The List, Obama's Thirty Third Week in Office

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[Nachum]

 Obama's Thirty Third Week in Office

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The list" for 9/11/2009"

The EPA announcedthat 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny.  The EPA's action was an abrupt shift from the last big batch of surface mining permits that it's considered during the Obama administration. In May, the agency said it had no concerns with 42 of 48 permits, and blocked six

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was prepared to hold direct talks with North Korea to try to coax it back into multilateral negotiations on ending its nuclear programs.

A U.S. District Court hearing to determine if a Army captain fighting deployment to Afghanistan because of the challenged the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency was rescheduled for Monday.

VIDEO: Obama remembers the 9-11 bombing and its victims, calling it a National Day of Service, ....by painting at a habitat project

Obama's nominee for the top international post at the Treasury Department has been sidetracked by a Senate committee's investigation into her personal tax returns.  Of particular concern is Lael Brainard's use of a home-office tax deduction, according to people familiar with the inquiry.  The delay in considering her nomination has left empty a treasury position responsible for negotiating with foreign governments

After Obama gets called "Liar" after saying the health bill did not cover illegals, Rep Joe Wilson's outburst leads the Senate Democrats to close loophole that would have covered illegal aliens.  

In April 2005,  Obama Czar Cass Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled "The Constitution in 2020," which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year.  This includes a new "bill of rights"guaranteeing Americans to a "useful job", "decent home", and "good education"

Federal deficit climbs higher into record territory, hits $1.38 trillion in first 11 months.

Repubicans say they have introduced 35 health care plans and Obama will "not discuss" any of them

The Obama administration opened a new front in its effort to impose $31.5 billion in taxes on oil and gas companies, saying that the nation puts too much emphasis on oil and gas at the expense of other industries.  The chief economist in the Obama administration's Treasury Department testified before a Senate panel that current subsidies "lead to overinvestment" in the oil and gas industry

The list" for 9/10/2009"

Judge in Obama elegibility case has granted "expedited discovery" immediately

Obama meets with Abu Dhabi crown prince.  Obama and the prince talk about nuclear cooperation., "including the administration's support for the US-UAE Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation," the White House.

Obama flip flops on mandatory coverge provision

Many of the people working with President Obama are Marxists or socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party, according to a socialist Columbia University professor with strong ties to Obama's radical associates, including Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers

Obama's newly confirmed administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs , Cass Sunstein, has several times quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should therefore be granted similar rights

Senate seeks to end ban on F-22 sales to foreign counties.  Will produce plane for foreign sales only

CBO director says Obama health care plan could cost a trillion more

Obama pick for regulatory czar extremist Harvard professor Cass Sunstein approved by senate.

Still photo of Obama standing up and cheering with congressional Democrats while interrupting Bush 2006 address

The communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts, Yosi Sergant, is no longer in his job amid a flap over suggestions he suggested artists work to further President Obama's legislative agenda.

Todd Stern, the State Department's special envoy for climate change, told a House panel that it was critical for the Senate to pass legislation to give the U.S. the "credibility and leverage" that it needs to convince other countries to reduce their pollution.

Part of the teachers' excercises after Obama's televised speech to students: put up “quotations” from Obama on the walls, and having the children making a “pledge” to do what they can to “serve” President Obama

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department's annual performance report.

Fraudulent Obama election document surfaces.   Modified document that omits the phrase "and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution"

VIDEO: President George W. Bush is booed and heckled by Democrats at his 2005 State of the Union address.

Obama said he accepts the apology ofRe. Joe Wilson, who interrupted the president's speech last night to yell,  "You Lie!" after a line about how health insurance would not be provided to illegal immigrants. The president brushes off Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during health care speech."I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes,"

Obama accused Bill Clinton of peddling "bald-faced lies" during the presidential campaign, according to a new book on the 2008 race. 

Democrats heckled Bush in 2004 and 2005

VIDEO: Obama science czar John Holdren from 2007: he claims a “strain” of “US exceptionalism” redistribution is the solution to curing this “problemThe U.S. administration has agreed to transfer the F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets' technology to Brazil if the Brazilian government chooses to purchase U.S. jets.

Obama appointed General Motors Co. Chairman Edward Whitacre Jr. will be the pitchman who starts the automaker's new advertising campaign this weekend with television spots urging people to try GM's new vehicle

The list" for 9/9/2009"

Obama's speech:  his $900 Billion health plan would require individuals to carry insurance, mandate large employers to provide it and subsidize coverage for those who could not afford it.

Obama has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration

The United States on Wednesday formally cut off $11 million in aid to Honduras in response to the June 28 military coup that ousted the elected president of the poor Central American nation.

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.

Last month In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Obama declared: "I don't have to explain to you that nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, 46 million of our fellow citizens have no coverage."  Tonight Obama declared that "[t]here are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage.he number of our fellow citizens who have no coverage is 30 million

GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina apologizes for calling out "Liar" at Obama

VIDEO: Audience yells "liar" at Obama during health care speech to congress

Obama's new rules of engagement are held responsible for troop deaths in Afghanistan

VIDEO: Cash for clunkers fails to help Chrysler and GM into positive territory

VIDEO: Newly uncovered Van Jones tape ties to a young Obama

Obama has not invited Republicans to the White House to talk about health care since April

Nancy Pelosi only signed two of three required petitions to nominate Obama, leaving out the third.  The third, which was left out, contained a US constitution provision

EPA will pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights in response to a 2009 petition from the Ecology Center, the Sierra Club and other NGOs requesting that the agency establish regulations prohibiting the manufacture, processing, and distribution of lead tire weights.

