Obama Administration may regret CIA Prosecution

Bowing to pressure from the left,  Obama will become emmersed in a political war which will stir up divisive feelings more than ever.  From today's Wall Street Journal: "It would be unfair to prosecute...

Matthew Shepard Act: Hate Crimes Prevention Laws to be Expanded

The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, an expansion of hate crimes law in the United States, may be passed by US Congress. The new law would allow federal prosecution of violence committed against someone...

Atty General Holder Wants Complete Report on Bush Lawyers ASAP

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder characterized the delay in the release of the Office of Professional Responsibility's...

Janet Langhart Cohen play Anne & Emmett cancelled after shooting

The world premiere of the play 'Anne and Emmett' by playwright Janet Langhart Cohen was meant to take place tonight at the Holocaust Museum, but it has now been cancelled due to the shooting at the museum by white supremacist James Wenneker Von Brunn.Janet Cohen was with her...

Letter Reveals How to Politely Decline Being Used

Andrew C. McCarthy sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday that’s receiving a lot of attention.  A polite “Thanks, but no thanks” means of declining an invitation to participate in a...

Blogging for Justice: Against Police Pretrial Electrocutions 4/24

A Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up AgainstPolice Pre-Trial Electrocution - April 24, 2009Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and Electrocuted While Black.. When I first proposed renaming "tasering" "police pre-trial electrocution and execution", some...

Why Waterboarding Should Be Called "The Drowning Torture"!

According to Wikipedia, Waterboarding is defined as "a form of torture that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the...

Torture Memos: Waterboarding CIA Agents Will Not Face Prosecution

Waterboarding, a controversial interrogation technique that has been banned as torture was used to question terror detainees under the Bush administration.  In an April 16, 2009 press release Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration would not...

Chuck Grassley, Medical Marijuana and "Small Government"

Democracy has its problems, but drug use is not one of them. Mind you, drug use and drug abuse are two completely different issues. Drug use is about civil liberty, and involves personal choice in the method and substance by which one deals with illness, fatigue, depression,...

Holder says: No more DEA raids on medical cannabis dispensaries

Medical cannabis patients and providers breathed a sigh of relief, on Wednesday, when US Attorney General Eric Holder promised an end to DEA raids on Medical Cannabis Dispensaries.About 25 minutes into a press...

US DEA Raids 120 Cities, Arrest 750 Sinaloa Drug Cartel Members

In an massive anti-crime move dubbed Operation Xcellerator the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) swept through 120 cities overnight in a collaborated arrest of as many as 750 members of the Sinaloa Mexican drug...

Obama Nominee Testifies Waterboarding is Torture

President-Elect Barack Obama's nominee for the office of US Attorney-General, Bronx-born New Yorker Eric Holder testified 15 January before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Bush Administration (Dick Cheney,...

Obama’s Empty Suit Filled With Clinton Brain Trust :: Carter's Second Term

"Six members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team for government operations worked in the Clinton administration, and one of them runs a consulting firm that has listed Freddie Mac as a client....

Getting It On With Obama's Cabinet

by Linda SolomonObama, my love. I have such a crush on you. I used to think that you were one of a kind. But you just keep 'em coming. You keep introducing me to guys that seem to be cut from the same cloth,...

Obama has selected Eric Holder as Attorney General

President-elect Barack Obama has selected Eric Holder as the first African American Attorney General, according to Newsweek."President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting...

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