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Gates: 100 at Gitmo could wind up in U.S.

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested Thursday that as many as 100 detainees would be held without trial on U.S. soil if the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were closed, a situation that he acknowledged would create widespread, if not unanimous, opposition in Congress. The estimate was the most specific yet from the Obama administration about how many of the 241... »

Cass Sunstein for Souter slot?

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The announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter could result in Barack Obama's nomination of a man who has been an outspoken proponent of tough restriction on gun sales and ownership, a ban on hunting, animal rights and what has been characterized as a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet. Cass Sunstein, a law professor friend of the president... »

Obama Sets Terms, Timeline for Finding Souter Replacement

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President Obama said he hopes to have his first nominee to the Supreme Court seated by the start of the next term, in October, as he confirmed Friday afternoon that Justice David Souter is retiring from the nation's highest court. Obama, who interrupted the daily White House press briefing... »

U.S. sovereignty on swap block

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The Obama administration is preparing to swap U.S. sovereignty for a higher level of U.S. presence at the United Nations, a plan that has alarmed officials working to protect the rights of Americans, specifically the parental rights that traditionally have been recognized across the nation's history. Michael Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of... »

As flu hits, holes in W.H. health team

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The Obama administration declared a “public health emergency” Sunday to confront the swine flu — but is heading into its first medical outbreak without a secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department’s 19 key posts. President Barack Obama has not yet chosen a surgeon general or the head of the Centers for Disease Control and... »

100 Days, 100 Mistakes for Obama

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1. "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of... »

New law to ‘manage’ 8 million ‘volunteers’

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President Obama today signed into law the "GIVE Act," H.R. 1388, which massively expands the National Service Corporation and allocates to it billions of dollars, and one executive for the program now says it will allow for the "managing" of up to 8 or 9 million people. WND has reported on plans to create the corps since Obama... »

Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security

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A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security. Michael Hayden, who served as former President Bush's last CIA director from 2006 to 2009, said releasing the memos outlining terror interrogation methods emboldened terrorist groups such as al Qaeda. "What we have described for our enemies in... »

Obama slammed: ‘Chains we can believe in’

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A sign with President Obama's famous "O" logo stating, "Chains we can believe in" welcomed hundreds of protesters to a tea party event here this evening in one of the nation's most affluent regions. Those braving rain showers to sound their objections to Obama's policies voiced a common theme, one suggesting America is rapidly racing toward... »

Obama to ‘tea-bag’ protesters: I’ve already cut taxes

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Americans need a "government that is working to create jobs and opportunity for them, rather than simply giving more and more to those at the very top in the false hope that wealth will trickle down," Obama said. In his remarks, Obama decried the use of taxes as a political wedge issue "to scare people into supporting policies that increased the... »