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Note: This page begins with the events of April 1st, 2009.  It's organization is chronological.  Events are summarized and detailed descriptions can be seen on the "daily pages" -- click the "date link" in the "date" column.  Sources and links are on the daily pages.

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4/1/09 1.  Taliban insurgents rejected on Wednesday a U.S. offer of "honorable reconciliation" as a "lunatic idea" and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan.

2.  Obama has been named in dozens of civil lawsuits alleging he is not eligible to be president, with one man even filing a criminal complaint alleging the commander-in-chief is a fraud, and now a citizen grand jury in Georgia has indicted the sitting president.

3.  In just the first 70 days of the new administration, a number of Obama supporters have expressed some dismay at their new president.  Some find his ethically challenged appointments at odds with his soaring moral rhetoric.

4.  True to his campaign promises, Obama has picked a rabid judicial activist as his first federal court pick.  Judge David Hamilton has been chosen by Obama to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

5.  The good news is that the Obama administration's task force charged with revamping the auto industry has concluded what many suggested last year before massive taxpayer bailouts.  The task force is now saying the best chance for success for both GM and Chrysler "may well require utilizing the bankruptcy code in a quick and surgical way."

6.  With their racing budgets deemed "unnecessary expenditures," GM and Chrysler were ordered by Obama to cease racing operations at the end of the season.

7.  Yesterday in Geneva, Obama unveiled the new look of America’s foreign policy -- obsequiousness.  It was Day One for his emissaries to the U.N. planning committee of the Durban II conference.  This is the racist "anti-racism" bash to be held in Geneva in April.  The U.S. and Israel walked out of the first go-round in Durban, South Africa in September 2001.  Ever since, the U.S. government has refused to lend any credibility to the Declaration adopted after they left.  That is, until yesterday.
4/2/09 1.  If there was any doubt about who and what Obama is, this photograph ends that doubt, as the usurper humbles himself before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

2.  The United States and its allies are in danger of losing the war in Afghanistan.  The level of violence has risen steadily over the past seven years, the Taliban are in control of large portions of the countryside, insurgent elements operate with near impunity from safe havens in Pakistan, the Karzai government is corrupt and ineffective, and many NATO member states are proving to be more of a hindrance than a help due to national caveats that restrict the types of operations their troops can participate in and declining public support that prevents the dispatch of additional combat forces to fight Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

3.  Obama's strategy for obtaining deep cuts in Pentagon weapons buying has emerged: squeeze the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to pick up more war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, forcing them to forego new planes, ships and vehicles.

4.  Judd Gregg sounds particularly tough in ripping into President Barack Obama's proposed budget, saying, "this budget ... represents a clear and present danger to the financial health of our country."

5.  Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." That's what Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

6.  H.R. 40 is a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to create a commission to study reparation proposals for African-Americans.

7.  The Tea Party Google Map.
4/3/09 1.  For The New York Times economic scene section for March 31, David Leonhardt came across with one of the most amazing admissions about Obama that I've ever seen in the Times.  Namely that Barack Obama is just like Hitler.  Now, many of you may be solemnly shaking your head in agreement, but in so doing you would be missing why the Times was comparing Obama to Hitler.  You see, Leonhardt didn't mean it as an insult.  He was saying that it was a good thing that Barack was being like Hitler at least in an economic sense.

2.  Presidential Approval Index

3.  If you Google -- G-20 "Michelle Obama" fashion -- Google returns hundreds of fawning articles praising the latest American fashion icon, Michelle Obama.

4.  And, speaking of Obama's 500-plus G-20 entourage, The Washington Times is reporting that Obama's European visit this week has strained the US Air Force's heavy-airlift capabilities and obliged the military to hire more foreign contractors to help resupply U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, according to military sources.

5.  The UN Human Rights Council might well be the most vile of all the world body's panels.  Six of the 47 UNCHR members -- China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Ara­bia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe -- were classified as some of the world's "worst of the worst" abusers of human rights by Freedom House in 2005.

