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Obama's One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Week in Office

"The List" for 7/7/2011

It's 3am and Nobody's There

Flashback: Terrorist Mark Rudd’s Warning on the Destruction of America’s Defenses

The House of Representatives voted to forbid the Pentagon from providing military equipment, training, advice or support to Libya's rebels.

Obama’s Taiwanese AF F-16 Debacle: The Obama State Department blocked another request by Taiwan to purchase 66 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighter aircraft

Obamacare

546,000 in Ohio Fight ObamaCare: Foes of federal insurance mandate file fall-ballot petition

ObamaCare's Miracle-Gro Economics: Redistribution via Price Discrimination

Gunrunner-Gate

Video: Oversight Reveals New Details on Deady Gunrunner Investigation

The Obama Administration Gave 2,000 Guns to Mexican Drug Lords

Interview Provides Insight Into Zeta Cartel, "the American government itself would sell them "(weapons)

More U.S. agencies implicated in Mexico gun-trafficking probe:  some Mexican drug cartel figures targeted by his agency in a gun-trafficking investigation were paid informants for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s deputies hit back at allegations of investigation stonewalling made by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell: Stonewalling allegations not true

Nixon's Watergate vs. Operation "Fast and Furious'

White House Mum on When Obama Learned of DOJ's Gun-Running Scheme

Operation Gunrunner was funded by the 2009 Stimulus Package

Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious, it was reported to these correspondents this evening via private correspondence from a proven credible source.

43 Weapons in Phoenix Traffic Stop Linked to ATF's 'Fast and Furious' (video)

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Rep.Tim Scott: Obama side- stepping Congress over debt- ceiling is 'impeachable act'

Documents prove Obama administration officials at the Department of Homeland Security deliberately misled Congress when they denied using “selective enforcement” to deport convicted criminals in the U.S. illegally

A Congressional oversight committee asked Ron Bloom, White House advisor and former ‘car czar,’ to clarify his response to a question during a recent hearing. Bloom was asked whether he made the statement “I did it all for the unions” back in 2009 in the middle of the auto bailout controversy. He vehemently denied saying it.  The problem is, Bloom’s denial contradicts two otherwise credible sources, including a book written by his car czar predecessor, Steve Rattner, and a published account in the Detroit News. Both claim that Bloom did in fact make the comment in question, though both accounts also agreed that it was made in jest. (video at

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an explanation as to why the Justice Department declined to file charges against a federal prosecutor with child pornography found on his work computer

Video: Obama Pay Freeze Lie

GM to offer free car insurance

Worse than any czar, Warren building independent fiefdom at CFPB

Barack Obama's 'playboy' father planned to have future president ADOPTED

Obama’s intervention on behalf of an illegal alien killer can be traced back to a 2003 conference that featured Bernardine Dohrn, Van Jones, and representatives of the Soros-funded Open Society Institute.

Obama Officials Misled Congress Regarding Scope of Illegal Immigration Deportation

FLASHBACK VID: Obama and Reid Admit Their Votes Not to Raise Debt Ceiling in 2006 Was 'Political"

EPA Funds Green Groups That Sue The Agency To Expand

Obamanomics

U.S. aerospace layoffs more than triple

Report: Obama’s oil company tax proposal would jeopardize thousands of jobs

Texas Governor Rick Perry and two top state regulators blasted the U.S. environmental agency for including Texas in a rule to slash sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants, warning that the last-minute action could threaten the state's electric supply

New EPA rules to devastate coal industry

For the first time in decades, America is on net losing, not attracting, growth capital.

Debt Ceiling: Cato Institute Says $2 Trillion in ‘Cuts’ Will Increase Spending by $1.8 Trillion

Obama Administration To Extend Mortgage-Free Living For America's Unemployed To One Year

Obama: We didn’t intervene enough in housing markets

The EPA’s Ethanol Boondoggle

NASA Budget Bill Would Cancel Webb Telescope

The EPA tries to scuttle oil transport from Canada's tar sands

ADP Report: Private sector adds 157,000 jobs in June 2011

U.S. requests for jobless benefits decline. Down to 418,000.

