The List, Obama's Sixty Ninth Week in Office

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Obama's Sixty Ninth Week in Office

The List" for 5/20/2010

At the end of Obama's 69th week in office- still no news conference since June of 2009...

It was President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, who hired radical regulatory czar Cass Sunstein as a Harvard law professor.

Obama will replace his Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair

White House weighs in on speculation over Reid's successor, even as it entrusts agenda to Reid

VIDEO: Holder & Napolitano give Mexican President standing O for bashing the AZ law

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refusing to answer a question as to whether Rep. Joe Sestak was offered a job by the Obama Administration in order to get him to drop his run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania against Sen. Arlen Specter.

Scientists accuse Obama over oil spill- Expert claims NOAA is guilty of a 'catastrophic failure

The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up "moderate elements" within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard-liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday.

Obama has decided to use his executive power to order tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, accelerating the fight against climate change without waiting for Congress

Is Factcheck.org working with Obama? Post and Mail's attempts to ask staff about Obama's purported COLB are ingnored

Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, says the resignation of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair “is the result of the Obama administration’s rampant politicization of national security and outright disregard for congressional intelligence oversight.”

Companies are discovering that it's cheaper to pay fines to the government than to cover workers. Millions of American workers could discover that they no longer have employer-provided health insurance as ObamaCare is phased in

White House Staffer, Andrew McLaughlin, Who Did Favors for Google Must Resign

The Greek debt crisis is "not going to happen" in the U.S., Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Wednesday

The Pentagon's top leadership refused on Thursday to label the sinking of a South Korean ship an act of war.

WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign -- more than John McCain or Hillary Clinton, are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and working together to limit BP's liability for damage caused by what can be called a "mega-disaster

"The White House appears to be laying the groundwork for President Barack Obama to shake the hand of each senior at Kalamazoo Central High School’s commencement ceremony next month. "Seniors are being asked to provide their birthdates, Social Security numbers and citizen status to the Secret Service so background checks could be performed

Elena Kagan and Cass Sunstein connection

Obama said his administration is taking a “very close look” at Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law, examining it for any “implications, especially for civil rights.” “I want everyone, American and Mexican, to know my administration is taking a very close look at the Arizona law”

Soros-funded group, "Free Press", urges media run by government Marxist-led study has close ties to Obama White House officials

The List" for 5/19/2010

Russia, U.S. may jointly develop spacecraft engines

Senate probes Ft. Hood-linked imam's escape: The Lieberman panel seeks info on Awlaki's '02 catch-n-release -Stonewalled by the Justice Department in its efforts to get to the bottom of intelligence lapses that led to the Fort Hood massacre, the Senate Homeland Security Committee has broadened its probe to look into why Justice a year after 9/11 withdrew an arrest warrant for the radical American-born imam who corresponded with the Fort Hood terrorist. The chief counsel for the Senate panel, led by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., has requested an interview with a federal agent who shortly after 9/11 attacks worked with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego investigating Anwar al-Awlaki's ties there to two of the 9/11 hijackers.

Feds: Nightstick at polls 'not prosecutable'- Commission demands to know why Obama administration gave Black Panthers free pass

DOJ Voting Rights attorney resigns over Black Panthers stonewalling

The List" for 5/18/2010

According to The Politico, HHS is quickly becoming a campaign organization for congressional Democrats: “The Obama administration Tuesday night gave more shape to its health reform selling strategy: Focus on the early roll-out of tangible benefits and, if all goes as planned, win over a skeptical public more than any argument ever could.

State Dep’t deputy: My comments about China and Arizona were taken out of context

VIDEO: State Department Spokesman Critical of Arizona Law Admits He Too Hasn’t Read It

Congressional investigators say some of the same intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks also allowed a man to slip on board a U.S.-bound jetliner with a bomb on Christmas.

VIDEO: Issa grills Holder on bringing a special prosecutor on the Sestak bribery allegations.

