Read more czar stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/10682/czar.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:53:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71140/nothing-wrong-with-czars-experts-testify.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe anti-czar crusade hit quite the speed bump yesterday, when five constitutional scholars testified in a Senate hearing that it was indeed perfectly legal for the president to have policy advisers. They said the principle dated back to FDR and that, assuming the czars didn’t have any actual legal authority,...http://www.newser.com/story/71140/nothing-wrong-with-czars-experts-testify.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 7:41:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69626/democrats-mock-becks-czar-hunt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDemocrats are fighting back against the anti-czar fervor that has taken hold of the Republican party. Many of the so-called czars these officials insist must be confirmed by the Senate actually already have been, writes Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post. Others occupy positions they themselves voted to create, and...http://www.newser.com/story/69626/democrats-mock-becks-czar-hunt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 8:18:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69275/obama-skirts-accountability-with-policy-czars-hutchison.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration is using its many policy “czars” to skirt the accountability and transparency established by the founding fathers, writes Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Washington Post. The administration has an “unprecedented” 32 czar positions, and “unfortunately,” the senator from Texas writes, “virtually no one can say with certainty...http://www.newser.com/story/69275/obama-skirts-accountability-with-policy-czars-hutchison.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 14:42:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68752/thank-beck-internet-for-van-jones-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe mainstream media entirely ignored the controversy over now-former Obama adviser Van Jones, who was slyly forced out by Glenn Beck and his online fans, Politico reports. Beck whipped up a fury over Jones—who once signed a 9/11 conspiracy petition—without mentioning that the green jobs czar was also...http://www.newser.com/story/68752/thank-beck-internet-for-van-jones-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 06 Sep 2009 14:37:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68730/obama-adviser-van-jones-resigns-amid-controversy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagObama environmental adviser Van Jones is resigning amid controversy over past inflammatory statements. The so-called green jobs czar got into hot water this week when two things surfaced: He called Republicans "assholes" in a video made before he joined the administration, and he signed a petition supporting the "truther" movement,...http://www.newser.com/story/68730/obama-adviser-van-jones-resigns-amid-controversy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 05 Sep 2009 23:29:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68688/gop-uses-van-jones-to-rebel-against-czars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRepublicans have groused for months that Barack Obama has too many “czars,” high-ranking, specialized advisers that, they complain, skirt congressional approval. Now they have a poster boy for their objections, Politico reports: Van Jones. This week an old lecture video surfaced in which he called Republicans “assholes,” as did an...http://www.newser.com/story/68688/gop-uses-van-jones-to-rebel-against-czars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 05 Sep 2009 8:27:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52459/obama-has-too-many-czars-critics-complain.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama loves czars. He’s got an energy czar, an urban affairs czar, an economic czar, and, most recently, a health reform czar, making him the most czar-happy president ever, scholars say. But lawmakers worry they’re losing ground in the "super aide" craze, the LA Times reports. Sen. Robert Byrd...http://www.newser.com/story/52459/obama-has-too-many-czars-critics-complain.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Mar 2009 10:05:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47369/obama-fills-west-wing-with-powerful-czars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStories of agencies working on the same projects and not bothering to coordinate dog every presidential administration, but Barack Obama has an ambitious plan to avoid all that: He’s concentrating power over domestic issues in the hands of White House advisers. “It really is a way of him maximizing the...http://www.newser.com/story/47369/obama-fills-west-wing-with-powerful-czars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Jan 2009 9:58:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/19501/germans-find-hidden-nazi-gold.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTreasure hunters in Germany have announced they've found a secret stash of Nazi gold in an underground cavern and they believe it could be from the looted Amber Room of the Russian czars, Der Speigel reports. Instruments have detected what could be 2 tons of gold in the cavern near...http://www.newser.com/story/19501/germans-find-hidden-nazi-gold.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 Feb 2008 7:44:02 CST