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Obama's Fourteenth Week in Office

"The List" for 5/02/2009

AUDIO: Interview with Tom Lauria about administration bullying tactics

Transcription, omitting the intro and wrap-up niceties, of an interview today between WJR's Frank Beckmann and Tom Lauria, Hedge fund attorney

A leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers say the leader of the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms, an investment bank, that if it continued to oppose the administration's Chrysler bankruptcy plan, the White House would use the White House press corps to destroy its reputation

The Obama administration is moving toward reviving military commission system for prosecuting Guantanamo detainees, a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Obama himself

Presidential Tracking: Lowest numbers so far.  Only +1

'Secret' CIA document on White House Flickr feed

AUDIO:  Major Garrett says Obama's snub was payback, and talks bailouts

Sonia Sotomayor, liberal activist judge, is thought to be the preferred choice of President Barack Obama to replace Justice David Souter

"The List" for 5/01/2009

2006: Obama voted to filibuster Judge Alito

Wacko leftist Cass Sunstein one of those up for the Supreme Court nomination

AUDIO: Fox White House correspondent Major Garrett was snubbed by Obama for network not covering president's news presser and running regular program

Obama nominee for Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Senate Ronald Sims was approved in a voice vote despite financial mismanagement and ethical transgressions, including two egregious abuses of a state freedom of information law

AUDIO: Obama in 2006: "President who won election does not mean he gets his own court"

Historian calls out Obama about giving wrong information about Churchill and prisoner torture

1993 World Trade Center bombing prosecuter, Andrew McCarthy, calls out Attny Gen. Eric Holder for a failure to protect the American People

Acting NASA Administrator Christopher Scolese quietly admitted NASA is backing off from moon base

A senior adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama says that Russia has some reasonable concerns about U.S. missile defense plans.

Obama administration: No calling the Swine flu the swine flu.  Changes name

VIDEO:  Dept. of Homeland Security lies about telling agents not to wear masks

The Department of Homeland Security refuted reports that it told agents at U.S. airports and border checkpoints that they could not wear masks to protect from exposure to swine flu

Obama has set out to make Islamabad the biggest recipient of US aid in the world without having first defined benchmarks for judging progress

Def. Secr. Gates: Pentagon may have to build a new facility to house detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay

Def. Secr Gates waffles on whether Gitmo detainees will be simply let go inside the US during Senate Hearings

In an address at Georgetown U., Obama substitutes the word "invest" for "spend" 14 times

Michelle Obama's cousin to lead Chicago Public Schools security

Obama takes back tax credit: new tax withholding tables could cause millions of taxpayers to get hundreds of dollars more than they are entitled to under the credit, money that will have to be repaid at tax time

"The List" for 4/30/2009

Gates tells Senate Appropriations Committee military option to force Iran to halt its nuclear program would only yield temporary and ineffective results, administration refuses to establish timetable for the Obama administration's engagement with Iran

Russia takes control of its border with Georgia, Obama silent

Hedge funds and other investment firms, who had invested in loans to Chrysler, refused to accept theObama's final offer of 33 cents in lieu of every dollar owed. Their rejection precipitated the bankruptcy filing

Obama: Terminal Patients May Be Denied Some Treatment Under Health Plan

Obama Overrides FBI and DHS on Gitmo Release: Obama officials are working, for the second time, to release terrorists into the US

Janet Napolitan asserts that the description she initially gave of the border swine-flu monitoring effort no longer applies: U.S. officials are "actively" questioning visitors at the border

VIDEO: White House press secretary Gibbs, laughed at by press core when he tries to explain Joe Biden fear mongering on the swine flu

Obama announces merger between Italy's Fiat and stricken Chrysler after debt restructuring talks collapsed

Non-TARP lenders re: Chrisler deal: Obama risked overturning rule of law

The FAA flyover memo: Feds knew would cause panic

Obama approves 20.3 million to transfer Gaza Arabs to the US

The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is leaning toward asking 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact mandatory reductions in hydrofluorocarbons

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape

VIDEO: Did Obama have another phony questioner at a town hall meeting?

Obama turns the page on 100 days in office with iffy boast about job creation and claims of fiscal prudence that are hard to square with spending

"The List" for 4/29/2009

Congress Passes $3.4 Trillion Budget, Boosting Obama's Agenda

VIDEO: Response to whether Obama would waterboard: I will do whatever is required to keep the American people safe.

5 Photoshopped images of Obama done by the same user calling her-himself Ducky - one of these 5 images is the Certificate of Live Birth

According to a classified intelligence assessment handed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Obama and his senior advisors wish to “incrementally diminish U.S. strategic cooperation with Israel”

Obama marked his 100th day in office by telling Americans that “we’ve begun the work of remaking America.”

Obama marks his first 100 days in office with THREE hundred photos... all of him

The primetime slot requested by President Obama for a news conference marking his 100th day in office is going to cost the broadcast networks some $21.5 million for the big four

VIDEO: Obama makes fun of Tea Party protesters

Survey by New York Times, Obama and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are

The Obama administration urged Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine

Memo: Feds Knew that Flyover would cause panic: Cost of NYC Flyover photo op: $328,835

Pentagon lies about rescue from Somali Pirates.  Actual delay 52 hours

White House staffers attend secret dinners with Lefty Media

The List" for 4/28/2009 the 100th day in office

"At the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years

Obama uses crisis: .......Sebelius Wins Senate Confirmation as Health Secretary: Democrats urged quick action as response to the flu outbreak

Geithner: The Treasury Dept. said it will need to borrow $361 billion in the current April-June quarter.  - record amount for that period

The EPA issues unprecedented order to renege on a permit already granted to open a coal-generator plant in a Navajo reservation in New Mexico: the tribe supporters upset

Obama talked to  former Republican now turned Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter from the Oval Office, said Dems are "thrilled to have you,"

Obama declines Iran offer of al-Qaida Members

The Obama administration unveils a fresh set of incentives for mortgage servicers to homeowners, the government will pay mortgage servicers $500 upfront and $250 a year for three years for successfully modifying a second mortgage

Not once in Obama's first 100 days has he set foot in New York - the U.S. city that contributed the most money to his campaign

The List" for 4/27/2009

Obama's administration preparing to use headhunters to fill key positions: Obama administrators reportedly interviewed large search firms Korn/Ferry International, Russell Reynolds Associates and Heidrick & Struggles

Obama's White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs nominee for "regulatory czar",Cass Sunstein, advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet, among other extreme proposals

Hillary Clinton offers admission: US admits responsibility for emissions to bring big polluters together

The Fox network is turning down Obama's request to show his prime-time news conference on Wednesday and sticking with its regular schedule

The White House defended the use of budget reconciliation, calling the procedural move an "insurance policy" on its attempt to revamp the U.S. health-care system

Obama Advisor: Americans use too much health care

An administration official said presidential Boeing 747 and fighter flew low near ground zero in New York City because the White House Military Office wanted to update its file photo of the president's plane near the Statue of Liberty

The White House apologizes for Air Force Flyover

VIDEO: White House unaware of terrifying 747 Low Fly over New York

White House deflects questions on NYC Plane Incedent

VIDEO: Startled New Yorkers run through the streets as plane photo op goes awry

VIDEO: Obama's Jet buzzes Lower Manhattan, scares New Yorkers

Obamas probe stingy at school auction

VIDEO: Obama gets ahead of his teleprompter in speech

VIDEO: Obama advisor Samantha Power Armenian Genocide (Flip Flop)

CIA officers feel betrayed by Obama and Congress.  Lesson learned... "don't take risks to protect America"

Secr. of State Clinton is telling representatives from 16 major world economies that the United States is moving quickly to address global warming

