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OBAMA

Christians, here come the lions – The end of our religious freedom in America could be at hand.
https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100930

Are you freer today than you were before Obama? Survey shows grave concerns by Americans about Big Brother
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101266

Worried about the involvement of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, in next year's census.
https://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/exclusive-minn-lawmaker-fears-census-abuse/

Majority now cosponsors Ron Paul's Fed audit – Demand for transparency reaches 'crucial benchmark'
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100855

Ron Paul: President Obama's goal is “economic collapse”
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Ron-Paul-President-Obama-s-goal-is-economic-collapse.-.html&Itemid=127

Government Implemented Thousands of New Regulations Costing $1.17 Trillion in 2008
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49487

Obama Plans New Huge Regulatory State
https://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/06/17/new_financial_rules_major_changes_for_big,_small

What's Behind Obama's sudden Attempt to Fire the AmeriCorps Inspector General?
Senate sources now believe Obama is firing Walpin over Walpin's investigation of Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and a prominent supporter of the president.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Whats-behind-Obamas-sudden-firing-of-the-AmeriCorps-inspector-general-47877797.html

Obama's AmeriCrooks and Cronies Scandal by Michelle Malkin
https://townhall.com/Columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/06/17/obamas_americrooks_and_cronies_scandal

Bailing Out Sotomayor
It seems clear now that the Democratic leadership want to do with the nomination of Judge Sotomayor the same thing they did with the infamous bailout bill. The bill was thousands of pages long yet they demanded Senators vote on it, even without having a chance to read it.

The more Sen. Leahy and his cohorts want to rush this nomination through, the more suspicious it looks. The American people should therefore demand their Senators use every tool at their disposal to ensure that enough time is given. To let the Democratic leadership get away with this because it is “urgent” and “they have the votes to confirm her” is unacceptable.
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/17144/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm

Archbishop O'Brien on Sonia Sotomayor – Deal W. Hudson
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Archbishop-O-Brien-on-Sonia-Sotomayor.html&Itemid=127

Retreat into Apathy By Mark Steyn
I get a lot of mail each week arguing that, when folks see the price tag attached to Obama's plans, they'll get angry. Maybe. But, if Europe's a guide, at least as many people will retreat into apathy. Once big government's in place, it's very hard to go back.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWVkNTBjM2M1NzFhZmY0ZWNjODc5ZWY3YWIwYzE0ZWQ=

Dept. of Justice defends Defense of Marriage Act, Obama wants it overturned
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16298

Obama Supports Defense of Marriage Act … but You Wouldn't Know It
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/zoe-ortiz/2009/06/17/obama-supports-defense-marriage-act-you-wouldn-t-know-it

When Are Gay Rights Groups 'Far-Left'? When They Criticize Obama
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/06/18/when-are-gay-rights-groups-far-left-when-they-criticize-obama

OBAMA AND TRUTH

Decoding Obama By Peter Wehner
It is hardly unprecedented for a politician to rely on contradictory, misleading, and intellectually dishonest statements. But in only five months, Barack Obama—the man who campaigned on a new kind of politics, who ran on hope and against cynicism, and who insisted “words mean something”—has set a pace that is going to be hard to match, and hopefully hard to sustain.
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3848/pub_detail.asp

Just Make Stuff Up – President Obama's War on the Truth
In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. On matters of history, we now know that much of what President Obama says is either not factual or at least misleading.

Here we see the omnipotent influence of Obama's multicultural creed: Western civilization is unexceptional in comparison with other cultures, and history must be the story of an ecumenical, global shared brotherhood.

Here we see the classic notion of the “noble lie,” or the assumption that facts are to be cited or ignored in accordance with the intended aim. In Obama's way of thinking, his receptive youthful audiences are proof of his righteousness and wisdom — and empower him to pontificate on matters he knows nothing about…the real crisis in our brave new relativist world will be that those who demonstrate that he is untruthful will themselves be accused of lying.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTAyNzFjMmMwOWJjYmFmMTA2ODdjODZmZmQ0MWE1Mzg=&w=MQ==

Obama's Rhetoric is Seductively Narcotic But His Lack of Principle is Disturbing
He is a stout advocate of civility in public discourse but has surrounded himself with political brutes. For him, America is a secular nation, as he told the Turks; or a Muslim one as he implied in his media-acclaimed Cairo speech. It is certain he does not consider it a Christian nation.

The political narcotic that is Barack Obama is not evil, only dangerous. And as the debasement of our political culture and loss of our national security continue, we serve neither ourselves nor our children well to be lulled by it.
https://www.frc.org/op-eds/obamas-rhetoric-is-seductively-narcotic-but-his-lack-of-principle-is-disturbing

Our Historically Challenged President – A List of Distortions
In the recent Cairo speech, Obama's historical allusions were even more suspect. Almost every one of his references was either misleading or incomplete. Obama also stated: “For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights.”

With all due respect to our president, this assertion is again not fully accurate. The only thing that ended slavery in the United States was the Civil War, which saw some 600,000 Americans — the vast majority of them white — lost in a violent struggle to ensure that nearly half the country would not remain a slave-owning society. Also, the massive urban riots of the 1960s and 1970s were certainly violent.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGE1NGY2Y2I1MTExOTlkN2JjMzc0NTQ5YzUzZjYxNmQ=

OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN

House Health-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion in Tax Increases
https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqLNecbH0dcg

Obama Health Care Ambition Will Bankrupt Us – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/06/17/obama-health-care-ambition-will-bankrupt-us/

Obama Health Plan Could Include Assisted Suicide
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Obama-Health-Plan-Could-Include-Assisted-Suicide.html&Itemid=127

Obama Supports Tort Reform in Medicine: More Proof of Plan for Government Control of Health Care – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/06/15/obama-supports-tort-reform-in-medicine-more-proof-of-plan-for-government-control-of-health-care/

Beck on ObamaCare: A Plan Octomom Would Love
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/06/18/beck-obamacare-plan-octomom-would-love

Obama's Senior Moment
Also at the heart of President Obama's plan is the restriction of services for older people, people 65 and older who by virtue of modern medicine may actually be ten and fifteen years younger in terms of good health than they would have been a generation ago. Alas, they still have higher health risks and costs than younger people. Thus they are going to bear the brunt of the Obama Administration's cost cuts, for 27-30% of Medicaid spending is spent for caring for people at the end of their lives.
https://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/18/obamas-senior-moment

ABC Becomes Pravda: Pushes Obama Health Care From the White House, Rejects Opposition Voices -Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/06/16/abc-becomes-pravda-pushes-obama-health-care-from-the-white-house-rejects-opposition-voices/