan policy

In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network first called attention to a clause tucked into the Senate bill under the caption "No lifetime or annual limits" that would in fact permit such caps.

VIDEO: Joe Biden, re- President Obama's message to Senate Democrats today at the White House regarding Health Care. Biden said Obama will make it clear that this is the last chance to pass Health Care Reform, and that if it fails, "it will be kicked back for a generation."\

Top Wall Street brass "phones in" to Obama meeting and blow off attending

Obamacare would make some middle-class American families pay what amounts to a $15,200 annual federally-mandated insurance fee, according to facts revealed in analyses published by the Congressional Budget Office.

The Obama administration will announce today that it has picked the The Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois to house some detainees now held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,

"The List" for 12/14/2009

Plans from Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup to repay taxpayer funds will put the U.S. government on track to reduce its bailout investments in banks by more than 75 percent, while earning a healthy profit for the U.S., U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday.

New details on President Barack Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings have emerged, as an eye-witness has finally broken her silence and says that Jennings was present at Tufts University during the infamous "Fistgate" scandal, and says that he bears personal responsibility for the event.

Mark Lloyd, the chief diversity officer and associate counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says he is not part of a “secret plot funded by George Soros” aimed at getting rid of conservative talk-show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Obama has has called all Senate Democrats to the White House tomorrow for a “make-or-break” meeting to advance health care reform

More than $43 million of federal stimulus money meant to save or create jobs is being spent on salaries and benefits for outgoing employees by Iowa’s three state universities.

Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama....- Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor. In a Friday filing, Blagojevich attorneys also asked for information regarding first lady Michelle Obama.

Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed.

Obama tells bankers that he wants them to lend more and support his legislation

Obama meets with bankers after bashing them

VIDEO: Obama on "60 Minutes" says his biggest frustration is having to do things that have benefited the "fat cats" on Wall Street in order to help stabilize the nation's financial system

President Obama is calling on the financial industry to help dig the economy out of the pit the White House says it helped create, as the president and bank executives headed into a potentially tense meeting Monday morning. 

VIDEO: Obama gives himself a B+ or A- and compares himself to Franklin Roosevelt

Kevin Jennings' Fistgate Conference Gave Teachers DOE Professional Credit

"The List" for 12/13/2009

AUDIO: From 2004, Obama in his own words describing the plan to expand Medicare as a prelude to a single payer medical system

New military rules of engagement ostensibly to protect Afghan civilians are putting the lives of U.S. forces in jeopardy, claim Army and Marine sources, as the Taliban learns to game plan based the rules' imposed limits

Chicago Board of Education links Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to investigation of financial fraud at Chicago Public Schools, death of Michael Scott.  U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin discloses Arne Duncan is subject of Chicago Board of Education financial fraud investigation

Larry Summers and Christina Romer say Obama will press bankers Monday to ease lending to help Americans get back to work.

VIDEO: 2002- Attorney General Eric Holder "Detainees not covered by Geneva Convention"

The Democratic-led Senate on Sunday passed and sent to President Barack Obama an end-of-year $1.1 trillion spending bill that includes money to run much of the government and pay for health care benefits for the poor and elderly.

A new report from economic analysts at the Health and Human Services Department said the nation's $2.5 trillion annual health-care tab would not shrink under Obamacare but would grow somewhat more rapidly than if Congress did nothing.

Dueling VIDEOS: White house advisor Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, says the recession is over....but- White House economic adviser ChristinaRomer says: "Of course not. For the people on Main Street and throughout this country, they are still suffering, the unemployment rate is still 10 percent."

The top White House economic adviser says "everybody agrees the recession is over"

 Obama's Forty Sixth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 12/12/2009

Pro-Obama journalists get paid with taxpayer money to surround Obama on his Hawaii holiday

The IRS hires hundreds of people for its new "wealth unit"

VIDEO: Obama defends Afghanistan withdrawal date on 60 minutes

Obamacare:  lifetime limits on benefits

Lawmakers in congress try to stop Obama from cutting NASA

AUDIO: Ex-Convict Harry Creamer lays out Obama health care reform plan in 2008

"The List" for 12/11/2009

Justice Dept. memo for GITMO terrorists to be transferred to an Illinois prison

VIDEO and Audio: Obamacare bill will protect Medicare benefits for 3 Democratic voting counties

