ABCnews article - All about Kevin Jennings counseling 15 year old to continue sexual relationship with adult male he met in a public bathroom

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Animal rights activist and “social engineer”. Has argued that animals should be able to file lawsuits (represented by lawyers of course). Wants to “balance” the Internet.

- Is a Harvard Law School professor; prior to that, was a professor at the Univ. of Chicago Law School (1981-2008)

- Academic specialties: constitutional law, administrative law, and regulatory policy

- Known for advancing a field called “law and behavioral economics” that seeks to shape law and policy around the way research shows people actually behave; though embraced by conservatives, critics say it fails to account for the sometimes less-than-rational aspects of human behavior

- In his 2002 book, Republic.com, discussed the drawbacks of limitless choices on the Internet that allow people to seek out only like-minded people and opinions that merely fortify their own views; he talked about the idea of the government requiring sites to link to opposing views. He later came to realize it was a “bad idea.”

- In his 2004 book, Animal Rights, suggested that animals ought to be able to bring suit, with private citizens acting as their representatives, to ensure that animals are not treated in a way that violates current law.

- In a 2007 speech at Harvard he called for banning hunting in the U.S.

- The American Conservative Union started a website, Stop Sunstein, in an effort to keep him out of the White House

Duties include

- Reviewing draft regulations under Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review

- Reviewing proposed collections of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act

- Developing and overseeing the implementation of Administration policies in the areas of (1) Statistical Policy, (2) Information Technology, (3) Privacy, and (4) Data Quality.

Salary: Unknown

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Glenn Beck - Know Your Czars! on Cass Sunstein

Wall Street Journal on Cass Sunstein

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- Has never worked in government before

- Was a chief executive and former management consultant

- Was founder of Portfolio Logic (2004 to present); Partner of the Washington Baseball Club (2004 to 2006); CEO of the Advisory Board (1998 to 2004)

- Has donated just over $90,000 to political campaigns since 1999, almost all of which went to Democratic candidates

Salary: Unknown

Duties include

- He is also the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget in the federal government of the United States

- To help “streamline processes, cut costs, and find best practices throughout” the U.S. government

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GovernmentExecutive.com Article

Profile at WhoRunsGov.com

Duties include

- Keep track of disinformation on health insurance reform

- As legislation takes shape in Congress, will make sure Democrats have a unified message when it comes to controversial issues such as the need for a publicly funded health insurance option

- To make sure the American people understand any big changes to the current system, such as a proposed new national exchange on which consumers can buy insurance

Salary: Unknown

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“Licenses are freely given to local stations to serve local communities, in exchange those stations make millions. Community service cannot be measured in advertising revenues and Neilsen ratings. And to let the local broadcasters get away with empty claims of knowing and serving their local community is worse than letting the fox guard the chicken coop.

“Yes, I am talking about bringing back the ascertainment requirement. This is the baseline, I think. And, yes, I am talking about forcing broadcasters to get real community people on the air to talk about something other than crime. No, I am not talking about content regulation.” (Speech by Mark Lloyd to Advisory Committe on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, Dec 5, 1997)

Salary: Unknown

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“Forget the Fairness Doctrine” by Mark Lloyd (wants to accomplish the same thing with “localism”)

Excerpts: “Despite what we thought was fairly stark evidence of conservative bias, despite clear proposals to address that bias, Rush Limbaugh and other distortionists insisted that we were calling for a “return” of the Fairness Doctrine. But as we wrote, “simply reinstating the Fairness Doctrine will do little to address the gap between conservative and progressive talk unless the underlying elements of the public trustee doctrine are enforced, in particular, the requirements of local accountability and the reasonable airing of important matters.”

“The power of right-wing talk radio and their echo chambers in the conservative blogosphere and Fox News was amply demonstrated by their simple “black or white, for or against” reaction to our report. They refused to discuss the underlying market control exercised by radio corporations eager to promote the conservative agenda. But it worked. Even the radio hosts of supposedly liberal public radio stations asked the authors of the report over and over, “Why are you calling for a return of the Fairness Doctrine?”

Meet your new Media Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd

Important Quotes

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level. Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.” (quoted here)

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Mark Lloyd on the need for “independent” news:

Glenn Beck on Mark Lloyd, “New Radio Czar”

Appointed at the age of 26 (Feb 2009)

Led the “National Fatherhood Tour”, despite not being a father.

