President Obama wants to expand the executive pardon system, according to a new report from Liz Goodwin of Yahoo News. A senior administration official told Goodwin that the President could grant clemency to “hundreds, perhaps thousands” of non-violent drug criminals.
Albert Einstein once said the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Should we be surprised that Lois Lerner perpetrated one of the biggest political scandals of our time? The mountain of
Writing at the American Thinker, Raymond Ibrahim examines the phenomenon of the radicalization of Muslims in the Western world. A new Danish statistical study finds that “Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first.” While some of these crimes
If anyone had doubts as to just how much contempt Attorney General Eric Holder has for the institution of Congress (pun intended), those doubts dissipated when Holder became unhinged during a heated exchange with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) in his
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies about how to make guns safer. He proposed “making guns safer” by using “fingerprint identification,” or “having the gun talk
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) introduced a bill Tuesday that would cut off pay to federal officials like Attorney General Eric Holder as long as they’re being held in contempt of Congress. Holder was held in contempt of Congress in June
Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, has introduced a bill that would officially stop paying any federal employee who was currently held in contempt of Congress. Farenthold specifically mentioned Attorney General Eric Holder after introducing the legislation in the House of Representatives,
On April 17th, Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at a service “of unity and hope” in Overland Park, Kansas, being held for the victims of the heinous crime at the Kansas Jewish centers. According to The Hill, Holder announced
Breitbart News Network Washington Editor Jonathan Strong spoke to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) at last weekend’s Freedom Summit in New Hampshire. Lee said Attorney General Eric Holder owed an apology to the House Judiciary Committee following his outburst in response
On Tuesday in the Justice Department’s weekly video message, Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress to approve $15 million for active-shooter training for police officers. Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
As their hold on control of the U.S. Senate becomes more tenuous, high-ranking Democrats — including the president — are invoking charges of GOP racism more aggressively. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Steve Israel told CNN’s Candy Crowley that “not
On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer took a shot at Attorney General Eric Holder for his complaints about the treatment from Congress of he and President Barack Obama, suggesting such treatment is
In response to Eric Holder’s contempt for contempt: In an interview with Sean Hannity on his radio show, Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz said that Eric Holder is the most partisan attorney general this country has ever seen, and if he doesn’t
Speaking to the Tea Party News Network, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) explained his asparagus exchanges with Attorney General Eric Holder as a reference Gohmert made to Percy Foreman, a famous Texas trial layer, last year during a heating argument with
In response to No Really – Holder Shrugged Off Being Held In Contempt Of Congress: The idea that Holder is somehow privately tortured over his contempt of Congress citation might be the most intellectually insulting thing he’s ever said… and
The federal Department of Justice took the surprising decision of siding with advocates of the Mount Soledad cross, arguing that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals should hear the case en banc, in front of a full 11-judge panel. A
Federal judges usually only speak through the written opinions and orders of their courts, confined to a case currently before them. And it’s exceedingly rare for a federal appeals judge to take someone on a national politician by name. Yet
As long as liberals keep saying that Rep. Louie Gohmert is quasi-racist or at the very least disrespectful and rude for suggesting during the Judiciary hearing Tuesday that Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t take being held in contempt seriously, I’m
On the day the House Oversight Committee held Lois Lerner in contempt, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Congress should impeach Attorney General Eric Holder if he does not indict those like Lerner for their roles in the IRS’s targeting of
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took to the House floor Thursday and read aloud a Breitbart news article by Mary Chastain while hammering Attorney General Eric Holder for not producing documents the Congress has requested for several ongoing investigations…
At U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s appearance before a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, one Congressman refused to ask Holder any questions because the Obama Cabinet leader has refused to be straight with Congress. When it was time for
After Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that he was considering forcing gun owners to wear identifying bracelets, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin harshly warned him that he better not even think about trying to implement the idea. “Eric, ‘You don’t
In response to Eric Holder Feb 2013: ‘Contempt Vote Didn’t Have Huge Impact On Me’: Just one day after his contentious back and forth with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Attorney General Eric Holder credited himself with “making great strides and lasting reforms in
At Al Sharpton’s annual National Action Network Annual convention, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about civil rights and referenced his back-and-forth at Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX)… I am pleased to note that the last
Attorney General Eric Holder got a little feisty during a House Judiciary Committee Hearing Tuesday when Rep. Louis Gohmert suggested that being held in contempt of Congress didn’t appear to matter to the Attorney General. Charlie Spiering at Big Government reported: After
Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, questioned Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking
Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) questioned Attorney General Eric Holder about Congress’ requests for documents relating to congressional investigations…
During a House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder became visibly upset when Rep. Louis Gohmert suggested that being in contempt of Congress didn’t appear to matter to the Attorney General. After Holder dismissed Gohmert’s requests for
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued a warning in a video message that Americans are being targeted in ever-larger numbers by tax scam artists. In the video, Holder said, “Over the last several years, stolen identity refund fraud has
The Department of Justice requested $2 million for “gun safety technology” in its 2014 fiscal year budget. Attorney General Eric Holder explained this request to a House appropriations subcommittee on April 4th. According to The Washington Free Beacon: “I think
Days after the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court voted not to order a forensic audit of voting machines alleged to have tabulation irregularities, the grand jury impanelled by the outgoing District Attorney has ordered a forensic analyst to conduct an audit
An internal investigation into “Bridgegate” and other allegations of abuse of power has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Gov. Chris Christie. The 344 page report, assembled by law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher at the request of Gov. Christie,
With Hillary Clinton already locking up massive amounts of cash for a presumptive 2016 presidential run, members of the hard left may be looking for an alternative. Many Democrats remain uninspired by Clinton’s progressive record – her most leftist period
Last week Al Sharpton embraced convicted vote fraudster Melowese Richardson at a “voting rights” rally in Cincinnati. The United States Department of Justice under Eric Holder has done nothing to Melowese Richardson 410 days after she admitted on camera that
The Holder Department of Justice (DOJ) rejected a request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to appoint a special prosecutor for the investigation into the IRS scandal in a letter released this week. The DOJ argued that it saw no apparent
Yesterday, the Department of Justice denied Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s request to have a special prosecutor look into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative groups. Cruz, concerned that the DOJ investigation was compromised due to the political
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Four military search planes were dispatched Thursday to try to determine whether two large objects bobbing in a remote part of the Indian Ocean were part of a possible debris field of the missing Malaysia
At a news conference on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen presented compelling evidence against a “senior advisor” to a 2008 presidential campaign as the originator of a $600,000 scheme of illegal campaign donations in which two
NRA NEWS: Betrayed: Exposing the Truth, Special Report by Ginny Simone As a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Jay Dobyns has taken on the worst of the worst. But he never dreamed that one
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice insist that they are taking swift action to curtail drug trafficking and are stemming the tide of heroin overdoses and prescription drug use in America. Yet at the same time,