The White House: Republicans are against recovery

The Palestinian Authority has been negotiating an understanding with the Obama administration regarding a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel

"The List" for 12/10/2009

The Obama administration's pay czar, Ken Feinberg, will release new rulings Friday morning on the pay packages for some of the highest-paid employees at six companies receiving what the administration deems "exceptional assistance" from the government. The rulings will cover 2009 compensation for the 26th to 100th highest-paid employees at six companies: AIG, Citigroup, GM, Chrysler, and the automakers' respective financing arms -- GMAC and Chrysler Financial.  Feinberg will impose a $500,000 salary cap on these employees unless "good cause" can be proven

Obama donor, G.E., wins $1.4 Billion wind farm contract

Obama science advisors tell different stories about climate change to the same committee.  White House science czar John Holdren told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of 6 feet or more in a century.
 -Joan Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the same committee on the same day that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of up to 3.5 feet in this century.

Just over 31,000 homeowners have received permanent loan modifications under the Obama administration's mortgage relief plan, a big setback for the government's embattled effort to stem the foreclosure crisis.

Members of the Obama administration recently assured the Palestinian Authority that most Jewish communities in the strategic West Bank will be evacuated

Today, the Obama White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen Aponte as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. It is not Ms. Aponte’s first brush with an ambassadorship. In 1998, President Clinton nominated her to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. She was forced to withdraw her name from consideration over allegations of ties to the Cuban spy agency.

VIDEO: Obama bashes the US at the Nobel acceptance.  -"Furthermore, America cannot insist that others follow the rules of the road if we refuse to follow them ourselves. For when we dont, our action can appear arbitrary, and undercut the legitimacy of future intervention — no matter how justified."

VIDEO: Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize

"The List" for 12/09/2009

VIDEO: Obama breaks vow on repayment of TARP money, "They should get every penny of their tax dollars back."

Audit: Taxpayers lose 61 billion on AIG and auto bailouts

Obama's doctore, John R . Lumpkin, was once (and may still be) an active member of the Communist Party USA.

Obama's break with 56 years of presidential tradition and send out a holiday card that says only "Season's Greetings'.  The tradition of presidents sending Christmas cards dates to Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.

Obama skips lunch with the king of Sweden and a visit to his own Nobel exhibit.  Swedes insulted.

Obama hires Sarah Palin enemy, Larry Persily, for the Alaska pipeline job

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, frustrated by the Justice Department's failure to explain the dismissal of charges against New Black Panther Party members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's elections, has subpoenaed the department demanding records showing how the case was handled

Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find.

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

A White House power grab is built the health care bills and, if they fail, little-known twin bills called “MedPAC Reform of 2009” are waiting in the wings.  The bills, S.B. 1110 and H.R. 2718, craftily amend the Social Security Act and transfer the Medicare guideline and rule setting processes, from the legislative branch to the executive branch. 

The Obama administration will tell Congress Wednesday that it expects to lose about $30 billion of the $82 billion government bailout of the auto industry.  Gene Sperling, senior counsel to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, confirmed in an interview late today that the administration's forecast is that it will lose $30 billion on its auto investments -- but that's down from an earlier estimate of $44 billion.

 The extension of TARP maturity to coincide with 2011 midterm elections

The Taliban counter-strategy is based on the declared US strategy

"The List" for 12/08/2009

Obama is expected to announce that he wants Congress to redirect a certain portion of leftover Wall Street bailout funds toward job creation measures

Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.

A proposal to enable the importation of cheaper prescription drugs could endanger the U.S. medicine supply and would be difficult to implement, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday

Cash for Caulkers....Obama proposed a new program Tuesday that would reimburse homeowners for energy-efficient appliances and insulation, part of a broader plan to stimulate the economy. The administration didn't provide immediate details, but said it would work with Congress on crafting legislation. Steve Nadel, director at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, who's helping write the bill, said a homeowner could receive up to $12,000 in rebates.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts up to 10 million people would lose employer-sponsored health care coverage under Senate Democratic health care reform plan.

In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

Failures cripple Obama loan modification program.  Executives of two of the nation's largest banks, Chase and Bank of America, testified in Congress this morning that as many as 85 percent of delinquent mortgages are failing the Administration's loan modification process because homeowners haven't made trial payments or have failed to supply the necessary documentation to support their claims.

Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work.

Obama is expected to announce that he wants Congress to redirect a certain portion of leftover Wall Street bailout funds toward job creation measures

The White House lashed out at the Gallup Poll on Tuesday after the survey's daily tracking numbers showed President Obama's approval rating dropping to a new low of 47 percent.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, one Obama's chief advocates for the health care reform bill, earned more than $6.6 million as a paid director for health care firms, some of which were targeted in government investigations or whistleblower lawsuits on suspicions of billing fraud and other legal problems.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived in this war-torn country Tuesday morning on an unannounced visit, prepared to offer U.S. troops a message from Washington after President Obama's decision to boost troop levels significantly: "We are in this thing to win."

"The List" for 12/07/2009

The Interior Department on Monday gave the go-ahead for Shell Oil to begin drilling three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea , a move that opens the door for offshore oil and gas production in the Arctic .

White House: EPA decision had nothing to do with  Copenhagen.  "Climategate" scandal will have no effect

The EPA document on greenhouse gases

The Obamas balked at a White House nativity scene

The entire strategy for forcing Obamacare on the American public, was written by the husband of Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) convicted felon Robert Creamer, who wrote his heathcare strategy manifesto while he was in precision. Even the strategies for selecting the opponents of the President's plan to target with propaganda were selected under this plan.

Obama stimulus plan costs $246,436 per job

Obama and the First Family were planning a “non-religious Christmas,” according to Social Secretary Desiree Rogers.

The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers

Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated.

National Public Radio's Mara Liasson has been told to "reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News".  NPR denies any influence by the Obama administration.

"The List" for 12/06/2009

Gen. David Petraeus: In developing his plan for a troop surge in Afghanistan, President Obama acknowledged the success of the surge in Iraq and used some of its lessons to develop a plan in Afghanistan, the head of Central Command said Sunday.

Executives at Comcast, the media behemoth looking to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal, have given large sums of money to presidential candidate Barack Obama and Democrats in recent years

The US will launch a new effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, says US national security advisor James Jones

Obama holds closed door meeting on openness.  A workshop on government openness is closed to the public;  An event for federal employees

 Obama's Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: Won't abandon Afghanistan and no time table for withdrawal

 Obama's Forty Fifth Week in Office

"The List" for 12/05/2009

Kevin Jennings, Obama Safe Schools czar handed out homosexual sex toy "Fisting Kits" to teens in 2001

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy

Letter to Harry Reid protesting Obamacare from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Society for Vascular Surgery, Society of American Gastrointestinal, Endoscopic Surgeons and Society of Gynecologic Oncologists

The Taliban respond to the Obama West Point speech

President Barack Obama is “angry” about the infiltration of a State Dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by two intruders,  said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.   In September 2008, candidate Obama placed his seal of approval on the actions of one of his top funders, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, by meeting with her at a high profile Hollywood fundraiser just days after Jodie Evans attempted to storm the stage during Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech.

The House Ethics Panel is investigating the propriety of actions of the House Homeland Security Committee chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)

General Motors Co on Friday said it has set up a $100 million joint venture in Hong Kong along with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp Group (SAIC) to focus on the Asian markets.

VIDEO: During President Obama's speech in Allentown, PA today he scratched his head with his extended middle finger as he named the mayor of Bethlehem, PA. John Callahan supported Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary

VIDEO: Collection of Obama clips "flipping the bird"

The Obama Administration announced that it will rescind rules requiring the disclosure of financial information for Big Labor slush funds and front groups.  The Obama Administration is giving 11 (eleven) days to comment.

The federal government on Friday committed to award as much as $564 million to 19 projects nationwide that aim to transform wood chips, algae and plant parts into renewable fuel, including a planned biorefinery in Freeport, Texas

"The List" for 12/04/2009

Tensions between Britain and America over the war in Afghanistan erupted into the open yesterday as the Defence Secretary questioned President Obama’s decision to put a date on the start of US troop withdrawals.

At the Obama Jobs "summit";   of the list of the leaders invited, the majority are labor union leaders, leaders of businesses with government contracts, or leaders of businesses that operate on partial public funding. 6 big unions are included: Anna Burger, Change to Win, Leo Gerard, United Steel Workers, Joe Hansen, United Food and Commercial Workers, Randi Weingarten AFT. Suspicions of ACORN involvement.