The White House has Jay Angoff as their "Hit Man".   Angoff has lots of experience and a zest for trench warfare against health plans. Sebelius picked Jay Angoff to head the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at HHS.   Angoff is a class-action litigator who specialized in and made millions by suing insurance companies for "price gouging."

Ahead of anticipated tough questioning on Capitol Hill about the Gulf Coast spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday the government will tighten requirements for onshore oil and gas drilling. The new measures would not apply to oil rigs at sea.

Kagan papers emerge amid questions on abortion- In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York  said she views as "troubling" a 1997 memo Kagan wrote urging then-President Bill Clinton to back all abortions of viable fetuses except when the physical health of the mother was at risk.

Federal Regulator Repeatedly Failed to Inspect Deepwater Horizon – Including for One-Quarter of Obama Presidency

Grilled by skeptical lawmakers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities  and that may have contributed to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

IRS pitches tax credit for health insurance

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) Tuesday called on the top Obama State Department official repsonsible for human rights issues to “retract and apologize” for telling officials of the Communist government of China that Arizona's new immigration-enforcement law is an example of a “troubling trend in our society” and for portraying Arizona as the moral equivalent of Communist China.

AZ Gov Calls Obama 'Comic-in-Chief'

Obama: Beheading of Daniel Pearl ‘captured the world’s imagination’ [video]

Obama State Dept. Tells Communist China: AZ Immigration Law Is Indication of 'Troubling Trend' of 'Discrimination' in U.S.

AUDIO: Cass Sunstein Wanted to “Mandate” Links on Private Websites (2001)

White House health care czar Nancy-Anne Deparle repeated the claim that the health care reform law signed by President Obama will result in lower health care costs despite a well-known government report to the contrary.  Deparle, speaking to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in Washington on Monday, said that the new health care reform would make health care more affordable by lowering premiums and reducing costs.

Obama will name a special commission to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Obama Won’t Say Who Killed Daniel Pearl

Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni”, who was discovered by The Times living illegally in Boston, was granted asylum in America yesterday in a controversial decision that will fuel the already charged debate on illegal immigrants. A judge ruled that Zeituni Onyango, 57, the Kenyan half-sister of President Obama’s late father, would be allowed to stay in the country despite ignoring a 2004 deportation order. Ms Onyango received the notification by mail three months after she turned up in a wheelchair to testify before an immigration judge at a closed-door hearing in Boston. The rationale for the judge’s decision was not made public.

The Hawaii Department of Health claims in official communications that the original birth index and index of foreign births (which are both required to be retained permanently) don't exist.

VIDEO:Napolitano: I’m not comfortable with this Arizona law that I haven’t read yet

Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

India is turning to Europe for support of the naval version of its Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), after its initial choice of the U.S. was stymied by an inability to gain the requisite approvals from Washington. India selected Lockheed Martin as the winner of a bid for consultancy work on its naval LCA, but failure to secure U.S. State Department licensing approvals — at least in a timely fashion — now has resulted in EADS being in negotiation for the work.

The List" for 5/17/2010

The number of homeowners dropping out of the Obama administration's main mortgage assistance plan is growing, and is now almost equal to the number who have received permanent relief. The Treasury Department's report on Monday was the latest evidence of problems in the administration's $75 billion program.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledged Monday that the federal government doesn't have the resources or expertise to deal with an oil spill 5,000 feet below the sea, and must largely depend on oil companies to deal with an incident of such magnitude

The appointment of a well-respected ex-Navy lawyer to oversee war-crime trials is being seen in military legal circles as a sign the Obama administration might reverse its decision to bring Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to New York for a civilian trial.

Obama says he loves Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) — just not quite enough to hazard an 11th-hour political trip to Pennsylvania for an ally of convenience increasingly viewed as unlikely to win

EPA Sets Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements

The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed breaking up the agency responsible for both policing the oil industry and acting as its partner in drilling activities

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday defended the Obama administration's response to a Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and oil spill as crude and natural gas continued to gush from a well pipe on the ocean floor. "Since day one, the administration has engaged in an all-hands-on-deck response to this event—and DHS has played a significant role"

Analysis: the greatest beneficiary of the GM bailout was the United Autoworkers union hierarchy. Along with sympathetic Obama agents, union officials were effectively left in charge of the company.

