Monday’s Headlines

Posted on 3/23/2009 by Phil

Eligibility

• Obama Continues to Deny America the Protection of the Constitution’s “Natural born Citizen” and Residency Clause

Stimulus Update

• Gov says SC might take money despite misgivings
• Governor Palin Rejects Stimulus-Funded Gov’t Expansion

Tea Party Updates

• Tax Day tea parties expected to number more than 1,000
  • ‘We don’t necessarily need mainstream media anymore’
• Thousands Protest ‘Wasteful’ Washington Spending At Orlando Tea Party
• TAX DAY TEA PARTY – RICHMOND, VA

Tenth Amendment

• Against All Enemies
• Standing up for our Constitutional Principles
• States’ Rights and The Left
• Recrossing the Rubicon
• Drug War Casualty: The Bill of Rights and Constitutional Liberty
• Video from Rally in Pennsylvania

Second Amendment

• Washington Post Story on Linkage Between D.C. Vote in U.S. House and Gun Amendment

Obama Administration

• W.H. dials back support for bonus tax
• Video: The punch-drunk moment
• ‘Punch-Drunk’ POTUS Has a Hearty Chuckle at the Expense of the Recently Unemployed and Destitute
• Gov. Palin Hits Back On Special Olympics Wisecrack
• NYTimes Somehow Misses Obama ‘Special Olympics’ Jab
• Thanks for Sending us a Terrorist, President Obama
• Disrespecting the Presidential Office

Treasury

• What the heck does Treasury do?
  • “Barack Obama hasn’t nominated 17 of 18 positions at Treasury needing Senate confirmation after more than two months on the job.”
  • “If Obama doesn’t fill these positions and hold the necessary and legally required meetings, a more hostile Congress could start making the case for dereliction of duty.  Fortunately for Obama, he doesn’t have a hostile Congress, but if Democrats don’t start pushing him into action, he may face one in 2011.”
• Are bailouts a violation of our international trade treaties?
• Video: Shelby plays Geithner Watch
• Judd Gregg: We’ll go bankrupt under Obama’s budget
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• The Geithner plan: Still a contradictory bag of slogans
  • “The one clear message that comes from this report is that the Obama administrationstill has no plan.  It has a few concepts, some of them contradictory, but no clear commitment to any details at all.  Which again begs the question: just what has Tim Geithner been doing with his time at Treasury?”
• Treasury Department Releases Details on Public Private Partnership Investment Program

Federal Censorship Commission

• Conservative Talk Fading in America?

Venezuela

• Venezuela’s Government Seizes Ports and Airstrips in Attempt to Consolidate Power

Israel

• Haifa vehicle contained 100kg of explosives

SCOTUS

• AP Story on Tuesday’s Oral Argument in U.S. Supreme Court on Campaign Finance
• U.S. Supreme Court Hears New Voting Rights Act Case on April 29

National Politics

• Ron Paul Polling Amongst Top Five In Time Magazine’s 2009 Influence Poll
• OHIO US SEN POLL; GOP HAS SECOND-TIER CHALLENGER FOR BOXER; BOSTON MAYOR LIKELY TO RUN AGAIN; TOP RACES OF 2009.
• TAUSCHER TO BE US ARMS NEGOTIATOR; GOP STALLING FRANKEN SEATING; DUBYA TO WRITE BOOK; UAW PREZ RETIRES.

State Legislation

• Ga. Lawmakers reconsider Obama resolution
• New Mexico Legislature Passes Contribution Limits
• Alaska Purges Registration Rolls
• New Mexico Eases Primary Ballot Access Burden for Some Candidates

GOP

• Hawaii Republicans challenge state’s open primary system