Notre Dame Critics Tally $8.2 Million in Denied University Donations Over Obama

Former Vatican ambassador Mary Ann Glendon, says she will not speak at the University of Notre Dame because Obama will be giving the commencement address the same day

In 2008 Obama told NBC’s Tim Russert he'd renegotiate NAFTA to include labor and environmental clauses. Obama’s pro-NAFTA trade ambassador, Ron Kirk, announced treaty would not be redrawn

Obama acknowledged that, in recent weeks, he has received tea bags from Americans upset by the government’s decision to spend trillions of dollars

Reid says Obama told him, 'I have a gift'

The networks have given Obama more coverage than Bush and Clinton combined in their first months

Amid surging worries about a global pandemic, the US launches border screening for swine flu exposure

The Obama administration is heading into its first medical outbreak without a secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department’s 19 key posts

Obama says that the threat of spreading swine flu infections is a cause for concern but "not a cause for alarm"

"The List" for 4/26/2009

Transparency? The Obama administration, is rolling back rules requiring labor unions and their leaders to report information about their finances and compensation

New York Times: Obama's administration is hoping to relaunch communication channels with Cuba after 50 years of adversarial relations

Napolitano sings a different tune: U.S. officials will begin asking travelers about illness if they're entering the country from areas with confirmed swine flu

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: United States is not testing airplane travelers from Mexico for the swine flu virus

The White House brushes off questions whether lack of top health officials made Obama's response to swine flu outbreak more difficult

Obama golfs while administration deals with swine flu with out HHS director.  Will adiministration try to use crisis to rush controversial Sebelius nomination through?

The Obama administration and senior national security officials are reviewing whether to release additional Central Intelligence Agency memos on interrogation methods

Geithner: banks that provide aid to poor nations must embrace changes in their operations

U.S. State Dept. Israel must sit down and talk with Syria

Secr. of State Clinton on second day of testimony to house committee: Aid can go to Hamas

Obama appointment Mogahed called for "engagement with Muslim Brotherhood"

Obama's Thirteenth Week in Office

"The List" for 4/25/2009

Primetime Obama costing networks millions

In a hearing before the House Foreign Appropriations Middle East Subcommittee, which must approve the allocation, key Democrats questioned the administration's giving money to a Palestinian Authority that would include Hamas

A prominent Armenian organization in the U.S. accused Obama of failing to follow up on his election promise to recognize the genocide of Armenians

Obama and the Democrats in Congress are poised to trample Republican opposition to his health care bill with a controversial legislative tactic known as reconciliation

The Obama administration argues for end of Michigan v Jackson ruling that requires police provide an attorney for a suspect once one has been requested

Report from Financial Stability Oversight Board, more than 250 institutions receiving preliminary approval to receive funds from TARP decided against taking the money

Obama Developing 'Baby Colleges' to Combat Poverty

VIDEO: President declares that "Minority has to be constructive".  Republicans said they lost faith in Bipartisan talk weeks ago. "..a ruse"

"The List" for 4/24/2009

Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan

 Obama's Order Not to Rescue Hostage Confirmed by National Security Advisor and Pentagon

Obama formally asked Congress to enact statutory budget controls that would require any new tax cuts or expansion of government benefit programs be fully paid for

Obama's mortgage relief plan is headed for defeat next week in the Senate.

VIDEO: Obama press secretary on Abu Ghraib photos being released "Makes us stronger"

Obama renewed call for government to stop backing private college student loans and replace them with direct financial aid, wants to eliminate Federal Family Education Loan program

US officials: Pentagon plan won't echo Obama no-nukes pledge

Obama's Democratic allies in Congress have agreed to let his signature $400 tax cut for most workers expire after next year

GM gets another $2 billion as deadline approaches

Carrie Prejean, first runner-up to Miss USA, holds the same position on gay marriage as Barack Obama (at least for his 2008 campaign)

Gen. David Petraeus warns: Progress in Iraq is fragile and reversible

U.S. plans to accept several Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo

ABC's Jake Tapper: Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; Former CIA Official Says Former Colleagues 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore'

The List" for 4/23/2009

Los Angeles Times: Obama administration to release Bush-era detainee photos

House Apprtns Comm. Chm. Dave Obey throws bucket of cold water on Obama foreign policy agenda: admits doubt about Afghanistan/Pakistan, no to helping IMF

The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule long-standing law that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present

VIDEO: Attorney General Holder Questioned About Interrogation Memos

Attorney General Eric Holder tells Congress he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness

Secr. of State Hillary Clinton cautions Israel that it risks losing Arab support for fighting any threats from Iran if it shuns Palestinian peace talks

New York Times: The Treasury has an "agreement" with the UAW to protect members’ pensions and retiree health care benefits after Chrysler bankruptcy filing

Obama spelled out his positions on issues during campaign, but members of Congress wrote legislation not the president, lobbyists infest the capital as never before

Obama makes 6 flights to make Earth Day speeches. Burns more than 9000 gallons of fuel.

Obama says he sees a glimmer, banks need a trillion more after tests

White House Cyberspace Director Melissa Hathaway announced plans to shift more responsibility for cybersecurity to the White House

Another CIA head? Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of House Intelligence Committee, blasts Obama for releasing Justice Department memos

Obama prosecutions? Members of Congress were briefed on the subject of interrogation techniques more than 30 times since 2002

Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA

Secr. of State Clinton, testifying in Congress, defended right to abortion worldwide and Obama administration's decision to finance family planning overseas

Obama on cover of Time again ...13 times this year: Propaganda for the president?

The Obama administration has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit against Iran filed by Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran 30 years ago

The List" for 4/22/2009

Obama plans to leave Iraq even if attacks rise

Obama's Sec.. of State Hillary Clinton Avoids Torture Memo Question By Mocking Cheney -- Rohrbacher Calls Her Out

The day after saying he's open to a "truth commission" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stressed that Obama is neither proposing nor initiating the formation of a truth commission

The FDA will now let 17-year-olds get the 'morning-after' Birth Control pill without a doctor's prescription

Rosa Brooks adviser to undersecretary of defense for policy, "... Bush was "blindly" and "mindlessly" supportive of Israel, ... Obama may be less willing to give Jewish state "blank checks

NATO supreme command may move to France, the concession - possible relocation from the U.S. to France - would significantly undercut American and British power within alliance

CNN: Admiral Blair: Tough interrogations did work, other ways might also have worked also and it hurt our image around the world

Admiral Blair: Congress approved CIA interrogations

Admiral Dennis Blair, Obama's top intelligence official admits value of tough interrogations

Fidel Castro says Obama "misinterpreted" brother Raul's remarks about the U.S., bristled at suggestion Cuba free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to island

Robert Gibbs, Obama’s Press Secretary, Contradicts Obama’s Campaign Statement, now is denying that Obama was a constitutional law professor

Freddie Mac says it knows of no connection between the death and any investigation

Obamacide? David Kellermann, acting CFO of Freddie Mac. was found dead at his home Wednesday morning in an apparent "suicide"

The List" for 4/21/2009 .

Adviser Says Obama's First 100 Days Most Productive Since FDR

Kansas oil and gas producers blast Obama tax plan

Where's Obama? Russia moves troops closer to Georgia's capital

GM ‘Likely’ to Build in China as U.S. Factories Close

Napolitano, U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security wrongly suggests the 9/11 terrorists came from Canada

Kansas Gov. Sebilius wins appoval from Senate panel to become Obama's secr. of Health and Human Services- after she told senators that she received almost $40,000 connected to abortion doctor Tiller -- not $12,450 as she originally reported

VIDEO Obama's Tim Geithner testifies at hearing: "I've never actually been in banking...I've spent my entire life in public service"

CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles

Obama tells King Abdullah of Jordan Israel and the PA “cannot talk forever" ,demands both sides show “goodwill.” The Netanyahu gov. leaders are “going to have to solidify their position."

