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Obama Could Deliver The House To Democrats Via Redistricting Fight
Democrats have turned to former President Obama to lead the redistricting fight in states like New York, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and Louisiana.
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Eric Holder Says Trump Will Meet The Standards For Indictment And Prosecution
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said that once the 1/6 investigation is completed Trump will meet the standards for indictment and prosecution.
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Republicans Blame Obama During Trump Impeachment Debate
During the House debate on the rules for impeachment debate, Republicans ranted about Obama and Eric Holder while avoiding the facts on impeachment.
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Eric Holder Blows Up Trump’s Fake Exoneration Claims
Former Attorney General Eric Holder exposed the holes in Trump’s fake total exoneration claim and explained why Mueller must testify before Congress.
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Obama Terrifies Republicans By Quickly Raising $10.8 Million To Combat GOP Election Rigging
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their effort to combat Republican election rigging through gerrymandering.
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Eric Holder Says It’s Time To Talk Marijuana Decriminalization
Holder says, “You know, we treat marijuana in the same way that we treat heroin now, and that clearly is not appropriateâ€
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Kansas Secretary Of State Says Blacks Might Not Be Prosecuted For Crimes Because Of Obama
Kris Kobach agreed with a caller that under Obama, eventually “any black person accused of a crime… is not going to be prosecuted.”
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During his Final Days as AG Eric Holder Will Push For Improved Civil Rights Protections
During an interview with Politico on Friday, Holder said he plans to push for a new standard of proof in civil rights offenses.
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Friday Fox Follies – Falafels In The Falklands
When Friday Fox Follies went to press last week, Brian Williams’ spectacular crash to earth still echoed in Halls of Mediazuma. Many wags (this one included) noticed the condemnation was loudest (shrillest?) at the Fox “News” Channel, which did not hold itself to the same high standards.
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Fox & Friends Host Blows A Gasket After Eric Holder Slams Fox Over Radical Islam Obsession
During Wednesday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck flipped out over comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday when he stated Fox News was overly preoccupied with the use of the term “radical Islam” when discussing the Islamic State.
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Surprise! Republican Senator Rand Paul Praises Eric Holder On Drug Policy
Speaking in Iowa on Friday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) offered unexpected praise for outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Obama Didn’t March In Paris Because Of Difference Between Free Speech And Hate Speech
Terrorism is something worth fighting against. President Obama knows this, and has been proving it time and time again throughout his presidency. Please don’t forget that this is the man who wiped out Osama bin Laden.
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RNC Member Causing Headaches For GOP By Refusing To Resign After Racist Facebook Post
Just ahead of the Republican National Committee’s Winter Meeting, where the GOP will address their need to appeal to non-white voters, a committeeman’s bigoted and racists statements on social media are giving headaches to RNC members.
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Republican Congressman Compares Obama To Hitler For Not Attending Paris Unity Rally
If you were wondering how long it would take for a Republican to invoke Adolf Hitler in the made-for-Beltway-media controversy surrounding the White House’s nonattendance at the Paris Unity Rally over the weekend, you got your answer Monday evening.
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Eric Holder Shuts Out Fox News As Attorney General Appears On Every Other Sunday Show But Fox
Attorney General Eric Holder taped interviews from Paris for every Sunday show, but did not tape an interview for Fox News Sunday.
NYPD Police Leader “We Are Now A Wartime Police Department and Will Act Accordingly”
Mayor de Blasio with the notion in the NYPD that they are engaged in a war against their superiors or law-abiding citizens
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Fox News Host Makes Unsubstantiated Claim That Obama And Eric Holder Are “Anti-Police”
While guest hosting Fox News’ Hannity Monday night, Katie Pavlich said during a panel discussion that President Obama “has a track record of being anti-police” without providing any concrete proof of that being the case.
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Fox News Condemns President Obama Over Ferguson Protester Attending DOJ Meeting
During Wednesday morning’s episode of Fox & Friends, Peter Johnson, Jr. and Tucker Carlson said the Department of Justice investigation into Michael Brown’s death was discredited because they “sought advice” from radical Ferguson protester and livestreamer Bassem Masri.
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Blame N.Y. Officers Deaths On Convicted Criminal With A Gun, Not Obama
However, as Americans have witnessed more and more, when police kill citizens, especially unarmed African American citizens, no one is held accountable and failure to praise the killings is an outrage.
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Fox Affiliate Deceptively Edits Protest Footage To Show Protesters Chanting “Kill A Cop”
Baltimore news station Fox45 ran a story Sunday night attacking protests against police brutality and racial disparity by running deceptively edited footage to suggest protesters were chanting “kill a cop” during a demonstration.
