President Obama's Latest Hits just keep on coming. We boil them down for you into the top ten latest Obama newsmakers...

Obama Administration and Hillary State Department Pays for Imam To Travel To Middle East to Seek Funds for the Ground Zero Mosque in New York

Feds send ground zero mosque imam to Mideast

By MATTHEW LEE (AP) – August 10, 2010

WASHINGTON — The State Department says it's sending the imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East.

Spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday that the department is sponsoring Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's visit to Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, where he will discuss Muslim life in America and promote religious tolerance. He says the imam had been on similar trips dating back to 2007 and that plans for the upcoming tour predated the current controversy.

Crowley says the Obama administration has no position on Rauf's plans for Islamic center near ground zero but has respect for his message of moderation, tolerance and religious diversity.

In other news...

American Center for Law and Justice Calls on State Department to Cancel Tax-Funded Middle East Trip by Controversial Imam
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) on Tuesday called on the U.S. State Department to remove Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf from a taxpayer-funded trip to Muslim countries, citing his controversial views about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Obama's on Vacation...Again...Redeux... & ReThree

Lavish Obama vacation in time of economic turmoil raises eyebrows

First lady Michelle Obama is on a five-day trip to a luxury resort along with a handful of friends, her younger daughter, Sasha, aides and Secret Service personnel.

By Peter Nicholas and Katherine Skiba
Tribune Washington bureau
Friday, August 6, 2010 at 6:25 PM

WASHINGTON — As the U.S. economy endures high unemployment and a jittery stock market, President Obama has preached sacrifice and fiscal discipline. But the pictures coming out of a sunsplashed Spanish resort this week may be sending a different message.

First lady Michelle Obama is on a five-day trip to a luxury resort along with a handful of friends, her younger daughter, Sasha, aides and Secret Service personnel. Her office said the first family will pay for personal expenses, but declined to reveal the taxpayer cost for the government employees. The president stayed home in the United States, as did daughter Malia, 12, who is at camp.

In other news... 

Obama plans short vacation on Florida's Gulf Coast -- too short?
05:00 PM August 10, 2010
By Charles Dharapak, AP

First lady Michelle Obama took criticism for her recent five-day trip to Spain.

Now she and President Obama might take heat for only a two-day, one-night trip this weekend to Florida's Gulf Coast.

Get ready for even more vacation questions later in the month-- the Obamas are planning to spend more than a week on Martha's Vineyard.

 Obama's on Vacation...Again

Obama Family Vacations: First Family Off To Maine, Martha's Vineyard?
First Posted: 07-15-10 08:40 AM Huffington Post -- It's almost time for the Obama Family Vacation 2010. So where will the First Family kick back and relax? This weekend they're all heading to Mount Desert Island, Maine to check out Acadia National Park. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs explained, "I think the First Family enjoyed immensely the trip out West last year...I remember going on that trip, and you're obviously struck by the beauty of our national park system. This builds off of that in Maine."
And according to Politics Daily, it's likely that the Obamas will return to Martha's Vineyard in August, after enjoying their visit last year. However, there has yet to be an official announcement.

In other news...

By John McCormick and Catherine Dodge (c) 2010 Bloomberg News
Thursday, July 15, 2010; 12:00 AM --  July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Americans disapprove of U.S. President Barack Obama's handling of almost every major issue and are deeply pessimistic about the nation's direction, offering a bullish environment for Republicans in the November congressional elections.

A majority or plurality disapproves of Obama's management of the economy, health care, the budget deficit, the overhaul of financial market regulations and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted July 9- 12. In addition, almost 6 in 10 respondents say the war in Afghanistan is a lost cause. The Senate is scheduled to begin voting on the financial regulation bill today.

Almost two-thirds say they feel the nation is headed in the wrong direction, an even more sour assessment than in March when 58 percent felt that way. Two-thirds of independent voters are pessimistic, while just 56 percent of Democrats offer a vote of confidence.

Obama's Congressional Supporters on Green Carding Gays

Politico By Scott Wong | 7/15/10 8:43 AM EDT - Gay rights enter immigration debate
Trying to broaden support for immigration reform, key Democratic lawmakers on Thursday will endorse legislation that would grant gay and lesbian Americans the ability to legally bring their foreign partners to the United States. More than 100 House Democrats, including many Hispanics, have signed on to the comprehensive immigration bill Gutierrez introduced last December.

Obama on Poll Politics, DOJ, and Black Panthers

Civil Rights Panel to Renew Subpoenas, Pursue Federal Probe in Black Panther Case

Published July 07, 2010 FoxNews.com

  The bipartisan panel investigating allegations that the Justice Department wrongly abandoned a case against the New Black Panther Party plans to issue a new round of subpoenas and call for a separate federal probe following explosive testimony from an ex-Justice official, a commissioner said. As the case heats up, members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights may even travel to South Carolina to track down one witness.

Former Justice attorney J. Christian Adams on Tuesday testified before the commission that his former employer not only abandoned the voter intimidation case for racial reasons, but had instructed attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.

Obama on suing for Immigration

The Obama Administration's Hypocrisy on Immigration
Forbes.com July 7, 2010 - 5:30 pm Cory L. Andrews

Yesterday the Department of Justice filed its long anticipated lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070. Despite the Administration’s heated rhetoric over the past several weeks, including its stunning apology to China for Arizona’s human rights record, the complaint contains not a single claim that the Arizona law violates anyone’s civil rights, whether resulting from racial profiling or otherwise.

Obama on Radical Recess Appointments

Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 1:04 PM

WASHINGTON -- President Obama Wednesday bypassed the Senate and announced the recess appointment Dr. Donald Berwick to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The move drew fire from Republicans who had planned to fight his nomination. Obama said the job had to be filled.

Conservatives say his views are "radical."

Under the recess appointment, Berwick will avoid the Senate nomination process and he will serve until the end of the year, when the congressional term expires.

"Democrats held no hearing, allowed no public testimony, and called no votes on this nomination," said Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.).

"In short, they did everything to hide Dr. Berwick's radical views and made absolutely no effort to follow the regular, established process for confirming a presidential nomination. Clearly, they did not want Berwick's adamant support for rationing health care debated in the light of day."

Obama On The Future Of Space and NASA

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World  Published July 05, 2010 -

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden: FoxNews.com"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.