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Lesbian Chai Feldblum Confirmed as Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner
…the homosexual activist who rightly acknowledges that “rights” based on homosexuality and the religious freedom to live out one’s opposition to homosexuality cannot peacefully coexist in the law – has been confirmed as a Commissioner of the EEOC. A lesbian and top homosexual legal strategist, Feldblum calls the battle between religious freedom and homosexuality-based “rights” a “zero-sum game” – in which homosexuals usually should win and Christians should lose.
Obama uses holiday recess to make controversial appointment – thehill.com
President Barack Obama has taken advantage of Congress’ holiday recess to install James Cole as deputy attorney general without Senate approval. Rep. King: Obama recess appointment at Justice Dept. ‘absolutely shocking’. C
White House Plans to Push Global Warming Policy, GOP Vows Fight – Fox News
After failing to get climate-change legislation through Congress, the Obama administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through other means. On Jan. 2, new carbon emissions limits will be put forward as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares regulations that would force companies to get permits to release greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Vice Admiral: Obama was outmaneuvered by Russians on START
President Barack Obama was outmaneuvered by the Russians and should have abandoned the New START negotiations instead of seeking a political victory, says former nuclear plans monitor Vice Admiral Jerry Miller, USN (Ret). “The Obama administration is continuing a dated policy in which we cannot even unilaterally reduce our own inventory of weapons and delivery systems without being on parity with the Russians,”
DeMint vows to reverse FCC’s ‘Internet takeover’ – Washington Examiner
“Americans loudly demanded a more limited federal government this November, but the Obama Administration has dedicated itself to expanding centralized government planning. Today, unelected bureaucrats rammed through an internet takeover, even after Congress and courts warned them not to.
‘Evil emperor’ (Obama supporter) behind attacks on America – WorldNetDaily
“Make no mistake,” concludes Kupelian. “George Soros’ goal is nothing less than to overthrow the United States of America and its Constitution. “Soros, like Obama, is wired very differently than most of us,” says WND Managing Editor David Kupelian. “He rejects and reviles most things decent Americans regard as good and sacred, and he tends to favor everything rotten: He wants to legalize drugs. He supports euthanasia. He’s for socialism and opposes free-market capitalism. He’s for devaluing America’s currency, telling the Financial Times last year ‘an orderly decline of the dollar is actually desirable.’ He supports the destruction of American sovereignty in favor of global governance. He detests conservative talk radio, Fox News and WorldNetDaily, and funds organizations that constantly attack the only free press America currently has.”
Obama, in shadow of worrisome polls, embraces `Christian’ label – Religion News
When President Obama lit the National Christmas Tree behind the White House last year, he spoke of a “child born far from home” and said “while this story may be a Christian one, its lesson is universal.” This year, Obama referenced that same “child born far from home,” but added a more personal twist: “It’s a story that’s dear to Michelle and me as Christians.”
Obama Threat to Catholic Colleges
New federal regulations issued by the Obama administration a few weeks ago threaten not only recruitment for Catholic colleges, but more importantly, their very identity. The new regulations increase oversight for colleges through either state chartering or licensing, which are necessary for colleges to obtain federal aid. While states have always had to approve colleges that receive aid, the new law mandates that states approve colleges by name. States will also have greater power to act on complaints pertaining to colleges.
New population count may complicate Obama 2012 bid – Yahoo News
The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the nation must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census figures.
Experts: Mystery contrail was from Chinese missile
Muted response’ was decision ‘made by the president himself’
OBAMACARE
Berwick Sets Up Death Panels By Fiat By Jeffrey Lord – American Spectator
Now, with Americans absorbed in a festive holiday and ignoring Washington momentarily, the Obama administration has found a way to achieve its death panel goal anyway, as the Times now admits. Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats’ bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill.
It inserts the federal government in end-of-life planning, precisely as Palin said was Obama’s intention. Not, as was true of its original legislative formulation, every five years. But annually. On Christmas day 2010, the Times reports the death panel idea will become a Medicare rule on January 1, 2011.