Community Organizer to the World

Texas executes Mexican after court stay rejected

Obama Asks Texas Gov. Rick Perry to Commute Mexican National's Death Sentence

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a bid by the Obama administration to spare the life of a Mexican national set for execution for the 1994 rape-murder of a San Antonio teenager.

10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam Contrasted With 10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity

Republicans, U.S. Chamber ‘crash’ Obama Twitter Town Hall

Obama’s Useless Twitter Town Hall

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the launch of TechGirls, an educational initiative for girls from Muslim countries interested in technology

Triangulation- the New Obama

Obama: Talks 'very constructive'

Let them eat Kale

It pays to work at the White House: Most staffers got a hefty raise last year ... and you didn't

Obama and Israel

Ambassador to Israel: 'US made a really concerted effort to support Israel'

"The List" for 7/6/2011

Elena Kagan Mania

Judiciary Committee Launches Probe of Kagan’s Involvement in Obamacare

Community Organizer to the World

During ‘Twitter Town Hall’ Obama Responds To Speaker Boehner’s ‘Skewed’ Tweet

Gunrunner-Gate

More federal agencies implicated in gun-trafficking controversy

ATF Head Says Didn't Know Details of Fast and Furious

Justice Department Obstructing 'Fast and Furious' Gun Probe, ATF Director Says

Grassley Letter: Dept. of Justice tries to coerce ATF Director Melson, "Justice Department officials sought to limit and control his communications with Congress."...

The Grassley Letter (pdf)

Gunwalker: The ATF’s Kenneth Melson Blows the Whistle on the Justice Department

Issa, Grassley blast Holder in letter after secret meeting with ATF’s Ken Melson

Obama Takes ATF Gun-Running Operation ‘Very Seriously,’ Spokesman Says

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Obama admin brings Somali terror suspect to NY for civil trial

Is Obama Stacking The West Point Board With Gay Activists?

Obama tries to distance himself from the NLRB Board he himself appointed

ICE Memo Reveals new Obama Administration Plan to Incentivize Illegal Immigrants

Jesse Lee, White House Director of Progressive Media and Online Response gets paid $72K/year by the taxpayers to rebut Twitter and Face criticisms

Chicago-Style Politics on Twitter: How the White House Uses Social Media

White House uses Twitter to bully critics

All the President's High-Paid "Engagers": at least 17 staffers listed in the report with titles referencing the "Office of Public Engagement" (OPE) or "online engagement" (otherwise known as liberal blog hand-holding and crisis management). These "engagers" are among the top earners in the White House. Fourteen of the 17 earn $50,000 or more. Chicago crony Valerie Jarrett, the White House senior adviser who oversees OPE, receives a salary of $172,200 a year. Michael Strautmanis, deputy assistant to the president and counselor to the senior adviser for strategic engagement, earns $150,000. Nathanael Tamarin, a special assistant to the president for public engagement, makes $96,900 a year.

Another Issa hearing - new Obama regulation on 'For Profit' Colleges

Obama's Record Fundraising Comes Under Legal Scrutiny

Video: MINI Documentary - Illegal Obama "Propped Up" By Congress?

It's 3 am and nobody's there

US-Mexico trucking agreement: Allows Mexican trucks on American roads

Obama says he didn't realize magnitude of recession at first

US and Russia stir up political tensions over Arctic  Heavy-hitting US politicians enter debate about the future of the far north, fuelling concerns about a new cold war

Republicans are blasting the Obama administration for detaining a Somali terror suspect for two months aboard a U.S. warship before flying him to New York over the July Fourth holiday to face charges in a civilian trial

Terrorism suspect secretly held for two months

U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say

Obama May Break His Promise on Iraq Withdrawal

Obama’s State Dept. Nominee Wendy Sherman: North Korea's Kim Jong-il ‘Smart, Capable,’ ‘Not a Lunatic’

Many Americans feeling the need to keep guns in the home

Los Alamos Plutonium Stored in a "Fabric Type Material" Building

Obamanomics

Jet industry furious at Obama

Youngstown, Ohio, mayor Jay Williams to be 'auto czar'

GM Stuffs Truck Inventory Channels to Goose Earnings

Recovery Is Bypassing Women

Car manufacturers overwhelmingly oppose new EPA-approved E15 fuel

White House Economists: Stimulus Jobs Slowly Going Away

Disaster. Obama Recovery Is Worst Since Great Depression

A Day After GM Channel Stuffing Story Goes Mainstream, Here Comes Morgan Stanley To The Rescue With Its "Top US Auto Pick"

AFL-CIO dings Obama on Twitter: ‘Where are the jobs?’

