Replacing Justice Souter
reason.com 5/21/2009 — With Supreme Court Justice David Souter set to retire next month at the end of the Court's current term, President Barack Obama faces one of the most important decisions of his tenure. Reason.com asked a panel of leading legal scholars and ...

How to Profit from the Obama Stocks
oldprof.typepad.com 6/14/2009 — Understanding public policy decisions is crucial to investment success. This has never been more true. Government intervention is changing the nature of every business. As an investor, you need to figure out what is going to happen, and whether it ...

Why the Obama Administration Is All Over the Map on Afghanistan
cato-at-liberty.org 10/8/2009 — Hey Rajiv Chandrasekaran, what the heck happened back in March when Obama decided to send 17,000 more troops into Afghanistan and started telling everyone we needed a more expansive approach there ? Everyone, save Vice President Biden’s national security adviser, agreed that the United ...

Obama’s Bear
optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com 3/5/2009 — I will preface this post by emphasizing that it is NOT Barack Obama’s fault that the market has fallen so much on his watch. The American economy was grossly over-leveraged before he was even elected to the Senate in 2004. The stock ...

How Tough is Our President?
robertreich.blogspot.com 8/19/2009 — Latest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is "not the essential element" of ...

YouTube Caught Red-handed Cooking Stats for Obama
newsback.com 9/25/2009 — News aggregator DrudgeReport.com is currently linking to a YouTube video of a government schoolteacher instructing young students to praise Obama in song. While this is shocking, there is an even bigger story here. Consider this: the video's “views” counter listed only 363 views as of 1:04 p.m. ...

The DailyShow: Jon Stewart
thedailyshow.com 3/10/2009 —

What if George W. Bush had done that?
politico.com 10/28/2009 — A four-hour stop in New Orleans , on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama . Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. Freezing out a TV network . Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf , too. ...

Obama Rejects Second Stimulus
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 7/12/2009 — After sitting on the fence for weeks as noted in Battle Lines Form Over "Son of Stimulus" president Obama finally makes up his mind. The door is closed and Obama rejects 2nd stimulus . President Barack Obama said Saturday the $787 billion stimulus ...

Obama's Vision Of Supreme Court Pick Clear
cbsnews.com 5/24/2009 — On the verge of choosing his first Supreme Court nominee, President Obama has already provided a profile of the person he is likely to pick: an intellectual heavyweight with a "common touch."

Gays and hate crimes : Small comfort — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Barack Obama is doing a bit for American gays ELEVEN years ago a young gay man named Matthew Shepard was whipped with a pistol, tied to a fence, robbed, tortured and left to die. This murder has served as a rallying cry for gays, who think the ...

Cap-and-trade: The road to 60 — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Signs of bipartisanship on the climate-change bill MANY commentators fear that Barack Obama’s plans for a cap-and-trade bill have got fatally stuck in the Senate. Their calculations were shaken up over the weekend when Lindsey Graham, a South ...

The “mini mid-terms”: Republicans resurgent — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Democrats face two tough races with national implications CHRIS CHRISTIE, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, is meeting voters at a restaurant in Monmouth Junction that serves colossal bacon cheeseburgers. But nothing passes his ...

Global-warming diplomacy: Bangkok blues — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Gloom and pragmatism ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summit THE planet is warming, but the mood among climate negotiators seems as chilly as ever. On October 9th the penultimate round of talks before December’s climate-change summit in ...

The war in Afghanistan: Obama's war — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Why the Afghanistan war deserves more resources, commitment and political will EIGHT years after the deceptively swift toppling of the Taliban, the prospects for the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan seem worse than ever. Every Western casualty, every ...