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Note: The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-presidents-council-advisors-science-and-technology Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 21, 2010 Executive Order -- President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish an advisory council on science, technology, and innovation, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is hereby established. The PCAST...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 3, 2009 – Afghan soldiers in armored Humvees led a combined convoy of Afghans and Americans down Highway 1. As dawn broke, they passed an Afghan National Police checkpoint and dismounted by an Afghan army combat outpost. Their objective was Shah Hasan Kheyl, a village about a half mile off the road. Army 1st Lt. Sean Snook emerges from an orchard with his fellow paratroopers Oct. 3, 2009, in Afghanistan’s Zabul province. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stephen Decatur  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Starting in August, small, embedded training teams dispersed throughout Afghanistan started getting...

The following thumbnails describe a very small sampling of the locust horde of Leftist bureaucrats President Barack Hussein Obama has deliberately chosen to help him grasp the helm of America's ship of state, strip it from the American people, and steer it hard to port. The Obama Administration is plainly subverting democracy in America, wildly careening our previous 230-year history of democracy so dangerously Leftward that after a mere nine months we are in terrible danger of sinking.

Not saying that this will help anything if you view it but it never hurts to be informed....DC Received this from a friend whose e-mail stated, "Mark your calendar - This Sunday, August 9, 2009, on Fox Sean Hannity, of FoxNews, is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, Sunday night at 8:00 PM central / 9 PM eastern. He stated on the air this evening that no one in the news media was willing to do this. Hannity is going back to Obama's earlier days, showing even then his ties to radical professors, friends, spiritual advisers,...

Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama has compiled a new group of faith-based advisors who will comprise his new White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. However, unlike President Bush's group of religious advisors, Obama's includes abortion advocates.

By Mike Farquhar Watching our President-elect attempt to put together a working cabinet, it finally dawned on me what he was struggling with. He’s got no peeps! Having sprung so suddenly and so successfully onto our national – even the world stage — he’s been abruptly confronted with success he for which he is woefully unprepared. So he went on vacation. In the course of a normal politician’s life, he or she would have come up through the ranks, serving at local and state level—perhaps even in the military or in law enforcemen— before seeking national office. Then that...

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has said lobbyists won't run his White House. But senior campaign officials are crafting a policy that would clear the way for lobbyists to nonetheless hold important government roles. People familiar with Sen. Obama's still-evolving hiring policy say registered lobbyists would be banned from senior-level White House jobs. But the policy would allow some lobbyists to take important jobs elsewhere in the administration, should the Illinois senator win election Tuesday. "Our goal is to make sure that people don't leave an industry to come into our administration and then work on issues related to...

WASHINGTON — Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions, accompanied by suggested answers, that the candidate is likely to be asked about international relations during the day. One recent Q. & A. asked, for example, whether Mr. Obama supported the decision by Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to include a timetable for American troop withdrawal in any new security agreements with the United States. The answer, provided to Mr. Obama with...

Once Again, ItÂ’s About Associations and Judgment by Frank Salvato July 3, 2008 There has been much ado about Barack ObamaÂ’s associations and the judgment used in maintaining and entering into those associations. ObamaÂ’s associations with Jeremiah Wright, Williams Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, the Progressive-Left activist group ACORN and his ideological association with Saul Alinsky are all perfect examples of his judgment, his willingness to associate with radical and troubled individuals and organizations. Is it fair to judge Barack Obama by his associations and the judgment used in acquiring and maintaining those associations? Sorry Mr. Colmes, all is fair...

In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News. The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques -- using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time -- on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said. Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al...

A far as legal-brained firepower goes, the chief beneficiary of Fred Thompson’s decision to pull out of the presidential race is Mitt Romney. The Romney campaign Thursday announced that a host of conservative lawyers_and_scholars who were backing Thompson have joined the Romney camp. Among them is Victoria Toensing, who made her mark as an anti-terrorism_policy-maker at the Justice Department during the Reagan administration. Toensing is joined by her husband (and fellow regular on the cable news circuit) Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. To date, Romney’s conservative legal cabal has been notable for the presence of Catholic_scholars...

