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Posts tagged "Eric Holder"

Racial profiling not at the heart of the Arizona immigration case before the Supreme Court

Methinks that the federal challenge to the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, heard last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, is terribly misunderstood. For many folks, the state law — which helps enforce federal immigration laws already on the books — is about racial profiling. They argue that cops, for whatever reason, will target people who... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm
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Arizona, illegal immigration, and a dolt--Eric Holder

Holder. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, has admitted to Congress that he has not read Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law. Reported the Washington Times: Mr. Holder acknowledged to the [congressional] panel he hadn’t read the law he was criticizing, and he gave conflicting accounts on whether he had talked... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 18, 2010 at 4:54 pm
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NeoCon news and opinions

Because folks defined me a neoconservative before I knew what it was, I might as well make the most of it. Here’s today’s NeoCon News and Opinion briefing:  See if you can find the name of Atty. Gen. Eric Holder in this story. Didn’t think so. The Senate “jobs” bill is much worse, costing $150... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 5, 2010 at 4:40 pm
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Derrion Albert's Preventable Death

In a demonstration of how the perfect often is the enemy of the good enough, Education Sec. Arne Duncan (foreground), Atty. Gen. Eric Holder (at the podium) and Mayor Richard M. Daley promise to get to the “root” cause of Derrion Albert’s violent death, instead of doing what could immediately solve the problem. Sometimes the... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 9, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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In the wake of Derrion Albert's murder, consider all-male high schools

What in blazes is wrong with men? Seems like every time you turn around, a man, or a man-child, is fighting, maiming, stalking, raping or killing somebody. On a street outside Fenger High School, thugs beat a student to death. Punks used to wait for darkness to do their killing, but a fatal beating in... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 6, 2009 at 11:23 am
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U.S. Civil Rights Commission nails Obama's DOJ for dumping voter intimidation probe

It was almost like a scene from the Jim Crow days of the old South. Two intimidating men in military-style dress standing outside a polling place, one of them carrying a bludgeon, tapping U.S. Attorney Eric Holder: What’s he hiding? it in his palm or lightly on the side of his leg in a menacing... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
August 9, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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