"The List": Obama's One Hundred and Thirty Third Week in Office

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President Obama's One Hundred and Thirty Third Week in Office

8/11/2011

Gunrunner-Gate

U.S. Attorney's Office Rejects Family of Murdered Border Patrol Agent as Crime Victims

ATF's gun surveillance program showed early signs of failure

Obama Ethics

Jay Carney vs. Jay Carney: Attacked Bush's 2001 'Heartland Tour,' Defends Obama's 2011 Midwest Job-Creation Tour

Three North Carolina Democrats admit voting twice for Obama

When Joe Wilson Said "You Lie," The President Was In Fact Lying

Photo of Obama saluting fallen troops questioned: White House used its own photographers- not the press

Obamanomics

Video: Obama: "Hear It In My Voice ... I Am Frustrated"

USPS proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan

White House, EPA ignore Small Business Admin’s report that new coal regulations will kill jobs, economy

30-year bond yield rises most since 2008

Market punishes U.S. Treasury bonds after poor auction

Used-car prices soaring, slowing depreciation

Panel Seeks Stiffer Rules for Drilling of Gas Wells

Obama aide: White House working ‘directly’ with Reid on energy agenda

Federal deficit tops $1T for third straight year

Initial Jobless claims fall to 4-month low (Fell 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 395,000)

U.S. June trade gap widens unexpectedly

It's 3am and nobody's there

Ignoring Islamic Threat: A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor says it's "incredibly naïve and dangerous" for the Obama administration to go out of its way to extract Islam when it describes the threat of terrorism.

Taliban Claim Chinook Killer Still Alive

U.S. Imperiling National Security by Shrinking to Nine Carrier Strike Groups

Pentagon releases names of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash

The two Hollywood filmmakers making a film on raid that killed Osama Bin Laden deny the film is intended to tip scales for Obama’s reelection

House Homeland Security chairman and Obama administration feud over movie on bin Laden hunt

Obamacare

A $500 billion "error" associated with insuring the spouses and children of new entitlement recipients

Community Organizer to the World

Obama: Something is wrong with country's politics

Obama to GOP: Put country before party

Obama: ‘Last thing we need’ is for Congress to return to DC

Video:  Obama: Celebrating Ramadan at White House ‘Quintessentially American Tradition’

Huma Abedin, wife of Anthony Weiner, attends White House dinner

Obama's Iftar dinner remarks

Let them eat Kale

Obama's Vineyard Vacation Will Cost Taxpayers Millions

8/10/2011

Van Jones Laugh-a-thon

Van Jones Group Uses Kids Video to Push Universal Health Care, Higher Taxes

Obama Ethics

Alan Gross, American contractor imprisoned in Cuba, abandoned by the Obama administration

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa: A subpoena for the NLRB

Alabama Leaders Slam Justice Department for Suing Over Immigration Law

Ghoulish: White House Posts Obama Photos At Dover

Sony Hosted Obama Fundraiser, Releasing Bin Laden Movie Before Election

White House rejects claim about bin Laden raid film

Peter King asks for probe into White House's role in bin Laden movie

Obama Adviser Says 'He Will Have to Kill Romney'

Congressmen object to new gun requirements, show support for NRA lawsuits

Obamanomics

Obama, Bernanke huddle as Dow slides 519 points

The White House is poised to revive efforts to repeal the Bush-era tax cuts

Deficit hits $1.1 trillion, Treasury says

The Obama administration announced that it will pursue options to shift some foreclosed homes owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the private rental market

Gold futures added to gains Wednesday, topping $1,800 an ounce for a fresh intraday record as equities slump

More Pain on Wall Street as Dow Dives 3%

General Motors to Remain Government Motors?

California tax revenue plummets in July, raising fear of trigger cuts

CA: High-speed rail price tag soars again, this time on pace to surpass $60 billion

Income in Cities Reflects Depth of Real Estate Woes

Goldman Sachs Goes Short The US Dollar On QE3

Feel like you didn't earn much last year? You're not alone

Nearly 10,000 Attend Transportation Job Fair At Chicago State

Video: White House: No Plan, No Specifics, No Strategy, No Responsibility

It's 3am and nobody's there

Obama under fire for giving Hurt Locker director access to Navy SEALs to make Bin Laden film

White House photo of the ceremony of the fallen SEALS remains sparks protest

Pentagon to Release Names of Service Members Killed in Chinook Crash

Carney: Fallen SEALS photo was controlled release

NATO Not Confirming That U.S. Helicopter in Afghanistan Flew Into Taliban Trap

Secret peace talks between US and Taliban collapse over leaks

Entire U.S. Stealth Fighter Fleet Grounded

Obama’s FEMA Breaks Disaster Declaration Record

Ten TSA Outrages

What happened on night of deadly Afghanistan helicopter crash?