6.  A second city, the City of Burleson, Texas is trying to shut down a Tax Day Tea Party planned for April 15th.  Previously, Cape Coral, FL, tried, unsuccessfully, to deny the "right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

7.  Leo D'onofrio has received letters from the people who ran the citizens grand jury in Georgia, and while he appreciates their frustration in that our Government has failed to protect the Constitution by allowing a President to be sworn in who is not a "natural born citizen", he does not agree that this citizens grand jury has any legal authority whatsoever to demand the removal of a sitting President or to even force the review of his qualifications.

8.  The UN Human Rights Council might well be the most vile of all the world body's panels.  Six of the 47 UNCHR members -- China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Ara­bia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe -- were classified as some of the world's "worst of the worst" abusers of human rights by Freedom House in 2005.
4/4/09 1.  Moving as quickly as he can to gut the USA and then divide its body parts amongst like-minded globalists, the USA’s Supreme Leader used the G-20 conference to begin his turnover of USA sovereignty to said internationalists and start the move toward a one-world government.  Obama has signed off on international legislation -- the Financial Stability Board -- that would regulate ALL firms, including those within the USA and places them under the responsibility of an international governmental agency.

2.  Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor -- an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure.  That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.

3.  Addressing a crowd of some 2,000 mainly students from France and Germany, Obama said: "In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

4.  The American Family Association has announced its count is nearing 1,600 -- for Tax Day alone (map included).
4/5/09 1.  Tasked by the FBI to provide "informational analysis" on conditions which could be construed as potentially harmful to civil order and national security, InfraGard, of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), issued an unclassified Protective Intelligence Communication report in March 2009 regarding the "crescendo" of public concern about Obama's presidential eligibility.

2.  There's a reason Obama refuses to accept repayment of TARP money.
4/6/09 1.  Yid with Lid reminds us that prior to yesterday's launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea, Obama threatened severe consequences if the rogue country went ahead with their launch plans.

2.  Obama, the World's Greatest Orator™, didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis.

3.  The acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thomas Mesenbourg, told CNSNews.com that the bureau intends to work with community organizations to make sure every illegal alien in the United States is counted in the 2010 Census.

4.  Obama urged the European Union on Sunday to accept Turkey as a full member of the 27-nation bloc, in remarks rejected outright by France and met coolly by Germany.

5.  More than two months into Barack Obama's presidency, as many people identify him as a Muslim as did so during the 2008 campaign.  When asked about Obama's religious beliefs, 11% say he is a Muslim.  In October, 12% said Obama is a Muslim, which was unchanged from earlier in the campaign.

6.  A gun ban seems to be on the minds of many these days.

7.  The controversy continues over Notre Dame's decision to invite President Obama to speak at its 2009 commencement.
4/7/09 1.  On Monday, Obama declared the U.S., "is not and never will be at war with Islam."

2.  Obama made an address to the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, Turkey.  Al-Jazeera's Anita McNaught, reporting from Istanbul, wrote: "This was the address we had all been waiting for, it hit all the right notes."

3.  Robert Spencer, writing at Front Page Magazine comments on Obama's statement to the Turkish Parliament, "We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world -- including in my own country."

4.  The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, applauded Obama's Monday address to the Turkish parliament, in a statement issued today at a press briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
4/8/09 1.  With more than 1.8 million responses to a MSNBC poll, Obama has earned a grade of "F" for his performance in office.  He received a failing mark in an MSNBC online survey after having spent less than three months in the White House.

2.  Kathy Shaidle and John Perazzo, writing at FrontPageMagazine.com say that if President Obama had hoped to avoid the controversy that has stalked some of his previous appointments, his selection of jurist and self-described "activist" Harold Koh to become the State Department’s top legal advisor must be judged a disappointment.

3.  Since taking office Obama has focused on three things -- the transformation of our capitalistic economy to a form of socialist statist fascism, the abdication of American sovereignty to a trans-nationalism and the advancement of the worldwide domination of Islam, the ultimate goal of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).  There is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact -- the global jihad is conspiracy fact.  And the OIC is behind it.

4.  Acts of protest tend to be synonymous with the left and are usually considered unsurprising on the right.  However, when conservatives demonstrate -- liberals take notice in a big way.
4/9/09 1.  WTF?

