Monte Kuligowski -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash. -- December 22, 2009     Mr. Obama: Tear down your wall of secrecy    Everyone has gotten the memo by this point: Do not question Barack Obama. Even conservatives have been warned by other conservatives about mentioning the secrecy issue: It's pointless and can only harm conservatism....

Washington Post -- December 22, 2009      Here's Your "Change": Unemployment funds going 'absolutely broke'    The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks...

Michael van der Galien -- NewsRealBlog.com -- December 22, 2009     European media blame arrogant Obama for Copenhagen fiasco    It might be hard to believe for Americans who are used to Obama-worshipping from their MSM, but European media have blamed President Barack Obama for the fiasco at Copenhagen. This even though they celebrated his victory against Sen. John McCain last year as if he were the second coming of the Messiah...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- December 22, 2009       Poll reveals mass unrest amongst Americans    A new poll reveals that the vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with president Obama's performance in office, with almost two thirds voicing opposition to the government healthcare bill and a majority also indicating they believe political corruption is rife. -- The poll, conducted by Survey USA...

Stephen Lendman -- Rense.com -- December 21, 2009      Obama Year One - Betrayal and failure - Part 1   Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 years along with congressional Democrats gaining large House and Senate majorities. In addition, at 56.8%, voter turnout was the highest since Richard Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam war...

Terence P. Jeffrey -- Washington Times -- December 21, 2009      Who likes the president?    A strategist casting a cold eye on the Gallup poll tracking President Obama's job approval rating might be tempted to give our president the following advice: Sir, you need more unmarried, unchurched, poor and inexperienced Americans...

Associated Press -- December 21, 2009     Top Cuban official says Obama lied in Copenhagen    Havana -- Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island's increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government...

Hartford (Conn.) Courant -- December 21, 2009      Obama on record pace for naming Hispanics to top posts    Miami -- President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation's Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians...

Barbara Crossette -- The Nation -- December 21, 2009      In Copenhagen, a new world order on display     Some fundamental new realities about global power shifts in the world, and the role of Obama's America in the new order, have been obscured by the frenzy to declare winners and losers at the just-concluded Copenhagen conference on climate change... [See NWO Treason Watch]

Wall Street Journal -- December 21, 2009    Change nobody believes in     And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid too. The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff ObamaCare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline. Barring some extraordinary reversal, it now seems as if they have the 60 votes they need to jump off this cliff, with one-seventh of the economy in tow...

CNS News -- December 21, 2009     Nearly 60% say Obama's Decisions 'bad for America'   A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is "mostly falsified." That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals... [See Obama Watch]

Washington Times Editorial -- December 21, 2009     What is Obama smoking?    Apparently, the debate over the economy is over, and it's settled science that government spending stimulates growth. At least that's what President Obama wants you to believe. On CBS' "60 Minutes" on Dec. 13, he boasted, "What we now know, and every economist who's looked at it will acknowledge this, is that [the stimulus] helped us [stem] the panic and get the economy growing again."

Washington Times -- December 21, 2009      The failed president    Barack Obama is on his way to being the worst president in U.S. history. This has not dawned on him - yet. But it will soon. -- Last week, Oprah Winfrey in her "Christmas at the White House" special asked the president what grade he would give himself for his first year in office...

Washington Times -- December 21, 2009      Sen. Whitehouse: Foes of health care bill are birthers, right-wing militias, aryan groups     Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he excoriated Senate GOP members for up holding the pending health care bill and accused their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups...

Dianna C. Cotter -- Family Security Matters -- December 21, 2009      America's two unconstitutional presidents    Students of history know that history repeats itself. Today we are reliving the past of 1880s. The similarities between the 21st President and the 44th are startling, and the ramifications are huge. -- President Chester A. Arthur was the son of an Irish immigrant, William Arthur, and Vermonter, Malvina Stone...

Joe Wolverton, II -- The New American -- December 20, 2009      Obama nominates 'Tan Klan' activist as ambassador    President Barack Obama has appointed Maria del Carmen Aponte to be the next American ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, a La Raza devotee, was nominated in 1998 by Bill Clinton to be ambassador to the Domincan Republic, but her name was withdrawn after revelations that she had intimate ties to an agent of the DGI, the Cuban intelligence agency...

Washington Post -- December 20, 2009      Copenhagen climate deal shows new world order may be led by US, China    Copenhagen, DK -- If the talks that resulted in an imperfect deal to combat global warming provided anything, it was a glimpse into a new world order in which international diplomacy will increasingly be shaped by the United States and emerging powers, most notably China... [See NWO Treason Watch]

San Francisco Chronicle -- December 20, 2009      Here's Your 'Change': Thousands line up for a bag of groceries     Hard times mean crowded food lines, and the longest one in recent memory stretched so far Friday that it doubled back on itself like a python in San Francisco's Tenderloin, clogging the sidewalks for four blocks. -- It was the annual Christmas grocery bag giveaway at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church...