Air Force chief of staff Schwartz accused by service's senior leaders of betraying service's requirements process by siding with def. secr. Gates in terminating key air power programs without rigorous analysis

VIDEO: Obama spokesperson Gibbs Pressed On Torture Prosecutions: "What Changed?"

VIDEOS: Did Obama change stance on prosecuting Bush officials after Cheney's public remarks? Before and after vids...

Obama refused to close the door on prosecuting authors of Bush-era legal rationales for terror suspect interrogations, after offering immunity to CIA operatives involved

As senator, Obama led charge to pass bill allowing black farmers to seek discrimination claims against Agriculture Department. Now he wants the budget-busting lawsuits to go away

Israeli Politician Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sends letter to Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins after Emanuel's reported verbal exchange between Emanuel and an unidentified American Jewish leader

Obama adviser David Axelrod: Obama's trips to Europe, Turkey and Latin America have made anti-American sentiment uncool,"created a new receptivity" to U.S. interests

"The List" for 4/20/2009

Obama administration will make about $500 million available to Chrysler through the end of this month, and up to $5 billion through May to help General Motors Corp restructure

Treasury Department's internal watchdog, General Neil Barofsky, issued his quarterly report to Congress on TARP.  Components of the $700 billion TARP pose "significant" risks for fraud.  Treasury Department "adamantly continues to refuse" to require banks to report on how they have used bailout funds

VIDEO: Obama demands closure of Guantanamo and restoration of Habeas Corpus

Obama Habeas Corpus Hypocracy?  Close Gitmo, but not Bagram

Obama balks at another campaign promise: Doesn’t Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks

President Beefcake? D.C. magazine to feature shirtless Obama on cover

Chavez's gift to Obama is a Latin leftist's bible

Obama Monday asked Congress to back expansion of an IMF emergency fund by 500 billion dollars in move designed to expand reach to big emerging market nations

Key Obama Climate Change Exchange Being Swayed by Top U.N. Officials.... Five members of the Chicago Climate Exchange advisory board are present or former top-ranking U.N. officials -- one received $1 million from convicted South Korean lobbyist in the Oil for Food scandal.

More VIDEO of Obama at the CIA: Vows to "protect identities", Jokes- watches Cable News shows, "We're on the better side of history

VIDEO: Team Obama Releases Names Of Waterboarded Terrorists

Napolitano regrets "politization" of vets report", says vets need Obama's programs to combat 'extremism'

Peeks into the first family's life are anything but spontaneous. They are part of a White House political strategy.

Obama lawyers are refusing to accept findings of inter-agency committee that Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo are too dangerous to release inside U.S.

After compromising intelligence agencies with release of memos to public, Obama to visit CIA to "reassure staff"

VIDEO: Obama talks with reporters on cutting 100 million after spending more than a $787 billion on stimulus

VIDEO: AP, Tapper Confront Obama Admin Over $100 Million

thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6

Obama plans to convene his Cabinet for the first time today, where he will order members to identify a combined $100 million in budget cuts over the next 90 days

Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano: crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil

"The List" for 4/19/2009

Obama official: Strong banks allowed to repay bail-out funds received from US government but only if it passes a test to determine whether it is in the "national economic interest"

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans: information reportedly submitted to Washington, “at the level of National Security Branch, information was to “...office of the Directorate of Intelligence

Equity Shares: Obama officials say they can stretch what's left of $700 billion financial bailout by converting government’s existing loans to nation’s 19 biggest banks into common stock

Obama's DHS head Napolitano: Veterans are Targets of Right-Wing Extremist Recruiters

VIDEO:  Senior Obama adviser David Axelrod on CBS News' Face the Nation where he described the "Tea Party" movement as "unhealthy"

Obama's senior advisor Axelrod says Tea Party anger is "misdirected"

Obama said that he "strengthens our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States

Obama Defends Reaching Out to Chávez

VIDEO: Obama at closing press conference of Summit of the Americas where he defends his "friendly gestures" back and forth with Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez

Obama to turn his attention to high credit-card rates, giving a potential boost to congressional efforts to put limits on the industry

Elena Kagan, the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer has little courtroom experience

Obama administration officials: Some big banks will need more bailout bucks

The Obama administration reacts against criticism that it undermined national security by releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos over objections of some former CIA chiefs

Obama's Twelfth Week in Office

"The List" for 4/18/2009

Obama considers returning ambassador to Venezuala, says he thought inflamatory book gift was one of Chavez'own and was going to give him his own in return

U.S.: Palestinians need not recognize Israel as Jewish state before talks

Obama is "deeply disappointed" by Iran's sentencing of an American journalist

Military Sources accuse Obama of delaying pirate rescue by days

Obama for America, fundraiser for Obama's presidency, spent nearly $9.5 million in first three months of this year, paid $688K to attorney defending Birth certificate lawsuit

After helping to ruin the Mortgage industry, Herbert Allison Jr., Fannie Mae's president and CEO, has been named to run the TARP program

Dr. Frank Page, member of Obama's faith-based advisory council says Obama yet to show signs that he plans to follow through on pledge to find "common ground" on issue of abortion

Cuban media covers Castro's comments, not Obama's

VIDEOS: Obama before and after presidency on Cuba

Obama will move to create a Palestinian state "more quickly than anybody could imagine." ..... message the Palestinian Authority claims it received from the U.S.

Chavez gives Obama book attacking the US during meeting

Nasty book Chavez gives Obama becomes instant best seller

Traveling with Obama, U.S. Energy Secretary Chu warns that if countries they don't do something about climate change "some island states will simply disappear

US to boycott 'Durban II' racism conference, 'with regret'

"The List" for 4/17/2009

Report: Steve Rattner, head of Obama's auto task force being probed by authorities for alledged kick-back scheme

Obama Meets face-to-face with Mexican President Calderon, says U.S. is to blame for much of Mexico's drug violence, says most guns come from US

Document: Obama threatens to sue if attempt is made to retrieve Birth Certificate

VIDEO: Obama meets and shakes hands with Hugo Chavez

Obama, Chavez shake hands at summit-Venezuela govt

Next defense item on Obama's chopping block: amphibious tank program

Obama declares he "seeks a new beginning"—including direct talks—with Cuba

Obama White House asked Georgetown University to cover all religious symbols at the scene of the president's economic speech

More pressure on Israel: Obama's Mideast envoy George Mitchell says that a "two-state solution is the only solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Obama administration is preparing a Middle East peace process that will include simultaneous bilateral talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and between Israel and Syria

Netanyahu's planned first meeting with President Obama in Washington next month called off. Administration officials tell Netanyahu's office that President would not be "in town

Obama Auto Team Presses GM to Consider Getting Rid of GMC Brand

EPA Proposes Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Obama Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano backs down from the security document her department issued for the Obama administration linking pro-life advocates to terrorists

Obama Appointee, Rosa Brooks, Suggests Newspaper Bailout Plan

The List for 4/16/2009

Rahm Emanuel told Jewish leaders in Washington this week- If Israel wants US help to defuse the Iranian threat, then get ready to start evacuating settlements in the West Bank

VIDEO: Obama Releases CIA Interrogation Techniques

Obama sought to reassure the agency that the C.I.A. operatives involved would not be prosecuted

Obama releases Bush torture memos

One million attend tea parties in 50 states

ABC Reports Obama is 'Unaware of Tea Parties'

Obama Backs Away From Assault Gun Ban in Push to Stop Flow to Mexico

VIDEO: Napolitano’s apology to veterans: Timothy McVeigh ‘was a vet’

US govt faces veteran anger at extremism report

Another extreme appointment by Obama, ex-Los Angeles Times columnist and law professor Rosa Brooks made adviser to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy

The List for 4/15/2009

Anti-Obama 'tea party' protests mark US tax day

Obamas made $2.7 million last year

Obama described his planned talks with Latin American leaders as discussions among equals.