White House: Iran has one month to respond

Obama Safe School Czar,Kevin Jennings, promotes pornographic mateirals for grades 7-12

Obama: We want to make sure people buying health care don't get gypped

After taking Bailout money, Chrysler hires Italian ad agency

The House Ethics Committee will probe the actions of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the Homeland Security Committee, for his sudden interest in what looked to be an unrelated field — credit card companies

Nevada has overestimated the number of higher education jobs so far "retained" with federal stimulus aid, according to a state budget official. The revised count is about 1,400, a steep drop from the nearly 2,100 that state and federal officials have touted for weeks.

"The List" for 12/03/2009

Under Obamacare, Medicare part D drug benefits to be reduced, Senior benefits hurt

Mickey Rooney, who has met every previous president since FDR, tried to crash the White House by showing up without an appointment while he was in town early last month and was turned away

Obama administration laments decision by Hondorus to not reinstate Zelaya

VIDEO: Dr. Quentin Young - a longtime mentor and friend to Barack Obama, and a vocal advocate of Socialized Medicine - saying President Obama is being "dishonest" when he says it is not necessary to bring a "Single-Payer" Health Care System (Socialized Medicine) to America.

VIDEO: Obama says there is not enough public money to pay for the economic meltdown

Obama refers to "I" and "Me" 44 times in his West Point speech

The White House indicated it will fight any congressional attempts to subpoena an administration official to testify about the security breach at last week’s state dinner.

Secret Service Director says that threats against Obama are not more than other presidents

House Republicans attack Obama science advisers over climate-gate letter scandal.  Reading letters aloud in Congress

Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night.

White House claims guest list flap "an internal affair covered by executive privilege." No cooperation

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to implement strenuous new regulations regarding carbon dioxide emissions without authorizing legislation from congress.

Obamacare bills seek the forced unionization of the entire health care industry.  Under the Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) a union-stacked “personal care attendants workforce advisory panel” would be established.. This panel would have the authority to compel union affiliation – and payment of union dues – in exchange for allowing “private” providers access to federal reimbursements for community care.

Now the Pakistanis are skeptical about Obama's new Afghanistan plan

"The List" for 12/02/2009

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

Obama's top science adviser urged lawmakers to act to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, despite the uproar over emails in which some prominent climate scientists appeared to advocate squelching the views of researchers skeptical that human activity is driving a dangerous rise in global temperatures.  John Holdren, said scientists generally are capable of defensiveness, bias and "misbehavior." But he said the meaning of some of the statements in the emails isn't clear, and that the significance of others has been exaggerated.  Human activity is "beyond any reasonable doubt" the primary cause of warming temperatures, Holdren said.

The EPA said Monday that it would probably increase the amount of ethanol that gasoline retailers could blend into ordinary fuel, to 15 percent, if tests established that the blend would not damage cars.

4582 words in Obama's Afghan war speech.  Victory is not one of the words in the speech.

When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.

Obama’s announcement of an exit strategy for US troops in Afghanistan is causing ripples in India

Intelligence officials on Wednesday disputed suggestions that President Obama is sending 30,000 more troops just to fight 100 Al Qaeda operatives estimated to be remaining in Afghanistan, arguing that their influence with the Taliban makes them far more harmful than their numbers would indicate. 

California Medical Association opposes Obamacare

The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, under tough questioning, said the Pentagon will "evaluate" next year whether the military can meet its goal of starting to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by July 2011

Latest Joe Biden Gaffe: "Nuclear state of Afghanistan"

Stonewalling: The White House says it will not send social secretary Desiree Rogers up to the Hill to testify about how a couple of alleged gate-crashers sashayed into the India state dinner last week uninvited.

Top White House science officials defended the validity of global warming research against repeated Republican attacks Wednesday that cited leaked e-mails from some climate researchers.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders' repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan. "Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response,"

Peter Orszag, the White House director of Management and Budget, has compared the new health insurance mandate that would force every American to purchase coverage or pay a tax to seat belt laws

The White House budget director, Peter Orsag said Wednesday that it may take decades for America to have an efficient health caresystem even if Congress passes a major overhaul this year.