White House Disputes Study Saying Stimulus Cost Taxpayers $278,000 Per Job

Gallup: U.S. Job Creation Index Highest Since September 2008

Obamacare

State insurance exchanges are not being set up fast enough to meet the 2014 deadline

Obama and Israel

U.S. admits adding Israel to terror watch list, says it was a mistake

Dick Morris: Obama losing Jewish voters

"The List" for 7/5/2011

Van Jones Laugh-a-thon

All ya gotta do is lie: Great news from Van Jones: America is not broke

Van Jones sends me an email: "local alternative currencies"

Gunnrunner-Gate

White House continues to white-wash and stone wall

Obama and Israel

Obama 2012: Campaign Assembles Team of Influential Jewish Surrogates to Fight Criticism of Israel Policy

Outgoing U.S. ambassador: Obama planning to visit Israel

Gallup poll: U.S. Jewish support for Obama on the decline

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Allegations that NLRB’s Craig Becker is violating Obama’s ‘ethics pledge’ resurface with Boeing case

Obama’s Backdoor Amnesty Dream

If Obama ignores the debt limit, he’ll totally get away with it

It's 3 am and nobody's there

Obama Campaign Rejects Claim Biden May Be Replaced by Cuomo on 2012 Ticket

 A National Security Apparatus in Decline

The Missing US Ambassador at the feast for Ronald Reagan

The riddle of the missing US ambassador as London toasts Ronald Reagan centenary

Let them eat kale

No recession for Obama's 454 White House aides: They'll make $37,121,463 this year

Obamacare

New York Businesses Slammed By ObamaCare: Employers afraid to hire

ObamaCare's Red Herring: Small Business "Tax Credits"

Administration Offers Health Care Cuts as Part of Budget Negotiations

Obamanomics

GM's "Channel Stuffing" Goes Mainstream; Strategy to dump huge amounts of inventory on showroom floors backfiring...

White House Says Americans Want a Budget Deal That “Spreads the Prosperity”

Oil Prices Climb Back to Pre-Reserve Release Levels

Gallup: In No Month of Obama Presidency Has Majority Believed Economy Improving

Widening GM Truck Supply Looks Like 2008 Again

U.S. looks to private sector as shuttle program ends

GM Spends Taxpayer Money to Lobby for More Taxpayer Money

Oil climbs to around $97 per barrel

Price of oil begins to rise again

After Long Battle, EPA to Unveil Rules for Cutting Smog from Coal Plants

Krauthammer: "Middle-Aged May Never Get Employed Again"... 'More than half have been unemployed for 6 months...'

U.S. Personal Bankruptcies Below 2010 Pace:  Fewer Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2011 but the improvement hasn’t spread evenly across the nation

 Obama's Reagan parallels are falling away

Friends of Obama

Why Did Media Ignore Obama’s Lincoln Railroad Gaffe?

"The List" for 7/4/2011

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Teachers' Union Levy's a $10 Tax per Member to Fund Support for Obama

Video: Obama thinks it's "nice to be out of Washington"

 Still more White House officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have ties to an effort funded by billionaire George Soros to push for a new, "progressive" U.S. Constitution

It's 3 am and nobody's there

Obama And The U.N. Trying To Delay Texas’ Execution Of Humberto Leal

Smart Power… Pakistani Radicals Call For Holy War After Team Obama Holds Gay Rights Events at Embassy.....Pakistanis slam gay rights event

Elena Kagan Mania

Is Kagan A Liar: calls for impeachment for her lies on Obamacare

Kagan and Obamacare: What Constitutes ‘Involvement’?

Did something right

First family hosts military families at the White House for July Fourth barbecue, fireworks

Obamacare

 Colorado high-risk health insurance pool burning through money fast

Obamanomics

Erste Group Says Foundation Of A Return To Sound Money Has Been Laid, Expects Gold To Hit $2,300

White House Debates Car Mileage Standards With Automakers

 Revisionomics Under Obama, "unexpectedly bad" ends up being "much worse."

