ALG's Daily Grind - The Teleprompter President

May 23, 2013

The Teleprompter President

Obama must be a president who has been deemed too incompetent by his own staff to be kept in the loop, a failed leader who has standing orders to keep himself out of the loop on anything that might require decision making, or he is just flat out lying.

Wrong talking point

Obama Administration fesses up to additional targeting of U.S. citizens by drones overseas.

The Fed's $1 trillion foreign bailout

Fed data shows 54 percent of QE3 has gone overseas.

Investors.com: Cracks Widen In The IRS Scandal Stonewall

"The claim that a couple of workers in the bowels of an IRS office in Cincinnati managed to block tax-exempt applications from conservative groups for more than two years, while subjecting them to outrageous, intrusive and improper requests for information, started falling apart days ago."

ALG's Daily Grind - Arrogance is Obama's worst enemy

May 20, 2013

Arrogance is Obama's worst enemy

Obama's breached relationship with the media is the greatest threat to his presidency and his legacy, but does he even realize it?

Greens oppose drilling, fracking, Keystone… and exports

Drilling opponents claim to be protecting the environment. In reality, they simply detest hydrocarbons, modern living standards, free enterprise and personal liberty.

IRS rules already clear on 501(c)(4) political activity

ALG's Mehrens: "Targeting organizations for special scrutiny on the belief that they might exercise their First Amendment protected rights to engage in political activity in is an egregious violation of the freedom of speech. If it had been done consistently for groups of all stripes would not have made it better."

Wall Street Journal: The Doubly Illegal NLRB

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules that another one of Obama's "recess" NLRB appointments violated the Constitution.

CEI Today: Court ruling on Obama recess appointments, junk science on Fox, and Obama's EPA nominee

OBAMA RECESS APPOINTMENTS - HANS BADER

Openmarket.org: Obama Recess Appointments Violate Constitution; Another Appeals Court Rules Against the NLRB

Another federal appeals court has ruled that President Obama’s so-called “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess at the time.

Obama’s appointments of the NLRB members would be valid only under a still broader, radically expansive interpretation of the Recess Appointments Clause that would gut the Senate’s power to review Presidential appointments. > Read more

> Interview Hans Bader

JUNK SCIENCE - ANGELA LOGOMASINI Openmarket.org: Surprising Junk Science on FOX News FOX published a silly story from Prevention magazine on how chemicals found in popcorn cooked in nonstick pans might give you heart disease based on a single study that found a statistical association, which can occur by mere chance.  How many other studies failed to find an association?  The article doesn’t bother to go there, rather it says:  ” Scary? You bet.”  The article does offer a weak qualifier, stating that “more research needs to be done to determine the specific relationship between PFOA [the chemical used in non-stick the pans] and cardiovascular disease.” Another recent FOX-published article highlights EWG’s latest Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce.  Fox offers no  critical analysis of the activist groups’ crazy claims.  > Read more > Interview Angela Logomasini

EPA (NON)TRANSPARENCY - MARLO LEWIS Globalwarming.org:  Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy Even the Society of Environmental Journalists – hardly a hotbed of libertarians, conservative Republicans, or fossil-fuel industry lobbyists — recently complained that the Obama administration “has been anything but transparent in its dealings with reporters seeking information, interviews and clarification” on environmental, health, and public lands issues, and that, ”The EPA is one of the most closed, opaque agencies to the press.”  > Read more > Interview Marlo Lewis

CEI Podcast for May 16, 2013: A Controversial EPA Nominee The bitter fight over Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s nominee for EPA Administrator, is headed to the Senate floor under a potential filibuster threat. Myron Ebell, Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment, explains that the deeper cause of this political fight is a startling lack of transparency at the EPA that McCarthy is unlikely to fix.

COMING SOON! Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State DID YOU KNOW? U.S. households “pay” $14,768 annually in regulatory hidden tax, “absorbing” 23 percent of the average income of $63,685, and 30 percent of the expenditure budget of $49,705.

CEI ANNUAL DINNER & GALA FEATURING THE HONORABLE RAND PAUL JUNE 20, 2013 cei.org/ceidinner

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"Richard Windsor,” Gina McCarthy, and the Abuse of Power Featuring Christopher Horner, author of The Liberal War on Transparency and CEI Senior Fellow Monday, May 20, 2013 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 406 Senate Dirksen Office Bldg Washington, DC RSVP: mebell@cei.org

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US House Republican Conference - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: There's Always Money in the Banana Stand

Here’s the story of the dysfunctional Democratic majority in Washington that’s costing American jobs, and the one President who had no choice but to make it worse:

Arrested Economic Development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVSMVJpaLU

Please watch and share this new video – exclusively for bloggers - from the House Republican Conference in advance of the vote in the House to repeal ObamaCare. 

ALG's Daily Grind - Obama unmasked: from IRS politicization to AP wiretapping

May 15, 2013

Obama unmasked: from IRS politicization to AP wiretapping

A little truth to the formerly complicit Fourth Estate: The actions of the Justice Department are a direct attack on your ability to protect sources, develop stories and have those you speak with have any expectation that their anonymity will be preserved.

The SEIU is Not the Fastest Growing Union—It's Shrinking

Service Employees International Union's 2012 LM-2 shows membership dropped by nearly 45 thousand members- the first drop in 8 years. The SEIU is in trouble.

Sen. Max Baucus asked IRS in 2010 to investigate 501(c) groups, letter shows

ALG's Mehrens: ""Considering the invasive questions the IRS was asking the targeted organizations, it appears that Sen. Baucus got exactly what he asked for, which was a witch-hunt."

BBC News: U.S. shale oil supply shock shifts global power balance

"A steeper-than-expected rise in U.S. shale oil reserves is about to change the global balance of power between new and existing producers, a report says."