The list" for 9/8/2009"

While the Obama administration and its Democratic allies in Congress press to allow private-sector workers to unionize by signing authorization cards instead of voting by secret ballot, the government's legal-aid program for the poor has declared the so-called "card check" strategy "unreliable" and rejected an effort by some of its own workers to organize that way.

A new report that for the first time gauges the impact of health care reform two decades out shows the nation's budget imbalance would skyrocket after 2020. The House bill would increase the budget deficit by $1 trillion between 2020 to 2029, up from $39 billion from 2010 through 2019, says the Peterson Foundation study, conducted by the nonpartisan Lewin Group.

Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report to be released Wednesday.

Obama suggests tax on soda

States are ignoring stimulus welfare fund; many states aren’t taking advantage of the windfall because state officials say they can’t afford the requirement that they put up 20 percent of the costs. Six months into the stimulus, only 27 states have applied for the money.

Cash for Clunkers program helped new car dealers, but it is dramatically raising the price of relatively inexpensive used cars, hurting the poor, dealers say.

Obama inspires the sale of over 1,000,000 guns in August

Obama has decided that another oration will rejuvenate his health-care agenda—despite having given 27 speeches entirely on health care, and another 92 in which it figured prominently

Military wary leery of Afghanistan escalation with no goals and some top Pentagon officials are warning that dispatching even tens of thousands more soldiers and Marines might not ensure success.

Obama panel says high costs makes going to the moon too expensive.  The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current $18 billion annual budget.

Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.

A California judge today tentatively scheduled a trial for Jan. 26, 2010, for a case that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be president based on questions over his qualifications under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.  If the case actually goes to arguments before U.S. District Judge David Carter, it will be the first time the merits of the dispute have been argued in open court, according to one of the attorneys working on the issue.

Obama floats middle east plan with Arab leaders: IncludesDeploying international forces in the Jordan Valley and some areas of the West Bank.  The United States commits to the establishment of a Palestinian state in the summer of 2011.

The Dept. of Education's "Menus of classroom activities" for use with Obama's speech

The “corrected” lesson plans the U.S. Department of Education is suggesting that schools around the country use to turn Obama’s speech to students today into a “teachable moment” still call for teachers to read books about Obama and to post quotations from Obama in large print on classroom walls.   The Department of Education created two “menus of classroom activities” for use with the president’s speech.  One is designed to guide Pre-K through 6^th grade teachers, and the other is designed to guide 7^th through 12^th grade teachers.

One of Obama's chief campaign advisors losing patience with Obama; Steve Hildebrand, the deputy campaign manager

Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.  Dr. Tara O'Toole, whose confirmation as undersecretary of science and technology is pending, never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing.

The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president.   The hearing before Judge David Carter features attorney Orly Taitz and numerous plaintiffs, as well as a document that one person has sworn is the original birth certificate of Obama from Kenya – not Hawaii, where the administration maintains Obama was born

The list" for 9/7/2009"

Van Jones was Arriana Huffington's Political Director.  Huffington’s liberal gossip site the Huffington Post has been vigorously defending green jobs czar and 9/11 “truther” Van Jones

Controversial legislation that would make it easier to organize unions will pass this year, Vice President Joe Biden said today.   Appearing at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh, Biden praised the role of unions in building the middle class and said the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will make it through Congress before the end of the year

VIDEO: Van Jones did not fill out the White House seven-page, 63-question questionnaire that is put forward to everyone who was either going to have a Cabinet position or a high-ranking advisory position in the White House.

 Prepared remarks of Obama's back to school speech (Uses the word "I" 56 times)

VIDEO: Joe Biden touts millions on unemplyment as proof of stimulus success

The list" for 9/6/2009"

VIDEO: From 2007, candidate Obama answers a question about his lack of experience. He says he knows how to pick talent. He will set a course and mobilize his assembled talent to achieve that goal.

In Cincinnati tomorrow, President Obama will announce that he's appointing Ron Bloom his Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy, White House sources tell ABC News.

Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements,. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are expected to approve orders for about 500 new apartments

VIDEO: Van Jones mocking Rumsfeld for resigning

Obama thanks Van Jones for his service

Union officials are likely to fill key positions on committees making major decisions if Obama's government-run health care reform proposal becomes law, according to a new study by the National Right to Work Committee.

Orleans Parish School Board Superintendent Darryl Kilbert said Friday he's ordering teachers, staff and students to watch President Obama's address designated for schools on Sep. 8

British claim that they kept Obama and Hillary Clinton informed at all stages of discussions concerning the release of the Lockerbie bomber (Megrahi)

Obama’s “Green Czar” Van Jones resigned early this  morning citing a “vicious smear campaign against me.”

Van Jones on why he went to Yale: Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hellraiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened.

VIDEO: Nancy Pelosi praises Van Jones

[Nachum]

Another week is almost over. Here is the list so far for this week.

For those who are keeping track-

[COUNTrecount]

Excellent!

[IrishCatholic]

Well done.

[Diogenesis]

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[LakeLady]

This is fantastic. I’m going to nachumlist.com right now.
Thank you!!!!

[Nachum]

Good post. Is there a site with these documents that may be linked to outside of FR? Not that I have anything against a Free Republic source, but it would be beneficial if Orly Taitz had a site with these items.

Thanks,

Nachum

[Nachum]

Thank you too. If you see any items that deserve to be on the list please feel free to ping me for a looksee. :)

[NoDRodee]

That can’t be his birth certificate:
His feet are way bigger then that.

[Nachum]

Ah, I found the site. Sifting through it now. For some reason, the link did not work properly for me.

[freekitty]

Thank you.