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3 Apr 2022, 7:01 am by Vladimir Rauta, Alexandra Stark
The costs of supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan were astronomical, and Obama’s train-and-equip program to support Arab opposition forces in Syria came with a $500 million price tag (and not much to show, either). [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 11:20 pm by Helene
Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist, chair of the Social and Behavioral Science Team during the Obama administration, and the first behavioral science adviser to the United Nations: …when you put in the hard work, it fuels you to make these courageous decisions because they actually feel less courageous, because you think you deserve it, you think that there could be a chance because you have put in the hard work. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 6:38 pm by Allan Blutstein
The Obama FOIA timebombBy Alex Thompson, Josh Gerstein & Max Tani, Politico, Mar. 31, 2022 For JOE BIDEN, there have been a lot of advantages to having once served as vice president: familiarity with the office, established relationships with powerful people, and a team of advisers with relevant experience.But there is also a distinct disadvantage: People can dig through the archives of your prior work.Starting on January 20, 2022 — five years since BARACK… [read post]
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on both individuals under executive orders issued by President Obama in 2014. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 7:31 am by Tom Smith
Consequently, Justice Elena Kagan did not recuse herself from the Obamacare case, providing the critical vote to uphold it despite having served as President Obama’s solicitor general when the administration was formulating the legal strategy to defend the Affordable Care Act. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 7:22 am by Tom Smith
Of course, they all avoid the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from evidence contained on the laptop that the president’s drug-addled son Hunter abandoned at a MacBook repair shop in Delaware in April 2019: that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was aware of, and intimately involved in, a corrupt, multimillion-dollar, international influence-peddling scheme run by Hunter, and Joe’s brother Jim Biden, in the countries for which Joe was point man in the Obama… [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Judge Jackson, who was named to the bench in 2010 by President Obama, granted the company’s motion for a Summary Judgement on March 28. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 2:55 pm by Simmons Hanly Conroy
Recognizing the 18th Annual Global Asbestos Awareness Week The success of GAAW in previous years owes much to the late Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who served in Congress for 20 years, most notably as Senate Majority Leader during President Obama’s first and second terms. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 9:42 am by Kyle Hulehan
Negotiated under the Obama administration, the TPP would have reduced tariffs on U.S. exports, liberalized services trade, strengthened arbitration rules to protect U.S. investors in foreign countries, and enhanced intellectual property protection for U.S. multinationals. [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 3:10 am by SHG
By reinstating her to the position she held under the Obama administration, the Biden administration made clear that it was going to undo the revised Title IX regs implemented by DeVos which complied with the great many federal court decisions that required minimal due process for the accused and aspirational unbiased decision making from colleges. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 8:31 am by Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Kent
With only the barest legal justification, the Obama administration delayed enforcing inconvenient parts of statutes like the Affordable Care Act. [read post]
27 Mar 2022, 11:57 am by John Floyd
    Tethered to the History of Racism   Writing in an April 22, 2016 edition of the Washington Post, Terence Samuel, the Managing Editor of NPR News, made this poignant observation about the “legacy of Barak Obama,” the nation’s first Black American president:   “Barak Obama’s presidency will always be tethered to the history of race in America. [read post]
25 Mar 2022, 10:45 am by Tom Smith
It isn’t even the fact that the laptop contained a trove of emails showing that Hunter was not averse to namedropping daddy – who was then vice-president in the Obama administration – to secure sweet deals with foreign businesses. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 5:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Library patrons and students went digital to crack the covers of everything from Barack Obama’s memoir to young adult fiction to the latest issues of The Economist magazine—or its rival US Weekly, based on OverDrive’s lists of the most popular e-books. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 10:02 am by Tatiana Venn
For example, when Mexican drug-cartel violence was at the time at an unprecedented high, the Obama Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ordered federal agents on the frontline to “run away” and “hide” when encountering a shooter. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 9:04 pm by Dan Flynn
President Obama did not name anyone as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety for his last three years. [read post]