Showing posts with label executive order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label executive order. Show all posts

Obama Siezes Control Of All American Communications

In the name of security, of course.    President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security. President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 5, a 2,205-word statement offered   ...  MORE

Jacob Sullum: Obama Debates War On Terror With Self

President criticizes his own abuses of executive power.   Last week a guy named Barack Obama gave a speech in which he expressed appropriate concern about the abuse of government power in the name of fighting terrorism. Too bad he's not in a position to do anything about it. Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of  ... MORE

Rand Paul's Nullification Proposal Emerges In Gun Debate

By Carl Wicklander.  With a spate of shootings in recent months, there are calls for tighter gun control and President Obama has political capital to spend. Getting much of what he wanted with the fiscal cliff, the president has proposed twenty-three executive orders, a practice he criticized while a U.S. Senator, to address gun policy in the event Congress does not  ... MORE

Biden: White House Eying 19 Executive Actions On Guns

Obama prepares to deploy tyrannical measures. The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook  ... MORE

Obama Orders Pay Raises For Congress And Fed Employees

Daniel Halper on Obama's latest executive order.    President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe Biden. According to disclosure forms, Biden made a cool $225,521 last year.      ... MORE

Do FEMA Camps And Martial Law Foretell America's Future?

by Darren Weeks.   During the 1980s Iran Contra hearings, Lt. Col. Oliver North was questioned by Congressman Jack Brooks concerning North’s role in the development of a continuity-of-government plan called “Rex 84” (“Readiness Exercise 1984”), under which the U.S. Constitution would be suspended, and people moved into FEMA camps in the event   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Obama Vs. Obama

Obama 2 pulls the curtain on Obama 1.     Many voters will be comparing Mitt Romney with Barack Obama between now and election day. But what might be even more revealing would be comparing Obama with Obama. There is a big contrast between Obama based on his rhetoric ("Obama 1") and Obama based on his record ("Obama 2").     ... MORE

Ramesh Ponnuru: Obama Vs. The Constitution

The rule of law is on the ballot.       There were warning signs about President Obama’s fealty to the Constitution even before he took the oath of office. As a senator he had voted against the nomination of John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, arguing that Roberts was deficient in the “empathy” required for the position. In a speech during his  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: "Issues" Or America?

Obama reelection means arbitrary rule by decree.      There are some very serious issues at stake in this year's election — so many that some people may not be able to see the forest for the trees. Individual issues are the trees, but the forest is the future of America as we have known it. The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being  ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: GR8, Obama Is Texting Me

President Obama is mass-texting me although I never opted into his texts. I feel like he controls my phone remotely. So, I’m texting him back: HEY PREZ, WILL U PLS STOP TXTING ME?! AND WHILE UR AT IT, STOP SPYING ON ME W/ DRONES. I’D LIKE SOME PRIVACY. THX! Friday, July 6 was the day many Americans were on an extended 4th of July      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Immigration Ploy

A move to help Obama, not the country. President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children -- is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country's long-run problems. Whatever the merits or demerits of ... MORE

Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Lunges Toward Global Government

His second term could take us over the cliff.   One of the biggest issues in the November election is whether we will continue or stop President Obama's move toward restricting U.S. sovereignty and rushing down the road to global governance. One would think that the obvious failure of the European Union and disdain for the euro would put  ... MORE