Venezuela has received its first delivery of tens of thousands of Russian assault rifles. It is the first batch out of a total of 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered from Moscow.

NEW YORK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Calpine Corp. (CPN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has hired a high-profile restructuring team from Kirkland & Ellis to advise its board, the New York Post reported on Tuesday, citing parties suing the troubled power producer. Leading the advisory team are partners Richard Cieri and Jamie Sprayregan, according to lawyers for two parties that are suing Calpine. The Post said its sources acknowledged the hiring of Cieri and Sprayregan did not necessarily mean the cash-strapped company was considering a bankruptcy filing. More likely, the Post reported, they are advising the company on its alternatives if it...

In the past week, there were two important nominations by the Bush Administration to rush for the New Order of World (NOW). To run a Public Relations (PR) campaign to bolster its image in the world Karen Hughes was nominated as the PR ambassador, and to tighten the strings around the purse of the World Bank, and to enforce the American style democracy Paul Wolfowitz was nominated. Both of them to spread the neo-con gospel. A. Karen Hughes – The PR Ambassador Karen Hughes is the head of a new PR Campaign by Americans. She has been named as the...

For decades, the Republican Party has been stigmatized by the Left as being a group of racists and homophobes who have no concept of diversity. Democrats have continually preached this sermon of GOP bigotry from the ghettos of the inner cities to the ivory palaces of academia. Their message has resonated among minorities and women for years. However, when we compare the levels of diversity between the GOP leadership and that that of the Democratic Party, quite a different image appears. If you’re a young African-American man or woman, or a young Hispanic man or woman and you want to...

How Karl Rove won the election for Bush By James C. Moore  |  November 7, 2004 "I run all my campaigns as if people were watching television with the sound turned down." --Karl Rove In Political Science 101 courses all across America, college professors are going back to textbooks and scratching their heads. Even freshmen students saw the signs. Everyone knew what was about to happen on Election Day. Turnout was going to approach record numbers. And that's always bad for incumbents and Republicans. The president's "right track" figure was 43 percent, and his job approval was below 50. No...

WASHINGTON - Stephen Friedman, one of the President Bush (news - web sites)'s top economic advisers, is leaving the White House to return to the private sector in New York, a senior administration official said Tuesday. Friedman, who worked behind-the-scenes for Bush and seldom made public appearances, is to leave by the end of the year. There is no imminent announcement on his replacement, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Friedman replaced Larry Lindsey, who resigned with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill two years ago in a shake-up of Bush's economic team. The official said that while there...

Targeted, Truthful Ads Gutting Kerry Campaign Written by Chris Long Monday, September 27, 2004 George W. Bush spent the first months of the political campaigning season like a boxer in a huddle, covering up and weathering a barrage of blows from the upstart. The Kerry/DNC ads were a scattershot affair, alleging anything and everything, flitting from accusation to spectacular accusation, not unlike the flip-flopping candidate. Indeed, the Bush campaign seemed to obeying the military axiom of ‘concentration of forces’: gather your troops for decisive blows in the face of a scattered, approaching enemy. The hundreds of millions of dollars expended...

Go to http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?21 and copy & paste, or write something similar, the following into their e-mail program to register your disgust with their complacency about the Carville/Begala joining of the Kerry campaign: I find CNN's allowing James Carville and Paul Begala to continue as commentators despite their role as advisers to the Kerry campaign as extremely poor judgment in the interest of credible journalism. It seems highly irregular that CNN would tolerate two employees' openly working and advising and appearing on behalf of the John Kerry for President campaign.

"John Kerry's growing credibility gap is highlighted by the comments of his own staff, who call his energy proposal 'asinine' and 'misleading,' who call his vote against the troops politically motivated, who say his outsourcing plan won't stop outsourcing and who admit his plans for spending don't add up. John Kerry cannot expect the voters to trust him if his own staff doesn't even believe what he is saying." - Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman Kerry Advisers On His Energy Plan Kerry Energy Advisers Believe Kerry’s Energy Plan Is “Unrealistic And Misleading.” “The idea of a United States independent...