The List: Obama's Two Hundred and Seventy-Ninth Week in Office

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Obama's Two Hundred and Seventy-Ninth Week in Office

5/29/2014

Obama vs The U.S. Military

Obama gives military latrine duty new meaning; Government document puts naval engineering group in charge of Kenya pit toilets

The V.A. Death Panel

Stonewall: VA Officials Fail to Answer Questions About Secret Waitlists at Hearing

VA Bureaucrat: ´We Could Have Moved Forward More Quickly´

VA Awarded $3M in Prizes in Appointment Scheduling App Contest in 2013

Democratic Wave Builds For Shinseki’s Removal

VA secretary: I´m committed to restoring integrity

VA Knew of Wait Time Related Deaths in 2013

Eric Shinseki: 'We Are Doing All We Can' to Fix Veterans Affairs

VFW Calls For Immediate Firings At VA

'Internal VA Email' Reveals Los Angeles VA Hospital 'Manipulated' Records

Sgt. Daniel Somers put a bullet in his head, leaving a chilling note damning the scandal-hit VA for failing to treat his PTSD. Here, his parents expose the abject failure*

Doctor Shares 'War Stories' from VA, Including Operating Rooms Shut Down at 3 p.m.

Obama Amnesty

Scores of undocumented migrants dropped off in Arizona

DHS Sec: Don’t Enforce Immigration Law In Courthouses

It's 3am and nobody's there

Kerry: Obama Administration ‘More Engaged’ with the World ‘Than at Any Time in American History’

Reporters Mock State Dept. Spokeswoman For Saying Obama "Doesn't Give Himself Enough Credit"

Asst. Sec. of State Misleads Congress on Terror Salaries Assistant Secretary of State, Amb. Anne W. Patterson, disregards proof that money goes into terrorists' pockets, not to their families.

Obama: Must close Gitmo before I leave office

 DHS Stonewalls Congress on ‘Hands Off’ Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S. Source: Closed-door briefing on issue ‘yielded next to nothing’

Kerry says Snowden engaging in Kerry-Like Betrayal - [Vietnam War] - Video Montage

Benghazii-Gate

Benghazi Is Such a Non-Issue That Hillary’s Democrat Party Enablers Are Meeting About It Tomorrow

Obama And Hillary Hold Secret Meeting At The White House

Obama and Syria

Kerry Gets Testy During Syria ‘Red Line’ Discussion: ‘Don’t Put Words in my Mouth’

Syria: Islamic jihadists do extensive damage to ancient Christian sites

Obamanomics

Justice Department secretly stifling 'objectionable' businesses: House committee

 US Economy Shrank By 1% In The First Quarter: First Contraction Since 2011

GDP Contracted at 1% Pace in First Quarter Downturn, Though Likely Weather-Driven, Reflects Pattern of Sluggishness Seen Over Past Five Years

"Pent-Up" Pending Home Sales Demand Missing; Down 9.4% YoY

Consumer Comfort Plunges To 6-Month Lows

CHART: Right-to-Work States Are Absolutely Dominating In Job Growth

Is Obama Gay?

U.S. Census Bureau to Recognize Same-Sex Couples as 'Families'

Queen Michelle

DC Children Avoiding Michelle Obama’s Healthy Lunches

Michelle Obama: House Wants To ‘Override Science’ On Childhood Nutrition

First lady defeated in panel vote

Michelle Obama Plays Sideline Reporter in Cooking Video With NFL Star Richard Sherman

Michelle: I Wake Up, Go to Bed 'Worrying About the Health and Well-Being Of ... Every Kid In This Country'

New York Times: The Campaign for Junk Food, Michelle Obama on Attempts to Roll Back Healthy Reforms

Obama and Agenda 21

West Virginia Rep. Blasts EPA Over Coal Power Plant Regulations

 Report: EPA Could Be Relying on Fraudulent Data, Inspector general warns agency lacks process for uncovering fraud in pollution data

Joltin' Joe Biden

Joe Biden uses broken GITMO promise as example of ‘leading by example’

Obamacare

First quarter health care spending growth revised down, but still highest since 1980

Officials: Obamacare kicks up employee healthcare costs

Ohio Obamacare Premiums Up By Double-Digits For 2015

Obama Ethics, Year 6

When Bushies blew a CIA cover, it was 'treason'; now, it's a mistake

Obama fundraiser, donor sat on boards of federal subsidy agency --- and a finance company it subsidized

Obama: Title IX ‘One of the Greatest Transformations’ in Society

Posse Comitatus

Meet Directive 3025.18 Granting Obama Authority To Use Military Force Against Civilians

Obama "considered but rejected deploying military force under the directive during the recent standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters."