Obama’s plans for reducing America’s nuclear arsenal and defeating Iran’s missiles rely heavily on a new generation of antimissile defenses, which last year he called “proven and effective.” His confidence in the heart of the system, a rocket-powered interceptor known as the SM-3, was particularly notable because as a senator and presidential candidate he had previously criticized antimissile arms. But now, a new analysis being published by two antimissile critics, at M.I.T. and Cornell, casts doubt on the reliability of the new weapon.

White House Reports Two-Year Building Freeze in Ramat Shlomo

The federal agency that regulates offshore oil drilling declined to send a witness to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s hearing Monday on the federal response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman said.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will lose $2.1 billion on a loan made to Chrysler in early 2009.

Mitt Romney held a fundraiser in Manhattan last week and outperformed Obama

Michelle Obama to Food Manufacturers: Cut 1 Trillion Calories Annually by 2012

Napolitano Says She 'Doesn't Like' Arizona Immigration-Enforcement Law, Then Is Forced to Admit She Hasn’t ‘Reviewed it in Detail’

. The Obama administration is using U.S. government resources to help the embattled radical advocacy organization spread the gospel of left-wing community organizing in India. Obama’s ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer, recently lent his name and the prestige of the U.S. government to ACORN India’s efforts to organize rag-pickers in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). Roemer is a former Democratic congressman who represented an Indiana district.

Kagan Helped Craft Clinton Strategy for Blocking Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

After the signing of the Freedom of Press Act on Monday, President Obama declined to take any questions from the press.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has gotten an angry thumbs-down from 9/11 family members who say she played a key role in quashing a lawsuit that accused the Saudi kingdom of helping finance the terror attacks. "Kagan is the main reason why the Supreme Court ruled against the 9/11 families," said William Doyle, who lost his son in the Twin Towers.

The List" for 5/16/2010

Obama Administration Apologizes to China . . . For Arizona Law

White House message machinery spinning faster than ever (Regarding BP Gulf Oil Spill )

Kagan once defended 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny” in obscenity case

The Obama administration gave the BP Oil rig a "safety award" last year.

Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies

Interior Minister: Israel will never freeze construction in Jerusalem

Obama’s Faith-Based Programs Pushing Global Warming, Climate Change, Green Issues

The Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions, seized on Elena Kagan’s role in prohibiting military recruiting on Harvard's campus during her tenure as the dean of Harvard Law School in an exclusive "This Week" interview and called it “no little-bitty matter.” He insisted that Kagan was not only wrong in her decision, but broke the law.

A leading international Arab newspaper has hailed Obama for officially removing the description “Muslim terrorist” as part of his campaign “to reach out to the Muslim world.

Obama and Elena Kagan and Abner Mikva, their respectable socialist "mentor" connection. Alinsky connections

Organizing for America, the former grass-roots campaign arm for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, is trying to rally supporters to phone bank and get out the vote in Pennsylvania for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., the former Republican locked in a tight primary race with a far more progressive Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Penn

Lawmakers disregarded Defense Secretary Robert Gates's calls for fiscal restraint on Wednesday, approving a military pay raise higher than President Obama and the Pentagon requested. The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee approved a 1.9 percent pay bump for uniformed military personnel, half of a percentage point higher than Obama's fiscal 2011 budget.

The List" for 5/15//2010

The White House on Saturday asked Bill Clinton's presidential library to speed the release of more than 160,000 pages of paper, including e-mail, in its possession from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's tenure as a Clinton adviser in the 1990s.

White House: Kagan Volunteered to Us That She’s Straight -- After Erroneous Outing

The Obama administration has “screwed up the messaging” about its support for Israel over the past 14 months, and it will take “more than one month to make up for 14 months,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday to a group of rabbis called together for a meeting in the White House.