ABC News -- December 18, 2009      At Copenhagen, Chávez suggests Obama is the devil    ...[Hugo] Chávez said that "the Kyoto Protocol cannot be declared dead or extinguished, which is what the US pretends to do. Which is why (President) Evo (Morales of Bolivia) tells a great truth: If Obama, Nobel War Prize, said here, by the way, it smells of sulfur here. It smells of sulfur. It keeps smelling of sulfur in this world..."

Breitbart.tv -- December 18, 2009          Obama continues his practice of bowing his way around the world    Newsbusters: What is it with our head of our state and Commander-in-Chief that sends him diving toward his shoes whenever a foreign dignitary hails into view?

Politico -- December 18, 2009      Obama Threat To Congressman: 'Don't think we're not keeping score, brother'     Rep. Peter DeFazio's phone rang. On the other end was Rahm Emanuel. -- The White House chief of staff last month expressed frustration with DeFazio's resignation calls for President Barack Obama's top two economic aides -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House chief economist Larry Summers -- and appealed for cooperation, according to DeFazio... [Related item]

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- December 18, 2009         Obama tosses tantrum at Copenhagen fib-fest    A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama was forced to address climate skepticism during his ill-tempered tantrum today in Copenhagen, desperately claiming that man-made climate change was "not fiction," a view not shared by the majority of Americans he has failed to represent as he attempts to ram through a huge transfer of wealth to the new world order...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- December 18, 2009          Obama's 'Change': Panic in Detroit -- Unemployment stands at 50%     AOL's job site reports the following: Nearly one out of two workers in Detroit are unemployed, according to a report by The Detroit News. It's a figure far higher than the government's official figure, which is still close to a staggering 30 percent. -- But the newspaper says that rate doesn't take everything into account...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell -- December 17, 2009      Health Care Scam: Completely reckless, completely irresponsible     ...'And here's the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader's conference room has even seen. That's right. The final bill we'll vote on isn't even the one we've had on the floor. It's the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private'...

The Hill -- Washington -- December 17, 2009      Rep. Steve King renews call to fire Obama 'safe schools' czar    Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) Thursday again asked President Barack Obama to fire "safe schools" czar Kevin Jennings. -- The consevative lawmaker penned a letter to Obama to express his disappointment that the administration did not respond to his first letter in October... [See Czar Watch]

WorldNetDaily.com -- December 17, 2009      20 senators demand probe of health-care vote 'threat'    Twenty senators are demanding an investigation into reports the Obama administration threatened to close Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska if that state's Democratic senator, Ben Nelson, didn't join other Democrats in voting for health-care reform... [VIDEO: Glenn Beck discusses this outrage: Part 1 / Part 2] [See Rahmbo Watch]

James Maropoulakis Denney -- The Examiner -- December 17, 2009        George Soros and Obama: enemies of liberty    I think it's fairly obvious that had it not been for the Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, Barack Obama would not be President of the United States today. Soros, who made most of his billions through the currency speculation which he first commenced during the post-war hyper inflation in Hungary in 1946...

Pam Meister -- Family Security Matters -- December 17, 2009       Illinois residents prepare to meet their new neighbors: Terrorists from Gitmo    Most people would dread having obnoxious neighbors like the Bumpuses in the movie A Christmas Story. Although we never actually see the Bumpuses, we do see their dogs, who are allowed to roam freely about the neighborhood and end up barging in to Ralphie Parker's home on Christmas morning... [See AG Watch]

NewsMax.com -- December 16, 2009     Report details 10 'typical' Obama appointees     A conservative and libertarian organization has distributed a glossy brochure spotlighting "Ten Typical Obama Appointees" to show that the president has given key positions to "some of the most radical appointees ever to control the federal bureaucracy."

Seth McLaughlin -- Human Events -- December 16, 2009      White House gives Illinois Gitmo detainees    President Obama's push to relocate at least 100 terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay military prison to the Thomson Correctional Center in rural Illinois has been billed as a much needed job creator and economic injection for the northwestern nook of the state...

William Tucker -- American Spectator -- December 16, 2009    Put men back to work    ...The clincher was the CNN poll showing only 19 percent of Americans think Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. The fog created by liberal adulation is beginning to lift. The President is being revealed for what he is -- an academically trained intellectual with a lot of abstract ideas who doesn't have much real feel for the country....

Michelle Malkin -- December 16, 2009      Obama brings the Gitmolympics home    President Obama's hometown cronies lost their bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to the Windy City. But this week they got a consolation prize: the Gitmolympics. On Tuesday, the White House went public with its official plans to purchase the Thomson Correctional Facility from financially strapped Illinois to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. The War on Terror meets the Chicago Way...

Family Security Matters -- December 16, 2009      Nutbag In Chief: You know what's sexy? Insulation    Per HotAir: total uses of the phrase "let me be clear" thus far this year: 85. -- This video shows the Teleprompter Messiah spewing BS about home insulation at a Home Depot store in No. Virginia on December 15, 2009.

New York Times -- December 15, 2009     Obama gives himself a 'solid B-plus'    So what grade does President Obama give himself after nearly a year in office? -- "A good solid B-plus," he said, answering a question from Oprah Winfrey during a television special that aired on Sunday evening. -- Mr. Obama said that he inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

New York Times -- December 14, 2009       How's This for 'Change?': Poll reveals depth and trauma of joblessness in U.S.     More than half of the nation's unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs. An equal number have cut back on doctor visits or medical treatments because they are out of work. -- Almost half have suffered from depression or anxiety. About 4 in 10 parents have noticed behavioral changes in their children...

Fox News -- December 14, 2009      USCC raises 'security' concerns after group puts bounty on CEO    ...Velvet Revolution, a network of dozens of mostly liberal groups that formed in 2004, started an ad campaign this month offering $200,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Donohue, whose business group has put up roadblocks to several planks of the Obama administration's domestic agenda...

Washington Times -- December 14, 2009      Illegal immigration axis    The Obama administration has dramatically realigned the 2010 census, practically transforming it into an arm of the illegal-immigration lobby by partnering with nearly two dozen pro-amnesty organizations. A comparison of census documents from 2000 reveals that's three times as many illegal-alien-amnesty organizations as were active during the Clinton administration census...

WorldNetDaily.com -- December 13, 2009      Sign at homeless camp: 'Welcome to Obamaville' -- (Here's Your 'Change')    Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., have a mystery on their hands: Who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville" on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city? -- The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama... [Video report]

NewsMax.com -- December 13, 2009     Obama's ambassador nominee has ties to 'Tan Klan,' Cuban spy    Mari Del Carmen Aponte's nomination as President Clinton's ambassador to the Dominican Republic had to be withdrawn in 1998 when the late Sen. Jesse Helms let it be known he had an intelligence memo examining her connections to Communist Cuba's spy agency...

Washington Times Editorial -- December 12, 2009      Obama's risky-sex czar    The Obama administration is stonewalling serious inquiries about sexual filth propagated by a senior presidential appointee who is responsible for promoting and implementing federal education policy. Democrats clearly are terrified of ruffling the feathers of their activist homosexual supporters...

Matt Taibbi -- Rolling Stone -- December 12, 2009      Obama is a creature of Wall Street    Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans."

Mark A. Calabria -- Cato Institute -- December 11, 2009      It's the Obama economy now    Undoubtedly President Obama inherited an economic mess. Also undoubtedly, he's made it worse. Barring substantial revisions to recent job loss estimates, we have now crossed the line where as many jobs have been lost during this recession under President Obama as under President Bush. From the start of the recession...

ZeroHedge.com -- December 11, 2009      Here's Your 'Change': Emergency jobless insurance claims surge by most ever in prior week     The number you won't hear mentioned anywhere in the Mainstream Media: 327,729. That is how many people shifted to Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs in the last week alone, hitting an all time record high of 4.2 million! So as everyone is focused on the benign picture of initial claims in the last week which was "only" 474,000...

Frank Salvato -- Family Security Matters -- December 11, 2009      American liberty vs. social engineering    After the General Election of 2008 I made a conscious effort to give President Obama a chance. I wanted to give him an opportunity to be true to his word; to prove that he was committed to governing from the center. I also wanted to demonstrate that I was not of the same ilk as the Bush-hating, "he stole the election..."

Rand Corporation -- December 11, 2009      Another indication the federal government is up to no good     This 213-page document from the Rand Corporation indicated that some sort of a new kind of 'police authority' is in the works for the United States. It refers to the U.S. as 'a society in transition.' This can't be good. Is this the "change" Barack Hussein Obama is talking about? [See NWO Treason Watch]

Family Security Matters Blog -- December 11, 2009      Video: Hannity and Michelle Malkin discuss another radical Obama 'czar'    This one is the ultra-radical 'safe schools czar' Kevin Jennings, a bizarre character indeed, as are many of Obama's numerous 'czars.' [See Czar Watch] [More FSM blog entries]

Connie Hair -- Human Events -- December 10, 2009      Price unimpressed with Obama's jobs meeting     If you look at the national polls, Obama owns the double-digit unemployment. And Americans aren't accepting the idea that the president can spend us back to prosperity. -- Yesterday the president summoned congressional leaders to a meeting on "jobs" at the White House seeking answers to his political problems...

Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner -- December 10, 2009      Breakdowns at U.S. Port of Entry continue     President Obama campaigned on change, giving Border States hope with the appointment of Arizona's Janet Napolitano to Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, however this is where the hope and change ended and business as usual persisted...

Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts -- December 10, 2009      Report blasts Obama's record on immigration    The Obama Administration has failed in its efforts to secure the border and enforce immigration laws, an anti-illegal immigration group said in a report released Wednesday. -- The Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington D.C.-based group, says the administration "has systemically dismantled" immigration enforcement since the beginning of the year...

Michelle Malkin -- December 10, 2009      "My accomplishments are slight:" Happy National Post-Achievement Day!    In honor of President Barack Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think we should declare today Happy National Post-Achievement Day. -- What award or honor don't you deserve? Claim it. -- What unearned prize for unmet aspirations would you like to give yourself? Declare it...

Bobby Eberle -- GOPUSA.com -- December 8, 2009          When all else fails, accuse opponents of being racists    ...Remember during the course of the immigration debate? If you were not in favor of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, you were a racist. If you favored the rule of law rather that rewarding illegal behavior, you were a racist. -- The tactic is wearing thin, and Obama pretty much wore it out...

Washington Times -- December 8, 2009     Obama health 'czar' worked at legally troubled health firms    Nancy-Ann DeParle, one of President Obama's chief advocates for the health care reform bill wending its way through Congress, earned more than $6.6 million as a paid director for health care firms, some of which were targeted in government investigations or whistleblower lawsuits on suspicions of billing fraud and other legal problems... [See Czar Watch]

Chicago Tribune -- December 8, 2009      Obama pledged to tackle amnesty after dealing with health care scam    Having waited patiently in the wings, Immigration advocates in Chicago and elsewhere are anxious to take President Barack Obama at his word when he said Immigration reform would soon follow health care on the nation's agenda... [See Amnesty Watch]

David Gutmann -- Front Page Magazine -- December 8, 2009     Obama for World President?    Rookie Democratic congressmen are reportedly afraid that Obama will stubbornly press ahead with his unpopular plans for Health Reform, even if they, his unwilling Kamikazes, get voted out of office in 2010 as a result. As a dedicated Obama watcher, I for one am not surprised by this development....

Paul Craig Roberts -- Online Journal -- December 8, 2009      Obama is proving to be another handmaiden of the plutocrats     Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters "are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank."

BigGovernment.com -- December 7, 2009      Another whack- job Obama "czar" exposed    ...On Friday, Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of 'The B-Cast' submitted a shocking report on Obama's deviant Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings. This report was posted at Gateway Pundit blog. Scott explained...

WorldNetDaily.com -- December 5, 2009      Palin: OK to press Obama's eligibility    The public is "rightfully" making questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president into an issue, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared yesterday. -- "Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" Palin was asked in an interview on the Rusty Humphries national radio show...

Heritage Foundation -- December 4, 2009      Obama's Failed Stimulus in Pictures: Jobs gap grows to 7.6 million    Another month under President Obama, another 11,000 jobs lost, pushing the total Obama jobs deficit to 7.6 million. One day after the White House jobs summit admitted that the President's policies -- including the massive $787 billion stimulus enacted last spring -- are not working to create jobs...

CNNMoney.com -- December 4, 2009       Here's Your 'Change': El Centro holds position for highest jobless rate    El Centro, Calif., held its position of having the highest unemployment rate among the nation's metropolitan areas, with the jobless rate at 30%, according to government figures released Wednesday. -- While the figure fell from a revised 32.2% in September, it climbed from 26.8% a year ago and it is staggering even against the nation's 10.2% unemployment rate, which is at a 26-year high....

Connie Hair -- Human Events -- December 4, 2009      Another photo-op summit     The Obama administration held another photo-op summit yesterday, this one focusing on jobs. Unemployment figures released this morning for November continue in double digits showing 10 percent of Americans unemployed...

San Antonio Express-News -- December 4, 2009      Obama seeks advice on creation of jobs    ...House Republicans held their own jobs event with conservatives on Capitol Hill. -- Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, said the Obama administration has failed to protect U.S. jobs by cutting back on worksite raids aimed at deporting [illegal aliens]...

Chris Stirewalt -- The Examiner -- December 4, 2009      Obama delivers a cynical speech to a cynical nation    President Obama's invocations of Sept. 11 in his West Point speech on Afghanistan landed with a clatter. -- To anti-war liberals, it was a reminder of their revulsion every time George W. Bush used the attacks as a pretext for his foreign policy. From the moment Bush grabbed the bullhorn at the ruins of the World Trade Center...