Maryland: Barack Obama

From Powerline
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania last year during the campaign, Barack Obama addressed the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision granting Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement through habeas corpus proceedings in federal court. Obama asserted that the “principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t just hold you for any [...]

by laryn
8 - The maximum level of unemployment predicted by the Obama administration if the $787 billion stimulus package was approved.
17.5 - The current national under-employment rate (U-6), which some experts believe represents a real unemployment rate of 22%.
26 - The number of times President Obama used the word “I” in a 46-sentence speech in [...]

The White House has announced plans to expand its Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In an address to the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama said the office would reach out to nonprofit organizations and “help them determine how to make a bigger impact…and learn their obligations under the law.” From a number of [...]

It's been nine years since federal Judge Andre Davis of Baltimore was first nominated to fill the "Maryland seat" on the federal Court of Appeals. It's been seven months since President Barack Obama re-nominated Davis for the same position--which has...