Obama vowed that acts of piracy will “face a firing squad.” 

Geithner refraines from labeling China as currency manipulator, backtracking from an assertion made during his confirmation hearings

The List for 4/14/2009

VIDEO: Obama spokesman has trouble explaining Goldman-Sachs Bonuses

Obama's relaxation of Cuban money transfers just another bail-out scam

Obama to attack dissent with legislation that will curb right-wing talk radio through the imposition of "localism" rules and community watchdog boards

US will provide the Lebanese military with unmanned aircraft

Link to the actual DHS report that targets conservatives,veterans, and others...

American Legion responds to DHS’ unwarranted fear of veterans

Goldman Sachs rakes in the cash from Obama's TARP

Obama not present during Senate hearings on Somalia, piracy

The List for 4/13/2009

Obama's Dept. of Homeland Security targeting conservatives

Obama Climate czar Carol Browner wants Congress to establish broad U.S. greenhouse-gas policy before global climate-change talks near end of the year

Obama "gives" another 140 Billion to the IMF by fiat, no debate in congress

Obama and European allies propose to shift strategy toward Iran by dropping American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities

Coincidence? Illinois is more than 12% of the road and bridge projects approved so far by the U.S. Department of Transportation

Obama's health secretary nominee got nearly three times as much political money from a controversial abortion doctor as she told senators

Gates axes the F22

The White House said that Obama's loud silence during last week's standoff with Somali pirates who hijacked a U.S. cargo ship and held the captain hostage was necessary

Obama allowing Americans to make unlimited trips and money transfers to family in Cuba, easing other restrictions

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson expected to declare carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles endanger health and welfare because of impact on the climate

Obama's Effort at Online Transparency Stymied by Internet Trolls

4/12/2009

Obama indecision over Somali terror reminicsent of Clinton adm.

Despite GM's managers insisting the company's image should not be damaged, Obama tells them prepare for Bankruptcy

The Vatican has blocked Obama's appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador, her support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy

Obama Did Not Order the Kill That Freed Capt. Phillips

Obama announces the addition of Muslim extremist Dalia Mogahed to President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Video: 3 days of silence on hostage crisis, Obama takes just over 2 hours to release statement after rescue

Michelle Obama is the nation's first first lady to add a full-time makeup artist to her traveling entourage

Report: Soldiers who met with Obama in Iraq were "prescreened" as "Obama Voters"

Obama's poll numbers fall to new low

Autralia' military rejects Obama's defence dept. and recommends big boost to forces in combatting China's arms build up

Did Obama name his dog after himself?

Obama's Eleventh Week in Office

4/11/2009

Obama will grant waiver allowing Palestinian Liberation Organization to maintain office in Washington

New record: Obama Administration overspent almost a fifth of a trillion dollars in one month

As Obama cracks down on compensation and tightens regulation of banks, a brain drain is occurring, Talent leaving Wall Street

4/10/2009

Obama "Supplemental Military Request includes undercover money to Palistinians and North Koreans, promises last "emergency" spending for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Obama wants Congress to act quickly on his $83.4 billion request for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan

Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza

Obama and the Democratic-controlled House will push a system to make 12 million illegal aliens residing in the United States legal,

VIDEO: Obama's SOS Hillary Clinton makes light of Somali Hijacking

New poll shows Obama is losing big on Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)

Obama declines invitation to throw out first pitch for the Washington Nationals' home opener

4/9/2009

Obama declines comment on US hostage crisis off Somalia

Obama issues waivers allowing two appointees who were formally registered lobbyists to work for his administration

Obama Lifetime Electronic Record on America's troops: big-brother culture that tracks to their every breath from cradle to grave

Obama Creates Health Care Reform Office Inside White House

2006 Letter: Obama sees the Canadian seal hunt as "inhumane" and vowed to express his "outrage"

4/8/2009

The Obama administration said Wednesday it will participate directly in group talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program

VIDEO: Law Professor Turley on TeamObama: "a breathtaking expansion of sovereign immunity"

The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London

VIDEO: U.S. to Join in Direct Talks with Iran

Obama emisaries receive a "rude shock" when Pakistan rejects proposal against al Qaeda and Taliban then asks U.S. to turn over unmanned drone missions over to them

Obama's nominee for assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, Ron Weich opposed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act

Congressional and administration aides agree that none of Obama's three biggest agenda items is likely to achieve final passage before this fall

Obama’s proposals have been turned down by every foreign government and international body he’s approached

Intense Obama administration pressure: U.S. helps Arabs live illegally near Temple Mount

Obama administration expecting clash with Netanyahu: officials briefed senior Democratic congressmen, prepared the ground for possibility of disagreements with Israel over peace proces

The US has been training senior Palestinian security officials in an advanced officers course in Ramallah for top-brass

Obama's new science adviser said that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing drastic options to cool Earth's air

4/7/2009

Despite heavy U.S. media coverage of the president's overseas trip, there has been no significant shift in tracking polls

Obama will celebrate Passover Thursday night with staff and friends in what is believed to be the first White House Seder attended by an American president

More than two months into his presidency, Obama yet to name replacement for former NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin

The Obama administration vowed Tuesday to attack complacency about the nation's HIV/AIDS epidemic with the first media barrage aimed at the public in two decades

US may cede to Iran’s nuclear ambition

VIDEO FLASHBACK: Obama slamming military in Iraq back in 2007, "In A Civil War Where NO Military Solution Exists"

MSNBC poll: President Obama has earned a grade of "F" for his performance in office

Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: 'How can we help President Obama?'

Barack Obama rejects Normandy trip to avoid offending Germany

Turkish TV mocks Obama in blackface

Lieberman dislikes Obama plan to cut missile defense

Joe Biden: Israel would be "ill-advised" to attack Iran

In warrentless wiretapping case, Obama DOJ's new arguments are worse than Bush's

Geithner's Stress Test "A Complete Sham," Former Federal Bank Regulator Says

The White House is allocating tickets for the upcoming Easter Egg Roll to gay and lesbian families

The Treasury Department plans to extend the Troubled Asset Relief Program to certain eligible life insurers

VIDEO: Obama adminiistration no longer uses term "war on terror" in favor of “man-caused disasters”.  CNN tries getting VP Biden to explain this

The White House has hired actor Kal PennKumar in the movie, “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.”, as liaison between administration and Hollywood

Syrian F.M. Walid al-Moallem: (Obama's) comments were "positive","expressed clear trend towards two-state solution, including sustainable Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital"

Turkish police detain man after receiving hoax tip that he was plotting to kill President Obama but quickly release him without charge

4/6/2009

Failure of the U.N. Security Council or other international organization to theNorth Korea rocket launch does not signal a "win" for N. Korea, the State Department said

Arnold Schwarzenegger, CEOs and celebrity doctors took up Obama's campaign for healthcare reform

Obama named to the government’s faith-based initiative a gay-rights activist who described  the Pope and certain bishops as “discredited leaders” due to their opposition to same-sex marriage

Obama names board to advise his Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Initiative, former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy is not on the list

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar : Windmills off the East Coast could generate enough electricity to replace most, if not all, the coal-fired power plants in the United States

Obama:  We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country"

The EPA is holding two public hearings for nation’s first greenhouse gas reporting rule. The rule will determine companies covered by cap-and-trade program by Obama administration

VIDEO: Obama In Turkey "We Do Not Consider Ourselves A Christian Nation

'Syrian man arrested for plot to assassinate Obama in Turkey'

Obama nominated former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus to be the secretary of the Navy: former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, in the Navy for two years

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ends funding of the F-22 fighter jet and new fleet of presidential helicopters trims missile defense despite North Korea test