2.  "I did not have submissive relations with that man, King Abdullah"

3.  Is He, Or Isn't He?

4.  Ben Shapiro believes, that on Nov. 4, 2008, America lost the war on terror.  Obama’s feckless, pathetically apologetic perspective on foreign policy spells the end of the quest for liberty in the Middle East.  It spells the end of America’s moral leadership in the global war for freedom.  And it spells the end of a hard-fought campaign to protect America.

5.  Pamela Geller writes, "Imagine if we woke up tomorrow with a president named Solomon Goldstein.  A President, who for sure lived in and maybe was even born in Israel.  A President, who as a boy went to a very conservative Jewish religious school in Israel.  A President who as soon as he was elected calls the Israeli PM and promises that a peace the Jews can live with will soon be implemented.  Then in his first interview as President he sits down with the Jewish Television Network and apologizes for Americans' past arrogant behavior.  Among other things our new President does first is lecture us that Zionism is a noble thing and has given the World many wonderful things and that we all MUST respect Zionism, even if we don’t agree with it."
4/10/09 1.  Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.  You name it, he blew it.  What was his big deal economic program that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit?  Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and coordinated.  Did he achieve it?  Not so as you'd notice.

2.  A ragtag band of pirates has put Obama in a bind.   He commands overwhelming firepower in the form of a growing flotilla of U.S. warships, but he doesn't want to use it.

3.  Jon, at Exurbanleague.com reports that after maintaining his silence for two days, Obama will soon make his first public statement about the pirate attack upon an U.S.-flagged vessel off the Horn of Africa.  After several inquiries and a few well-placed bribes, Exurban League has received an early transcript of the Obama's remarks.

4.  Obama, who made a point of being introduced to the Turkish Nation as "Barack Hussein Obama," was quoted as saying that, "the United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans," including his ancestors.

5.  The Kansas Citian reminds us that the Bush administration took much heat for their secret plans to conduct warrantless wiretaps on calls initiated from outside of the United States.  NSA and communications carrier systems scan phone calls, emails, and who knows what else for the purported purpose of uncovering terrorist plots to attack America.

6.  The concern over Obama's eligibility to be president under the U.S. Constitution's demand that the office be occupied by a "natural born" citizen is spreading, with additional writers conceding questions remain about the dispute.

7.  Philip J. Berg, Esq. is the first attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama's lack of Constitutional "qualifications/eligibility" to serve as President of the United States.  His cases are still pending.  Berg  announced today that an appeal has been filed in the Hollister case for several reasons.
4/11/09 1.  Obama is ordering the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush.

2.  An official in the office of Kentucky's elections chief has referred to state Attorney General Jack Conway for investigation the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.

3.  It is hard to imagine a bigger slight to the memory of the more than 100,000 American soldiers who died liberating Europe than the image of a U.S. president attacking the "arrogance" of his own country on French soil.  Obama’s speech last week ahead of the NATO summit in Strasbourg, barely 500 miles from the beaches of Normandy, marked a low point in presidential speechmaking on foreign policy.

4.  Abe Greenwald observes that four Americans are now being held captive by foreign governments or non-state actors: two journalists in North Korea, one journalist in Iran, and one ship captain off the coast of Somalia.
4/12/09 1.  Easter -- No postings.
4/13/09 1.  Atlas Shrugs asks if you have you seen this document?  It is Obama's fascist blueprint to create a police state and legalize gulags.  This is not a spoof.  This is the "mission statement" for Obama's "civilian army."

2.  Presidential Approval Index.

3.  In his first two months in office, Obama has succeeded in widening the political gulf among Americans more than any other president in modern history, according to a new poll.  The "partisan gap" between Republicans and Democrats is 10 points larger than it was under George W. Bush.