Obamacare

A Trojan horse named IPAB

More Tax Subsidies for Abortion in Obamacare

HHS: Obamacare-Funded Health Centers for 'Migrants' Won't Check Immigration Status

HHS Awards $8.5 Million in ObamaCare Money to 25 Migrant Health Centers

Walgreens plans to sell you health insurance

Heritage Foundation Opposes Obamacare "Exchanges"

Obama and Israel

The White House Cleanses Israel from Its Website (video)

Obama funded Revived Mujahidin faction emerges in the Gaza Strip

Community Organizer to the World

Islam has always been part of our American family: Obama

Gallup: Muslim Americans Give Obama 80 Percent Approval, Highest of Major Religions

Let them eat Kale

Carney Defends Obama Vacay To Martha's Vineyard; "No Such Thing As A Presidential Vacation"

Obama plans to vacation with family on Martha's Vineyard

The Bidens Head To The Hamptons; Obama's Summer Vacation Still A Go

8/9/2011

Obama Ethics

Rush Limbaugh: Obama blame game (audio)

The U.S. sent its first representative Tuesday to the annual memorial for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki

Obama fundraises while markets slide

Phone give away scam: A rogue agent, representing a cellular phone company's participation in a federal government entitlement program, faked applications for the program, according to a company spokesperson.

Obamanomics

GM to halve vehicle platforms, build Cadillacs 'in volume' in China

Dow Closes Up 430 Points After Fed Decides To Keep Interest Rates Near Zero For 2 Years

Gold near $1,800 after biggest 3-day rally since 2008

Rasmussen Consumer Index (Consumer Confidence Hits Two-Year Low, near Lowest Level in Decade)

What Double Dip? Americans Say the Recession Never Ended

The U.S. labor force is shrinking, as more Americans are giving up hope. Last month, only 58.1% of Americans age 16 and over were employed, a significant drop from before the recession and the lowest since 1983

Xerox CEO, an Obama appointee, may send jobs to Indian firm

U.S. Considers Funding Various Mexican Energy Projects

After 635-Point Sell-Off, Fed Running Out of Options

California high-speed rail gets more stimulus funds...-- The estimated cost of California's high-speed rail project is rising by billions of dollars.

Many turning to pawn shops amid hard times

Markets meltdown continues as FTSE drops below 5,000 for first time in more than a year

Obama Calls for New Stimulus, Increased Spending of at Least $100,000,000,000 a Year

S&P Executive Cites Obama's Characterization of U.S. Political System as 'Dysfunctional’

It's 3am and nobody's there

Commandos criticize call for SEALs Rangers’ danger, single helicopter among questions

The chief of the secretive US special operations command has lobbied against the release of names of American commandos killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, officials said

NATO: ‘Standard Procedure’ for Afghan Forces to Accompany Navy SEALs on Missions

Report: Obama To View Return Of Remains Of Americans Killed In Afghanistan Today

US to tell Assad that he must go

Community Organizer to the World

Flashback: Newsweek’s Adulatory 2008 Obama Cover Portraits

Never Mind: Obama Decides No Public Announcement on New Regulations

Obamacare

Kansas returns health insurance exchange grant

Obamacare Limits Children’s Access to Care: guarantee provisions making insurance companies leave the market

ObamaCare Promises Hurting Rich and Poor Alike

Obama and Israel

White House Cleanses Israel from  itsWebsite

The United States said Tuesday it is "deeply concerned" by Israel's approval of new housing construction in East Jerusalem.

8/8/2011

Obamanomics

Hay Cheaper to Ship to China Than California Hits Dairies: Freight Markets

Obama says he inherited economic problems

Dow drops 200 points during Obama speech

Obama Increased Inflation-Adjusted Debt More in 4 Days Than U.S. Did Through Entire 1950s

Dow Plunges 600, S&P and Nasdaq Sinks 6%

Obama Again Refuses to Accept any Responsibility, Offers No Deficit Reduction Plan

Dow Tumbles 75 Points as Obama Speaks

Flashback: Obama pledges to cut deficit in half at fiscal summit (2/23/2009)

Gold Headed for Biggest 1-Day Gain in 9 Months

Gold hits record over $1,718/oz

Here Comes TARP 2: Bank Of America Implodes, At $6.87, BAC CDS Up 20% To 260 bps As Bankruptcy Contemplated