The US said iit would donate 50,000 dollars in aid to Italy after a powerful earthquake killed at least 100 people

4/5/2009

Obama violates dead soldiers' remains:: For the first time since media coverage was banned in 1991, the return of the body of a fallen member of the U.S. armed forces was opened to news outlets

Obama recation to North Korea missile: more talk

Obama says he'll reduce spending on key domestic nondefense programsto their lowest levels since the 1960s, but  he won't meet his cost-cutting goal for 10 years

Robert Gates, US defence secretary, will offer proposals to slash spending on major military projects in what aides called a "fundamental shift in direction"

Woman tortured by Nicaragua's Sandanista regime is pleading with US for asylum, but immigration officials refuse – even though she faces rape, abuse and possibly death if she returns

Partisan gap in polling Obama job approval widest in modern era: 53-point difference between Democrats and Republicans over Obama numerically biggest going back to Eisenhower

Obama said the U.S. was ready to take the lead in tackling climate change

Obama Calls for Limits on Tourism to Antarctica

Obama resumes funding for United Nations Family Planning Agency (UNFPA), U.S tax dollars help finance China forced abortions and sterilizations

Elizabeth Warren, Obama aid and chair of the congressional oversight committee monitoring TARP, calls for firing of the top bank executives

Obama urges the European Union to accept Turkey as a full member of the 27-nation bloc, a move immediately rejected by France

Obama plans to lift longstanding U.S. restrictions on Cuba, allowing Cuban-Americans to visit families there as often as they like and to send them unlimited funds

Obama admin denies heroic Iraqi translator asylum; may grant it to Uighur terrorists

Obama's Tenth Week in Office

Obama administration "comfortable" with British government's attempts to engage Hizbullah, senior British diplomat asserts.

At London (UK) school, Michelle Obama tells crowd she was from "the real part of Chicago," echoes Sarah Palin from 2008 campaign describing small towns as "the real America."

Big Bonuses at Fannie and Freddie point to Administration hypocracy

Obama TARP team discloses TARP firm ties, and huge pay days

Bank tries to give TARP money back, threatened by Obama adminstration if it does

Bailing out financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to Congressional Budget Office estimate

An Italian journalist reports that the Vatican has quietly rejected three names put forward by the White House to fill the post of US ambassador to the Vatican

Obama to call for nuclear-free world

The Navy is expected to kill the Harpoon Block III upgrade program next week, first of many killed weapons programs by Obama adiminstration

Mother Jones, leftwing magazine wonders if Obama wants to control internet...

Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade"

4/3/2009

Last year David Axelrod sold the political consulting firm that helped elect President Obama for $2 million to a group of consultants who helped steer Obama’s campaign

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to pay more than $210 million in bonuses through next year

High Redefault Rates: Obama's Loan Modification Nightmare

Most Republicans boycotted the hearing for Obama's first judicial nominee, allowing Democrats to pitch softballs to David Hamilton

Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama was paid about $5.2 million in compensation by hedge fund D.E. Shaw during the past year

Rather than meet the leaders of the Czech Republic, Obama has dinner with the Mrs.

A senior administration official says Obama plans to lift a longstanding U.S. ban on family travel and remittances to Cuba

In a U.S. Senate vote late Wednesday, no fewer than 26 Democrats joined all 41 Republicans to insist any new cap and tax on carbon energy require at least 60 votes

BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked Obama who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes.

Obama: 'arrogant US has been dismissive' to allies

Obama Staff conference call promises Abortions reduction plan

Obama who has denounced polling, promising in one high-profile Iowa speech to lead “not by polls, but by principle,” employed six campaign pollsters

Obama pledges new US relations with Europe

Scranton bishop joins protest against Obama

In France, Obama takes no questions from French

Obama to bankers:  "my administration"... “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

Obama issues warning as North Korea readies rocket

Obama supports Saudi Mideast peace initiative; Israel must give all of West bank, half of Jerusalem and a "Just Settlement"

Obama e-mails show constant campaign mode and use of fake names

Obama's budget called for a 2 percent pay raise for non-military federal workers and a 2.9 percent hike for military employees, gets a billion over from congress

Obama announces he will set goal of "a world without nuclear weapons."

A second city tries to squash a Tea Party

New Orleans Archbishop Alfred Hughes joins growing chorus of Catholic bishops deploring Notre Dame's decision to award Obama an honorary degree at graduation exercises

4/2/2009

The House and Senate approved budgets drawn to Obama's specifications and pointing the way toward major legislation later this year on health care, energy and education

Treasury Secretary Geithner Said that there was about $135 Billion uncommited funds in TARP, the government's financial rescue package-  the GAOreports the figure is closer to $32 billion

Obama selects Robert M. Groves for next census director, a survey researcher who clashed with Republicans over use of statistical sampling to lead the high-stakes head count

Obama's Own Report on GM Says Plan to Build Non-Gas-Burning Car Would Not Save Company

Obama's sister signs book deal

New York Times reporter Helene Cooper complained yesterday at The Caucus that Obama tried to blow off reporters after taking only six questions

Obama hails agreements at emergency meeting of world powers as a "turning point in our pursuit of global economic recovery."

Video: Investigator says Obama campaign in contact with ACORN

Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thomas Mesenbourg, says the bureau intends to make sure every illegal alien in the United States is counted in the 2010 Census

Obama's European visit has strained Air Force heavy-airlift capabilities and obliged the military to hire more foreign contractors to help resupply U.S. and allied forces

Naomi Campbell, who has a criminal record in the US, will be seated just a few yards from Obama and the First Lady at special Downing Street dinner for G20 leaders

Obama and Medvedev promised a new era in relations between the US and Russia and made a milestone bid to agree far-reaching nuclear arms cuts

VIDEO: Obama Bows to Saudi King

Obama bows down to Saudi King

Cardinal Francis George on the University of Notre Dame’s decision to invite Obama to speak at commencement ceremony, it's an “extreme embarrassment” to Catholics

Geithner: I'm Open To Pressuring A Bank CEO To Resign (Video)

Michelle Obama now appears to have a higher favorability rating than her husband.

4/1/2009

Days after GM's CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by Obama , Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner left open the possibility that such moves could happen again

Obama: Bush-era diplomacy is over

Obama Administration will play Key Role In Naming GM Board

Obama media team blunders on day 1: Blows Schedule

Video: Biden Says "Working Class Families Have To Share' If America Wants Economic Success

Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod

Obama’s claims about his proposed budget are so out of touch with reality that they are Orwellian, Sen. Jim DeMint, the chairman of the Senate Steering Committee

The massive programs designed to rescue the nation's financial sector are operating without adequate oversight government watchdogs told a Senate panel

Obama strongly supports legislation that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate cigarettes

The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000

Jindal rejects more stimulus cash; this time for Medicaid programs

Obama nominates Environmentalist Staffer Jo-Ellen Darcy to oversee Army Corps of Engineers

Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington plans to maintain the pastoral request Kathleen Sebelius’ bishop made in 2007 asking her not to receive Communion

Barack Obama has told Gov. Mark Sanford that if he does not apply for federal stimulus funds, the money will not be available for South Carolina

Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday to drop its case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted of seven felony counts of corruption last fall

Obama strategy to obtain cuts in Pentagon weapons buying: squeeze Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines to pick up costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, force them to forego new equipment

Private employers cut jobs by record 742,000 in March versus 706,000 revised cut in February that was originally reported at 697,000 jobs

ICE releases workers arrested in Washington raid

Obama is seeking to ease General Motors Corp into a "controlled" bankruptcy by persuading creditors to plan that would divide company into two pieces

Obama's aunt will remain in the US until at least next year.  The judge set her case to be heard Feb. 4, 2010

3/31/2009

Obama picks rabid judicial activist as his first federal court pick; Judge David Hamilton

Obama plans to begin negotiations to draft new arms control treaty that could slash American and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals by about a third and possibly lead deeper reductions

Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes

Under ousted chief executive Rick Wagoner, General Motors and its political action committee gave twice as much to Republicans as they did to Democrats

"Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose controls on pay of all employees - not just executives - of companies that received capital investment from U.S. govm't

Microsoft Corp. is receiving federal stimulus funding for a pet corporate project

The State Department says the US will seek election to U.N. Human Rights Council, the Obama administration's latest reversal of Bush's foreign policies

Consumer Confidence Hovers Near a Record Low

Sarah Palin: Obama's New Enemy of the People

Geithner’s new nominee for number two at the Treasury Department, Neal Wolin, played a key role in the late 1990s deregulating the banking system.

Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Obama administration to disclose role of former President Jimmy Carter in advising the administration on critical foreign policy

Pentagon budget will include large, painful cuts. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin says major program cuts will not be pushed off until the 2011 budget

VIDEO: Rush On Obama "'If He Fails, America Is Saved."

Obama appoints Martin Feldstein, who has been an AIG board member for 21 years, for one of the members of a new task force on tax reform

Concern mounting over Obama's scheduled participation in the U.N.'s Alliance of Civilizations summit in Turkey

Two Years Since Obama's Iraq Retreat Deadline

Democrats Kill Provision in AmeriCorps Bill that Would Keep Funds from ACORN

RTNews (RussiaToday News) reported March 26 that Obama is seeking the power to have the right to see what is on your computer hard drive

Clinton-Appointed Judge Backs Off Sanctions on Obama Eligibility Suit

Obama benefits from a broadly held perception that others bear the bulk of responsibility for state of the U.S. economy

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus introduced bill that would enshrine tax increases sought by the Obama administration into law this year – one year ahead of schedule

Obama says his administration has "no intention" of running General Motors

More than 100 scientists have signed a full-page newspaper ad denouncing U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks about climate change last November as "untrue."

Obama to propose 2.8 billion dollars military aid for Pakistan

Obama plan to save automakers marked a major step across the line that traditionally separates government from private industry

3/30/2009

O"Leary Report/Zogby Poll Finds Business Leaders Not Happy with Obama's First 60 Days

Autoworkers say Obama's 'tough love' more tough than love, they get worse treatment than banks

VIDEO: Autoworker Job Loss leads to violent outbursts

Obama sends envoy to Darfur

Obama is set to offer an online emotional rescue kit

Obama Commerce Secretary Locke pushing census into Democrat rich areas

Obama administration has agreed to release another Guantanamo detainee, but officials aren't saying yet where he'll go

The Obama administration is putting new curbs on private insurance plans that are popular with seniors in Medicare

Head of P&G blasts Obama tax proposal

The EPA moved Monday to sharply curtail pollution from ships, proposing new emissions limits for U.S. and foreign-flagged vessels

New Yorker: Obama Pressed to End Cast Lead, Wants Syrian Pact

VIDEO: Chris Matthews Calls Obama "Mr. Goodwrench"

Stocks fall as automaker plans are rejected

Global Markets Dive as Obama Rejects Car Makers Plea

Obama: "if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors..." " starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warrantee.

President Barack Obama says the federal government is preparing to offer several incentives to get Americans to buy more U.S.-made cars.

Wagoner will leave post as CEO of General Motors with a $20 million retirement package

Obama Ountlines Plans for GM, Chrysler, possible "Surgical Bankruptcy"

Some Chrysler workers critical of Obama plans

Obama will attend the second annual forum of the U.N.-led Alliance of Civilizations initiative in Turkey

Obama's top legal advisor Koh, thinks Shariah Law applies in US courts

Removal of Head of GM called "Fascism" by critic

3/29/2009.

Obama's political machine gets UPS to pull advertising from Bill O’Reilly show on FOX

Video: Geitner responds to Criticism from Krugman

Obama signed a law early in his administration to raise taxes, the single largest federal tobacco tax increase ever takes effect Wednesday

The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down

Defense Sec. Robert Gates says US can do nothing to stop North Korea from breaking international law by firing missile that is unlikely to be shot down by U.S. or allies

Obama envoy: Time to act on climate change

Defense Secretary Robert Gates of the United States said on Sunday that Iran was not close to building an atomic weapon

All White House social events, environmental issues and food safety to African American women - seven senior government posts in all

Careful choreography as Obama meets the press

Tea Party Crowds Protest Federal Spending And Intervention

Three days after his administration hinted Obama would order American troops into Pakistan when targets became open, Obama himself reversed that position

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner, criticizes the Obamaites for trying to prop up a financial system that he regards as essentially a dead man walking

Obama will not back additional border security with funds, will reduce other immigration enforcement duties

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano delays immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces in recent weeks

Obama envoy: China too must fight global warming

(anti-Obama)tea party to protest government spending and taxing is canceled. Canceled by the government

Obama is considering meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad this summer

Obama's Ninth Week in Office

3/28/2009

Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers

Obama personally leads a White House blitz of network Sunday shows

Obama Plans Climate Change Summit

Kansas City teacher suspended for students' Obama chants

VIDEO: Obama's Welfare for Terrorists Program

(for Obama Administration) Joe Biden said that the US would no longer "dictate unilaterally" to Latin America

Obama is conducting his own affirmative action program to get more Muslims in the White House

Obama gets on list of top Muslim Americans

The man who created two phenomenally successful "We The People" YouTube videos reportedly has been summoned to the White House by Obama to discuss the films

3/27/2009

Obama cites North Dakota floods in call for climate change action

Obama will nominate former pilots' union boss Randy Babbitt to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Syrian Reactions to Initial Contacts with Obama Administration: The U.S. has Capitulated to Syria and Iran; The Resistance, Not Obama, has Changed the World

Obama is coming under growing pressure to withdraw from public speaking event at a Roman Catholic university in an escalating row over his backing for abortion and stem cell research.

As critics slam the administration's Recovery.gov website for a lack of accessible data, a private company has launched a rival — Recovery.com.

Video Shows Evidence of "Credible Allegations" Against ACORN

Under Obama: Freddie Mac records exempt from Freedom Of Information Act requests for information

Michelle Obama to give 2 commencement speeches

Obama nominates former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus to be secretary of the Navy, a political supporter with a two-year career in the service.

US lawmakers tell Obama Iran engagement 'cannot be open-ended'

Arizona congressman wants to know why Treas. Sec. Geithner isn’t facing tough questions on U.S. consideration of China’s request to abandon dollar as global currency

Scott Polakoff, top bank regulator for the Treasury under Obama has taken a leave of absence after internal audits uncovered his allowance of backdated capital infusions

Obama’s first judicial nominee’s record includes judicial decisions which obstructed enforcement of Indiana’s informed consent law requiring women be told risks of abortion

Obama raised cash after leaving Senate

Stimulus funds to be used to try to curtail suicide attempts. Some call plan wasteful

3/26/2009

Senators have tabled, or killed, amendment by Senator David Vitter to the Serve America Act. The amendment would state that no funds can go to “ACORN.

VIDEO: Obama seems to hide American flag in address to Iranians

California Republican Rep. Darrel Issa is mounting legislative campaign to impose more transparency on the public policy work of First Lady Michelle Obama

Obama's intelligence chief confirmes that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society.

Video: Eric Cantor goes to Britney Spears concert, says Obama press conf. "boring"

VIDEO: Dick Morris: Obama Wants Bank Package to Fail

Obama Youth Brigade: forbids “engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship"

The head of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday proposed extending Bush tax breaks for millions of middle-class Americans,

Rep. Manzullo to Geithner: Your Plan Is 'Radical'

Construction workers under U.S. government's stimulus law would earn significantly higher wages in some areas than crews on private, non-stimulus projects.