4.  Obama, the man who raised his right hand and swore on Lincoln’s Bible: in accordance with Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend The Constitution of the United States" has in a news conference in the sovereign Nations of Turkey and Indonesia (which means "on foreign soil") stated that "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. uh uh... we consider ourselves uh uh a nation of uh citizens."
4/14/09 1.  Blackfive makes the point that the commander on scene already had the authority to deal with an imminent death situation in his standing rules of engagement.  That means that when this situation was escalated to national command authority, i.e. Obama, those rules were suspended and Obama implemented new ones specific to this incident.  Then he had to restore the authority the captain already had to use deadly force to save a hostage from execution.  There is considerable talk that the initial new "Rules of Engagement" (ROE) that Obama instituted did not allow a rescue so as to allow the negotiations to proceed, and then a second set of ROE was instituted after the Navy could not respond to Captain Phillip's escape attempt.  That is unconfirmed but fits the facts as they happened.

2.  Obama directed his administration Monday to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba, and to take other steps to ease U.S. restrictions on the island, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

3.  Major members of the traditional media in the United States -- television networks, daily newspapers and the like -- are ignoring the potentially nation-shaking story of the Tea Party protests because they attack Obama's massive tax-and-spend policies, according to a media analyst.

4.  The Right Side of Life is reporting that Mario Apuzzo, attorney for Plaintiffs in Kerchner v. Obama, posted on his web site that two of the Defendants, USA and Barack Hussein Obama, had asked and were granted a 15-day extension for time to respond.
4/15/09 1.  NewsBusters is reporting that an all-too-predictable gusher was delivered by Jennifer Loven, a Democratic operative disguised as Associated Press reporter.

2.  In just less than a hundred days, Obama already has revealed himself as a reveler in the exercise of a certain type of power.  Not on the international stage, where his apology tour of Europe was just the latest example of the abasement of America that he sees as part of his mission in life.  Nor in dealing with the threat of terrorism (or "overseas contingency operations" and "man-made disasters" as a way to define away the future of his office) or looming dangers from a nuclear Iran.

3.  Atlas Shrugs asks if any of you watched Obama's propaganda speech earlier today, and did you find it shocking when he described his plan for America in the context of "five pillars"?

4.  After the flippant dismissal by U.S. Circuit Court Judge James Robertson of the lawsuit to attempt to determine whether Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to occupy the Oval Office, D.C. attorney John Hemenway received a letter from a lawyer representing Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  (Hemenway had enjoined the suit launched by Hillary Clinton's ally, Philip Berg, the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and attorney Lawrence Joyce of Arizona, in an attempt to force Obama to disclose his birth records, currently being protected against public scrutiny by the Obama legal team at a reported cost of as much as one million dollars.)
4/16/09 1.  While Obama was speaking in Prague about nuclear disarmament, North Korea delivered the most tellingly timed comment on The Trip.  The Pyongyang rogue regime -- proprietor of a nuclear arsenal -- defiantly launched an intercontinental multi-stage rocket in violation of an explicit U.N. Security Council resolution.

2.  The Obama Administration denied permission for the U.S. Northern Command to use the Pentagon's most powerful sea-based radar to monitor North Korea's recent missile launch, precluding officials from collecting finely detailed launch data or testing the radar in a real-time crisis, current and former defense officials said.

3.  Boston TEA Party photos.

4.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S.

5.  Steve Milloy, founder of JunkScience.com, says that the U.S. is at "the point of no return" as Obama is set to implement environmental policies that will lead to "energy chaos" in this country.
4/17/09 1.  Obama ruled out prosecution of government interrogators as he released legal memos that guided harsh questioning of terror suspects by the CIA under President George W. Bush.  What he didn't say is that the Bush Administration broke no laws and followed the advice of its attorneys.

2.  It turns out that Janet Napolitano's targeting of America's war veterans is not an isolated event.

3.  Three weeks before Obama sicked his Justice and Homeland Security Departments on America's heroes, Obama, as one of his first acts, signed an executive order -- he says, "in the national interest" -- that will allow thousands of Gazan Palestinians to settle in the United States at American taxpayers' expense.  Sure, what can go wrong when we allow thousands of people who have been, as Mark Steyn memorably described, "marinated" in a "sick death cult," who voted for Hamas, and 55% of whom support suicide bombing/murders, into the United States?

4.  Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram "IHS" -- symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ -- because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.