It pays to work at the White House: A third of staff earn more than $100k a year

Obama and Agenda 21

President Obama Signs Executive Order 13575 (Agenda 21) to Take Over Rural Farmland

"The List" for 7/3/2011

It's 3am and nobody's there

With the Shuttle Program Ending, Fears of Decline at NASA

Russia gains edge in space race as US shuttle bows out

Obama the Bounty Hunter... US puts a price on Lockerbie bomber

Obama wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen... and Somalia? -US military forces landed in Somalia to retrieve the bodies of dead or wounded militants after a US drone strike targeted a group of insurgents, Somalia's defense minister said yesterday.

Gafftastic Flashback from 2/16/2011: Obama talks about Lincoln's Intercontinental Railroad (Video)

Iran Delivers Threatening Letter to President Obama

 Attorney General Eric Holder wasted a two-year investigation on CIA misdeeds that never happened

Obamanomics

According to Market guru Karl Denninger of 'Market Ticker,' the Treasury actually defaulted on the debt on June 30, 2011--last Thursday--in a deliberate, strategic move.  Continue reading on Examiner.com Denninger--Treasury defaulted on the debt June 30

Cornyn: Obama Bypassing Congress on Debt Limit is 'Crazy Talk':  Sen. John Cornyn warned President Obama on Sunday to not even consider interpreting the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment to bypass Congress and raise the debt limit without its approval.

Obama Losing Canada's Oil to China

Obama's housing chief: Now's the time to buy

Banks Shocking Borrowers with Mortgage Reductions

Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job

Obama Ethics, Year 3

EPA sets Shell Alaska emissions task  Shell has been dealt stricter draft permits by the US Environmental Protection Agency for its large-scale drilling plans off Alaska. ...“The revised permits have reduced emissions of most key air pollutants by more than 50% from the levels allowed in the 2010 permits.

The Military Officers Association of America is warning that the military retirement system is facing assaults from various fronts including outgoing Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Congress, and Vice Pres. Joe Biden

Video: Angry Biden Tells Teamsters They Better Not Vote Republican

 Dept. of Education's New Rule a 'Complete Intrusion,' Say Christian Colleges: New licensing required

"The List" for 7/2/2011

Obama and Agenda 21

Agenda 21: Conspiracy Theory or Real Threat?

Friends of Obama

‘Whites Are Liars’ Obama’s 20 Year Mentor Rev. Wright Tells Church Youth All Whites Are Liars

Let them eat kale

141 White House staffers make six figures

Obama Ethics, Year 3

DSK sex scandal setup linked to Obama

PJMedia Sues Department of Defense for Climate Conference Info

Obama’s ‘Transparent’ Secrecy

FBI Official to Federal Judge: OKC Bombing Videotapes ‘Might Have Been Misfiled, Impossible to Know Where’

FCC sends net neutrality rules to White House

What did Congress know about 'natural-born citizen'? 8 tries at eliminating requirement suggests organized strategy in place

Obamanomics

Get Ready for $150 Oil

Obama said that every federal program and tax break should be scrutinized for potential spending cuts, in his Fourth of July weekend address to the nation Saturday

Gas prices to blame for Obama administration releasing oil reserves?

It's 3am and nobody's there

U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia

"The List" for 7/1/2011

Elena Kagan Mania

Evidence 'Contradictory' to Kagan's Confirmation Testimony, 49 Lawmakers Call for Investigation

The Kagan Principle The more stubbornly corrupt the government is, the more justified it is in curtailing fundamental liberties.

Cass Sunstein Olympics

Sunstein’s Disingenuous Regulation Claims

Let them eat kale

Friday news dump: White House Releases Staffers Fat Salaries

Full list of White House Staff

It's 3 am and nobody's there

Obama declares a wildfire emergency in Texas — finally

Obama's "Limited" War" in Libya: Since March 31, when NATO took over command in Libya, through June 30, the U.S. has flown 3,545 sorties and 816 strike sorties, of which 135 resulted in dropping ordnance, according to data provided by AFRICOM. During that period, NATO has flown 13,324 sorties, 5,005 of which were strike sorties, according to NATO data. NATO did not give a breakdown for the number of strike sorties that resulted in munitions drops, but it listed 10 “key hits” for June 30 alone.

