https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/03/18/national-defense-resources-preparedness-executive-order-power-grab-or-update/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 14:31:02 -0400<![CDATA[We&#8217;re getting a lot of e-mail this weekend about an executive order issued on Friday afternoon by President Obama titled &#8220;National Defense Resources Preparedness.&#8221;  While the timing of the EO is curious &#8212; why send it out on a Friday afternoon when an administration is usually trying to sneak bad news past the media? &#8212; the general impact of it is negligible.  This EO simply updates another EO (12919) that had been in place since June 1994, and amended several times since.]]>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:30:33 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/03/18/national-defense-resources-preparedness-executive-order-power-grab-or-update-n184576