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Joe Scarborough Predictably Blames Protesters For Senseless Deaths Of Two NYPD Officers
During the Monday morning broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough delivered a monologue where he specifically blamed the protests over the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths for the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers.
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Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Federal Restrictions And Bans On Racial Profiling
The Department of Justice announced Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder has unveiled stricter policies governing federal law enforcement when it comes to the use of racial profiling.
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MSNBC Contributor Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama’s Initiatives In Wake Of Ferguson
During Monday morning’s episode of Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Dorian Warren called out the media for not giving proper coverage or discussion over the initiatives laid out by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of high-profile killings by police.
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Rush Limbaugh Claims President Obama Is Looking To Frame A Cop For “Racial Assassination”
In Limbaugh’s mind. Obama, Holder and all the other race hustlers feel that they didn’t “get a win” with the Michael Brown case and now want to frame and railroad another cop over a race-based death.
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Hypocritical Conservatives Who See Revolt In Ferguson Easily Forget Their Own Actions
As cities across the nation either burn or shut down because of protests, conservatives jump in and express their opinion about the revolt in Ferguson and across the nation. Sites like The Blaze allow hate on their comments section by gun-totting thugs to express their feelings and divide themselves from understanding the pain and suffering…
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Conservative Website Deletes Article Incorrectly Identifying AG Nominee As Another Woman
Breitbart ran an article claiming AG nominee Loretta Lynch was a member of the Clinton legal team during the Whitewater investigation in 1992. This is completely false and the site removed the article Monday morning.
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Senator Ted Cruz Complains About President Obama’s Unannounced Potential AG Nominee
It is being reported that Obama will tap Brooklyn prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be the nation’s top attorney, making Lynch the first black woman to hold the post. Ted Cruz made sure to publicly complain about the potential nomination.
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Six House Democrats Call on DOJ to Investigate Texas AG- Greg Abbott’s Dirty Dealings with TEF
So far, Greg Abbott has used his power as Attorney-General of Texas to obstruct the release of documents that would shed light on Governor Rick Perry’s oversight of Texas Enterprise Fund and its mishandling of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars. However, the demand for answers increases from a variety of sources, including Wendy Davis and…
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Racist Fox News Host Claims Eric Holder Ran DOJ Like It Was The Black Panther Party
During Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News’ Outnumbered, co-host (and longtime sufferer of Obama Derangement Syndrome) Andrea Tantaros spouted off that resigning Attorney General Eric Holder ran the Department of Justice “much like the Black Panthers would.”
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Obama Wins Again: GOP Is Powerless To Stop The Confirmation Of Eric Holder’s Replacement
Senate Republicans are already complaining, but the truth is that they are completely powerless to stop President Obama from appointing and Democrats from confirming Eric Holder’s replacement as attorney general.
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Obama Attorney General Eric Holder Leaves Behind An Outstanding Civil Rights Legacy
Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning, but he is leaving behind a great record of fighting for justice for all Americans. Here is a look at some of Holder’s accomplishments as Attorney General.
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Conservative Says Obama Is a Racist Then Calls Him a “Spade”
Conservatives, and primarily Republicans, have noticed their racist tendencies are attracting a bit too much attention and for the second time in a month are attempting to distract Americans with accusations that President Obama is a racist who hates and is waging a war on white people.
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Michael Brown Laid To Rest As Fox News Edits Eric Holder Video To Inflame Racial Tensions
On the same day that Michael Brown was laid to rest, Fox News edited video of Attorney General Eric Holder in an attempt to exploit and inflame racial tensions.
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Attorney General Eric Holder Obliterates Sarah Palin With Just Two Sentences
On ABC’s This Week, Attorney General Eric Holder dealt with Sarah Palin’s calls for Obama impeachment by using two sentences to call her a bad VP candidate, and even worse judge of who should be impeached.
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While Talking About Right Wing Extremism in Europe, Let’s Not Forget Our Own
The mainstream media loves to talk about right wing extremism in Europe while ignoring our own, who are more a threat to us than al Qaeda
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Surprise, Surprise! Alex Jones Calls Las Vegas Shooting a False Flag Set Up By Obama
Well, that sure didn’t take long. Alex Jones, crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist and con artist, took to his radio show on Monday to claim that the Las Vegas shooting that took place on Sunday was a false flag operation to turn public sentiment against the so-called patriot movement.