US 'Welcomes' Dialog with Muslim Brotherhood

U.S. Air Force, Navy still flying hundreds of missions over Libya

Gunrunner-Gate

Weapons linked to ATF Gunwalker program used in Arizona crimes

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Justia.com gets caught altering Supreme Court Documents

Obama Backtracks on Marijuana Policy

Despite Congression Ban, Obama's HUD Is Still Funneling Tax Dollars to ACORN

Exec at NBC parent company Comcast raises $1.2 million for Obama

FTC reviewing Twitter-reports: Review focuses on dealings with developers-report

Barbara Boxer Blocks John Cornyn from EPA Hearing

Newly released documents show that the Department of Justice (DOJ) allowed for the release of Marxist radical and domestic terrorist Marilyn Buck from federal prison because officials believed she learned her lesson  

The missing facts in President Obama’s news conference

Obama Raffle Video Not Legal, Election Law Experts Say

Book attacks Judge Sotomayor: Alledged Vermont Corruption

Obamanomics

White House considering ignoring debt limit

The White House says stimulus boosted employment by as many as 3.6M jobs (Using the administration's own math, cost to taxpayer = $218,611 per job)

Fears that OPEC will cut production help send Southwest Michigan prices up 50 cents per gallon

Wind-Turbine Maker That Obama Praised Files for Bankruptcy

Construction falls in May, down 6.3% year-to-date

Market Manipulation on First Solar? Wall Street Bank Analysts Advised to sell three days before the billion dollar California Power Plant deal

The Department of Energy announced Thursday that it has awarded First Solar, America's dominant solar manufacturer, nearly $4.5 billion in conditional loan guarantees to support the construction of three solar power plants in Southern California.

Obama has added approx. 14,000 people per day to food stamps.... policies have produced 7 times more food stamp recipients than jobs: chart

GM expected to sell 18%, sold 10% and stuck with record amounts of inventory not sold

GM's U.S. June sales below forecasts

Republican video attacking Obama on the budget

Minn.' Government Shuts down

Fed's Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact: Greenspan

ISM manufacturing survey makes surprise June rise

Older interns signal gloomy labor market

Obamacare

270 Healthcare Groups Back IPAB Repeal

Researcher: "Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)- results suggest that CER will not fulfill its promise unless it is implemented differently by researchers and understood differently by policymakers. Simply put, seeking the treatment that is most effective on average will not improve health or save money."

Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories could pay widely different amounts for private health insurance

ObamaCare Decision May Invite Supremes to Limit Federal Power

ObamaCare’s ‘One Size Fits All’ Health Care Guidelines

Obama and Israel

Obama campaign to go on the offensive against conservative critics of Israel stance

Community Organizer to the World

Senate GOP mock president with video of Obama on golf course

Video: Optimistic Obama: "I Got Five-And-A-Half Years More To Go"

Obama brings an entourage of 200 to Philadelphia

Michelle Obama fundraises too

[Nachum]

Can we impeach him now? A little bit?

Let me know if you would like to be on or off this high volume and extremely annoying ping list.

[Diogenesis]

Traitors in Congress.

Traitors in SCOTUS.

[LucyT]

. . . . Here's one to read, and Bookmark.

Thanks for all your work keeping up with 0bummer's misdeeds, Nahum.

[TheConservativeParty]

The List, awesome as usual!

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping

[NoGrayZone]

"Let me know if you would like to be on or off this high volume and extremely annoying informative must have ping list."

Fixed it for you =)

[grey_whiskers]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the launch of TechGirls, an educational initiative for girls from Muslim countries interested in technology

Gee, was this a reward for Huma after a particularly good roll in the hay after the Weinergate fiasco? /sarc>

And doesn't this risk making a bunch of new Aafia Siddiqui's?

NO cheers, unfortunately.

[grey_whiskers]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the launch of TechGirls, an educational initiative for girls from Muslim countries interested in technology

Gee, was this a reward for Huma after a particularly good roll in the hay after the Weinergate fiasco? /sarc>

And doesn't this risk making a bunch of new Aafia Siddiqui's?

NO cheers, unfortunately.

[bgill]

Bookmarked. Thanks.