Salary: $98,000

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Who is Joshua DuBois? Here you Go (Black Christian News)

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Time Bio on Carol Browner, Energy Czar

- To “serve as a principal advisor on international climate policy and strategy

- He will be the Administration’s chief climate negotiator

- He will be leading efforts with United Nations negotiations and processes involving a smaller set of countries and bilateral sessions

- Because the main cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuel and because the solution rests with our ability to shift the global economy from a high to a low carbon energy base, the Envoy will be a lead participant in the development of climate and clean energy policy

- He will participate in all energy-related policy discussions that, across our government, can have an impact on carbon emissions, and will be looking for opportunities to forge working alliances

Salary: Unknown

Important Quotes

“The time for denial, delay and dispute is over.” — at a news conference announcing his appointment (Washington Post, January 26, 2009)

“The problem is that if we do any kind of report & fail to address these Qs, press jumps on you wanting to know answers; while if you give answers that aren’t fully honest (e.g. nothing re Hillary) you risk hugely compounding the problem by getting caught in half-truths. You run risk of turning this into ‘cover-up.’ ” — from a note that Stern wrote regarding the firing of the White House travel office staff, allegedly at the request of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Some people claimed that the employees were fired so that Hillary could appoint friends. (New York Times, January 5, 1996)

“Evaporation and rainfall are increasing; glaciers are retreating; sea ice is shrinking; sea level is rising; permafrost is melting; wildfires are increasing; storm and flood damage is soaring. The canary in the coal mine is singing for all she’s worth.” — on reading the signs of climate change (Center for American Progress, May 28, 2004)

- To oversee the compensation of the top executives at companies which have received federal bailout assistance

- He will have broad discretion to set the salaries and bonuses for their five most senior executives and their 20 most highly paid employee

Salary: Reportedly receiving no compensation

Important Quotes

“The statute provides these guideposts, but the statute ultimately says I have discretion to decide what it is that these people should make and that my determination will be final… Anything is possible under the law.”

Duties include

- Advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the impacts of science and technology on domestic and international affairs;
- Lead an interagency effort to develop and implement sound science and technology policies and budgets;
- Work with the private sector to ensure Federal investments in science and technology contribute to economic prosperity, environmental quality, and national security;
- Build strong partnerships among Federal, State, and local governments, other countries, and the scientific community; and
- Evaluate the scale, quality, and effectiveness of the Federal effort in science and technology.

Salary: Unknown

Important Quotes

“Individual rights must be balanced against the power of the government to control human reproduction. Some people—respected legislators, judges, and lawyers included—have viewed the right to have children as a fundamental and inalienable right. Yet neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce. Nor does the UN Charter describe such a right, although a resolution of the United Nations affirms the “right responsibly to choose” the number and spacing of children (emphasis in original). In the United States, individuals have a constitutional right to privacy and it has been held that the right to privacy includes the right to choose whether or not to have children, at least to the extent that a woman has a right to choose not to have children(our emphasis). But the right is not unlimited. Where the society has a “compelling, subordinating interest” in regulating population size, the right of the individual may be curtailed. If society’s survival depended on having more children, women could he required to bear children, just as men can constitutionally be required to serve in the armed forces.

“Similarly, given a crisis caused by overpopulation, reasonably necessary laws to control excessive reproduction could be enacted. It is often argued that the right to have children is so personal that the government should not regulate it. In an ideal society, no doubt the state should leave family size and composition solely to the desires of the parents. In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?” (Ecoscience, page 838)

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Michelle Malkin comments on John Holdren, Science Czar - Interview with Glenn Beck, Aug 3, 2009

“And number one on that list is the science czar, John Holdren. And it’s only through the power of blogs and talk radio and Fox News that anybody knows anything at all about this population control freak. It’s not just the fact that he co‑wrote a book in 1977, Ecoscience with Paul and Ann Ehrlich, the gurus. Population control, a book that mused openly about mass sterilizations, forced abortions, putting sterilants in the water to control the population. It’s the fact that his ideological mentors, John Holdren’s mentors include one of the top international eugenics members most renowned, again, for promoting these same ideas of social engineering through the guise of quote/unquote science that basically amounts to eugenics and taking away babies from quote/unquote undesirables. He was paying homage to this mentor as recently as two years ago at one of the most prominent science gatherings of the country, the AAAS gathering, and there has been little, if any public questioning about it. I was on t he phone with Holdren’s flack who lectured me about the need for responsible journalism. This guy was a leftwinger science reporter at the Washington Post for 15 years and he is essentially bullying any blogger or independent journalist who looks into the issue.”

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