The head of the Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, said Tuesday the agency will study whether government should aid struggling news organizations

U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business are both excluded from Obama's "Jobs Summit"

"The List" for 12/01/2009

Only a handful of the thousands of troops in the U.S. Marines' main base in Afghanistan, Camp Leatherneck, thought it worth the effort to get out of bed for President Obama's speech on Afghanistan, which began at 5:30 a.m. local time

Young cadet falls asleep during Obama West Point Speech

Obama's reception at West Point...... vs.....Bush's reception

Obama has established a new presidential bioethics council that may feature advisors who could push his decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research even further. They could advise Obama that his administration should push human cloning.

U.S. to stop counting new missiles in Russia

Obama in July, 2007; " Iraq troop surge isn't working "

117 service men have died in Afghanistan since Obama's 93 days of "dithering" on his decision

Obama begins to "duck" the White House press corps.  Suggestion of "over exposure"

Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, an accelerated timetable — with an endgame built in — that would have the first Marines there as early as Christmas, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

First Afghan troop withdrawals goal- begin withdrawals in 2011

Obama says he want Aghan war over in 3 years

Obama to spend two nights in Oslo for Peace Prize functions

Less than 10%. of Obama's cabinet appoints have had employment in the private sector

VIDEO: Glenn Beck on how many Obama cabinet appointments have had employment in the private sector- under 10%

"The List" for 11/30/2009

Van Jones, Obama's controversial former "green jobs" czar, serves on the advisory board of an independent environmental organization actively working with the White House. Jones is one of 20 advisers to the University of Colorado-based Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, which draws up climate policy recommendations for the White House and has been working with members of the Obama administration.

Afghans fear Obama's talk of exit strategy.  Think that the Taliban will just bide their time.

Biden, not Obama briefs Canada on Afghan surge

Even if health bill passes, reforms will not take effect until 2014; enforcement in doubt

Language to include coverage for illegal aliens remains in Obamacare bill

The Obama administration announced a new campaign to get mortgage companies to lower mortgage payments for struggling homeowners – and part of the strategy is some old-fashioned "name and shame."

White House spokesman Gibbs discounts the climate scandal memos and research dispute.  Administration says there is still global warming

Page 1239 of the Senate health care bill titled "Reasonable Break Time for Nursing Mothers" says employers shall provide "a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth time each time such employee has need to express the milk

The United States on Monday recognized the "ample victory" of Honduras president-elect Porfirio Lobo

CATO Institute: Obamacare could top $6 Trillion

Obamacare: Individual insurance premiums would increase by an average of 10 percent or more, according to an analysis of the Senate healthcare bill.

Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's 88-page report on ACORN’s systemic corruption and flagrant racketeering

The Justice Dept's legal opinion to reject suspension of ACORN funding

Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department released a legal opinion last week that allows the Obama administration to ignore the will of Congress which has voted overwhelmingly to suspend federal funding of ACORN until at least Dec. 18. He’s also ignored the 88 page report on ACORN's systemic corruption and flagrant racketeering activities that was issued this summer by Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

VIDEO: Joe Biden sells Obamacare on the White House website, "Who do you trust"

Obama's proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation. All states except for Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin (plus the District of Colombia) will have to raise their eligibility for Medicaid under the Senate health care bill. And they will have to pay for part of the cost. Under the House bill, with a higher Medicaid eligibility standard, Massachusetts and Vermont would also have to pay more. The magnitude of the new Medicaid spending required by Obamacare is such as to transform the nature of state finances. A large part of the reason that some states, particularly in the South, have been able to avoid higher taxes is because they have chosen to keep down the Medicaid eligibility level.

"The List" for 11/29/2009

he Dept. of Health and Human Services would become federal giant under Obama plan. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it.

President Obama's new anti-Semitism czar, Hannah Rosenthal, was a 1960's anti-war activist and community organizer whose husband worked with the founder of a socialist party, of which, according to documentary evidence, Obama was a member

White House statement of the Iranian plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment plants

"For-Profit" schools haul in government aid money.  An Associated Press analysis shows surging proportions of both low-income students and the recently boosted government money that follows them are ending up at for-profit schools, from local career colleges to giant publicly traded chains such as the University of Phoenix, Kaplan and Devry.

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