Obama Selfies

Obamas partied like kings on Africa vacation Lavish excursion hits taxpayers for millions on lodging, entertainment, security

Obama’s Africa Vacation Hit Taxpayers For $2 Million On Lodging, Entertainment, Security Alone

5/28/2014

The V.A. Death Panel

'Veterans died! Get us the answers!': Republicans boil over as Veterans Affairs officials answer subpoenas with excuses and blank stares

Internal VA Report: Vets Are At ‘Risk Of Being Forgotten Or Lost’

 VA Committee Chairman Calls for Shinseki’s Immediate Resignation 1,700 vets at Phoenix hospital kept on secret wait list

VA report confirms allegations at Phoenix hospital (and worse, it's everywhere)

Inspector General Confirms Vets Waited 115 Days for Care in Phoenix

Officials: Army hospital chief relieved of command

Hagel Orders Complete Review of Military Healthcare System

Texas VA Run Like a ‘Crime Syndicate,’ Whistleblower Says

A doctor tells the truth about the VA health care system

VA Scandal Grows As Bonuses Went To Worst Hospitals

MO Vet Killed in Police Standoff Sought Help From VA But Was Turned Away (Video)

It's 3am and nobody's there

Obama receives standing ovation from less than 25% of West Point cadets: report

CNN: West Point Gave Obama ‘Icy’ Reception

At West Point, President Obama binds America’s hands on foreign affairs

Obama: "I'm NOT WEAK"

Barack Obama: “What Makes Us Exceptional Is Not Our Ability to Flout International Norms and Rule of Law” (Video)

Obama at West Point: ‘Because We Have the Best Hammer Does Not Mean that Every Problem Is a Nail’

Obama: 'This is American Leadership' "I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it’s our willingness to affirm them through our actions."

Top GOP Rep. Buck McKeon: I Have World Leaders Contact Me Almost Daily Asking, “Where Is America?” (Video)

Flashback: Obama Called for Immediate Investigation Over Plame Leak

White House Looking For A Scapegoat In Outing Of CIA Station Chief

Pentagon Official: Obama’s Afghanistan Fantasy Today Is America’s Nightmare Tomorrow

Sebastian Junger: We Needed More Troops in Afghanistan

Kerry: US to start $5 billion anti-terrorist fund

Americans in Libya told to 'depart immediately' amid new calls for attacks against U.S. citizens

Disastrous Afghanistan Trip For President Obama

Obama: ‘Very real chance’ of agreement with Iran

Obama and Syria

US to boost aid to Syria

 Obama Says Not Arming Syrian Rebels, Syrian Rebels Say He Is

Obamanomics

US Economy Poised to Accelerate? Bond Market in Disbelief

U.S. Gold Holdings Close to Zero-Rob Kirby

Why Are Food Prices So High?

Goldman’s Cohn Says Inactive Trading Environment Is Abnormal

Is Obama Gay?

National Park Service Will Start Promoting Historic LGBT Places

US aims to identify, promote historic LGBT sites

Obama and Your Privacy

Edward Snowden says he was trained 'as a spy'

Kerry tells Snowden to 'man up' and come home

Community Organizer to the World

Unruly Commoners Refuse to Stand for Obama

Obama Aides Axelrod, Messina Advising Labor, Conservatives in UK

Census Data Reveals Stunning State of Democrat Party – Party of Broke People

Queen Michelle

Everyone hates Michelle Obama’s school lunches because Republicans

Michelle O: 'Parents Have Right to Expect Their Kids Will Get Decent Food in Our Schools'

Michelle Obama Sponsors a Submarine, the USS Illinois

Obama and Agenda 21

Obama to claim credit for economy-killing EPA plan

EPA Administrator: 'I'm Not Against Cars'

Lumber Union Protectionists Incited SWAT Raid On My Factory, Says Gibson Guitar CEO

New Safety Requirements Set for Keystone Pipeline

EPA To Unilaterally Push Cap And Trade On Carbon Emissions

EPA leans toward broad scope for regulating power plants

Retired officers poised to profit after Pentagon’s alarmist climate change report

The Obama Shut Down

 Inflicting Pain for Political Gain, The Interior Department tries to conceal how it kept Mount Rushmore closed during the shutdown

Government Motors

 Did the Bailout Ruin GM? The recalls are multiplying, and the bailout stigma remains

