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The headline of a recent article by the Washington Post’s Peter Wallsten capsulizes, inadvertently, the supreme paradox of the Obama presidency. “Obama struggles to balance African America’s hopes with country’s as a whole,” it says. The story documents Obama’s struggles over the last four years, which continue today, to avoid overplaying his hand as the first black president, yet to also not ignore this fact. But nowhere does Wallsten note the irony that four years ago many understood the meaning of Obama’s election as the beginning of the end of the perception of black America as a world apart from...

The U.S. launched a new initiative on Sunday aimed at battling large-scale public corruption in foreign states. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative at the African Union Summit in Uganda. In addition to tackling the lucrative field of public bribes, the new initiative is also aimed at recovering public money and redirecting it to its intended use. As head of the Department of Justice, Holder said the U.S. has been assembling a team of prosecutors who will be devoted exclusively to the initiative. He emphasized that African countries must strengthen their judicial systems in tandem with...

Editor’s Note: This piece was co-authored by Ken Blackwell.A situation involving voter intimidation caught on tape has now exploded, as a Justice Department lawyer resigns to be able to tell the truth to the American people that the Obama-Holder Justice Department is allowing voting-rights violations to go unpunished for political reasons. Those responsible must be made to answer for their betrayal of the public trust. The Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has a noble mission: Make sure that no eligible citizen is denied their rights, especially the right to vote. That mandate has a special...

Should White People be concerned about the Obama administration? If you never read Barry Hussein Soetoro’s book, Dreams of my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance you wouldn’t know that president Soetoro harbors racial attitudes that were held by radical Blacks of the 1960’s. Attitudes of hate against “Whitey” that was prevalent in the most radical of Black power groups. Following are excerpts of Soetoro’s book in addition to his views on race over the years. (see 9:53mins video) If you were paying just a little attention you would have recognized that something was amiss a year ago this...

These are the people President Obama and Eric Holder are defending. These are the people whom Obama counts on for support. These are the people that intimidated people into not voting, yet Holder and Obama refuse to prosecute. These are the people that say the black man will have to kill some of "them babies". These......are Obama's people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN67KJdd6Mw&feature=player_embedded

Former DOJ employees want to go on record praising Adams' outstanding work record, and — pay attention, DOJ press liaisons — maybe corroborate Adams' charges about DOJ hostility to race-neutral law enforcement. (Check back here for updates in the hours and days ahead, as PJM posts additional statements.)Several former DOJ employees have been in contact with Pajamas Media, interested in publicly supporting J. Christian Adams as he comes forward about the DOJ’s failure to enforce the country’s laws from a race-neutral perspective. These former DOJ employees have expressed a willingness to go on record regarding Adams’ professionalism, excellent performance, and...

Armed thugs representing Obama can now preside over polling booths, this has now been determined as a precedent by the Obama Justice Department and apparently will be the law of the land.  The Obama Justice Department sees no problem with jack booted thugs wielding night sticks if they support the Obama White House. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney who resigned from the justice Dept. this month over the incident, reports: The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt...

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding to know why the Obama administration Justice Department dropped a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and threatening voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day. The commission, an independent body charged with investigating civil-rights complaints and making recommendations to the federal government, held a hearing on the case May 14. Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, gave testimony, stating that "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal...