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Obama's Sixty Eighth Week in Office

The List" for 5/13//2010

VIDEO: (2008) Elena Kagan Jokes She Doesn’t Have the Worldly Experience Required for The Supreme Court

Elena Kagan Donated to Pro-Abortion Women's Group With Ties to Emily's List.  Emily’s List,  is an organization that works to elect pro-abortion Democratic women to Congress, and NARAL Pro-Choice America (NARAL), an organization that advocates for increased access to abortion.

Kagan: Confirmation Hearings are a "Charade"

Government funds must not be granted to any religious organizations seeking to prevent teen pregnancies, since such groups may "inject" religious teaching, argued Elena Kagan, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court. However, when questioned during Senate hearings earlier this year about her argument – made in a 1987 legal brief – Kagan reversed course and called her own memo "the dumbest thing I ever read."

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, once called a judge universally regarded as one of the most extreme liberal activist  high court justices in history "my judicial hero."  Kagan was referring to Aharon Barak, the retired president of the Supreme Court of Israel, who at the time was receiving the Peter Gruber Foundation 2006 Justice Prize at Harvard.

Barak has been recognized across the political spectrum as one of the most liberal activist judges.

Interpol is helping Iran to track dissidents here  --Their job is made easier by Obama who allowed INTERPOL US Jurisdiction.....".executive order signed by President Obama...which allows an international law enforcement agency to have jurisdiction in the United States without being subject to the U.S. Constitution"

U.S. Government Pays $23,000 a Month to Mosque of Ft. Hood Shooting Supporter Al-Awlaki... Bill paid by the US Census Dept. ----..... The White House now controls the Census Dept...

The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries

VIDEO: Eric Holder Refuses To Say "Radical Islam"

White House press secretary Gibbs misrepresents president’s role in assigning Secret Service protection. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday that President Obama does not decide who receives Secret Service protection and who does not.  -The Secret Service often provides recommendations on who can or should be protected based on their own assessments. But nothing happens without the president’s signature.

Obama's former, auto czar, Steve Rattner, has nothing but praise for General Motors' new chief executive, Ed Whitacre, but he acknowledged this week that the auto giant may have "slightly elasticized the reality of things" by airing an ad claiming it had repaid its government loans "in full."

Kagan on Second Amendment: Like Freedom of Speech Enjoys “Strong But Not Unlimited Protection”

AUDIO: Obama flashback- "A Supreme Court Nominiee with no judicial experience requires extreme scrutiny" (about Harriet Miers nomination)

A former Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer, who prosecuted terrorists in front of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, says Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan displayed poor judgment as dean of Harvard Law School.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has been a faithful Democratic donor over the past decade, lavishing nearly $15,000 on candidates from Barack Obama to Al Gore

U.S. troops in Afghanistan could soon be awarded a medal for not doing something, a precedent-setting award that would be given for “courageous restraint” for holding fire to save civilian lives

Obama will have the US to join a UN advisory group with anti-Israel past: Alliance of Civilizations.  The Obama administration is preparing to join an international advisory group that the United States generally has shunned due to fears it would adopt anti-Israeli and anti-Western positions

Obama has been happy to beat up on Wall Street "fat cats," but tonight he'll be even happier to take their money. Obama is slated to headline a superswank, $50,000-per-couple fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at Manhattan's gilded St. Regis hotel on Fifth Ave.The high-dollar affair will feature fine French food, a bevy of Wall Street titans and 23 Congress members - including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Claim: Obama Was an Incompetent State Senator-- His Transcripts on the Floor

As articles editor for the Harvard Law Review in 1985 Kagan helped shepherd into print a racially noxious story by a radical law professor and architect of Critical Race Studies, which is essentially "blame whitey" in legal vernacular.

Obama still hasn't been to Nashville- ignores flooding

Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has said that President Barack Obama is "poorly advised" on space matters

Pioneering moonwalking astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of hastily concocting an ill-conceived road map for manned space exploration in its move to shelve NASA's back-to-the-moon program.

The Ministry of Planning of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) announced on Wednesday that the United States will provide the PNA 500 million U.S. dollars as a support for the year 2010.

Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney's office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport.

Obama files first defense of health care law in Detroit court

The Obama administration will announce tomorrow it has slashed anti-terror funds for New York City, despite the attempted Times Square bombing less than two weeks ago that underscored the enormous threat to the city.

Obama’s is the first administration to state explicitly that the Jewish presence in the parts of the city that the Jordanian occupiers vacated in 1967 is illegal and to actively oppose the building of Jewish housing even in existing Jewish neighborhoods in the city.

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, helped shield Saudi Arabia from lawsuits filed by families of 9/11 victims seeking to target countries and leaders who helped finance al-Qaida. "I'm very concerned about her views on executive power and her views with respect to the separation of power," said Stephen A. Cozen, the lead attorney in the case for 9/11 victims

Questions surround Kagan's handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy --n 1995 and 1996, future Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was involved in a bizarre controversy in which the Clinton White House was accused of siding with an eco-terrorist group locked in a standoff with federal agents deep in the woods of Oregon. The incident led to an investigation by House Republicans, who concluded that a staffer on the White House Council on Environmental Quality tipped off the environmental radicals to impending action by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement agents -- a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground.Kagan, at the time an associate White House counsel, had no role in leaking the feds' plans to the radicals, but House Committee on Natural Resources investigators concluded she shirked her responsibility by not searching for the source of the leak or pushing for punishment of the leaker.

Orszag: The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he simply “preferred”

At the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's upcoming hearing on May 14, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez will attempt to explain why the Obama administration dropped federal voter intimidation charges against two New Black Panthers. --Their principal argument is that the Panthers were not scary enough. They contend that two men who dress up like soldiers and stand in the doorway of a voting place brandishing a billy club cannot be prosecuted for voter intimidation in the absence of testimony from a voter who was intimidated, or proof of someone who was turned away from voting. Without such evidence, they argue, it is impossible to prove what the Panthers intended by their actions.

Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem

Netanyahu: We will never divide Jerusalem During a speech marking Jerusalem Day, the prime minister said that Israel will continue to build and develop in Jerusalem.

The not so well-known  (then Harvard Law School Dean) Kagan's contemporaneous approval of and promotion of a little-known but richly endowed Harvard Law School program called The Islamic Legal Studies Program.

Kagan Says ‘Governmental Motive’ is Proper Focus in First Amendment Cases, Backs Limits on Speech That Can ‘Harm’

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in a 1996 article entitled "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine" that "redistribution of speech" is not "itself an illegitimate end" for government.

Memo Misread: Elena Kagan Did Not Tell Clinton to Back Partial-Birth Abortion Ban -- explanation

Elena Kagan Helped Keep Partial-Birth Abortion Legal Longer, Pro-Life Group Says- While mainstream media outlets misrepresent a legal memo Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote during her tenure with the Clinton administration, a pro-life group says the reality is that Kagan's memo helped ensure partial-birth abortions stayed legal six years longer. At issue is a memorandum Kagan wrote to President Bill Clinton advising him to support a phony partial-birth abortion ban that actually prohibited no abortions.

The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers found that the package would add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government’s reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech.-Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States under President Obama, expressed that idea in her 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.” ..In her article, Kagan said that examination of the motives of government is the proper approach for the Supreme Court when looking at whether a law violates the First Amendment. While not denying that other concerns, such as the impact of a law, can be taken into account, Kagan argued that governmental motive is “the most important” factor.

Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August. -The insurgent threat has prompted military officials to figure how to keep as many troops on the ground, for as long as possible, and still withdraw all but 50,000 U.S. troops by Aug. 31, as ordered last year by Obama.

Kagan Thesis: The decline of U.S. socialism is “sad” for those looking to “change America”

When President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat, was: "Limbaugh can play with himself."

The List" for 5/12//2010  

Pioneering moonwalking astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of hastily concocting an ill-conceived road map for manned space exploration in its move to shelve NASA's back-to-the-moon program.

The Ministry of Planning of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) announced on Wednesday that the United States will provide the PNA 500 million U.S. dollars as a support for the year 2010.

Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney's office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport.

Obama files first defense of health care law in Detroit court

The Obama administration will announce tomorrow it has slashed anti-terror funds for New York City, despite the attempted Times Square bombing less than two weeks ago that underscored the enormous threat to the city.

Obama’s is the first administration to state explicitly that the Jewish presence in the parts of the city that the Jordanian occupiers vacated in 1967 is illegal and to actively oppose the building of Jewish housing even in existing Jewish neighborhoods in the city.

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, helped shield Saudi Arabia from lawsuits filed by families of 9/11 victims seeking to target countries and leaders who helped finance al-Qaida. "I'm very concerned about her views on executive power and her views with respect to the separation of power," said Stephen A. Cozen, the lead attorney in the case for 9/11 victims

Questions surround Kagan's handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy --n 1995 and 1996, future Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was involved in a bizarre controversy in which the Clinton White House was accused of siding with an eco-terrorist group locked in a standoff with federal agents deep in the woods of Oregon. The incident led to an investigation by House Republicans, who concluded that a staffer on the White House Council on Environmental Quality tipped off the environmental radicals to impending action by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement agents -- a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground.Kagan, at the time an associate White House counsel, had no role in leaking the feds' plans to the radicals, but House Committee on Natural Resources investigators concluded she shirked her responsibility by not searching for the source of the leak or pushing for punishment of the leaker.

Orszag: The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he simply “preferred”

At the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's upcoming hearing on May 14, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez will attempt to explain why the Obama administration dropped federal voter intimidation charges against two New Black Panthers. --Their principal argument is that the Panthers were not scary enough. They contend that two men who dress up like soldiers and stand in the doorway of a voting place brandishing a billy club cannot be prosecuted for voter intimidation in the absence of testimony from a voter who was intimidated, or proof of someone who was turned away from voting. Without such evidence, they argue, it is impossible to prove what the Panthers intended by their actions.

Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem

Netanyahu: We will never divide Jerusalem During a speech marking Jerusalem Day, the prime minister said that Israel will continue to build and develop in Jerusalem.

The not so well-known  (then Harvard Law School Dean) Kagan's contemporaneous approval of and promotion of a little-known but richly endowed Harvard Law School program called The Islamic Legal Studies Program.

Kagan Says ‘Governmental Motive’ is Proper Focus in First Amendment Cases, Backs Limits on Speech That Can ‘Harm’

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in a 1996 article entitled "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine" that "redistribution of speech" is not "itself an illegitimate end" for government.

Memo Misread: Elena Kagan Did Not Tell Clinton to Back Partial-Birth Abortion Ban -- explanation

Elena Kagan Helped Keep Partial-Birth Abortion Legal Longer, Pro-Life Group Says- While mainstream media outlets misrepresent a legal memo Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote during her tenure with the Clinton administration, a pro-life group says the reality is that Kagan's memo helped ensure partial-birth abortions stayed legal six years longer. At issue is a memorandum Kagan wrote to President Bill Clinton advising him to support a phony partial-birth abortion ban that actually prohibited no abortions.

The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers found that the package would add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government’s reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech.-Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States under President Obama, expressed that idea in her 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.” ..In her article, Kagan said that examination of the motives of government is the proper approach for the Supreme Court when looking at whether a law violates the First Amendment. While not denying that other concerns, such as the impact of a law, can be taken into account, Kagan argued that governmental motive is “the most important” factor.

Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August. -The insurgent threat has prompted military officials to figure how to keep as many troops on the ground, for as long as possible, and still withdraw all but 50,000 U.S. troops by Aug. 31, as ordered last year by Obama.

Kagan Thesis: The decline of U.S. socialism is “sad” for those looking to “change America”

When President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat, was: "Limbaugh can play with himself."

The List" for 5/11//2010  

Does Obama have a fake social security number? Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.

Why Do They Hate Elena Kagan? The left-wing blogosphere hates Elena Kagan. Really. The venom percolating up from the depths of the nutroots is getting pretty toxic. A sampling of names of the list and why they hate her so much...

The left comes out against Kagan

VIDEO:White House video interview done with Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The interview was done by White House staff, and was posted to the internet to allow people to hear from Kagan "unfiltered."

TheWhite House Press Corps was not happy that they were not allowed to interview Kagan, and they let Press Secretary Robert Gibbs know it today at the White House Briefing

The nation's largest conservative youth outreach organization charged Monday that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "trampled on the rights" of students during her tenure as the dean of Harvard Law School, and "segregated" students who sought to meet with military recruiters to hear about possible careers in the U.S. armed services.

Obama to Abbas: I am committed to creation of Palestinian state

US President Barack Obama urged the Palestinians to move to direct negotiations as soon as possible in a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday.  Obama said that the two sides need to “negotiate seriously and in good faith” and stressed his intention "to hold both sides accountable for actions that undermine trust during the talks,” according to a statement put out by the White House following the call.

Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits- In May of 2009, Elena Kagan, as US solicitor general, filed papers with the US Supreme Court encouraging it not to listen to arguments in a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government. The suit was filed by thousands of family members and victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the US.

Congressional budget referees say President Barack Obama's new health care law could potentially add another $115 billion over 10 years to government health care spending.

White House Seeks Controls on Food Marketing; Warns of 'National Health Crisis' for Children

U.S. 2010 Afghan Death Toll Third Worst Since 2001

Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Attacked Pro-Life Advocates in 1980 Essay

Supreme Court Sleeper Agent: Elena Kagan

Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by Obama to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has called the military’s ban on homosexuals “a profound wrong” and “a moral injustice of the first order.

VIDEO: Axelrod: Obama willing to loosen Miranda Rights

Kagan's oral argument before the Supreme Court

Obama appointee to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, didn’t do her homework before arguing the Citizens United case on behalf of the Obama administration and the FEC — which her probably-soon-to-be colleagues on the Supreme Court wasted no time in pointing out.  It came at the very beginning of her oral arguement, when one might expect a Solicitor General to attempt to impress the panel with her grasp of law and precedent: the crux of the case was the issue of limiting expenditures as an expression of political speech, not contributions.  Kagan started off her argument by misconstruing the issue and then offering a factually incorrect reading of precedent.  Both Scalia and Kennedy objected to it before Kagan even had time to get the argument completed

Top Obama advisers Jarrett and Axelrod given car privileges traditionally reserved for national security officials.   Obama has expanded the very small group of top aides who are given the privilege of taxpayer-funded personal drivers — who take them from their house to work and back home again each day — to include two top political advisers

Obamacare: Letting young adults stay on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26 will nudge premiums nearly 1 percent higher for employer plans, the government said in an estimate released Monday

The letter to congressional leaders

The Obama administration is no longer interested in debate of health care. The administration told congressional leaders in a letter on Monday that it has made "significant progress" implementing the health care overhaul, including a load of consumer friendly provisions that could ease negative perceptions of the plan among a skeptical public. The letter is part of an administration campaign to convey the impression that the debate is over and the health care train is leaving the station.

WellPoint CEO Angela Braly blasted President Barack Obama for repeating a charge that her company singled out and dumped women with breast cancer from its rolls. In a sharply worded letter to the president sent on Sunday, Braly said the characterization “grossly misrepresents” reality. Braly criticized Obama for raising the point in his weekly address on Saturday. She wrote that she was “disappointed to hear you repeat false information.” She also urged Obama to stop his attacks on health insurers.

The List" for 5/10/2010  

This weekend, secretary of defense Gates called for additional spending cuts to keep the defense budget flat for the future

If you've spent months trying to get a job with the federal government, things are about to get easier. Obama plans to instruct federal agencies to radically overhaul the process now used to hire government workers. The change is expected to cut in half the time it takes to fill vacancies and allow the government to better compete with the private sector for top talent

Kagan and the Military: What Really Happened : Robert Clark

Kagan's scant writings spark concern

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese issues a statement on the potential nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court:  Highly critical and wary..."Senators should vigorously question Ms. Kagan about such statements to determine whether she is truly committed to the rule of law."

More Elena Kagan history- and comments on socialism...“I absorbed ... liberal principles early,” she said. “More to the point, I have retained them fairly intact to this day.”

Lyles: New NASA budget harms human space flight- Obama’s new plan for NASA takes too much money from the the agency’s human spaceflight program to fix funding in other parts of the agency, said one member of a presidential panel that met last year to recommend changes to NASA. “This time the pendulum has swung the other way,” wrote retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, who said that previous NASA budgets have starved the rest of the agency at the expense of human spaceflight and NASA’s back-to-the-moon Constellation program. “It makes no more sense to have a NASA with an under-emphasis on human spaceflight

More from Elena Kagan's paper on socialism:- "In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness,"..."Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation's established parties?"

Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, argued certain forms of speech  that promote "racial or gender inequality" could be "disappeared."

Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Senate committee in Washington this week on the Obama NASA plan

 On Kagan's record: As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 Kagan treated two liberal law professors with kid gloves when they were busted for plagiarism. Her chicanery was so blatant that even a leftist academic said she should be fired for her "whitewash."  

Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama, told that court in September that Congress could constitutionally prohibit corporations from engaging in political speech such as publishing pamphlets that advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office.

Kagan: Speech is free if government decides it has more value than 'societal costs'

In her undergraduate thesis at Princeton, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, lamented the decline of socialism in the country as “sad” for those who still hope to “change America.”

A List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: Names Attached to the Giant Squid’s Tentacles

With Obamacare Cash Comes New Abortion Supercenter for Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) has announced that they are constructing a new clinic and administrative headquarters in St. Paul.  The 46,000 square foot, three-story, LEED certified "green" structure is expected to open in 2011.  It is one of a number of mega-clinics Planned Parenthood has opened recently or is planning to open, such as the 78,000 square-foot Houston facility that some have called the largest abortion center in the western hemisphere.

Obama appointees rewrite the rules for airline unions

In a major victory for organized labor, unions will have an easier time signing up airline and railroad workers after the Obama administration Monday changed a 76-year-old rule on union elections. The new rule, announced by the three-member National Mediation Board, would recognize a union if a simple majority of workers who cast ballots approve organizing. The previous rule required a majority of the entire work force to favor unionizing. That meant workers choosing not to vote at all were effectively counted as "no" votes.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has never been a judge, she's never ruled on a case and she's never written an opinion.

VIDEO: Tennessee under water and nobody gives a dang (Where's Obama?)

A quick look at the six Title II sections that FCC wants to apply to broadband providers... "Net Neutrality"

Kagan and Obama met at the University of Chicago in the 90's

Obama's nominee: As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933...As dean at Harvard Law, Kagan write to the U.S. Senate, urging that body to kill an amendment that would have protected the White House from lawsuits filed by foreign terrorists charging that their "constitutional rights" had been violated by American law-enforcement and intelligence authorities..

VIDEO: Who is Obama nominiee Elena Kagan, who just got the nod today from President Barak Obama? Here is a YouTube video of her as Dean, accepting an award from this orginization, called “Equal Justice Works”

VIDEO: today's announcement by President Obama that Elena Kagan is his nominee to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. In this clip, Obama said he is choosing Kagan because she understands "behind the law there are stories." .... "That understanding of law - not as an intellectual exercise, or words on a page, but as it affects the lives or ordinary people . . . "

The new federal health-care law, or “ObamaCare,” claiming to eventually provide coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans, is already being used by scam artists to prey on those in need of care, Penn. state Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario said Monday. Scam artists are already at work, according to Mr. Ario, attempting to sell the federal plan to those who believe they are in need or simply want to get into national health care early.

Republicans are questioning Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s ties to a liberal icon and the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.   In its first memo to reporters since Kagan’s nomination to the high court became public, the Republican National Committee highlighted Kagan’s tribute to Marshall in a 1993 law review article published shortly after his death.  Kagan quoted from a speech Marshall gave in 1987 in which he said the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was “defective.” She quoted him as saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”

At Harvard, Obama nominee Elena Kagan reinstated a ban on military recruiters using the Harvard Law School Office of Career Services – and then under pressure from the Bush administration, she lifted the ban.

The Obama administration is “pleading” with Congress to give military personnel a much smaller increase in pay than proposed by lawmakers.

The List" for 5/9/2010  

VIDEO: Obama Compares Lynching, Desegregation To Passing Health Care Reform

VIDEO:  Obama..."information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you; it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.”

Newly uncovered correspondence quotes a purported communist activist claiming he served as political mentor to President Obama's Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Don Rose, founder of the pro-communist Hyde Park Voices and member in the 1960s of a purported Communist Party front, the Alliance to End Repression, boasted of his relationship with Axelrod:

"Your dad and I 'mentored' and helped educate [Axelrod] politically," Rose writes, "which is perhaps why you may recall seeing him hanging around the house."

VIDEO: Attorney General Eric Holder- Arizona law not racist

Israel has agreed to freeze construction in east Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo for two years, the US  State Department said Sunday, following the completion of the first round of indirect Middle East peace talks.

Majority US Government owned General Motors Corp. has ended its long, long relationship with Warren-based Campbell-Ewald. GM officials Friday confirmed it was transferring the balance of the Chevrolet account to the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest ad agencies located in France

Obama  Pentagon gives $500M 'NO BID' contract to Halliburton

United States President Barack Obama has lost nearly half of his support among American Jews, a poll by the McLaughlin Group has shown.

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham says Newsweek having Obama on the cover numerous times and thorough coverage of him is not to blame for the magazine's

The List" for 5/8/2010  

Even as the BP drilling explosion which killed eleven people continues to gush hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has continued to exempt dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Twenty-seven new offshore drilling projects have been approved since April 20, 2010; twenty-six under the same environmental review exemption used to approve the disastrous BP drilling that is fouling the Gulf and its wildlife.

W.H. waives ethics rules for counsel (Robt Bauer)-  late Friday afternoon, the White House issued Bauer a waiver  to ethics rules established by Obama that prohibit officials in his administration  from working on issues affecting their former clients for two years.

E-mails and other records of Dr. Eric Whitaker -- one of President Obama's best friends -- have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

An Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America

Caterpillar Inc. has discussed the possibility of dropping the health care coverage of its active employees because paying the federal penalty for doing so might be more cost effective.

Obama plans to ask Congress for a tool similar to a line-item veto that would let him single out new spending for cuts

Chump Change: U.S. regulators and stock exchange authorities fined Goldman Sachs $450,000 Tuesday for hundreds of violations involving short sales.

The Obama administration has delivered new and stiff warnings to Pakistan -"If there's a successful terrorist attack, we will have to act (within Pakistan)"

Faisal Shahzad Was Blogging on Terror Websites Since 2006: Obama administration removed him from watch list anyway

The new health care law already is helping millions of people through  tax breaks for small businesses and assistance for families with young adults, President Obama said Saturday.

A U.S. official said Taiwan's government is continuing to press the Obama administration to sell the island nation additional F-16 jet fighters to replace aging F-5s. However, the official said it was unclear whether the administration will grant the request due to White House's concern of further upsetting China.

Mainstream media: Tens of millions doubt Obama eligibility: ABC Poll

Hawaii governor announces 'exact' place of Obama birth- 'The question has been asked and answered, and I think we should all move on now'

The List" for 5/7/2010  

Tensions are rising inside the House Intelligence Committee over the White House's refusal to fully brief lawmakers on events leading up to the arrest of accused Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Angry at having been kept in the dark during previous terrorist incidents, all nine Republican members of the committee have sent a letter to President Obama accusing the administration of withholding critical national security information. "A clear pattern has emerged," the lawmakers write

The U.S. Navy told Congress it wants to keep 11 aircraft carriers through 2045, just days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates called into question the need for that many.

Vladimir Putin snubs Britain and US over VE Day celebrations- Russian president refuses to let Prince Charles and Joe Biden attend Red Square for parade of allied and Russian troops

Holder defends Mirandizing Shazad

A proposal to grant medals for "courageous restraint" to troops in Afghanistan who avoid deadly force at a risk to themselves has generated concern among U.S. soldiers and experts who worry it could embolden enemy fighters and confuse friendly forces.

VIDEO: FRAUD IN THE USA, The end of the birth controversy

VIDEO: Speech by Don Berwick, Obama appointee to head Medicare lauds  Britain's National Health Service.  

Why the AMA wants to muzzle your doctor: The American Medical Association (AMA), a major cheerleader for ObamaCare, is now trying to silence doctors who oppose it, Scherz writes. The organization wants to protect a monopoly that the federal government has created for it -- a medical coding system administered by the AMA that every health care professional and hospital must use if they wish to get paid for the services they provide. This monopoly generates income of $70 million to $100 million annually for the AMA. That makes the AMA less an association looking out for doctors and more a special interest group beholden to Congress and the White House

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made it clear the Pentagon remains committed to scrapping the law that bans openly gay people from serving in the military

Obamacare tax penalties: The IRS will enforce the individual mandate penalty in the same manner as taxes, according to this CRS report. The IRS would be able to assess the penalty based on a person's tax return.

But, come 2014, the new health care bill will make it harder for employers to hire low-skill workers. And, as workplaces around the country prepare to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, employers are considering how best to comply. For some companies, that means that low-wage and part-time jobs will start to go, not in 2014, but now.

Documents reveal AT&T, Verizon, others, thought about dropping employer-sponsored benefits

The US has assured the Palestinians there will be no “acts of provocation” by any party during the indirect talks between the PA and Israel next week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday....The PA understood that acts of “provocation” include settlement construction by Israel and incitement by the Palestinians- Abbas’s comments were published on a day when US envoy George Mitchell met for the second time in 24-hours with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The talks are taking place amid an almost total news blackout, with neither side releasing any information about the discussions.

The Justice Dept. document recovered by the Weekly Standard

last week's Weekly Standard cover story, by Jennifer Rubin on the FOIA requests of the Justice Dept.

The Weekly Standard Obtains Top Justice Department Official's Recusal Document.  In last week's cover story cover story, Jennifer Rubin described the run around she received in response to her Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documentation of recusals by Justice Department lawyers who previously represented Guantanamo detainees. The official responsible for documents from the top offices at DOJ--the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and associate attorney general--told Rubin the documents were not in a readily accessible place, that three individual attorneys' offices would need to be searched, and it would take a total of eight to eleven months to produce them. However, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has now managed to obtain one of these documents--an apparently complete list of the recusals by Thomas Perrelli, the associate attorney general (the number three attorney in the Justice Department). Covering cases and clients Perrelli or his former law firm (Jenner & Block) worked on, it is six pages long and includes a list of forty-one cases involving former or current Guantanamo detainees. 

Failing ShoreBank, Cap-And-Trade and Jan Schakowsky - Obama connection?

The President's Cancer Panel Report

U.S. Panel Criticized as Overstating Cancer Risks: the President's Cancer Panel report on cancer risks from chemicals and other hazards in the environment has drawn criticism from the American Cancer Society, which says government experts are overstating their case. The government’s 240-page report, published online Thursday says the proportion of cancer cases caused by environmental exposures has been “grossly underestimated.” It warns of “grievous harm” from chemicals and other hazards, and cites “a growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer.”

U.S. Adds 290K Jobs, But Unemployment Hits 9.9%

Jobs Gained: Only 6,662,000 More Needed in 2010 to Fulfill Obama Promise- in order for Obama to meet his pledge of 4 million jobs created by the end of 2010, the U.S. economy would have to add 932,000 jobs each and every month between now and the end of the year

White House says job report shows labor market "healing"

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[Nachum]

Another interesting week in Obamaland.

Added another page devoted only to Elena Kagan at the site.

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list..

[Beowulf9]

Wow! Talk about labor. Thanks for the dedication to the cause!

[Nachum]

I am thinking about writing a book.

"How Obama gave me carpal tunnel"

[Pollster1]

I never realized just how long four years can be.

[Voter62vb]

Reporters and journalists should be asking Obama incessantly, “Mr. Obama, what do you thing you have done wrong?”

Over and over and over...

Nice work on the list!

[Nachum]

Reporters and journalists should be asking Obama incessantly, “Mr. Obama, what do you thing you have done wrong?”

I look forward to the time when the reporters will finally hold this administration accountable for the evil they do and the evil they represent.