Obama plans to dispatch additional U.S. troops plus hundreds of civilian advisers in hopes of turning around a faltering war

Zogby shows Obama's approval rate at 49%

Obama warns America today during an online town hall meeting that the country hasn't stopped losing jobs in this recession

 The solar panels that Obama and Biden inspected in Denver, Colorado will take until 2118 to pay for themselves

Obama administration unveiles a sweeping overhaul of the financial system designed to impose greater regulation on major players like hedge funds

Unnguarded comment by Treas. Sec.Geithner sets off sudden drop in dollar and contributes to chain of market-rocking events, setback in stock market and sharp uptick in interest rates.

Rahm Emanuel's Short Freddie Mac stay made him at least $320,000

Rahm Emanuel called a group of veterans' group leaders together to discuss a budget controversy "in the Situation Room," with "Emmanuel seated in the President's chair."

Obama's pick for the No. 2 post at the Environmental Protection Agency, Jon Cannon, removes himself from consideration

3/25/2009

The President's Budget Chief Says Senate Dems May Scrap Tax Cut

VIDEO: O'Reilly Blasts Obama's Attack On Any and All Dissent

Obama's Iraq envoy: I just don't want to screw up

Lobbyists are first winners in Obama's clean technology push

Iran has network of lobbyists with access to Obama

Obama's pick for the No. 2 post at the EPA, Jon Cannon, withdraws as nominee for deputy EPA administrator because of scrutiny surrounding the America's Clean Water Foundation

Congress sets aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness

Former top US intelligence official warns that the Obama Administration is about to break America's ties with Israel, and maybe take steps toward the dissolution of Israel

Obama calls on world’s wealthiest nations to quickly provide aid and lending to poorest countries, says these steps, and global intervention, will boost trade world economy

EU's Juncker: -European Countries won't increase stimulus plans on the demand of the U.S.,

Bernanke, chairman of Federal Reserve, told congressional hearing that he opposed paying of massive bonuses to AIG but was overruled by government lawyers

Treasury Secretary Geithner hopes to today send draft legislation of a bill to Capitol Hill that will give him more power to take over large financial institutions in serious trouble

Geithner, at Council on Foreign Relations: the U.S. "open" to proposall by governor of China's central bank, to replace the dollar, Geithner describes as modest and "evolutionary.

Congressional Democrats advanced budget outlines Wednesday that largely mirror Obama's spending priorities

Obama's Tuesday night press conference showed some audience slippage compared with his two most recent live even

At press conference, Obama retreats on three of four stated yearly goals on yearly agenda

Gitmo Detainees Coming to Virginia, Local Dems Freak

VIDEO: Obama on cap and trade "I'll Sign It"

3/24/2009

Obama said that he would push for revenue assumptions of new oil and gas industry taxes, as well as $646 billion generated from an aggressive national carbon cap to curb climate change

Obama is set to unveil new task force to issue recommendations on how government can find additional sources of tax revenue to narrow the 'tax gap'

U.S. dollar falls against euro after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was "quite open" to China's suggestion of moving toward SDR-linked currency system.

When on board of Chicago-based charity, Obama helped fund carbon trading exchange that he is now trying to push through Congress

During Obama's second news conference, he took no questions from the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today.

Obama defends a budget idea to reduce tax deduction that families can take when they make charitable donations. Says plan is "the right thing to do.

Obama State Department turns down offer by El Salvador to renew successful joint drug interdiction program

65,000 sign online petition protesting Obama's scheduled commencement address at Notre Dame, citing president's views that "directly contradict" Roman Catholic teachings..

House Democratic leaders decide against fast-track budget rules to ram through Obama's environmental initiative "cap and trade

Obama orders end of the Global War on Terror phrase at Pentagon.  Speechwriters and other staff were notified via e-mail to use "Overseas Contingency Operation" instead.

Obama hopes to assemble a proposal to resolve a trucking dispute with Mexico before he visits the country in mid-April

Obama's 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan will leave the United States with worse budget deficit than Cuba, Republican Mitch McConnell tells reporters.

ACORN Behind ‘Protests’ At AIG Homes

The EPA put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold to evaluate projects' impact on streams and wetlands.

Treasury Secr. (Obama) Timothy Geithner's request for government authority over failing non-bank financial firms unprecedented power grab, says House Minority Leader Boehner

Obama, after months of criticizing Wall Street, has been scrambling to woo top bankers and financiers to back its latest bailout plan.

Obama says he hopes "it doesn't take too long" to convince Congress to approve new authority to oversee financial firms.

Obama has named a former Freddie Mac executive to head the federal housing commission

Lebanese Armed Forces receive shipment of American military vehicles as part of aid package agreed upon between the two countries following visit to Washington

Obama Justice Department tells San Francisco police not to comment after top officers sign letter accusing Ayers and wife, Dohrn, of being behind 1970 bombing of police station

Obama considering asking Congress to give Treasury secretary powers to seize non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge fund

Gun program for pilots set for expansion, officials insist

65 Democrat Congressmen tell Obama to lay off their gun

Obama's aunt fights deportation

3/23/2009

Federal Reserve Chairman Bernake tells Congress he wanted to sue to stop AIG from paying millions in bonuses, but was talked out of

National Service Bill Clears Senate hurdle, guarantees a major expansion of a national service corps

Obama to GOP: Offer budget alternatives

Obama’s job approval slipping to ‘50-50’

Obama may be running up World War II levels of debt, but he'll be running down the U.S. military.

Defense Sec. Gates readies big cuts in weapons

U.S. defense secretary Gates to skip NATO summit

Obama forced to delay announcement of new US strategy in Afghanistan because of disagreements inside administration over paying "bribes" to Taliban

Since the fall, senior aides to Geithner closely dealt with AIG on compensation issues including bonuses

Dem. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, candidate for top Obama nonproliferation post, plays down threat from Iran long-range missile program as reason to build European missile defense system

The EPA sent a proposal to the White House finding that global warming is endangering the public

Training VIDEO for Obama canvassing voluteers asking people to sign "pledge" to support Obama's agenda of "Energy, Health Care, and Education

Obama's army of canvassers fanned out across the nation to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but had no impact on Congress

Six weeks after Obama appoints blue-ribbon panel to help dig America out economic crisis, board yet to hold an official public meeting

Obama sent a letter to the French president Sarkozy, and called him Jacques Chirac.

U.S. to buy Chinese condoms, ending Alabama jobs

3/22/2009

Obama administration hints that economic downturn means the president unlikely to reach goal of doubling foreign aid by the end of four-year term

Obama names socialized medicine advocate Boston physician David Blumenthal as national coordinator for health information technology

Photo of Obama with friend and benefactor Salman Ibrahim, in the offices of infamous Sunrise Equities

Obama links budget to environment

Testamoney during ACORN hearings detail abuse and lawlessness

Obama administration officials work to persuade private investors to buy $1 trillion in troubled mortgages and related assets from banks, with government help.

The Obama's administration has dropped outright US hostility toward the international war crimes court

White House: AIG Bonus Tax May Be 'Dangerous'

Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"

Obama administration is "incredibly confident" the U.S. economy will rebound within a year

VIDEO: Sen. Collins Doesn't Support Obama Budget

Former Commerce Sec nominee  Gregg says Obama's massive budget proposal will bankrupt the country

Hamas chief praises Obama- says an official opening to his Palestinian Islamist movement was only "a matter of time".

