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President Barack Obama is considering the use of an executive order to restrict access to guns or ammunition in the wake of nationwide revulsion in the US over the Connecticut school shootings, vice-president Joe Biden said Wednesday. Such a move would be deeply controversial in the gun lobby, but Biden said the president was determined to explore every legislative avenue.

President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order on March 16, 2012 giving the White House absolute control over all the country’s natural resources in case of a natural disaster or during a time of war. In the order, the National Defense Resources Preparedness Order, the President granted to himself the authority to approve the dispensing of all domestic energy, production, transportation, food, and water supplies as he deems necessary to protect national security.

US president Barack Obama has issued an executive order, enabling the government to take over all private communications in the country under the pretext of ensuring national security.

The Washington Times' Eli Lake, who referenced the clip last night, described it as "a nice three minute summary of [the] foreign policy philosophy" of neocon extremist and McCain and Palin aide Michael Goldfarb. It certainly is that (though I think Goldfarb's "foreign policy philosophy" is more aptly summarized by (1) send other people but never me off to fight in endless wars; (2) vest the President with the powers of a King to prosecute those wars; and (3) the overaching objective is to serve the interests of the Israeli government, which can do no wrong).

Mitt Romney promised Latinos on Thursday that he would swiftly reform the American immigration system -- once again without saying whether he would end President Obama's policy allowing some young undocumented immigrants reprieve from fear of deportation. "Some people have asked if I will let stand the president's executive order," Romney said at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference. Romney incorrectly referred to the policy change as an order from the president instead of a directive to agencies dealing with immigration.

On his second day in office, President Obama issued an executive order to shut down Guantanamo in a year. But the prison remains open, and prisoners still languish without trial.

Let's Just All Go Our Separate Ways

I think we can all agree that this whole 'United States' thing has been sort of a mess. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, we've really been shitting the sheets recently and maybe we should all just pack it in.

We'd like to ask President Obama to dissolve the United States government as well as the Executive branch. Then we should all just part ways and try to forget that any of this nonsense happened.

On Fast and Furious, Obama invokes 'executive privilege.' What's that?

Facing a contempt vote, Attorney General Eric Holder urged Obama to invoke 'executive privilege' to avoid turning over documents to Congress. To be valid, the claim must bear on a core power of the presidency.

Apparently the Tyrant in Chief has decided that the already overbearing power of US agencies are not enough, so he signed Executive Order 12425, designating INTERPOL "as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act"

From ABC news: "The International Organizations Immunities Act, signed into law in 1945, established a special group of foreign or international organizations whose members could work in the U.S. and enjoy certain exemptions from US taxes and search and seizure laws."