Obamacare

HHS Document Reveals Scope of Obamacare Rollout Disaster

Poll: Workers Say Obamacare Will Delay Their Retirement

Obama Ethics, Year 6

Obama Will Wait Until After Election To Impose His Vision Of How We Should Live

State Dept. misplaced $6B under Hillary Clinton: IG report

New Education Department rules help elite college students at the expense of poor and minorities

Posse Comitatus

Inside the Ring: Directive outlines Obama’s policy to use the military against citizens

Benghazi-Gate

Media Matters, Other Hillary Loyalists Meet to Make Benghazi Go Away

Obama and the IRS

Lawsuit Alleging IRS Discrimination Against Pro-Israel Groups Moves Forward

5/27/2014

It's 3am and nobody's there

5 Times the Obama Admin Leaked Crucial National Security Information

 GOP Lawmakers, Foreign Policy Experts Blast Troop Withdrawal Announcement Say move could embolden Taliban, lead to resurgence in violence  -->Monumental Mistake

WH Won’t Say Whether 9,800 Troops Is Enough to Beat Back Taliban Resurgence

Obama: Troops Will Stay in Afghanistan Through 2016

Will Obama´s 10,000 Troops in Afghanistan Be Enough to Stop Al Qaeda?

Obama wants 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after 2014

Obama Berates Reporter at Science Fair

´C´Mon. C´Mon´: Obama Scolds Female Reporter Asking About Afghanistan

US recommends its citizens depart Libya 'immediately'

White House launches internal probe into accidental outing of CIA official

State Department Apologizes for Promoting Muslim Cleric Who Backed Killing of U.S. Soldiers Tweet promoting controversial cleric sparks widespread outrage

Hillary Clinton “Proud of What We Accomplished” At State Department

NYT Reporter: Everything Going Wrong for Obama Admin

With new troubles, questions mount about Obama´s competence

BBC: Is US foreign policy ´vacuous, vapid and weak´?

Obamanomics

Economist: The Case-Shiller Home Price Report 'Makes No Sense', "every indicator" of the house market he watches is slowing or falling

Home prices continue upward climb

Case-Shiller Home Prices End Four-Month Losing Streak, Rebound More Than Expected In March

"The Market's Not There" - One World Trade Center Lowers Asking Rents By 10%

Future for new college graduates looks bleak

Consumer Confidence Falls Short Of Weather-Peak; Plans To Buy A Home Drop

April Durable Goods Bounce On Defense Orders; Machinery Goods Drop Most Since February 2013; CapEx Slides 1.2%

Too Big-to-Fail Pension Insurer Agrees to Liquidation Trust in ResCap NY Bankruptcy. Is a Bailout Next?

The V.A. Death Panel

VA Expects To Have More Medical- Care Funding Than It Can Spend For The Fifth Year In A Row

Despite lie about degree, VA exec still oversees network of health care centers

Biden on VA: 'We're behind right now'

VA Spent $396K on Appointment Scheduling Software in 2013

Boehner: VA scandal 'worse' than we know?

Vet Allegedly Beaten To Death At VA Hospital

Obama vs. the U.S. Military

 Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders

Queen Michelle

Michelle Obama: Changes to School Lunch Menu 'Unacceptable'

While Public School Kids Eat ‘Healthy Lunches,’Obama Girls Dine On Meatball Subs And Ice Cream

Michelle Obama Moves to Quell School Lunch Revolt

First lady set to respond to school meal critics

School lunches: Local 5-year-old cries when she has to eat school lunch

Obama and the IRS

IRS: Employers Face $36,500 Per Worker Tax for ´Obamacare Dumping´

IRS Eyes New Ways To Tax Miles of Frequent Fliers

Obama and Agenda 21

University Received Millions in Governement Funds to Develop Climate Change Video Game

Community Organizer to the World

Where’s the love? Even Obama’s liberal base bailing Health care, CIA leak tarnish his ‘year of action’

Joltin' Joe Biden

Vice President Joe Biden has a word of advice about microphones: Always assume they’re on.