5.  NewsBusters.com draws our attention to Thursday's "Countdown," where MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with vitriolic contempt.

6.  An estimated 1 million Americans participated in at least 1,000 TEA Parties, according to reports by organizers tabulating the nationwide numbers, with documented protests held in 50 states.

7.  TEA Party cartoon.
4/18/09 1.  Marxists Exchange Secret Handshake.

2.  On the 14th, Blackfive reported that early reports indicated that Obama had hindered the military's rescue of Merchant Marine Captain Phillips.

3.  Obama has taken military action against Iran off the table, and now he is considering ways of punishing Israel if it attacks Iran to end its nuclear arms program (and prevent a second Holocaust).

4.  In response to Barack Obama's "outstretched hand," as he expressed in his April 1, 2009 speech, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emphasized that the West was weak, and could not force anything on Iran.  He enumerated Iran's demands for dialogue with the U.S.; the demands included the withdrawal of Western forces, the destruction of the West's entire nuclear arsenal, and respect for Iran's right to its nuclear program.
4/19/09 1.  After Nicaraguan Marxist President Daniel Ortega attacked America for 50 minutes in his speech today, Barack Obama smiled and shook his hand.

2.  Once again, we have Obama embarking on the "We Suck '09" tour, kicked off in Europe, where he felt the need to apologize for the last administration’s efforts to defend America’s interests on the international stage.  Obama likes to call this "smart power" and tells us we’ll get more by appearing humble than by pursuing our interests in the normal fashion.  So far, the rest of the world has applauded Obama’s performance -- and gone on to reject our requests for economic cooperation, combat troops for Afghanistan, partnership with Russia against Iran, and North Korean continuation of the six-party nuclear disarmament talks without launching long-range missiles over Japan.

3.  In our recent election, many Americans voted for a Savior, not a president.

4.  Earlier this year, Obama announced that he was relieving the U.S. Commerce Department of its responsibility for conducting the census and moving that responsibility into the White House under the control of his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, one of the most corrupt Chicago machine politicians of all time.  However, that decision proved so unpopular that Obama was forced to reconsider.  Instead, he has nominated Univ. of Michigan professor Robert Groves as director of the census.  Groves is a fervent advocate of statistical sampling, a technique that uses "educated guesses" to determine population instead of actually counting heads.  It is a technique that is easily manipulated and which often results in the over-counting of Democratic constituencies.

5.  Why should Obama and his administration have their own computer hacking army?
4/20/09 1.  If nothing else, Obama's decision to overrule his own intelligence officials and release Bush-era legal memos justifying what The New York Times sanctimoniously described as the CIA's "brutal" interrogation techniques proves what a bunch of pushovers we Americans are.

2.  Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a billion documents with a wealth of personal information about Americans and foreigners.

3.  The "liar, liar pants on fire" argument usually isn't the most effective.  But when it comes to guns, Obama is lying through his teeth.

4.  DC sources say that an Administration team is working on perfecting a forgery of the long-form birth certificate.  They plan on presenting it in a a month or so.  The source is an FBI agent who has drinking buddy from University of Illinois now in the Administration.  It's second hand, but the source is supposed to be solid.

5.  The Conservative American website contains a list of 200 Obama-related scandals, mistakes, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc.  They call it the Scandals List because the above is too long of a name.  Okay?

6.  Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them.  In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.

7.  Obama is running into stiff Congressional resistance to his plans to raise money for his ambitious agenda, and the resulting hole in the budget is threatening a major health care overhaul and other policy initiatives.
4/21/09 1.  John Hinderaker, an attorney, believes that many liberals don't just want to defeat conservatives at the polls, they want to send them to jail.  Toward that end, they have sometimes tried to criminalize what are essentially policy differences.  Obama hinted at another step in that direction when he said today that he is open to the idea of bringing criminal charges against the Justice Department lawyers who wrote opinions to the effect that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods could legally be used on al Qaeda detainees.  Obama said the question was a complicated one, and the decision will ultimately be made by Attorney General Eric Holder.