The White House creates its own media blog, side steps the media

Kagan's college thesis pulled from the net

An Updated List of Goldman Sachs Ties To The Obama Government Including Elena Kagan

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to answer pointed questions from Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., about allegations the Obama Administration offered U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., a high-ranking position in return for dropping out of the primary election against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter

Barack Obama sends nuclear experts to tackle BP's Gulf of Mexico oil leak

US Sends Israel Smart Bombs To Match Syrian Missiles For Hizballah

The List" for 5/14//2010

Wall Street bigs snubbed President Obama and were no-show sat a big-bucks campaign fund-raiser in New York City

E. Jerusalem: Demolition orders for illegally constructed Arab homes in east Jerusalem are highly unlikely to go ahead in the near future, it emerged on Thursday, despite a recent announcement to the contrary by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch. The U-turn came after the US State Department sought clarifications over comments by Aharonovitch, who said on Wednesday that “police have no instructions to refrain from carrying out the demolitions.

As part of the continuing White House effort to assuage the American Jewish community of its pro-Israel credentials, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel met with a group of 15 rabbis from across the country

Full text of 14 law review articles by Elena Kagan- Includes title..."Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine"

Elena Kagan's paper trail thousands of pages long, but no one has seen them yet

Obama pushing $23 billion teachers union bailout

Obama on Friday angrily decried the "ridiculous spectacle" of oil industry officials pointing fingers of blame for the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico and pledged to end a "cozy relationship" between the oil industry and federal regulators that he said had extended into his own administration.

Obama's Dept. of the Interior, tasked with managing oil exploration allowed BP and other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first obtaining required permits, a complaint said.

 Nominee Kagan: the White House is blocking access to anyone who might be able to tell her personal story to the American people. -When a New York Times reporter attempted to observe Ms. Kagan's brother teaching his constitutional law class at Hunter College High School, Mr. Kagan and the school agreed but a school spokeswoman said all media requests had to be given final approval by the White House. The White House decidedly did not approve. Joshua Earnest, a White House spokesman, said that the administration was "uncomfortable with the idea at this time."

The day after the hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, Presidential Science Czar John Holdren was asked about going up against Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan. -He arrogantly suggested that the "President and his advisers" concluded that the Obama approach, bypassing the Moon and going to an asteroid and so on was "more exciting."

Obama's self-imposed deadline to have all troops out of Iraq within 16-months expires next week

“Moderate” Elena Kagan Donated to Extreme Left Political Candidate in 2006- Kagan made a maximum contribution ($500) to the campaign of John Bonifaz who was running for the Democratic nomination to be Secretary of the Commonwealth of MA.

Holder Admits to Not Reading Arizona's Immigration Law Despite Criticizing It

The nation's most influential small business lobby is joining a court challenge to Obama's overhaul, arguing that Americans cannot be required under the Constitution to obtain insurance coverage.  The National Federation of Independent Business will announce Friday it is joining a federal lawsuit filed in Florida by 20 state attorneys general and governors, NFIB President Dan Danner said in an interview. All but one of the state officials are Republicans, and the case coincides with an election year.

 

[Nachum]

The week that was. Time grinds when you are stuck with Obama.

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[Nachum]

Apologies to your favorite number. I won’t use it any more...

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Tell me you’re burning all these articles to CD, Nachum. For when they’re scrubbed or we have no FR/access to them.

[Nachum]

I do have a website.:)

The record has been preserved from day one.

Beyond that, the posts and links are stored on my computer and backed up to an off site service. I only post the week's links to make sure the information gets out (somewhere in the ether).

I will probably put all the info on a zip file too Alas, time and money are issues.

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thank you for taking the time this huge thing muct have taken

[Nachum]

-Ah, as for the articles themselves, that would require a great deal more memory, expense and time than I can afford to give it. Like they say- “don’t give up your day job”. :)