The White House'ss ban on off shore drilling has been struck down by a federal judge. The Administration promises to appeal.

Budget Director Peter Orszag is et to reside from the Obama administration in July. The New York Times says Budget Directors never stay around for long anyway and this gives the President time to find a replacement for the next budget cycle

President Obama has announced plans to get kids interested in science and technology: "Today, I'm announcing that we're going to have an annual science fair at the White House with the winners of national competitions in science and technology."

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold oversight hearings to review three expiring provisions USA and decided whether they should renewed. The provisions include authorizations for roving wiretaps, access to business records of national security targets and monitoring of "lone wolf" terrorists i.e. those with no known connection to groups or countries.

The Obama administration has signaled its support for renewal, but is 'willing to consider stronger civil rights protections in the new law "provided that they do not undermine the effectiveness of these important (provisions)." '

The Obama administration is revising 10 year deficit projections from 7 trillion to 9 trillion. The CBO had originally predicted the 9 trillion figure earlier this year, which the White House had then disagreed with. You know this isn't going to end well.

The Obama Administration is working on an Executive Order that "would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely," though it's not clear where they are in the process. Rachel Maddox comments (YouTube)

Obama's halftime score on the first 100 days, according to PolitiFact:" 17 of them Promise Kept and another seven as a Compromise. We've scored two as Promise Broken and two others as Stalled."

No need to wait 'till the 100th day, the Onion has been covering the new administration.

Obama has created a new position, Chief Peformance Officer, and appointed Nancy Killefer, who will have her plate full with challenges.

While the goal of the position, eliminating waste and improving efficiency, is good, the term sounds like more marketing buzz bull. The dirty little secret is that most the government is all for getting rid of waste, as long as it's somewhere else and not their department. Defining waste, setting the standard and then doing the very easy work of pissing people off and then the hard work of getting them to agree with cutting off money to their cause or constituency will be interesting times.

CNN secures its position at all the upcoming parties on the prospect of their Chief Medical Correspondent , Sanjay Gupta, becoming Surgeon General. High five team!

Note to Wonkette, he's Indian, not Mexican. Yes his name if funny sounding and he's brown, but that happens in many parts of the world.