Standard & Poor’s downgrades Israel’s U.S. loan guarantees

Moody's explains its U.S. rating, why there's no downgrade

Why companies won't hire

No Statement or Comment from Obama on U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade

S&P Downgrades Fannie And Freddie, As Stocks Tumble To Their Lows Of The Day

Obama Calls for More Federal Money for Roads, Bridges and Airports to Create Jobs

Michigan cuts food stamps for 30,000 college students, saving $75 million per year

Obama Ethics

HI Health Defies Subpoena for Obama's Birth Certificate Federal Judge Wants to Know Why

Did the President of the United States or someone in his inner circle leak “material non-public information” to Wall Street traders that the AAA credit rating of the United States of America would be downgraded.? Leaking of such information is criminal activity for both the trader who profits and the leaker

Waivermania hits Dept of Education: Administraion just ignores the law

Recently released documents — disclosed by the Obama Justice Department only after a court battle — reveal that the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is engaging in politicized hiring in the career civil service ranks.

Who made a billion dollars on 10/1 bet that U.S. credit rating would be downgraded? Speculation on George Soros' involvement

Issa subpoenas labor board documents on Boeing complaint

Tarek Fatah a Canadian moderate Muslim Advocate who considers himself a liberal democrat speaks about Islamic fascism. He campaigned for Obama and believes there are advisors around Obama who are intentionally destroying our culture along with our economy (Video)

Gunrunner-Gate

Congressional Inquiries Turn To Houston Over Gun Trafficking Investigation

It's 3am and nobody's there

Security reporter Tom Trento demands investigation (video)

Claim: Obma Administration was responsible for SEAL deaths

Special ops family members interviewed.  Made public

Obama, breaks with protocol, reveals names and pictires of SEAL special ops dead with in hours.. before family member could be contacted in person

U.S. Customs: 500,000 Troops Needed to Seal Border

Libyan rebels ‘launch oilfield squad’

Community Organizer to the World

US set to announce $100M in Somalia famine funding

Obama to host Ramadan dinner, again

Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing Mandate

Obamacare

Researchers: Obamacare cost estimates hide up to $50 billion per year

8/7/2011

Gunrunner-Gate

U.S. America's Third War: The U.S. Cut a Deal With the Sinaloa Cartel, Say Court Documents

Sinaloa Cartel boss who supplied Chicago: I was a DEA snitch

Obamanomics

As U.S. Stumbles, Companies Invest In Consumer Growth Overseas

Geithner-U.S. Treasuries still safe after downgrade

DOW & SP futures down big.. Dow nearly down 300

Gold up $40+ to $1695

Schieffer To Axelrod: "Things Are Worse" Since Obama Took Office

Greenspan: US "Can Pay Any Debt It Has Because We Can Always Print Money"

       Hoarding cash: Corporate America is sitting on a colossal $2 trillion in cash -- $1.4 trillion in the S&P's top 20 alone

Most post offices targeted for closure are in GOP districts

Bob Schieffer To David Axelrod On Downgrade: ‘Are You Saying The President Bears No Responsibility?’

White House adviser blames tea party for downgrade.... Tea Party Blame the new talking point for Obama allies Howard Dean and John Kerry

S&P Explains Why The US Treasury's Argument that there is a "$2 Trillion Error" Is Irrelevant

Outgoing White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee went on the attack against Standard & Poor’s on Sunday, charging the agency’s credit downgrade was based on “questionable mathematics.

A Standard & Poor's official says there is a 1 in 3 chance that the U.S. credit rating could be downgraded another notch if conditions erode over the next six to 24 months.

ABC Financial Expert Slapping S&P As 'Suspect' Is Undisclosed Obama Fundraiser

Obama absent as China scolds U.S. for debt addiction

Obama Stays Quiet After Downgrade

Obamacare

(Oregon) State health care costs increase $6 million due to national health care law

Was the S&P downgrade a rejection of ObamaCare?

A Kerry-Obama scam: Another Obamacare fleecing; Medicare hospital reimbursements in favor of Massachusetts hospitals and in disfavor of most other states

It's 3am and nobody's there

Fights Break Out in Afghanistan as NATO Moves to Recover Downed Helicopter

Was Obama Directly or Indirectly Responsible for the SEAL's Deaths? Use of National Guard Chopper questioned.  Protocols broken.