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Eric Holder Calls Out the Rampant Subtle Racism in American Culture
In Holder’s commencement speech, he noted that racially-motivated outburst from the likes of Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling were much less of a threat to equality than the more subtle, everyday racism such as what he sees in the criminal justice system.
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Eric Holder Pushes Back Against Utah by Recognizing the State’s Gay Marriages
Eric Holder set the record straight and announced that regardless of Utah’s intent to discriminate against same-sex married couples, the federal government will recognize the same-sex marriages.
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As the 2013 Political Year Disappears Into the Night, Little Light Appears on the Horizon
I’ve probably submitted 320 articles or so to this august, informative and objective progressive website. That’s no big whoop since Jason and Sarah seem to write that many in a week. Nonetheless, I feel like at least a 2nd cousin in the PoliticusUSA family. As such, I’m going to pipe up and share some…
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George W. Bush Returns As The Statute of Limitations on His War Crimes Expires in 2 Months
George W. Bush, has made his presence known with two appearances over the past week, and it is likely because the statute of limitations to convict the war criminal are set to expire in two months.
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Marijuana is Illegal Because It Is a Major Source of Funding For Law Enforcement
Law enforcement officials have been staunch opponents of legalizing the weed for personal or medicinal use because as contraband, it is a major source of funding for law enforcement.
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Gun Owners of America and its Racist Justification for Gun Violence
Citing concerns for gun owners faced by “black mobs” Gun Owners of America isn’t even trying to hide its racist approach to gun control
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Eric Holder Puts Texas On Notice: Everyone’s Voting Rights Will Be Respected
Republicans see threat to white privilege in Eric Holder’s announced plans to make Texas obtain federal approval for changes to voting laws
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Justice Department Amps Up Their Civil Rights Investigation of George Zimmerman
The Justice Department is taking a long and hard look at the shooting of Trayvon Martin. They have asked the Sanford Police to hold on to all evidence associated with the Zimmerman case.
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Eric Holder Serves Darrell Issa A Huge Plate of STFU
After listening to Darrell Issa go off on another conspiracy laden witch hunt, Attorney General Eric Holder finally had enough and called the California GOPer’s behavior unacceptable and shameful.
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Republicans Shred the Constitution By Passing Unconstitutional Nullification Laws
Republicans are taking steps to shred the Constitution they claim to love and declare they were laws unto themselves by way of nullification.
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Republican Pressure Forces Homeland Security to Neglect the Majority of US Terror Threats
Sixty-six Americans were killed in mass shootings by non-Muslims in 2012 alone, twice as many fatalities as from Muslim-American terrorism in all 11 years since 9/11
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The Biggest Fools of All Are the Progressives Who Cheered on Rand Paul
What is curious is the support many on the left have given Rand Paul despite his well-known, and well-publicized, stance on issues that are repulsive to progressives and even right-leaning centrists.
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Debunking the Ridiculous Rhetoric that Obama is an Assassin Who Targets Innocent Americans
The people who conflate targeting killing of al-Qaida terrorists in foreign countries with targeting American citizens is tantamount to the NRA falsely claiming that Obama is coming to take your guns.
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What Do GOP Targets Rice, Sherrod, Holder, and Van Jones Have in Common?
All four have all been targeted by Republicans with non-stop false allegations and yet the media continues to assist in the character assassination.
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Despite all of Issa’s Fast & Furious rants, Eric Holder was telling the truth
The Inspector General of the Justice Department has issued a 471-page report on Fast & Furious. AG, Eric Holder, was telling the truth.
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Even John Boehner Recognizes the Sham and Shame of Holding Holder in Contempt
Even John Boehner doesn’t buy the Eric Holder contempt craziness. He recognizes it for the sham and embarrassment that it is.
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The Attempted Metaphorical Lynching of Eric Holder
The contempt vote is a lynching show, put on by the very militia adjacent NRA that pals around with birthers, racists, and white supremacists. Forgive the redundancy.
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Republicans Outraged as America Ignores Their Sham Eric Holder Contempt Vote
Republicans spent an entire day trying to get America interested in their sham Eric Holder scandal, and surprised no one by finding the AG in contempt.
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Are Republican Contempt Allegations Payback For Eric Holder’s Defense of Voting Rights?
Only the gullible can’t see the link between Eric Holder’s aggressive persecution of voting abuses in Florida and what has happened to the Attorney General in the halls of Congress this week.
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The Burning of the Quran Will Be Another Dark 9/11 Moment
The planned burning of Qur’ans by an Evangelical church sends a confusing message that a violent act by them proves another group is violent, and threatens national security and the lives of American soldiers abroad.