Archive for February, 2009

Politico: Former Arkansas governor and current Fox News host Mike Huckabee mocked MSNBC Thursday as the network of “MSBS.” “It’s not MSNBC, but the MSBS channel,” Huckabee said in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference. Huckabee, who appeared on the cable network many times during his 2008 presidential run, chided “Hardball” host Chris [...]

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On Blago/Emmanuel: “I had no idea what was going on”. State of the Union on the so-called stimulus bill: “Not one earmark in it”. Wall Street Journal: President Obama has laid out the most ambitious and expensive domestic agenda since LBJ, and now all he has to do is figure out how to pay for [...]

ABC News: The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the [...]

Boston Herald: Fidelity’s Edward “Ned” Johnson jumped into the controversial debate over President Obama’s “New Deal II” and what Johnson called government “make-work projects.” Without naming names, Johnson praised the administration’s effort to make economic recovery its top priority, saying it was “admirable.” But Johnson, sounding like he’s never been a big fan of the [...]

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AP: In Duesseldorf, Germany, one [float] showed Obama flying on wings decorated with the words “Yes we can,” with a figure representing Europe clutching his cloak.

WND: Another U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq is joining a challenge to President Obama’s eligibility to be commander-in-chief, citing WND’s report on 1st Lt. Scott Easterling, who has agreed to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit over the issue, as his inspiration. “I was inspired by 1LT Easterling’s story and am writing you [...]

Fox News: Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty. The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention on the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – First lady Michelle Obama called musician Stevie Wonder “one of the world’s greatest artists” Wednesday evening as the White House honored the musical icon. President Barack Obama planned to present the nation’s second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a concert featuring Tony Bennett, Martina McBride and Wonder himself. Michelle Obama paid [...]

Fox News: An immigration showdown is brewing on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where simmering tensions and borderline hostility have fueled a turf war between the local community and the Border Patrol agents assigned to protect it. Now the American Civil Liberties Union has jumped into the ring and upped the ante, rolling out a campaign that [...]

Politico: The Obama administration will announce a 10-year, $634 billion reserve fund aimed at expanding health care coverage, an administration source said Wednesday. The investment, to be rolled out as part of Obama’s budget request on Thursday, is being billed as a down-payment on covering all Americans. “The goal is still to bring down the [...]

Politico: Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obama’s appointment of White House “czars” to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch. In a letter to Obama on Wednesday, Byrd complained about Obama’s decision to create White House offices on health reform, [...]

Politico: In town to promote his new book, “Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream”, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher — aka “Joe the Plumber” — stopped by Americans for Tax Reform Wednesday to review President Barack Obama’s Tuesday address before Congress and offer his own thoughts on American politics and current events. Perhaps not surprisingly, [...]