Federal Court Slams Obama’s Use of Recess Appointment Power

The president’s bad week just got worse.

Damon W. Root Reason Magazine 5/16/2013

It’s been a bad week for Barack Obama, and things just got worse. On top of the growing scandals over the I.R.S. targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department snooping on journalists, the president has just received a major constitutional reprimand from [...]

Housing nominee Mel Watt helped create the subprime crisis

Charles C. Johnson The Daily Caller 5/5/2013

Mel Watt, President Obama’s nominee for director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, pushed government programs to help welfare recipients buy homes during the creation of the subprime mortgage bubble.

Watt, a 20-year Member of Congress from North Carolina’s 12th district, also had a hand in programs allowing [...]

Court to Obama: What Part of ‘The’ Do You Not Understand?

Terence P. Jeffrey CNS News 1/25/2013

…In an amicus brief that they jointly submitted to the court, the National Right to Work Foundation and Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation argued that because the Constitution gives the House and Senate sole power to set their own rules of proceedings, Obama has no power to say when [...]

Court puts doubt on Obama’s appointments in recess

“Forget about a century of precedent — go back to the Constitution.”

 

Ruling could change tradition

Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 12/5/2012

A federal appeals court cast doubt Wednesday not only on President Obama’s controversial January recess appointments but on most such appointments, using oral arguments to question whether presidential powers can [...]

Unexpectedly! Workers Turning Against Their Unions

Meep Conservative Commune 11/26/2012

When one realizes that union bosses and the rank-and-file do not have the same interests, especially when the union bosses’ have fully-funded pensions where rank-and-file have some awfully-funded pensions, not to mention the awesome pay & bennies and that (so far) the industries going under don’t hurt the bosses, the following [...]

FOIA Shows Link Between ACORN and NLRB

Tony Lee Breitbart.com Big Government 4/21/2012

Cause of Action, a nonpartisan group that seeks more transparency in government, recently discovered e-mails through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that show linkages between top National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) executives and ACORN, the liberal community organizing group Andrew Breitbart helped expose and eventually put out of [...]

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