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• Criminal alien allegedly rapes, brutalizes 9-year-old in ‘Sanctuary City’ - 21 May 2013
  posted in Immigration & Life & Maryland

  An Ecuadorian criminal alien, who was released last year when Baltimore, Md., became a sanctuary city, was arrested by federal agents for the violent rape of a 9-year-old girl, according to a Judicial Watch report released on Monday. While the rape occurred in the city of Baltimore, the suspect, Henry Estrella-Cordova, was nabbed by officers from U.S. [...]

• Attorney General Holder to testify before House Judiciary Committee - 15 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Executive & People & Politics & Govt

  With the Justice Department at the forefront of major news stories that do not bode well for the department and it’s agencies, the House Judiciary Committee requested the nations top law enforcement official, Attorney General Eric Holder to appear before members of the committee on Wednesday afternoon. According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte,R-Va., [...]

• Obama Justice Department secretly seizes AP phone records - 14 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Executive & People & Politics & Govt

  The Obama Justice Department surreptitiously seized months of telephone records belonging to the Associated Press’ editors and news staff, according to North Carolina talk show host Doug Kellett. The telephone records in question were those involving Associated Press’ incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers [...]

• Government official: IRS targets conservative and Tea Party organizations - 13 May 2013
  posted in Taxation

  The powerful Treasury Department’s tax-collecting and enforcement agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), conceded on Friday that its agents targeted conservative PACs and Tea Party groups for politically-motivated audits during the 2012 election. The Obama White House claims that it has called for a full investigation into the complaints. According to the director of the [...]

• Benghazi: Speaker Boehner reacts to criticism of his non-actions - 09 May 2013
  posted in Columns & Terrorism

  Immediately following Wednesday’s Benghazi terror attack hearings in the House of Representatives, several conservative talk hosts and commentators, such as former Justice Department chief of staff Mark Levin, severely criticized the alleged failure of House Speaker John Boehner to prod the House and Senate into creating a special committee of lawmakers to intensify the investigation [...]

• Taxpayers again bilked by Obama green agenda: Watchdog - 26 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Columns & Politics & Govt & Spending

  In yet another of the Obama administration’s disastrous “environmentalist” investments, an Obama-favored electric car company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy after securing nearly $200 million from the U.S. government to develop hybrid automobiles, according to a report on Wednesday by an Inside-the-Beltway watchdog group that investigates and exposes government corruption. Rep. Darrell Issa, [...]

• At least 200 killed in terrorist attack in Nigeria - 25 Apr 2013
  posted in Terrorism & World

  Nigerian lawmakers on Wednesday called for a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the massacre of about 200 civilians at Baga, a commercial border town in the northeast near Chad and Niger. The victims died in the weekend crossfire between Nigerian government security forces and the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group in Baga bordering Lake [...]

• Floridians rebel against Obama use of spy drones - 19 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Privacy

  Both houses of the Florida legislature passed a bill on Wednesday prohibiting the expanded use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, by law enforcement agencies in the Sunshine State, due to enormous opposition by groups and individuals concerned with the lack of privacy from the Obama administration’s drone surveillance program, according to [...]

• Obama nominee accused of manipulating and ignoring laws, say Lawmakers - 18 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Executive

  A controversial Democratic Party attorney currently heading an important division of the Justice Department will appear and testify before U.S. Senate’s Labor Committee on Thursday as the latest nominee for a cabinet post in the Obama administration. While most Americans and Beltway insiders focus their attention on the horror and human tragedy of the Boston [...]

• New York attorney pleads guilty in massive immigration scam - 16 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Immigration

  A New York City attorney specializing in immigration law entered a guilty plea on Friday in a federal case involving an enormous and complex immigration scam involving phony claims of persecution in China, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Attorney John Lin pled guilty in Manhattan federal court [...]