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Report: DOJ Stifled Investigation Into New Black Panther Party and Voter Intimidation Charges

January 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Attorney General Eric Holder and others within the U.S. Department of Justice prevented members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from conducting a complete and thorough investigation of the department’s decision to drop charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for their 2008 election day actions in Philadelphia. Members of the commission [...]

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Blank Absentee Ballots Handed Out in Bay State? (Update)

January 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Everyone — and I mean everyone — is predicting Republican Scott Brown will handily defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in today’s special election for the U.S. Senate seat held for so long by Ted Kennedy.  BUT, if the Election Journal story behind the video above turns out to be true and blank absentee ballots are being [...]

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How Will Obama Administration Officials Respond to Discovery of Rocket Launcher in Houston?

December 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

According to a news report out of Houston this morning, police there found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher like the one shown in the photo above, alleged to belong to a man by the name of Nabilaye I. Yansane, in a southwest Houston apartment complex.  Though I have yet to see comments by members of [...]

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Why Were Voter Intimidation Charges Dropped Against New Black Panther Party Members? (Update)

August 2nd, 2009 · 5 Comments

In an article Friday, World Net Daily reported Friday that some members of Congress — including Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — are demanding answers to why, six months after election day in November, voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party in Pennsylvania were dismissed by [...]

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NY AG Cuomo Tries to ‘FOIL’ Blogger’s Efforts

June 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

When New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent an accusatory letter (pdf) to Chevron CEO David J. O’Reilly May 4, he had to know the effort would position him squarely alongside Philadelphia trial lawyers and radical environmentalists associated with an Ecuadoran environmental group.  At least, that’s what I surmised in a post June 2.  Today, [...]

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NY Freedom of Information Law Put to Test (Updated)

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Barely three weeks after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, sent an inflammatory and provocative letter to Chevron Corporation’s David J. O’Reilly, I sent a communication of my own. To Cuomo’s office.  That’s right, I decided to put the State of New York’s Freedom of Information Law (a.k.a., “FOIL”) to the test. In [...]

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Mainstream Media Betrays Americans with Bias

April 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

In a recent article published in Philadelphia’s Bulletin family newspaper, Herb Denenberg used nearly 2,700 words to opine about Janet Napolitano’s decision to refer to “terrorism” as “man-caused disasters.”  The part of his commentary that caught my attention had less to do with the Homeland Security chief’s semantics policies than with media bias evident in [...]

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