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**Written by Doug Powers The administration that acted in contempt by ignoring a judge’s order to lift the Gulf drilling moratorium will be looking for illegalities in rising oil and gas prices. Whew! Help is finally on the way! CBS News’ Mark Knoller: A nickel says somebody from the SEIU and/or AFL-CIO ends up on [...]

Yesterday, I brought you up to speed on GOP Sen. Charles Grassley’s fight with DOJ over its Project Gunrunner stonewalling. Today, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa warns that DOJ’s intransigence could lead to contempt proceedings. He released a letter this morning to acting ATF chief Kenneth Melson. You can read the PDF version here. The key [...]

Tick, tick, tick. Another Project Gunrunner disclosure deadline approaches for the Obama Department of Justice. And GOP watchdogs are hammering away at yet another stonewall erected by corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder. Late last week, Sen. Charles Grassley roasted the DOJ for failing to produce documents he requested in February — and released his own [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If President Obama is serious about tax increases (sorry, I meant to say “spending reductions in the tax code”) and increasing overall tax revenue, he should start by first calling a cabinet meeting and ordering everybody in the room to pony up what they owe. From the New York Post by [...]

Scroll for updates… Buzz out of Washington this morning is that the Obama administration has signaled it will end efforts to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian trial and instead will use the Gitmo military tribunal system pursued by, yes, George W. Bush. AG Eric Holder is reportedly holding a 2pm Eastern [...]

Stop ATF’s anti-gun zealots by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the “community organizing” in the world couldn’t curb. The Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s [...]

Graphic via CBS News I’ve been tied up on other things, but have been following the Project Gunrunner scandal closely — and delve into the basics in my syndicated column today. To its credit, CBS News gave this deadly Obama culture of corruption nightmare mainstream coverage last month. But it’s been brewing on the blogs [...]

We, the Unhyphenated Americans: Meet My People by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 My fellow Americans, who are “your people”? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase “my people” in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of [...]

The most open, transparent administration ever is ending the year by ramming through another controversial appointment under holiday cover. Introducing recess DOJ appointee James Cole, now deputy attorney general overseeing national security: President Obama used a recess appointment Wednesday to name James Cole as deputy attorney general. …Cole’s nomination to the second-ranking post at the [...]

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**Written by Doug Powers Prosecuting terrorists (sorry, “man-caused disaster suspects”) and investigating the WikiLeaks fiasco will have to wait, because the chief of the US Justice Department has more immediate priorities: One thing’s for certain: He can’t do much worse than his boss did in trying to secure the 2016 Olympics in Chicago. The AP [...]

**Written by Doug Powers With a presidential election less than two years away, we’ve almost certainly seen the first and last of the idiotic civil trials for “man caused disaster suspects” for a while, thanks to this close shave: NEW YORK (AP) – The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday [...]

They’re baaaaaaack. Before the Philly New Black Panther Party radicals showed up at a voting booth in 2008 with billy clubs and racial epithets at the ready, my old nemesis Malik Shabazz — the NBPP thug-in-chief — put out a nationwide warning. Remember? “We will be at the polls in the cities and counties in [...]

Corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Department of Social Justice are on the hot seat tomorrow over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case shenanigans. Long overdue. To recap: I told you on Monday about the latest lies and obstructionism by the DO(S)J revealed in logs obtained through Judicial Watch’s Freedom of [...]

Former DOJ whistleblower J. Christian Adams reports today on the latest revelations of DOJ obstructionism and deception over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. At Pajamas Media, Adams writes: Judicial Watch made an explosive announcement today about the Justice Department’s stonewalling in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal. Forced to bring [...]

Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration’s selective enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section office of DOJ. Big news. Good news. Fine is a veteran IG whose meticulous work I cited [...]

Photoshop: Conservative Arts America’s voter rolls are a mess. But you can’t count on the Department of Social Justice and corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder to clean them up. It’s another job the feds won’t do. Time for ordinary citizens to step up to the plate. Thanks to a provision in federal law, you can [...]

**Written by Doug Powers By now you can probably read all about this in a revised report to the UN’s Human Rights Council that the Obama administration couldn’t wait to file like a nine year old girl tattling to momma after catching her brother behind the barn reading Playboy, but if you haven’t yet heard, [...]

Before there was 9/11, there was 10/12. Do you remember? We are nearing the 10th anniversary of the USS Cole bombing that took the lives of these American heroes on Oct. 12, 2000: Electronics Technician 1st Class Richard Costelow Mess Management Specialist Lakina Francis Information Systems Technician Tim Guana Signalman Seaman Recruit Cherone Gunn Seaman [...]

Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans demanded a hearing on the New Black Panther Party shenanigans of the Obama Department of (Social) Justice. Sen. Pat Leahy has replied. Cliff Notes’ version: Blame Bush. Hide behind Abigail Thernstrom. Wait for Eric Holder’s next spin cycle. Read the response right here: 7-29-10 PJL to Sessions Re – [...]

**Written by Doug Powers So far all I’ve read on this is a Twitter post from CBS Radio: What “parts” are blocked is still unknown. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe *** Update (by MM): Fox reporting that the “lion’s share” of the law will go into effect tonight. Awaiting reaction from Gov. Brewer. Via [...]

WaPo water-carrier E.J. Dionne does Team Obama’s dirty work for them in his column today smearing DOJ whistleblower J. Christian Adams. Read all about it from Quin Hilyer at the American Spectator here. An excerpt: …the worst thing Dionne does is smear the whistle-blowing attorney Christian Adams without ever talking with Adams and without checking [...]

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It’s the hot video clip of the afternoon. I’ll let you provide all the commentary, with only one observation: Kirsten sank to her lowest and most ignorant low with her “scary black man” snark at Megyn — who showed amazing restraint in the face of being accused of racial demagoguery by a fellow Fox colleague [...]

Team Obama’s open-borders crusaders are doubling down. Not content to file one lawsuit (already piled on top of the ACLU/reconquista crowd’s lawsuit), Attorney General Eric Holder signaled this weekend that he’s prepared to file another complaint: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Sunday that if the federal government does not stop Arizona’s immigration law [...]

My column today blasts the MSM for its silence over the black racial demagogues of the New Black Panther Party and its ilk. Before I get to the column, some context: Longtime readers and viewers know I go way back with the poisonous race hustlers of the New Black Panther Party. Two months after the [...]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Michelle wrote this morning that a lawsuit filing was imminent, but now it’s official. From the AP via Ace: PHOENIX — The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. The government filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in [...]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers By way of Right Scoop, now that Hillary Clinton got the diplomatic formality of notifying Ecuador out of the way, Arizona and the rest of America can be told that the Obama Justice Department will file suit against Arizona’s immigration law: Now a senior administration official tells CBS News that [...]

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