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21 May 2009, 9:20 am
"Obama says US prisons tough enough for detainees": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "President Barack Obama vigorously defended his plans to close the Guantanamo prison camp on Thursday and promised to work with Congress to develop a system for imprisoning detainees who can't be tried and can't be turned loose. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 3:09 pm
"Appeals court wants more briefs in Obama immigration fight": Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post that begins, "A little more than a week after denying President Barack Obama's effort to move forward with controversial executive actions on immigration, a federal appeals court has ordered both sides in the case to file new legal briefs. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 2:08 pm
Holland of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation's federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four people he has gotten confirmed to the federal bench are women or minorities. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 4:07 am
"Court could give Obama early test on detentions": Mark Sherman and Meg Kinnard of The Associated Press have a report that begins, "The Supreme Court could hand President-elect Barack Obama a delicate problem in the coming days: What to do with a suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent who is the only person detained in this country as an enemy combatant? [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 7:28 pm
"Supermax prison: Obama's books objectionable. [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 9:55 am
"Obama could alter stance of federal appeals courts": Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has an article that begins, "A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 9:10 pm
Forbes, Hawaii Adopts Obama Style Tax Hike on Rich, by Janet Novack: [T]he largest dollars in President Barack Obama’s proposed deficit-reducing tax hikes ($293 billion over ten years) come from limiting the value of itemized tax deductions claimed by the better off. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 11:23 am
President Barack Obama gave his personal testimony yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 4:30 am
The administration of the 44th President of the United States will be remembered for many reasons, but one theme which has been playing out since the earliest days of Barack Obama’s presidency is a predilection towards using popular and developing technologies. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 4:15 am
Barack Obama came to office with the suspicion that patents caused higher prices and created market inefficiencies. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 3:45 am
Yesterday’s meeting between NASA administrator Charles Bolden and President Barack Obama didn’t result in any announcements, or, for that matter, any apparent decisions on the future direction of the space agency. [read post]
20 May 2009, 6:02 am
"Obama Begins Interviewing Potential Supreme Court Picks": Today's edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an article that begins, "President Barack Obama began interviewing potential Supreme Court candidates Tuesday, while a senior White House official defended the president's stated preference for a nominee who will give the powerless 'a fair shake.'" And today in The Washington Post, Ed Gillespie has an op-ed entitled… [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 12:08 pm
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that begins, "President Barack Obama has begun reshaping the nation's most conservative federal appeals court, one that has handled many high-profile terrorism and detainee cases and generally supported the anti-terrorism initiatives of former President George W. [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 10:01 pm
Jacob Sullum sums up Obama's hypocrisy on drug prohibition in this masterful Reason.com op-ed: It is not hard to see how critics of the war on drugs got the impression that Barack Obama was sympathetic to their cause. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 5:44 pm
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama made an issue of the ostensibly lax state of antitrust enforcement during the Bush administration. [read post]
OBAMA’S JOURNALISTIC BUTTON MEN: “Journalists like to claim they speak truth to power. But when Bar…
20 Jan 2012, 7:38 am
But when Barack Obama wields that power, they’re all too willing to do his bidding, even if it means attacking one of their own. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 1:05 pm
Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and his potential running mate, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, along with eight additional senators sent a letter to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Monday urging him to increase medical coverage and care for Iraq war veterans left with serious brain injuries. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 3:10 pm
To me, the key feature of the debate was that Barack Obama looked like a President and John McCain did not (I am not unaware of the irony of my assertion, given the fact Obama would be our first African American President. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 7:33 am
That is, Barack Obama, the presidential campaigner. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 9:14 am
" Now we know that Barack Obama wants to avoid revotes in Michigan and Florida at all costs and he is merely grasping at any excuse he can find. [read post]