Kadhafi forces report gains, launch offensive

Obama and Israel

Palestinians Planning UN Action Regardless of Peace Talks

Israeli Stock Market Halts Trading As Stocks Crater

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opens to 6% losses as global crisis felt in Israel

After S&P downgrade of US, Israeli stock market delays opening on fears of steep plunge

Obama and Egypt

Uproar in Egypt as US funnels aid to civil societies

Obama Ethics

TVA to invest $3-$5 billion to settle EPA claims

Pregnant Woman Says TSA Agents 'Confiscated' Her Insulin

8/6/2011

Obamanomics

The White House blames loss of AAA S&P ratings on "political gridlock"

Obama: Creating jobs must be Washington’s top priority

After S&P downgrade, WH says 'we must do better'

S&P Downgrades US to AA+ - Tied With Belgium....  -warns of a second downgrade

The Official Calls For Change Roll In: "Fire Tim Geithner"

Joint Statement By The Fed, The FDIC, NCUA And OCC

S&P officials defend US credit downgrade

S&P credit rating analysis values spending cuts more than tax revenue

IRS: Not enough rich to cover the deficit

Christina Romer, Obama's first of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, lets loose on credit downgrade: We’re ‘pretty darn f*****’

Obama administration official: S&P move 'a facts-be-damned decision'

Obamacare

Rahm Emanuel "Begged" Obama Not To Push Healthcare

It's 3 am an nobody's there

Russia uses dirty tricks despite U.S. ‘reset;’ Intelligence agents tell of intimidation, smears of American officials, diplomats

8/5/2011

Obamanomics

Flashback: 'No risk' the US will lose its top credit rating, says Treasury's Geithner

S&P downgrades US debt rating from AAA to AA+, first downgrade in national history.

S&P Reconsiders Downgrade After White House Challenge

Govt officials: US expecting S&P downgrade -- based on "serious mistake" in analysis*...S&P's numbers were off by "roughly $2 trillion

U.S. stocks end week in the basement- worst since 2008

Wind-Turbine Maker That Obama Praised Files for Bankruptcy

Homebuilders Expect New Home Sales To Flatline For The Rest Of The Year

Obama Blames Arab Springs And Tsunami In Japan For Slower Growth (video)

Cash Hoarding Starts

Obama Has Nearly Achieved His European Welfare State

Government Motors: Taxpayers Still Stand to Lose a Bundle on GM Stock

Video: Obama 'pivots' to jobs now

Average Length Of Unemployment Surges To New All Time Record 40.4 Weeks

August: “Discouraging” (200,000 Workers Drop Out Discouraged Last Month)

58% of work-age Americans have jobs, lowest since July 1983

Labor Force Participation Rate Drops To 63.9%, Lowest Since January 1984

Fewer people were working in July than in June. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics breakdown, there were 139,296,000 people working in July, compared to 139,334,000 the month before

White House readies for July job numbers with workforce photo-op

Obama on economy: We are going to get through this

The White House: We Don't Create Jobs

White House: Jobs Report is 'Welcome News' But Faster Growth Is Needed

U.S. jobs bring some relief to battered stocks (193,000 forced out of the jobs market)

Fannie Mae seeks $5.1 billion more from taxpayers

Food stamp use record 45.8 million

Obama and Agenda 21

DOD, DHS Among Agencies Dedicated To Environmental Justice

Obama Ethics

DHS Refuses to Turn Over Info on Released Criminal Aliens: VA County Sues

Employee Free Choice Act becoming law What Congress rejected, the NLRB simply mandated

Obama Admin Responsible for Legal Abortion in Kenya

Community Organizer to the World

Awkward Pause: President Obama Opens Speech With Minute Of Unexplained Silence

Obama plans $71,000/plate fat-cat dinner

Secretary Clinton Says U.S. Waiting For International Consensus To Call For Syrian President To Step Down

Gunrunner-Gate

DEA acknowledges supporting role in Operation

ATF Death Watch 50: “The cover-up is probably worse than the crime”

The Washington Post has a Partner's Share in Terry's Death

Let them eat kale

President Obama Celebrates Birthday in Private Star-Studded Rose Garden Party

Hip Hop in the East Room

Obamacare

Health Care Reform Law's Impact on Child-Only Health Insurance Policies

Why Don’t Health Insurance Exchanges Work?

ObamaCare's Crystal Ball: Health Spending in 2014

It's 3 am an nobody's there

DHS: Majority of Anonymous little more than ‘script kiddies":  “[u]nskilled individuals who use scripts or programs developed by others to attack computer systems and networks and deface websites.”

Obama and Israel

The Palestinian Authority is spending more than $5 million per month in salaries for 5,500 convicted and alleged terrorists imprisoned in Israel

[Nachum]

Can we impeach him now? A little bit?

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[patriot08]

Great work, Nachum.
Always enjoy reading your list.