Part of the furor launched over Palin’s remarks was the discovery by millions of frightened Americans that Obama health care bureaucrats admired the British health care system
Dr. Berwick personally issued the Christmas Death Panel Rule. He stated, “I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it. … The NHS is one of the astounding human endeavors of modern times.”
The Heritage Foundation has accurately noted that the real issue is the Obama administration’s clear intent to govern by executive fiat now that it has lost control of the House and, effectively, the Senate as well. Government-by-Obama fiat will be the subject of a furious struggle in the new Congress. …the Berwick rule can be undone—if the Congress orders it undone.
Premium power grab! Feds take control of insurance prices – WorldNetDaily
New Sebelius ‘regulation’ called ‘one more way’ to drive companies out of market. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her staff are implementing a new 136-page federal regulation which, for the first time ever, gives the federal government the power to set health insurance premium prices, a regulatory role traditionally reserved for the states, health policy experts are telling WND.
The new price control rule centralizes regulation of insurance policy premiums – and coverage – in Washington, D.C., under the aegis of Sebelius, a longtime radical abortion advocate and instrumental player in President Obama’s cabinet for the Obamacare agenda
Virginia Attorney General: If We Lose, Government ‘Will Be Able To Order’ People To Buy Anything
Ken Cuccinelli told CNSNews.com that the federal government will be able to “order” individuals to purchase any product or service if the individual mandate in health care law is determined to be constitutional by the Supreme Court.
ABC Poll Finds Health Care Law Is Massively Unpopular, Network Offers Scant Coverage
Obamacare: Study Finds 40% of Doctors May Quit – Wesley J. Smith
Obamacare’s ambitions to control the entire health care system through a medical mega-bureaucracy endangers the health care system.
OBAMA AND ECONOMY
From Audacity to Animosity – Wall Street Journal
No president has alienated his base the way Obama has. We have not in our lifetimes seen a president in this position. He spent his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops. There isn’t much left to lose! Which may explain Tuesday’s press conference.
Instead Mr. Obama said, essentially, that he hates the deal he just agreed to, hates the people he made the deal with, and hates even more the people who’ll criticize it. His statement was startling in the breadth of its animosity. Republicans are “hostage takers” who worship a “holy grail” of “tax cuts for the wealthy.” “That seems to be their central economic doctrine.
The New Big Picture By Peter Ferrara – American Spectator
Facing off in the Main Event are President Barack Obama and incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). For the first time in his life, President Obama is finding himself intellectually overmatched. The ball is now in Paul Ryan’s court to produce a dramatic, shock therapy budget, similar to what Chris Christie did in New Jersey and Bob O’Donnell did in Virginia. Ryan’s plan to take every budget line item except Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid back to 2008 must be the minimum, more than offsetting the tax deal spending and other tax credit garbage.
Flashback: Obama Promised 5-Day, Public Review of Bills Before Signing; Signs Tax Bill Within Hours of House Vote – Breitbart
Swindle of the Year – Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 – Charles Krauthammer
Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 — and House Democrats don’t have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. These are the same Republicans who spent 2010 running on limited government and reducing the debt. And this budget-busting occurs less than a week after the president’s deficit commission had supposedly signaled a new national consensus of austerity and frugality.
Some Republicans are crowing that Stimulus II is the Republican way — mostly tax cuts — rather than the Democrats’ spending orgy of Stimulus I. Obama is no fool. While getting Republicans to boost his own reelection chances, he gets them to make a mockery of their newfound, second-chance, post-Bush, tea-party, this-time-we’re-serious persona of debt-averse fiscal responsibility.
Movie Producers and Racetracks Get Special Tax Breaks in $858-Billion Obama-GOP Deal – CNS
Class Warfare, The last Refuge of a Democrat By Peter Wehner
Democrats are enraged at President Obama for his decision to extend George W. Bush’s tax cuts for all Americans, including top income earners. What explains their anger?