U.S. furious over Israel's demolition of East Jerusalem homes, will likely be first clash between Obama administration and Benjamin Netanyahu government

Orlando 'Tea Party' rally draws more than 4,000

Gun sales going ballistic, Fears of regulation, crime spur sales of firearms and ammo

Obama's Eigth Week in Office

Obama criticizes Cheney's approach to terrorism in '60 Minutes' interview: "It hasn't made us safer"

The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies

The Obama White House is using the Situation Room for meetings in a way no previous administration did

Swedish financial chief known as "Mr Fix It" has been summoned to Washington to advise

Obama: new powers needed in financial area

VIDEO: WH Press Secretary Gibbs Sets New Record for Stuttering As He Spins Answer on Geithner

Video: Congress, Geithner knew about bonuses on March 3rd

Man critical of Obama case judge visited by marshals

Barack Obama facing criticism for his "dial-a-pastor" advice line

Obama's Campaign Army on Road Again

Geithner to call for new bonus system

Venezuelan President Chavez: Obama doesn't seem to know much about what's going on in Latin America

Obama criticizes some Guantanamo release decisions

VIDEO: Iran's Supreme Leader Dismisses Obama Overtures

bill to shift cybersecurity to White House

Obama’s energy tax plan -- a version of the failed European “cap and trade” global warming fiasco -- may cost families $1,800 yearly in higher utility bills

Special Olympics Bowler Offers Obama Bowling Tips

First Lady Maria Shriver Weighs in on Special Olympics joke

Palin rips Obama for Special Olympics joke

AUDIO: Maxine Waters: Maybe the President is not up to speed on what's going on

Obama envoy Holbrooke served on AIG's board in 2008

Obama's daily tracking poll numbers down to 55%, lowest so far

$1 trillion deficits seen for next 10 years

Special Olympics Champ to Barack: Bring it On!

Obama’s budget will generate a $1.9 trillion deficit this year, $100 billion more than the administration projected, The White House projected this year’s deficit at $1.75 trillion

The Georgia House voted against approving a resolution that would have honored Obama

Michelle Obama once teased for talking ‘like a white girl’

Tax Day Tea Parties number over 1000

Tea parties are flash crowds Obama should fear

Obama White House bars press from press award ceremony

Obama sorry for 'insensitive' Special Olympics dig on the 'Tonight Show

Former ACORN employee:  More than half voter registrations invalid

Obama compares Model T to SUV

Israel's chief of staff comes home early after doors close in Obama's Washington

VIDEO: Obama Says Watching Him Bowl Is ‘Like The Special Olympics'

Video: Obama ‘Tonight Show’ Outtake: Washington Is Like ‘American Idol’

Obama says committed to pursuing "constructive ties" with the Iran and that Tehran could take its "rightful place" in the world if it renounced terror and embraced peace

Obama guaranteed Americans on Thursday that the nation's economy will recover, though he asked them for patience

Schwarzenegger: Obama a 'fantastic partner'

Obama volunteers to go door to door to sell budget

VIDEO: Sen. Jim DeMint Calls on Obama to Fire Geithner

Obama tells Jay Leno he was 'stunned' to learn of AIG bonuses

Obama defends ‘Tonight Show’ appearance

Obama Deficits To Be Much Higher Than Expected

Former Pres. Candidate Bauer Calls Plans to Release Terrorist in the U.S. 'An Outrage...Confirming Our Worst Fears'

Obama puts up $2.4 bln for electric vehicles

The Obama administration plans to provide up to $5 billion in assistance to auto-parts suppliers

Acting with lightning speed, Democratic-led House approves bill to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers.

White House is telling Senate staff the energy tax scheme would actually be "two-to-three times" higher: New tax amount 1.3 trillion

Congress Democrats blame Obama administration for creating loophole allowing AIG to pay employees millions of dollars in bonuses and not doing enough to stop bonuses when it could

At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes

Schwarzenegger to join Obama at a town hall meeting in Los Angeles

Obama pledged to ensure every dollar of 787 billion dollar stimulus plan is well spent/Obama Stimulus Auditor: 'Some waste or fraud is regrettably inevitable.'

Dodd Blames Obama Administration for Bonus Amendment

Duke Coach to Obama: Worry About the Economy, Not NCAA Picks."

Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber

The Obama administration is ready to tell federal agencies to release records to the public unless foreseeable harm would result

Obama, after an uproar by veterans groups, scraps plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for treatment of troops injured in servic

President Obama okays funding embryonic stem cell research (but removes adult stem cell funding)

Obama says rich 'can afford' tax hike

Obama's $500,000 children's book bonanza

Networks reluctantly shuffle for Obama speech

Obama Banks $2.5 Million for Books

Obama To Appear On Sunday's 60 Minutes

Dodd: Administration pushed for the language protecting AIG bonuses

Attorney General Eric Holder signaled a change on medical marijuana policy, federal agents will target marijuana distributors only when they violate both federal and state law.

Most Americans say Obama is doing too much

The Obama administration, is likely soon to relax restrictions on contacts between U.S. diplomats and Iranian officials,

Obama administration sends a $50 million check to the United Nations Population Fund

Attorney General Eric Holder: some Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay being considered for release in U.S.

Commerce pick Gary Locke: tied to China cash

White House Backpedals on Requiring Private Insurance to Pay for Military Injuries

Department of Defense scraps new policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass

Obama Administration: We Didn't Find Out About AIG Bonuses Until This Month

Obama Knew About AIG Bonuses Day Before They Were Paid

Obama era brings boom times for lobbyists: largest ever increase in lobbying activity

Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality

Video: Obama Caught In St. Patrick’s Day Teleprompter Blunder

Embarassed Irish PM accidentally reads Obama Speech from his teleprompter at White House

Obama climate plan could cost $2 trillion

Opposition to Obama Choice for Solicitor General

Former Republican now Democrat Air Force Gen. J. Scott Gration as Sudan envoy

The national debt surpassed $11 trillion, largest in U.S. history.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a plea to Ireland to give asylum to Guantanamo prisoners.

With history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year's U.S. Census count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial

Health care overhaul may cost about $1.5 trillion

Obama administration may take advantage of a rarely used congressional rule that would strip Republicans of their filibuster power

Obama's new computer chief, already on leave after an FBI raid at his old job, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft in 1996

Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG

Gates readies big cuts in weapons

White House knew of nominees' tax problems before

Geithner's China, Kissinger, family connections

Obama Still Supports Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act, White House Says

Judge Fines and Sanctions Man for Seeking Truth about Obama's Eligibility

Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns

5,000+ take to the streets of Cincinnati, to protest the Obama administration's tax and spend programs

Nagging doubts about competency of the White House

The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization, The American Legion, says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today

US industrial output fell to its lowest level in seven years, foreigners sell off US securities

Obama drops 'war on drugs' rhetoric for needle exchanges

GE telle Indian authorities that the state department asked it to freeze all work on turbines it supplies till Obama administration reviews its military ties with different countries.

White House wants new US-Mexico trucking program

Obama: AIG can't justify 'outrage' of exec bonuses

Obama's approval rating falls to 59 percent from 64 percent in February. Americans who disapprove of job performance rises to 26 percent from 17 percent.

Bankers chafing at restrictions imposed by the TARP program, which affect lending, call it "asinine"

Obama heads back to late-night circuit, with appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

Obama Orders Treasury Chief to Try to Block contractually guaranteed A.I.G. Bonuses

Might try to get AIG money back

Moderate Democrats balking at Obama's spending plans

Second homes, investment properties could get Fannie, Freddie refis

In an echo of position Obama had mocked, White House says economy is 'sound' despite mess

Another Israel hating pastor for  possible new Obama Church

Polls show that most people like Obama, but they increasingly don't like his policies.

Bolton says that Obama and advisors think that the “overwhelming bulk of other Middle Eastern grievances, wholly or partly, stem from Israel's founding and continued existence

Cheney says Obama endangers U.S.

Cheney charges that Obama is using the recession “to try to justify” what is probably the largest expansion of federal authority “in the history of the Republic.”

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