Obamacare

Hospitals hiking cost on the poor due to … ObamaCare

New Costs From Health Law Snarl Union Contract Talks

Insurance plan for farmworkers falls short of Obamacare rules

Obama Ethics, Year 6

Obama Administration Seeks Race-Based Government In Hawaii; a two-tier race-based legal system

The Obama Administration Forces Oklahoma To Overturn Anti-Sharia Bill, And To Pay $303,333 To Muslims

Obama and Syria

Obama Close to Authorizing Military Training of Syrian Rebels

5/26/2014

The V.A. Death Panel

VA Fallout: Boston Globe, LA Times Declare Obama Incompetent

‘Black Eye’ Memorial Day: American Legion Says VA Scandal Sullied Holiday

Vet's death highlights urology clinic wait-time issues

Bipartisan calls increase for Holder to investigate ‘level of criminality’ in VA scandal

Triple Amputee Veteran Hammers Our Inept Commander In Chief In His Powerful Memorial Day Letter

Obama vs the U.S. Military

6 Times Obama Used the Troops for Photo Ops

VA cuts D-Day veteran’s benefits to $6 a month

Queen Michelle

FLOTUS ´Joins Forces´ with Dead Veterans

Posse Comitatus

Justice to count feds' guns

It's 3am and nobody's there

Finally… Barack Obama Admits Al-Qaeda Is Evolving and Poses a Serious Threat

Mind your own business, Venezuela foreign minister tells Kerry

Obama to warn against ‘overreaching’ foreign policy in West Point address

Afghan President Turns Down Invitation To Meet With Obama

Obama backs off drone strikes

White House staff tried to 'un-ring the bell' after revealing CIA chief's identity  • White House press office unaware it had circulated name • Washington Post journalist sounded alert after filing report

Obama and Agenda 21

EPA’s next target in fight against climate change: cooking stoves U.S. fight against climate change moves into the kitchen

Obamacare

Unions, employers square off over ObamaCare costs in collective bargaining

Hospitals Look to Health Law, Cutting Charity

Big insurance rate hikes in the future?

Obamanomics

U.S. Food Inflation Running At 22%

The Retail Death Rattle Grows Louder

Federal Reserve weighs options on how to raise US rates

Obama and Your Privacy

Study: New Technology Development Pushed by Feds Allows for Data Collection on Every Child

Community Organizer to the World

No Joke: Obama Actually Believes The Media is Stacked Against Him!

Obamacare

 Why is the new Obama health chief sailing to her confirmation? -Filibuster reform

Russian Reset

Kerry: Ukraine has sent ‘clear message’ to Russia

5/25/2014

The V.A. Death Panel

Obama Addresses Troops in Afghanistan, Calls Helping Wounded Vets ‘Sacred Obligation’

VA expands veterans’ access to outside medical care, in effort to clear long waits

LA Morgue Ignored Veterans Bodies for Over a Year and a Half

It's 3am and nobody's there

Obama To Outline More Limited Approach To Foreign Policy

Obama pledges "responsible end" to Afghanistan war

White House Mistakenly Identifies CIA Chief in Afghanistan Name sent to 6000 reporters)

‘Whoops!’ Did White House inadvertently publicly identify CIA station chief in Kabul?

Thousands of Qaddafi-Era Missiles Missing in Libya

Democrats Privately Calling Obama 'Detached,' 'Flat Footed,' 'Incompetent'

Queen Michelle

Michelle Obama Stepping Up Her Solo Political Engagement

First lady Michelle Obama is more aggressively wading into policy fights while expanding her portfolio.

Obama and the IRS

I.R.S. Bars Employers From Dumping Workers Into Health Exchanges

Obamacare

White House Stop Releasing Obamacare Enrollment Numbers Before Midterm Elections…

Obamanomics

The Solution To Record Meat Prices: The Return Of Pink Slime

Obama Ethics, Year 6

Obama blames Founding Fathers’ ‘structural’ design of Congress for gridlock

Drudge Report editor slams Obama's 3-step scandal formula

Obama and Israel, Year 6

Hamas: We’ll Use Unity Accord To Move Terrorism To West Bank

Posse Comitatus

Rep. Bridenstine: Why Does USDA Need Submachine Guns?

Obama and Agenda 21

Obama seizes N.M. land for national monument in Bundy-like showdown Bundy types of protests feared in New Mexico

Obama vs The 2nd Amendment

“Operation Choke Point.”

Establishment Press Has Virtually Ignored DOJ’s Pernicious ‘Operation Choke Point’ For Over a Year

Cass Sunstein Olympics

The Power and Limits of Indoctrination

5/24/2014

Obama Amnesty

A chilling message from the cartels: Billboards with hanging mannequins warning cops to choose 'silver over lead' appear in Texas

Homeland Security may reduce deportations of nonviolent immigrants

The V.A. Death Panel

Obama: US Must Do More to Care for Veterans

Obama: Taking care of our veterans and their families is a ´sacred obligation´

Why I Blew the Whistle on the V.A.

