(A.J. DiCintio) – Although putting together a complete picture of any individual requires horrendous amounts of work, the task is hugely more daunting with respect to Barack Obama, a person who admired Marxist professors as a young man, forged associations with dangerous, vulgar, leftist extremists such as Bill Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright during his years as a card-carrying member of the Chicago Political Machine, and has remained dogmatically devoted to the threadbare ideology for which the American left can’t agree upon a name…

Environmentalists are up in arms and going to court to try to prevent the mowing of grass taking place around the future site of the Keystone XL Pipeline, an oil pipeline connecting Alberta, Canada with Gulf Coast refineries. The Center for Biological Diversity, Western Nebraska Resources Council and Friends of the Earth have filed a lawsuit making the charge that the mowing of grass along the proposed route is really the beginning of construction. “It’s outrageous that TransCanada is already clearing the way for the Keystone XL pipeline before the public has had a chance to have its say and, indeed, before federal agencies have even said it can be built,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species program director at the Center for Biological Diversity

Last week, the public comment period closed on the Obama Labor Department’s proposed regulatory change to alter a 1959 law that would make employers and their service providers (attorneys and various consultants) file financial disclosure statements and make personal information public, all in order to give union bosses hit lists of individuals and companies to target. Prior to the closing of the public comment period, there were nearly 6,000 comments —4,000 of which came within the last ten days or so as more people became aware of

In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital-gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result.

The media finally conceded the Obama administration to be inexperienced and inept, reminiscent of the Carter administration — but, they maintained, not possibly involved in any corruption. Then suddenly scandals erupted on nearly every conceivable front: the crony-capitalist half-billion-dollar loan guarantee to a now bankrupt Solyndra; the Fast and Furious gun deal, in which, in lunatic fashion, the U.S. government sold deadly automatic weapons to Mexican drug-cartel killers; the administration’s pressure on a four-star general to fudge his testimony as a favor to a big campaign donor whose suspect company, LightSquared, was doing business with the Pentagon; and the politically inspired dropping of investigations by the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department

From The Heritage Foundation: A lifetime appointment to the federal bench is now selling for $700,000. At least that was the cost for Rhode Island judicial nominee Jack McConnell, who has donated that sum of money to Democrats in the two decades before President Obama tapped him for federal district court. McConnell faces a Senate confirmation vote [...]

From Michelle Malkin: President Obama met with Bill Clinton on Friday. Clinton agreed to publicly back Obama on the tax/unemployment extension agreement with Republicans. Obama then brought Slick out before a hastily assembled press corps, and then left Clinton alone with them to work his Bubba magic: In terms of Washington political drama, Friday was an instant [...]

From Human Events: The first shots in the Obama Revolution, the highly unlikely campaign that elevated an inexperienced former Chicago community organizer born in Hawaii and raised in Indonesia into the Oval Office, were fired at the Long Island Southampton beach house of billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros. Soros is one of the wealthiest [...]

From Human Events: The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. Leave aside Obama’s fanatical opposition to allowing Illinois hospitals to save the lives of babies with God-given souls inadvertently born alive during [...]

From World Net Daily: With President Obama igniting political controversy by commenting on the right of American Muslims to build an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, it is worth noting the close ties of several Obama administration officials to the cleric behind the proposed project. The ties include a religion adviser to Obama, [...]

From CNSNews.com: Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) seemed to take President Barack Obama head on during a 37-minute self-defense speech on the House floor Tuesday. Meanwhile, the White House backed away Tuesday from what seems to be Obama’s call for Rangel to resign from Congress. “If I can’t get my dignity back here, then fire [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Team Obama is playing the “private citizen” card again to create a bubble of political protection around the profligate, policy activist First Lady. We’ve seen it before. When conservatives challenged Mrs. O’s caustic 2008 campaign trail statements disparaging America and fear-mongering for votes, her hubby invoked the “civilian” shield. He threatened Republicans to “lay off his wife”, [...]

From Right Wing News: Wow, a terrific ad from the NRSC about President Obama’s connection with mobster Alexi Giannoulias: Haven’t heard about Giannoulias? Here’s some background from theExaminer’s David Flatt: Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients [...]

From World Net Daily: The Obama administration is buying votes in Kenya, charges Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. WND reported Monday the Obama administration has funded $23 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, to support the passage [...]

From World Net Daily: An investigation by three Republican congressmen has revealed the Obama administration has secretly spent $23 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Kenya to fund a “Yes” vote on a constitutional referendum scheduled for Aug. 4 that would increase access to abortions in Kenya and establish legal status for Islamic law tribunals. [...]

From PrisonPlanet.com: While would be Senator Rand Paul was recently slated by the controlled left wing media for his nuanced philosophical view on one of the ten titles of the Civil Rights Act, the late Sen. Robert Byrd – an actual former member of the Ku Klux Klan – was lauded today by a former [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing today on [Obama's] nomination of Elena Kagan to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan is no stranger to the confirmation process; in fact, she devoted one of her few academic writings entirely to the subject,writing: The [...]

From The Chicago Sun Times: A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. John Harris, Blagojevich’s former chief of staff, testified Wednesday in the former governor’s corruption trial that [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama’s nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2ndCircuit,  Robert N. Chatigny, did legal work as a private defense attorney in 1992 for convicted serial killer Michael Ross and then, in 2005, as a federal district judge, led a proceeding that resulted in a delay in Ross’ execution. [...]

From World Net Daily: A scholar and charity head appointed to President Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission is closely tied to the Muslim leaders behind a proposed controversial Islamic cultural center to be built near the site of the 9/11 attacks. The White House fellow, Vartan Gregorian, is president of Carnegie Corp. of New York. [...]