Barack Obama Elementary opens in Maryland

US president picks up Jonathan Franzen for himself, and Harper Lee and John Steinbeck for his daughters A week before the rest of America will be able to get their hands on it, Barack Obama is relaxing on holiday with an early copy of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom. The US president visited the Martha’s Vineyard bookshop Bunch of Grapes with his children, according to US reports, where he …

The former president stimulated the economy by cutting taxes; Obama has done the opposite.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – Classes are in session at the new Barack Obama Elementary School in Prince George’s County. It’s one of at least six schools across the country named for the president. When it opened Monday, it was the first in the Washington area.

Poll held before Ground Zero mosque furore finds 18% of people believe US president is Muslim, not Christian Almost one in five Americans believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a new poll, despite his public statements about his Christian faith. The survey by the Pew Research Centre found that 18% now say that the US president is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009. Only about one …

President Barack Obama will make a major address on Iraq on August 31, a White House spokesman said on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama’s July 2011 date to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan has given a morale boost to Taliban insurgents, who believe they can wait out NATO forces, the top U.S. Marine said on Tuesday.

*A startling increase in the number of Americans who believe, incorrectly, that President Barack Obama is a Muslim is spurring fresh debate about whether he needs to or should do more to convince the public of his Christian faith.Two surveys released Thursday indicate that religious rumors that have dogged the first African American [...]

US President Barack Obama is to give a major speech to mark the end of American combat operations in Iraq on August 31, the White House said Tuesday.

House Republican leader John Boehner on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to support an extension of tax cuts and to fire key economic advisers, arguing that more than a year of "government as community organizer" has failed to revive the economy.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it would appeal a court ruling challenging the legality of President Barack Obama's rules governing human embryonic- stem-cell research, as the head of the National Institutes of Health said the decision would most likely force the cancellation of dozens of experiments in diseases including diabetes and Parkinson's.

The top Republican in the House of Representatives called on Tuesday for President Barack Obama to fire his economic team in a campaign-style speech meant to focus voters on the weak American economy.

AP - A new Gallup Poll has found fewer Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing in support of public education, but they continue to have a highly favorable opinion of their local schools.

AP - President Barack Obama is resorting to dinner out as an antidote to the steady rains and lashing winds overshadowing his Martha's Vineyard vacation.

Reuters - More Americans now disapprove of President Barack Obama than approve of him as high unemployment and government spending scare voters ahead of November's congressional elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.

AFP - The top US Marine on Tuesday said most Marines would prefer not to share a room with gay comrades, despite plans by President Barack Obama to lift a ban on gays serving openly in the military.

AFP - Rain is keeping President Barack Obama indoors on his summer vacation but he is still having fun, playing Scrabble and reading books, the White House said Tuesday.

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will have no further comment on the mosque near Ground Zero in New York and the administration will not get involved in talks about relocating the controversial facility.

RetakeOurGov, a tea party group based out of Hartland Township, will host a protest of President Barack Obamas economic policies on Sept. 1 at the Dam Site Inn, 4095 Patterson Lake Road in Hell, Michigan.

A U.S. District Court judge Monday blocked President Barack Obama’s 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on the use of federal money to destroy embryos.

Reuters - President Barack Obama's July 2011 date to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan has given a morale boost to Taliban insurgents, who believe they can wait out NATO forces, the top U.S. Marine said on Tuesday.

House Republican leader John Boehner on Tuesday called for the resignation of President Barack Obama’s embattled economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Larry Summers.

Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Wonder how Recovery Summer turned into Wreckovery Bummer?  How an administration ginned up its entire economic strategy into one stimulus bill and has done nothing since, even as the economy disintegrated?  Marty Robins advises his readers to check the CVs of the people in charge in Washington to understand just how incompetence has triumphed "” and not just Barack Obama's:

Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg
Stick with me, families, on this experiment of government expansion. That is the implicit message from President Barack Obama this summer. Recently, for example, Obama sat down with an Ohio couple, Joe and Rhonda Weithman, to talk about how federal help in the form of cash for Joe's business and subsidy for Rhonda's healthcare would help the Weithmans and families like them recover.