2.  Former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed Obama for what he described as a disturbing tendency to criticize America abroad and embrace avowed enemies like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez while not praising the nation’s success in the war against terrorism.

3.  White House lawyers are refusing to accept the findings of an inter-agency committee that the Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay are too dangerous to release inside the U.S., according to Pentagon sources familiar with the action.

4.  Obama made his first visit to the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday in an attempt to calm an uproar among America's spies over his release of secret memos about interrogation techniques.

5.  Obama can apologize till the cows come home, but he has failed to lift America's status in the Muslim and Arab world, and his election is seen as a victory for Al-Qaeda, according to a new audio message allegedly from the terror network's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The video was posted on key jihadist websites on Monday.

6.  The AmeriCorps program will triple in size over the next eight years, and tens of thousands of other Americans will soon see new opportunities to "volunteer."
4/22/09 1.  Proof Somali Pirate Eligible To Be Tried As Adult.

2.  Politico says that Obama’s attempt to project legal and moral clarity on coercive CIA interrogation methods has instead done the opposite -- creating confusion and political vulnerability over an issue that has inflamed both the left and right.

3.  If you live in L.A. and didn't die in a terrorist attack, you may owe it to the CIA's use of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that are currently under fire from Obama and his left-wing constituents.

4.  Obama showed his hand this week when The New York Times wrote that he is considering converting the stock the government owns in our country’s banks from preferred stock, which it now holds, to common stock.

5.  U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor Monday delivering a detailed review of Obama's proposed cuts to the Department of Defense (DoD) budget.

6.  Yesterday, Obama signed a huge expansion of his "youth brigades" legislation when he signed into law the "GIVE Act," H.R. 1388.  This bill provides for the massive expansion of the National Service Corporation and allocates to it billions of dollars.  One of the program's executives says it will allow for the management of up to eight or nine million people.
4/23/09 1.  Absolute Proof That The Left Is Insane.

2.  With the ugly sanctimony of those who never had to make hard decisions, the American left demands show trials of those who kept us safe after 9/11, says Col. Ralph Peters.  Wrapping themselves in repugnant self-righteousness, the MoveOn.org set wants political prosecutions.  Should Obama acquiesce, he won't be furthering the rule of law, but dismantling it.

3.  The Wall Street Journal says to mark down the date.  Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended.  By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their anti-terror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.

4.  Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that Obama no longer believes that America is threatened by terrorists and is making dangerous mistakes in lowering U.S. defenses.

5.  2,974 Reasons for supporting enhanced interrogations.

6.  A growing chorus of experts is warning that Obama's plan to add 47 million people -- a number that includes illegal aliens -- to the health-insurance rolls may kill hopes for a sustained economic recovery.

7.  Obama may be using campaign funds to stomp out eligibility lawsuits brought by Americans, as his campaign has paid more than $1 million to his top lawyer since the election.

8.  Charlie Daniels On The Seeds of Dictatorship.
4/24/09 1.  Rasmussen Reports says that fifty-eight percent (58%) believe the Obama administration’s recent release of CIA memos about the harsh interrogation methods used on terrorism suspects endangers the national security of the United States.  The latest national telephone survey found that 28% believe the release of the memos helps America’s image abroad.

2.  The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright must be proud of his student, as Obama continues, his "God Damn America" campaign.

3.  Obama's Star Chamber

4.  Obama is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 23 year-old decision that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present.

5.  "Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It." - Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals.  That's what Barack Obama taught his ACORN followers in all his Community Agitator classes in Chicago.  That slogan defines mob scapegoating.

6.  The deployment is yet another example of the U.S. military collaborating with local law enforcement around the country.  Under the Posse Comitatus Act passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, the federal uniformed services -- including the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces -- are prohibited from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

7.  Senior Israeli military circles are staggered by the discovery that Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, including the services of Turkish military instructors.  This was taken as further proof that the Obama is deaf to Israel's immediate security concerns.  Lebanese president Gen. Michel Suleiman has more than once threatened neighboring Israel.  When he signed the arms deal in Ankara Tuesday, April 21, he once again pledged publicly to place the Lebanese army at the disposal of the Shiite terrorist Hizballah in any confrontation with Israel.
4/25/09 1.  The owners of "Reward for Obama's Birth Certificate" website are offering to pay $25,000,000 to Barack Hussein Obama if he will produce his "real" long-form birth certificate.

