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  • “National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order: Power grab or mere update?

    03/18/2012 12:08:10 PM PDT · by QT3.14 · 23 replies
    Hot Air ^ | March 18, 2012 | Ed Morrissey
    We’re getting a lot of e-mail this weekend about an executive order issued on Friday afternoon by President Obama titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness.” While the timing of the EO is curious — why send it out on a Friday afternoon when an administration is usually trying to sneak bad news past the media? — the general impact of it is negligible. This EO simply updates another EO (12919) that had been in place since June 1994, and amended several times since.
  • Dangerous Executive Orders Still on the Books

    12/03/2011 7:23:01 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 30 replies
    Godfather Politics ^ | December 2, 2011 | The Godfather
    While doing a bit of Web surfing, I came across an article that contained some very disturbing information about Executive Orders. The ones that get you are the ones you don’t know about. With talk about riots in the streets, it’s not too much to imagine that some of these EOs below could be used under the force of law.In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the power of the ring is not something to be desired even by good people. The goal is to destroy it. When Boromir fails to avoid the ring’s power, he dies....