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13 Jan 2012, 5:41 am by Simon Lester
From the AP: President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 5:32 am by Simon Lester
 Here's the latest, from the WSJ: President Barack Obama plans to create a U.S. government task force designed to monitor China for possible trade and other commercial violations as part of a larger White House effort to get more assertive with Beijing this election year, people familiar with the matter said. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 5:24 am by Glenn Reynolds
So all of you lefty bloggers who have been calling Barack Obama a terrorist and a war criminal and calling for his arrest can just shut up now. . . . [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 5:17 am by Mike Scarcella
Merger Power: President Barack Obama today is expected to ask Congress for more power to reduce the size of the federal government through combining six trade and commerce agencies, the Associated Press reports. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 5:43 pm
"  Bloomberg gives us the utterly unsurprising news: President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to help bring jobs home from overseas and promised new tax proposals to reward companies that invest in America as he launched an election-year effort to show he is tackling high unemployment.... [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 2:00 pm by Peter Landers
The opinion says President Barack Obama was within his powers when he appointed a new consumer-finance regulator last week, even though the Senate was holding pro-forma sessions every three days, typically for less than a minute. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 1:17 pm
Even President Barack Obama reiterated on ABC News that the proper authorities were taking care of the situation. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 10:56 am by Andrew Ramonas
President Barack Obama has until Feb. 21 to decide whether to approve the pipeline, which faces opposition from environmental groups. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:41 am by Mike Scarcella
President Barack Obama had the legal authority to make recess appointments earlier this month, even though the U.S. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:30 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
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12 Jan 2012, 8:09 am by Evan Perez
Breaking: President Barack Obama’s appointment of a new federal financial watchdog had backing from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, a new memo released Thursday showed. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 8:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds
SEE WHEN YOU MAKE BOGUS CHARGES OF RACISM about portraying Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette, or Barack Obama as Louis the XVI, you don’t get the traction you used to get with bogus charges of racism. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 7:20 pm by Ed Driscoll
HAGIOGRAPHY ALERT: Just as the MSM has been describing — long before he took office — Barack Obama as the reincarnation of all of the most powerful presidents of the last 150 years, according to the Washington Post, Michelle Obama is reminiscent of every great actress in Hollywood history, from Ingrid Bergman to Lena Horne. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 4:17 pm by Colin O'Keefe
Over there, we have a roundtable as bloggers respond to Barack Obama's recess appointments. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 3:32 pm by Steve Bainbridge
It's been a Republican mantra that Barack Obama is trying to turn the United States into a European-style social democracy. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 9:32 am by Ed Driscoll
THE GREAT EQUALIZATION: Victor Davis Hanson writes: For all John Edwards’ talk of “two nations,” of Barack Obama’s lifelong effort to demonize “corporate jet owners” and “millionaires and billionaires” (the latter 1000 times wealthier than the former), for all the sociologists and economists who get tenure by writing obscure, clever little essays that few read on insidious class differences, the classes have never been closer. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 6:05 am
On December 31, 2011 – the eve of the new year – President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, which:allows the executive to militarily detain certain individuals, without specific exception for American citizens and legal residents, "under the law of war without trial until the end of hostilities";requires mandatory military detention of certain individuals, though permitting waiver by the executive in some cases;… [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 4:58 am by Glenn Reynolds
GLENN GREENWALD NOTICES THAT BARACK OBAMA IS MY PUPPET: “What is most amazing about all this is that, a mere three years later, some combination of Israel and the U.S. are doing exactly that which Reynolds recommended. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 9:41 pm by Fiona de Londras
In contrast, since the inauguration of Barack Obama these pieces of legislation have been used to make it practically impossible for Obama to close Guantánamo Bay. [read post]