2.  Andrew McCarthy reports that despite being steeped in jihadist ideology, trained in explosives and assassination tactics, and anxious enough to get that way that they high-tailed it from China to Afghanistan to become more lethal terrorists, the Uighur Muslim detainees will be released by the Obama administration into the United States, according to this Los Angeles Times report.

3.  Gerald Warner asks, if al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself.  Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people -- not even Jimmy Carter.

4.  Observations notes that the current silliness taking place in the third ring of the circus that is Washington, DC over the Bush administration’s successful efforts to defend the nation against additional terrorist attacks after 9-11-01 would be laughable, were it not so absurd and so un-American.
4/26/09 1.  Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in a move which will reignite the scandal surrounding Abu Ghraib prison in 2004.

2.  On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, conservative panelist Jim Pinkerton pointed out that, contrary to the impression given by the mainstream media, Obama’s approval rating, as measured by Gallup, is relatively low compared to his recent predecessors for the 100-day mark, and is even below where President George W. Bush was after his first 100 days.  Pinkerton observed: "Judith Klnghoffer, writing for the History News Network, made the point that Obama actually ranks seventh of the last nine presidents in Gallup poll opinion ratings.  So seventh out of nine isn't so good."

3.  Political activists who masquerade as non-partisan community organizers have joined with organized labor to pressure elected officials into supporting left wing causes, according to a top analyst with the Capital Research Center (CRC).
4/27/09 1.  I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Barack Obama is damaging America more than any other president in its history.  Here are ten of the biggest ways Obama is destroying America.

2.  Michael Scheuer paints a scenario, where, in surprisingly good English, the captive quietly answers: "Yes, all thanks to God, I do know when the mujaheddin will, with God's permission, detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States, and I also know how many and in which cities."  Startled, the CIA interrogators quickly demand more detail.  Smiling his trademark shy smile, the captive says nothing.  Reporting the interrogation's results to the White House, the CIA director can only shrug when the president asks: "What can we do to make Osama bin Laden talk?"

3.  Most Americans are probably unaware that Obama has agreed to place America's free enterprise system under the control of a world financial government to be ruled from Brussels, Belgium.

4.  Set aside for now the troubling changes in the Obama administration’s position on whether former Bush officials should be prosecuted for suggesting tough interrogation tactics against terrorists.  Set aside the manifest unfairness of prosecuting lawyers merely for doing their job of giving legal advice.  Set aside the raft of other reasonable objections to the proposed prosecutions, including a justifiable aversion to witch-hunts.
4/28/09 1.  At a time when al-Qaida is plotting to wipe out America with nuclear weapons, the president has paralyzed our first line of defense.

2.  The liars at The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators.  The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world.

3.  The Biggest Health Threat.

4.  Former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon won't accept the school's Laetare Medal at commencement next month because of its decision to have Barack Obama speak to graduates.
4/29/09 1.  The Saga of Air Farce One,  Obama's simulated airborne terrorist attack on Manhattan, begins.
4/30/09 1.  Col. Ralph Peters says that after a mere 100 days, the "Obama Doctrine," of hugging foes and hurting friends, for our foreign and security policies has emerged.  And it's terrifying.

2.  Congress signed off on Obama's $3.6 trillion budget largely along party lines Wednesday night, handing him a legislative victory that paves the way for a health care overhaul.

3.  Government lawyers defending President Obama and Congress in a lawsuit alleging that he's ineligible to occupy the Oval Office and that members of the House and Senate violated the constitutional rights of citizens by refusing to investigate want still more time to respond to the accusations.

4.  Obama has delivered on his promise of real change in at least one respect: The volume of gaffes and miscues sputtering forth from his Oval Office is unprecedented.  For those who just can’t wait to hear what the president’s teleprompter will say next, here’s a NewsMax recap of the Obama gaffe machine’s most remarkable-- and disturbing -- utterances.

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