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders on VA Scandal: “People Die Every Day” (Video)

Eric Shinseki–VA Secretary

It's 3am and nobody's there

Sen. Corker: White House Meeting About Obama’s Foreign Policy ‘One Of The Most Bizarre I’ve Attended’

Afghan security forces poorly equipped to treat wounded: Pentagon

US cuts military aid to Thailand after coup

Lech Walesa Blasts Obama: “The World Is Disorganized & The Superpower Is Not Taking the Lead”

Obama Ethics, Year 6

Obama Unhappy with America's Constitutional Balance of Powers

Obamanomics

Federal Reserve Admits Truth In Internal Memo: "Prices Continue To Rise Between 3% And 33%"

Elon Musk says he lost a multi-billion-dollar contract when SpaceX didn’t hire a public official

Russian Reset

Tapper Grills State Dept On Why Obama Hasn’t Punished Putin For Meddling in Ukraine

Obama and Israel, Year 6

Report: US 'Changing its Position' on Hamas-Fatah Deal Hamas officials met with EU representatives, sense that US is slowly 'coming around' on unity pact, deputy leader claims.

In Jerusalem, Jay Leno Jokes About Hostility to Israel of Obama, John Kerry

Government Motors

GM faulty ignition crashes now 47

Obama and Your Privacy

Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers

The threat facing online comments

5/23/2014

Obama Amnesty

Illegals freed by Obama later commit 19 murders; Statistics pose grim outlook for 36,007 newly released criminals

The V.A. Death Panel

Obama in 2000: VA model for medical system Borrowed ideas from veterans program during congressional bid

'Why didn't they prepare?' Hundreds of VA vacancies, as returning vets strain system

VA's Shinseki Vows Not to Quit as Pressure Mounts for His Resignation

Nancy Pelosi blames George W. Bush for Veterans Affairs scandal

    Louisiana VA staff falsified documents; nurse claimed racial element

Palin: 'Un-American' for Obama Admin to Treat Illegals Better Than Vets

New Allegation Of Patient Deaths At Miami VA

Benghazi-Gate

John Kerry will testify about Benghazi attack but insists it´s a one-time offer

Kerry Agrees to Testify on Benghazi, With Caveats

Obama White House Contacted YouTube During Benghazi Attack – 3 Hrs. After Ansar Al-Islam Was Blamed for Attacks

Allen West: Confidential source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi- covert weapons scheme going on in Libya, Benghaz

It's 3am and nobody's there

Poland´s Walesa Says the US No Longer World Leader

 U.S. Levels New Sanctions on Iranian Human Rights Abuser New sanctions come amid languishing talks

Obama aides confront Hill foreign policy concerns: they meet, but not with the president

Obama Ethics, Year 6

Arpaio Obama Investigator: Honing In On Birth Certificate Forgers; NSA Doc

Obama blames Founding Fathers’ ‘structural’ design of Congress for gridlock

FBI, federal agencies to record interrogations

Kerry: Obama 'Will Go Down in History' for 'Highest Standards of Transparency and Accountability'

Obamanomics

 Obama's Recovery: Temp Jobs Up 45% Since 2009, Manufacturing Down 3%

Obama’s new regulatory czar: San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, 'progressive'

  Retailers' Profits Miss By Most In 13 Years: "Consumer Is Not Back"

New Home Sales Post Tepid April Bounce As Average, Median Home Price Drops From Year Ago

Housing market rebounds in April, rising to 433,000 new home sales

Workers Really Are Dropping Out of the Job Market

Obama and the IRS

IRS slams door in face of conservatives Responds to criticism of explosive new rule by hiding from public

Russian Reset

Putin on Obama: "Who Is He to Judge? Seriously?"

Obama Voter Fraud

D'Souza Says He Won't Be Silenced by 'Selective Prosecution'

Obama and Agenda 21

Kerry Says--Wrongly--Some Temps This Week Broke ‘Every Record That’s Ever Been Seen’

Obama Syria

Syrian female refugees on sale on Facebook; women sold in mosques

Obama and Israel, Year 6

U.S. held secret meeting with Hamas, Terrorist regime still won't recognize Israel's right to exist

Gunrunner-Gate

DOJ Admits Fast & Furious Docs Should Be Released Under FOIA After Indefinitely Delaying JW’s Suit

Obama and Your Privacy

NSA to Listen to Conversations in Real Time via Cellphone Mic

[Nachum]

What a week in Obamaville. Obama's speech blows chow at West Point, Shinsecki gone from the VA, Obama loses his cool in front of kids "C'mon!".

Things are looking up. -Except for the economy, and er.. everything else.

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